go with the original gerry conway interpretation of the character
he is, unambiguously, a villain who is barely tolerated by heroes at best
a serial killer who justifies his violent tendencies by saying its against worse people
its less a story about a gritty anti-hero and more about a glimpse into the mind of a warped, insane, psychopath who uses vigilantism as a cover for his need to relive the war
Assuming he has to be non-villainous:
Make him a ripoff of Rambo in the first movie. He's just a broken war veteran drifting from town to town because he has no home anymore. Some local corrupt buttholes start shit with him. He refuses to back down, so they go after him. He never starts the fight, but he ends it, then drifts off-grid again. The locals never see him as a hero, all they know is some out-of-town guy showed up and killed a bunch of local guys. It's only the victims he saved that know he took down a crime family, or corrupt cops, or human traffickers, or whatever.
The plot of my Punisher series would more or less be a rip-off of the 1994 film Léon. >Flashback set a few years in the past. >The first part of issue one opens on a young girl in the woods with her gun-toting kidnapper. Her brother's lifeless body is between the two of them. Establish that her parents were murdered in front of her mere months before. Also imply that she and her brother were sexually assaulted. >Kidnapper offers the girl a choice: get shot in the head like her brother, or get strangled to death. Despite it being a slower death, the girl chooses strangulation, hoping she'll be able to talk her would-be kidnapper down. >It doesn't work, and she almost dies. But she's saved at the last minute when Frank arrives and brutally murders her kidnapper. >His fatherly instincts kick in, and he immediately does what he can to make her feel safe. Before he drops her off at the nearest police station, he even makes sure she gets a real meal.
(cont'd)
>Skip ahead a few months, and the young girl's attempts to reintegrate into society are failing. She's constantly picking fights and hopping from foster home to foster home. All the while, she's started idolizing the Punisher. >One night, she sneaks out and attempts to dispense vigilante justice like her hero. However, she fails and gets hospitalized. >Frank comes around and blows her attacker's brains out. Despite the fact that he didn't even visit her in the hospital, she takes his act of vengeance as a sign that she has his approval. >Makes several more attempts at vigilantism in the following years, and ends up in the hospital a few times more. All the while, Frank is keeping tabs on her. >After the girl's fourth hospitalization, he decides enough is enough and confronts her. He tries to talk her out of her vigilante aspirations, but she makes it clear that she won't give up — even if it kills her. >Frank sees that she means what she says, and decides to make her his apprentice to increase her likelihood of survival. >Final page of issue one is a splash page of Frank offering the girl her own skull shirt.
From there, the series would be about Frank training the girl to be another Punisher. As their bond grows, the fatherly instincts Frank thought died with his family start to resurface.
I would read the frick out of either (or even a mix) of these two pitches.
I fell like the outlier. I have always hated his art. The lips on his characters are overly detailed, making them look like they are doing duckface or something. His Frank specifically is too clean cut. The coloring isn’t doing any favors, it’s very clean and digital, with no artistic flair.
First few issues we get to see Frank with his family. Show how happy they are, but they do see crime happening around them. Will not make him a Vietnam vet. Maybe his dad served as an homage. Frank plans on leaving the Marines to train cadets in a military school. Issue three his family is killed. As iconic as the guy hanging upside down is, it makes more sense they are caught in a cross fire. It becomes year one from there, but make it more like The Crow. Final two issues he wears the skull. Not sure if it will be armor, or costume.
Multiverse punisher goes crazy and starts franking everyone and everything so for some convoluted reason 616 punisher has to go frank him but then says frick it and they go frank multiverse frank's villains then go to find other alt-universe punishers to join them til there's just a roving gang of franks hopping the multuverse and every time they find a new punisher, he joins their group and the crusade continues.
Have a more cerebral Frank who was an intelligence officer rather than a super grunt. He doesn't bother with street punks. Instead, he uncovers the schemes of the heavy hitters and ruins their lives through misfortunes and catastrophes to the point that they commit suicide.
I'm going to go balls to the wall.
Frank has to protect a magical girl, why? Some deities task him with it, Frank asked why not get Doctor Strange or someone with super powers, but they are all "No, it has to be you."
Make four or five issues.
Punisher is still fricked in the head and wages his war on crime and terror, tackling big crime like in Ennis MAX. The existence of high tech and crazy artifacts makes his job harder.
