Remember when Punisher punched a polar bear? Good times...

Cotton: “I killed fiddy men.” Frank: “Hold my beer.”

Favorite Punisher moment: Ghostrider hits Frank with the Penance Stare, Punisher looks at 'Rider and says: "Your Penance Stare won't work on me, I KNOW what I am"! Savage and EPIC!

I like to think Rob says that intro fresh every single time. No recording, just a straight new take.

Frank being Frank is one of the best things to grace the pages of a comic book.

this how Punisher was always meant to be...apocalypse now anyone, the dear hunter...man this storey is so well written, and the darkness of the art...oh boy, waited 43 years for this

What a dark and twisted past of Punisher. And a warning to us all: if you cross a line you put yourself, there is no turning back. There is no satisfaction or peace after, just endles cycle.

Yeah Punisher! easily one of Marvel's best characters. Can't wait to see that Netflix series.

We're gonna cover Punisher Ma- *hits like button*

More PUNISHER MAX!!!! WOOOOOOO!!! I love the grit and the darker themes please please please do more videos.

*The Virgin Batman vs THE CHAD PUNISHER*

I am totally down for more Punisher Max. Garth Ennis is an amazing writing who know how write a dark story that means something and isn't just for the sake of being grimm.

As somebody who can't afford comics right now, I'm down with you doing the MAX material, particularly this title and (hopefully in the future) Deadpool.

the 'Yes.' scene, all that inferno on the hill, is still one of the strongest pictures out there. Great job covering this

One batch...Lalalalaaaa...Two batch...Lalalalaaaa... Penny and dime.

Please cover the rest of Punisher MAX, please give us more Punisher content.

I love Jon Bernthal, and he killed the role, and I hope that he gets to reprise someday. Though am I the only one who sees it as a missed opportunity that Frank Grillo was cast as Crossbones instead of Punisher (only to be killed off in his second appearance)?

*_Punisher are really the only comic books I read anymore. Punisher Max, is pretty much the best Punisher in ages too._*

I like how this story shows how much of a villian Frank is. Him sacrificing his general shows perfectly his flawed logic leading him to the idea that what he does is for the greater good when he is just as bad if not worse than the people he kills.

Yess do more, I loved The Punisher in Daredevil!!

Pretty much what Vietnam was, was a fruitless task. We put all our soldiers out there just because the other side ("good guys" of Vietnam) could supply us with something. "It's always over money son" is what my dad always says. We sacrificed so much for something we loss. So in a nutshell, that's the Vietnam war.

Watching this brings back memories of this and the entire Punisher Max series. Trying to tell friends how gritty and awesome that series man its just a comic series you have to read for yourself. Punisher vs Bullseye dynamic was crazy to say the least.

Rob, you pretty much got it right about Vietnam. Officers would get frag'd more than you'd think, but it was all a mess. In the words of a special forces captian, " we did everything to win the war but win the war" ( Vietnam the 10,000 day war)

Rob... ROB! If you do Punisher MAX you've got to do The Tyger. It's only a one-shot but it elaborates even further on the Punisher's origins by covering an event during Frank's childhood that, didn't make him Punisher proper , but planted the seed that would lead him on that road. And man it's fucking great. If you loved the monologues Ennis wrote in the Punisher, you're not going to be disapointed.

Love this take on the punisher. I hope they incorporate some of Garth Ennis writing inside his TV series. amazing work and I love everything that he writes.

The punisher becoming Ghost rider would be the most epic Comic i would ever read

hey Rob can u do more Punisher Videos

And then Punisher gets the War Machine suit...

Dude this was the fastest 20 minutes I've ever spent. Its a beautiful story and you're an incredible storyteller. Please keep the Punisher love going and keep these videos coming.

The voice in Frank's head is actually a demon named "Oliver" who's has a white skull for a face(which is where Frank subconsciously got the skull from) and he made a deal with Frank to keep the war going on forever. The only price was his family. This is shown in Punisher VOL 4 1998 ,issues 1-4(This is the first Marvel Knights series, please do a video on it).

