Punisher, The Volume 2: Border Crossing Paperback – 21 Sept. 2016

I throughly enjoyed reading this ! The art and story was great and the ending has got me really excited for the next issue.My only complaint the punisher himself is lacking any kind of emotion. We all know he is a killing machine (which is very clear in this comic) but he also has a very troubled past and it would be great if the author could go into some depth with that.

This was the second of a three book series, I thought the first was better.Art was questionably ok, storyline was ok too. It wasn't an easy out down and pick up whenever read like some I've read but it was ok. Worth it to read a bit of Punished if you've never read the character basis before. But just ok.

Very good comic. After just reading the Max series I enjoyed seeing the Punisher in a more heroic setting with plenty of villains to knock up against. I only knocked one star off because sometimes the artwork is slightly annoying or difficult to follow and I didn't enjoy the art style of Black Widow #9 which is included in this volume.

When last we left Frank he was escaping the Howling Commandos with a bullet in his chest. He’s now south of the border and desperate for a doctor – and that’s when he’s captured by a drug cartel and handed over to the villainous Crossbones. Frank’s rambling quest to end the supply of drugs into LA takes him into the jungles of Central America, a Mexican prison, a covert ship, an unexpected crossover with Black Widow, and the murder of the current Fantastic Four movie cast (but not really)!Boring - that pretty much sums up this series of The Punisher! I love the character but Nathan Edmondson’s treatment of him really isn’t winning me over. Frank’s just so blah in this book! I think this shows how The Punisher isn’t just some psycho with a skull t-shirt shooting criminals repeatedly. Garth Ennis can take Frank Castle and make him the most interesting person in the Marvel Universe; in the hands of a lesser writer, the same character is rendered sterile and lifeless.Edmondson tries, I’ll give him that. Frank teams up with a special ops guy as they fight their way out of the jungle, which sounds exciting but was just ok. The only thing that stood out to me was the sudden use of military acronyms, and, looking at the credits, someone called “bestselling author Kevin Maurer” co-wrote these two issues with Edmondson (a quick google shows that he’s written several books on modern warfare). Find out that CAS and ISR stand for Close Air Support and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, then wonder why you should care.The other issues felt like lesser versions of stories already told. The Black Widow crossover was a lot like the night raid from the Winter Soldier movie when Cap and Black Widow storm a boat (the “was he wearing a parachute?” scene), but not as exciting. Also, Frank getting the hell out of the Mexican prison was a crappier version of Garth Ennis’ The Cell (check out The Punisher MAX: From First to Last, for that story). The Black Widow crossover was so pointless it may as well not have happened.Also, I’m not sold on Frank in LA - I’m not sure why the location is being emphasised for the character so much but it’s not jibing for me. Those last few pages too, when Frank goes to all that trouble for THAT, just felt stupid and out of character to me. Why is Frank so enamoured with LA all of a sudden - because he’s got himself a coyote?!I know Marvel have to legally claim otherwise but three of the four cast members of the latest Fantastic Four make a cameo in the final chapter. This issue got some attention when it came out because some people said Marvel was having Frank kill them, but that’s not true. They’re in a building near to an explosion but there’s no indication that they’re hurt in any way - and Frank’s definitely not responsible (the movie’s going to bomb without Frank planting any near the cast anyway!).Mitch Gerads and Carmen Carnero’s art isn’t bad, it just doesn’t stand out. Much like Edmondson’s script, the art is just there. It doesn’t make you pay attention, there’s no eye-catching style, it’s got this generic look to it, and it’s workmanlike more than anything. It’ll do and nothing else. Phil Noto’s artwork on the Black Widow issue was nice though.The Punisher, Volume 2: Border Crossing is a very poor follow up to an average first book. I wish Edmondson’s Punisher series was as good as Ennis’ or Jason Aaron’s but it’s instead very far away from those quality writers’ books.

I just got finished reading this punisher. I found that the writers of the punisher hits the issues out there in the world of criminals. And how it effects as all in one way or another. And the artist do the same thing. Also the way both works together.

Great read. Presents the the character in such a way that could possibly have him eventually fit in the Marvel MCU. He's a little bit different here than he's be presented in the past, but still the brutal killing machine nonethless. Continuing the story arc which began with The Punisher Volume 1: Black and White, Frank finds himself entangled in jungle warfare south of the border and has to make his way back to L.A.The story is action packed. The art is great and there's a cameo in there which reprises a character introduced in the Greg Rucka run of the Punisher. Overall, a great read and the ending leaves you clamoring for more.

If you turn the orientation lock off, it makes reading on phones much easier. Good artwork, great story, classic punisher

continued where the previous book started.

This was a decent Punisher story by a writer I respect. The follow up volumes lose something of the clarity of the first volume.Spoiler Alert!!!It turns out, this story is a loose origin story. It starts out with Punisher doing his vigilante thing, goes back and tells you why, introduces you to some characters you'll know from Marvel and some you'll likely only know if you read Punisher.Here's the kicker. They kill the Punisher. Twice, actually. That sucked. So did the inclusion of Falcon as Captain America. (I love Cap, but evidently I missed a few things.All in all, this is a good quick read that is moderately enjoyable. That having been said, go check out The Activity by Nathan Edmondson. Its a better way to spend money.