Some background: Basically no capes, no vigilantes, plenty of war and crime and agencies and shit, with a healthy dose of impossible shenanigans. Cap works for Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. after being thawed, and is a supersoldier with a bulletproof shield. Maybe Black Panther and Wakanda exist, but BP isn't a cape, just a kang. Tony Stark works for S.H.I.E.L.D. making weapons and drones and maybe robots, not a field agent or cape. Hawkeye is a sniper with special ammo, Black Widow is a field agent. All of these in small doses or part of the background.
The background is geopolitics, the foreground is Punisher involved in various gunkino scenarios.
Assuming he has to be non-villainous:
Make him a ripoff of Rambo in the first movie. He's just a broken war veteran drifting from town to town because he has no home anymore. Some local corrupt buttholes start shit with him. He refuses to back down, so they go after him. He never starts the fight, but he ends it, then drifts off-grid again. The locals never see him as a hero, all they know is some out-of-town guy showed up and killed a bunch of local guys. It's only the victims he saved that know he took down a crime family, or corrupt cops, or human traffickers, or whatever.
The plot of my Punisher series would more or less be a rip-off of the 1994 film Léon. >Flashback set a few years in the past. >The first part of issue one opens on a young girl in the woods with her gun-toting kidnapper. Her brother's lifeless body is between the two of them. Establish that her parents were murdered in front of her mere months before. Also imply that she and her brother were sexually assaulted. >Kidnapper offers the girl a choice: get shot in the head like her brother, or get strangled to death. Despite it being a slower death, the girl chooses strangulation, hoping she'll be able to talk her would-be kidnapper down. >It doesn't work, and she almost dies. But she's saved at the last minute when Frank arrives and brutally murders her kidnapper. >His fatherly instincts kick in, and he immediately does what he can to make her feel safe. Before he drops her off at the nearest police station, he even makes sure she gets a real meal.
(cont'd)
>Skip ahead a few months, and the young girl's attempts to reintegrate into society are failing. She's constantly picking fights and hopping from foster home to foster home. All the while, she's started idolizing the Punisher. >One night, she sneaks out and attempts to dispense vigilante justice like her hero. However, she fails and gets hospitalized. >Frank comes around and blows her attacker's brains out. Despite the fact that he didn't even visit her in the hospital, she takes his act of vengeance as a sign that she has his approval. >Makes several more attempts at vigilantism in the following years, and ends up in the hospital a few times more. All the while, Frank is keeping tabs on her. >After the girl's fourth hospitalization, he decides enough is enough and confronts her. He tries to talk her out of her vigilante aspirations, but she makes it clear that she won't give up — even if it kills her. >Frank sees that she means what she says, and decides to make her his apprentice to increase her likelihood of survival. >Final page of issue one is a splash page of Frank offering the girl her own skull shirt.
From there, the series would be about Frank training the girl to be another Punisher. As their bond grows, the fatherly instincts Frank thought died with his family start to resurface.
go with the original gerry conway interpretation of the character
he is, unambiguously, a villain who is barely tolerated by heroes at best
a serial killer who justifies his violent tendencies by saying its against worse people
its less a story about a gritty anti-hero and more about a glimpse into the mind of a warped, insane, psychopath who uses vigilantism as a cover for his need to relive the war
i gotchu anon
this
Cringe.
I would read the frick out of either (or even a mix) of these two pitches.
Make him gay and black.
DC x Marvel crossover with him meeting Red Hood.
give her a troon gf who kills people with him
>Barracuda hates Frank for stealing his idea.
I'd probably need an industrial quality printer and a lot of time to make drawings.
Have hxm go after the trolls who say mean things about me on social media.
Frank diversifies his portfolio by murdering supervillains stupid enough to do super villany in his area of opreations.
I can't without Steve Dillon.
>the trees are speaking Frank
I fell like the outlier. I have always hated his art. The lips on his characters are overly detailed, making them look like they are doing duckface or something. His Frank specifically is too clean cut. The coloring isn’t doing any favors, it’s very clean and digital, with no artistic flair.
I much prefer the art of Jim Lee or JRJR.
cartels and cholos
First few issues we get to see Frank with his family. Show how happy they are, but they do see crime happening around them. Will not make him a Vietnam vet. Maybe his dad served as an homage. Frank plans on leaving the Marines to train cadets in a military school. Issue three his family is killed. As iconic as the guy hanging upside down is, it makes more sense they are caught in a cross fire. It becomes year one from there, but make it more like The Crow. Final two issues he wears the skull. Not sure if it will be armor, or costume.