As a guy who never was never into comics. But listened to my dudes talk about them. Thanks. You're one of my fav channels right now. Keep being awesome

I remember reading this it made perfect sense Garth Ennis and Greg Rucka have the best Punisher runs

Please continue this series, this is like infinitely better than any other story your covering right now, PUNISHER FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im so excited that youre doing this story arc finally

Rob, you are the reason why i got back into comics again just your attitude and how you het all pumped up is just great

Love your format, like chilling with you talking comic lore as i smoke up

I always thought Born would've been perfect for Marvel to do as an adult orientation animated film like DC's more recent pg-13 and R rated animated films.

I like to think to voice speaking to Frank Castle is Lady Death.

Frank Castle: I did it because I wanted to punish him Me: Roll credits lol

Let me tell you something mannnnnnnnn. Rob you're my number one resource for anything comics related. Your videos give me life.

Do the entire Garth Ennis run!!

Punisher is a straight up beast!

I've been waiting on this video my whole life. This is the beginning of an amazing set of videos

yo punisher max is my absolute favorite run of almost any comic, thanks for hittin it up

PLEASE DO MORE PUNISHER MAX!!!!!

I'm willing to bet that Rob has already watched Avengers: Infinity War even though it's not even out yet

Thank you for covering this. I love the whole punisher max stort line, this was the best story it blew my mind when i read it

"He will find you, and he will kill you.." Great line Rob. Huge fan. proud Robcorps

I have read that BORN for Punisher Comic but I never understood it well, thanks for clearing it up but it feels kind of creepy honestly knowing that becauae Frank said Yes it would be the outcome of his life.

Rob, please do all the punisher comics. All of them!

What I really like about Frank is that even tho he kills any bad person there is still lines he dosent cross and I love that

I've been waiting for you to do Punisher Max for a long time! Keep doing these videos Rob, they're great!!!

Yes more Punisher Max pleaseeeeeee

The Devil? You mean Mephisto? Maybe, but his motivation is more about corruption, not destruction. In my own head canon, it was Ares, The God Of War, who offered Frank the deal. It would explain his miraculous recovery from damage, as well as his youthful longevity. Vietnam 1974 to today, he was born in 1950, so the most recent Punisher comic is about a 69 year old man who has been fighting for 45 years. Damn, he looks good for a senior citizen.

Great video Rob ! I can't wait for the next Punisher video.

I love seeing new ComicsExplained videos on my feed, cause what this does is, it tells me I'm about to watch some good shit.

Yes finally! Getting into some Punisher MAX

He'd get along with Rorschach

i love the B&R combo , love your videos guys

I like your channel, man. Good Punisher video. I would like to see more of these.

I was hoping you'd tackle Punisher MAX!!

I have to disagree Rob. The best Punisher would've been Frank Grillo. If you have any doubts, his role in Purge: Anarchy showed his range. The badass nature of how he took out those people. And the ending, oh man, the ending when he wants to kill the guy. John is a good at cold crazy dudes but he muddles his lines to a grumble often.

This is why I love this channel and more Punisher is always a good thing

This is a really well made video and explanation for The Punisher. Keep up all the great work you do.

Awesome video! Please make more Garth Ennis Punisher videos. Thanks. :P

The Voice talking to him is probably Death personified ,plain and simple. And for the dedicated Garth Ennis reader, it would be even interpreted as the Voice being God himself which I find more accurate. But that is a conversation for another time. Your channel shows the love of the original material and it is great that you take one step further to dive into the psychology of our characters.What Aaron Johnson did with Punisher though, was a shameful act. He imitated the Garth Ennis writing but transformed Punisher to a depressed figure, what Marvel's suits wanted to make out of him in the end,the same suits who run things in the Barracuda story arc, all that arrogance and misplaced pride derived from the most moisty corners of the human heart.The suits offered him a shameful and uneven death at the hands of the Kingpin who was also lamely written. But that is a story for another day. It is a shame they forced Frank Castle's death but what is more shameful is image of frank having written things such as "I AM SORRY" with his on blood on the wall of his old family home. I have a dream of Garth Ennis returning to finish the Punisher Max as it should have been (although it is even more stupid the fact that the Punisher in the MAX universe dies two times, one in the PUNISHER THE END STORY ARC and the other in the Aaron Conclusive Punisher Max story arc with the worst realistic depictions of Bullseye , Electra and Kingpin to ever set foot in the marvel universe, like a bad scripted low budget superhoero movie directed by someone who his last project was to direct schoolplays. Anyway, RIP Steve Dillon, even if you are not around anywhere in this video ...RIP

I loved the way you narrated this Rob.

