The Punisher #45 - The main action in this month's installment involves... Frank Castle killing mob guys. {Silence} OK, yeah that's pretty much every issue (except when he's killing former Soviet generals and their mercs), but what we find out, through a series of flashbacks, is that he's been set up. Not by the fellows he's exterminating, oh no. This wasn't some "Use ourselves as bait and trap the Punisher" scheme. It's more of a "Use these mob chumps as bait, place a hook amongst them, and if the chumps can't kill the Punisher, our hook will make it possible for us to do it" type thing. Clever widows, I got to say. The hook even mentioned slavers from the Balkans, just to get Frank's blood up (his mob killing this issue was fairly controlled. I mean, he uses an M-16 with grenade launcher, but there's no torturing).
There really isn't much else to say. That one lady is still watching the widows, but has yet to make a move, and next issue should be pretty interesting. This one was kind of slow though, which I know isn't unusual for Garth Ennis Punisher arcs, but still I'm gonna say 2.5 out of 5.
Ultimate Spider-Man #106 - Mark Bagley's last arc, right? Better enjoy the hell out of this, I suppose. Peter has decided he and MJ are back "on", thus he and Kitty are "off". Being a guy, Peter's delaying the whole "telling the girl I'm breaking up with her" stuff. Bad, Peter, bad. Adorable Baby Panda will hear of this.Meanwhile, the Kingpin plans to use liscensing to ruin Spider-Man's image. Crap, I hate economics. And Reed Richards wants to do follow-up on MJ. Good man, Reed, checking up on patients is very honorable. Hey, you know how we haven't seen Peter at the Daily Bugle in a while (I think the two-part Morbius story)? Well, as any of you with a job might know, there's gonna be hell to pay for that. What's Peter to do? Answer: lie like a dog.
Also, people in costumes are trying to get close to the Kingpin. Oh, and yet another person has deduced Peter Parker is Spider-Man. That makes the total number of people in the Ultimate Universe with that information somewhere around... hmm, I think it may be an even 700. Anyway, it was an OK issue, nothing special by itself, but I do like these street level heroes, so I want to see where this goes. it should be a little more old-school, basic superheroing, to contrast with the batshit insanity of Ultimate Clone Saga. Balance is important after all. Or is it? What do you think? 3.2 out of 5.
3 comments:
I'd actually forgotten that Ultimate Spidey was still going, which probably isn't a good sign. Still, there are no headline-grabbing assassinations, so that's got to be good, right? Right?
I completely missed Ultimate Spider-Man for some reason. Probably because I was snickering at the good Captain. However, I thought Punisher was pretty clever. I'm almost rooting for the widows! Well, not really, but you must admit they are doing a much better job than most of their (deceased) menfolk.
And a hug for Adorable baby Panda.
carla: More punching in Ultimate Spidey would be nice. I'm hopeful that since it's a bunch of street heroes dealing with a crime empire, we'll get lots of thug beatings.
kelvingreen: Nobody dies in Ultimate Spidey this week. Couple people come close, though.
sallyp: Hey, the widows are up against Frank Castle, they can use all the rooting they can get. Along with some more firepower. You can never have too much of that when dealing with Punisher.
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