Multiverse punisher goes crazy and starts franking everyone and everything so for some convoluted reason 616 punisher has to go frank him but then says frick it and they go frank multiverse frank's villains then go to find other alt-universe punishers to join them til there's just a roving gang of franks hopping the multuverse and every time they find a new punisher, he joins their group and the crusade continues.
apocalypse now type old man frank story with spider-man as martin sheen's character
Ennis already did what I would've done
I'd have him going around killing bad people with cool looking guns.
Have a more cerebral Frank who was an intelligence officer rather than a super grunt. He doesn't bother with street punks. Instead, he uncovers the schemes of the heavy hitters and ruins their lives through misfortunes and catastrophes to the point that they commit suicide.
I'm going to go balls to the wall.
Frank has to protect a magical girl, why? Some deities task him with it, Frank asked why not get Doctor Strange or someone with super powers, but they are all "No, it has to be you."
Make four or five issues.
Operator and action hero Punisher (Dixon + Ennis versions) with Cap (Kirby + Miller versions) and Fury (Steranko + Miller + Ennis versions).
Punisher is still fricked in the head and wages his war on crime and terror, tackling big crime like in Ennis MAX. The existence of high tech and crazy artifacts makes his job harder.
Some background: Basically no capes, no vigilantes, plenty of war and crime and agencies and shit, with a healthy dose of impossible shenanigans. Cap works for Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. after being thawed, and is a supersoldier with a bulletproof shield. Maybe Black Panther and Wakanda exist, but BP isn't a cape, just a kang. Tony Stark works for S.H.I.E.L.D. making weapons and drones and maybe robots, not a field agent or cape. Hawkeye is a sniper with special ammo, Black Widow is a field agent. All of these in small doses or part of the background.
The background is geopolitics, the foreground is Punisher involved in various gunkino scenarios.
Is that art from Bill S?
Yes. Elektra: Assassin
Have him only kill white-skinnes criminals.
80's/90's mini action movie every issue, it's not fricking hard, the 90's did it.
pic rel
that's literally all the punisher needs to be
How would I make a comic book about The Punisher?
HEY OP EMIASKUSUMN'
I would bring his wife back to life and have her steal all of Frank's shit.
eh kills criminals and doesn't afraid of anything
Assuming he has to be non-villainous:
Make him a ripoff of Rambo in the first movie. He's just a broken war veteran drifting from town to town because he has no home anymore. Some local corrupt buttholes start shit with him. He refuses to back down, so they go after him. He never starts the fight, but he ends it, then drifts off-grid again. The locals never see him as a hero, all they know is some out-of-town guy showed up and killed a bunch of local guys. It's only the victims he saved that know he took down a crime family, or corrupt cops, or human traffickers, or whatever.
The plot of my Punisher series would more or less be a rip-off of the 1994 film Léon.
>Flashback set a few years in the past.
>The first part of issue one opens on a young girl in the woods with her gun-toting kidnapper. Her brother's lifeless body is between the two of them. Establish that her parents were murdered in front of her mere months before. Also imply that she and her brother were sexually assaulted.
>Kidnapper offers the girl a choice: get shot in the head like her brother, or get strangled to death. Despite it being a slower death, the girl chooses strangulation, hoping she'll be able to talk her would-be kidnapper down.
>It doesn't work, and she almost dies. But she's saved at the last minute when Frank arrives and brutally murders her kidnapper.
>His fatherly instincts kick in, and he immediately does what he can to make her feel safe. Before he drops her off at the nearest police station, he even makes sure she gets a real meal.
(cont'd)
>Skip ahead a few months, and the young girl's attempts to reintegrate into society are failing. She's constantly picking fights and hopping from foster home to foster home. All the while, she's started idolizing the Punisher.
>One night, she sneaks out and attempts to dispense vigilante justice like her hero. However, she fails and gets hospitalized.
>Frank comes around and blows her attacker's brains out. Despite the fact that he didn't even visit her in the hospital, she takes his act of vengeance as a sign that she has his approval.
>Makes several more attempts at vigilantism in the following years, and ends up in the hospital a few times more. All the while, Frank is keeping tabs on her.
>After the girl's fourth hospitalization, he decides enough is enough and confronts her. He tries to talk her out of her vigilante aspirations, but she makes it clear that she won't give up — even if it kills her.
>Frank sees that she means what she says, and decides to make her his apprentice to increase her likelihood of survival.
>Final page of issue one is a splash page of Frank offering the girl her own skull shirt.
From there, the series would be about Frank training the girl to be another Punisher. As their bond grows, the fatherly instincts Frank thought died with his family start to resurface.
He starts murdering pharmaceutical execs and the Avengers are kinda confused as to how they should feel about it