Excellent breakdown of the character. That end bit kinda makes me think of The Darkness' voice "bargaining" it's way into a host

I think you did an excellent job with this summary and synopsis. However, I can not help but point out a section of "Punisher: Born" that you skipped over which I found to be invaluable to the story and the themes and messages it evoked, and that is the opening narrative to the final chapter "The Last Day" : “There is a Great Beast loose in the world of men. It awoke in dark times to fight a terrible enemy. It stormed through Europe, across the Pacific, and crushed the evil it found there underfoot. But when it was victorious, when the crooked cross and the rising sun were done with, the Great Beast’s keepers found that it would not go back to sleep. The Beast has many heads, and on its heads are written names: Lockheed. Bell. Monsanto. Dow. Grumman. Colt. And many more. And they are very, very hungry. So the Great Beast must be fed: and every generation our country goes to war to do just that. A war for war’s sake, usually. And one that could have been avoided. But there must be blood, in extraordinary quantities, and whether it is foreign or American is of no consequence at all. And so, today, at Firebase Valley Forge, our turn has finally arrived. Today is the day we feed the Beast.” This small segment is what I believe to be the crucial piece to one of the novel's biggest questions: Who/what exactly is the mysterious disembodied voice that talks to Frank? Well, it just seems for too logical to conclude that the voice is the voice of this Great Beast. This Great Beast is of course an analogy for the gargantuan profit machine that is the US Military Industrial Complex. This entity was one of the primary motivators and enablers for the Vietnam conflict because its owners knew it was an opportunity to rake in immense profits for themselves, and they make sure that this vicious cycle of making money off bloodshed NEVER stops for the sake of maintaining their businesses. This is something that Frank Castle touches up on in the Punisher comic "In the Beginning" when he turns down the offer Micro gives him to work for the CIA to hunt down individuals the government deems as "terrorists": "Fighting for the people who run the world gets you stabbed in the back. You fight the wars they start and feed. You kill the monsters they create. You die from handling depleted uranium while they get rich on oil. I'm not going back to war so Colt can sell another million M-16s. I had enough of that in Vietnam."

Lol sorry for trolling you but the Yeah Spider-Man!! is so funny to me because they actually got someone else to play Rob from ComicsExplained in the MCU. hahaha it's so great to know you exist in the MCU lol

Rob this video was awesome exactly what i want in a punisher story

Well, now to hope every day for the next Punisher video, this was amazing

Punisher is an anti hero not a villain

Do Punisher MAX!!

man, the background music of all your vids Rob. They always on point.

Punisher Max is the best. Amazing narrative and just beautiful layouts.

Please do the whole Max series!

Why does this sound like a myphisto deal lol

I have been waiting for you to cover punisher max please continue

Excellent Rob! Loved it! 👊

Rob: "It's absolutely mind blowing" *sees scene of guy getting his head blown off* Please tell me you did that one on purpose

He's not a villain

Such a huge fan of this story, glad you did this one Rob! I reeeeeeaally hope they adapt this backstory in the Netflix series in flashbacks

Punisher Max is my all time favorite punisher series please do more of these!!!

Awesome I love punisher max

Damn! I've been waiting for coverage on the Punisher MAX series, I've wanted to know more about this for years, and here it is.

FINALLY! I've been requesting this forever from you, Rob. Thank you I love this story!

Great video Rob, thanks for doing this one

More Punisher Max!!! More!

frank castle is my favorite in all of marvel hands down..

great video. Please do more of punisher max.

Rob please keep it going! Love the video

When a man breaks in another man's house , he sacrifices his right to life. Damn right

YEEEEEES I LOVE YOU FOR DOING THOOOOOSE (Also Will you continue walking dead?)

Several pages of this comic were used as the "flashback cutaways" in the Punisher video game. "There's gonna be an ambush! ambush...ambush..." "I was only following orders...orders...orders..." Such memories, much fun. Wow.

Finally Punisher Max I have been waiting! This needs more veiws please do the whole run.

Yes do more punisher max

YESSSS PUNISHER MAX FINALLY!!! LETS HEAR IT ROB

Totally off subject: Sir, you are a fantastic narrator. Moreover, you give some of the most detailed interpretations on your subjects I have ever heard on KZfaq....kudos!

More of this please, this is soooo goooood. Punisher Max to the MAX......