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Is that Clinton with a friggn' halo coming off of her? I mean, I'm voting for her, but yeesh/

No? That looks like Rich's mother.

edited 30th Sep '16 10:04:45 AM by LordofLore

I can see where the confusion is coming from because she does look a lot like Hillary Clinton but, as noted, it's supposed to be Rich's mom.

Oh, duh. My bad.

Frank also somehow survived detonating a Claymore mine that he had strapped to his stomach.

Yeah, there was that too. While Claymores do have a shaped charge and explode as a cone in a specific direction, there is a backblast. You never want to be immediately behind one, let alone have the f*cking thing strapped to your body. You should be about 50+ feet away from the rear of the mine when detonating it.

Midnight Sons Unlimited #9 has a WW 2 story about Blazing Skull. At one point, he drives a motorcycle into a radio studio, and then drives it into a guy and out the window. Then he just says, "Boy, I sure hope that's the right guy!"

I kinda like Blazing Skull.

Blazing Skull sounds like a fun version of Ghost Rider.

Frank Castle's secret superpower is surviving any conventional weapons/firearms/explosions. otherwise he would have died in some gunfight years ago. and he's usually smart enough to not go after superhuman foes. usually, because last time he ended up as Frankencastle.

hmm, that still makes me wonder how the hell was he able to kill Sandman and the others in the Last Days stuff.

Head canon: Punisher actually got wrecked by those supercriminals, and that shitty final arc of his comic was just the feverish delusions of a dying mind.

that's what everyone says, and it makes sense. who knows. however, had he gone against just Kingpin, he would've won. Fisk is just a human despite his strength and training. I wonder why Frank never took the opportunity to break into his place and shoot him in all those years, doing what Daredevil and Spider-Man couldn't do. I can only guess he fears someone even worse would take Fisk's place, or that it would start a criminal civil war of epic proportions, because that'd probably happen.

That's pretty much the case, as every time the Kingpin gets taken out of the equation there is a power struggle for his empire. Hell in the Marvel Zombies universe as soon as it was clear the zombie apocalypse was happening Frank made a beeline for Fisk and killed him, so between that and Secret Wars we can assume that the Punisher will take a shot at Fisk if there is no risk of immediate criminal war following.

I mean, he has tried to take out the Kingpin in the past. And ended up in a stalemate, or just plain lost. And yeah, there have been times where he's worried that Fisk's demise would create a criminal civil war that would hurt a lot of people, because that's happened, too.

edited 1st Oct '16 1:01:38 AM by Tiamatty

okay, can someone explain what's the deal with the Angel Punisher? I never read it, but I keep finding mentions of that arc on this very site, and it always says it's such a dorky thing. does it really suck so bad? to me, the idea of a heaven-powered killer with endless weapons sounds pretty cool... granted, it makes Frank basically a murderous superhero, and people who like badass normals (basically all of his fanbase) wouldn't like that, but still. was it really that bad? is it worth reading anyways out of curiosity?

Frank Costa, the head of the crime family that killed Frank's family, was actually Olivier, a fallen archangel and a Hell-lord who the other Hell-lords kicked out of the Netherworld and into the body of stillborn Frank Costa. His memories were restored by taking a human life, and he proceeded to magically manipulate events so that Frank's family would die in a secretly ritualistic way that bonded Frank to him, so that every life Frank took would increase his power (the victims would also become his supernatural slaves).

When he felt that he had become powerful enough to take on the other Hell-lords, he coerced Frank into killing himself, but Frank was brought back by Gadriel, a Grigori (a type of angel) who was supposed to have watched over his family, but got distracted by such Earthly delights as booze and women. The now divinely-enhanced Frank fights and beats Olivier, and then starts trying to work his way into Heaven.

• http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/olivir.htm
• http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/gadriel_grigori.htm

...wow, that is a slap in the face to the entire Punisher concept in more ways than I would have assumed possible.

So Wednesdays is going to start the shipment of several of the Post-Civil War II titles. The same event that still has 4 more issues to go.

Like, I still enjoy Marvel for the most part, but going forward, they really need to reassess how they do these big events.

...ok, that's really un-Punisher-like. shame they didn't just create a new character, like an angelic version of the Devil-Slayer or something, because this is still a pretty cool plot, but they had to waste it on Frank.

So I've got a question. Did Cap using the Cosmic Cube bring Bucky back to life? Like, had Bucky been dead for half a century and the Winter Soldier never existed up until that point? If so, holy shit, Cap, I think I'd have preferred to just stay dead.

Only on the Avengers : Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon. Steve had refused to do similar things when given the opportunity in comics canon, and only did it subconsciously in that show.

Although, the initial Winter Soldier arc had Falcon speculate that the Cubes work on Monkey's Paw rules, so it would fit.

Ohh. I'm stupid.

You might like the new Devil-Slayer that was introduced in 2008 before being completely forgotten.

Speaking of possibly good ideas that had been ruined, where the hell does The Sentry's powers come from? I know that he's almost God-like in his power but where the hell did he get it?

Drugs.

Drugs.

That's probably the explanation for where the entire concept of the Sentry came from too.

edited 3rd Oct '16 7:08:36 AM by windleopard