Not sure "He can't kill criminals because they killed his family, but he can kill criminals because his wife divorced him" is going to make that IP any less toxic, no matter how much of a fan I am
So, Frank ends up becoming an avatar for The Hand (evil ninjas), he stops using guns for a minute and switches to ninja magic and swords
Then they use their evil ninja ways to bring his wife back to life so he can make a clean break from his past and embrace being an unstoppable killing machine or something
He can't kill his wife, so he turns on The Hand
Then his wife calls him a monster, takes all the money he made being a vigilante (somehow) and leaves him
Frank has his big "What have I done?" moment and ends up leaving for another dimension where he still kills people, it's just different for some reason
Then some other white guy who's a Rogue SHIELD agent takes up being The Punisher because he hates crime too
It solves none of the actual issues around the character and instead just makes him a fuckin' cop who does the job with lasers
Yeah, it's very telling how they ignore the best way to deal with chuds being associated with the character is via legal action against them using the Skull
And hell, if they want to make it a story thing, literally have the Punisher go after chuds, he's done it before
Just do a big storyline where he's hunting down a bunch of them who have taken up using his name and symbols to hurt innocent people
I'm not even a professional writer and I could do this shit fifty times better than they are
I forget off the top of my head, but it's the latest before this current run
They basically did it because they think the Punisher IP is toxic, which is why they just put a new guy in the role
He still kills criminals, just with lasers instead of bullets so it's more better for that reason
Not sure "He can't kill criminals because they killed his family, but he can kill criminals because his wife divorced him" is going to make that IP any less toxic, no matter how much of a fan I am
It's even worse than that
So, Frank ends up becoming an avatar for The Hand (evil ninjas), he stops using guns for a minute and switches to ninja magic and swords
Then they use their evil ninja ways to bring his wife back to life so he can make a clean break from his past and embrace being an unstoppable killing machine or something
He can't kill his wife, so he turns on The Hand
Then his wife calls him a monster, takes all the money he made being a vigilante (somehow) and leaves him
Frank has his big "What have I done?" moment and ends up leaving for another dimension where he still kills people, it's just different for some reason
Then some other white guy who's a Rogue SHIELD agent takes up being The Punisher because he hates crime too
It solves none of the actual issues around the character and instead just makes him a fuckin' cop who does the job with lasers
It's asinine, but then again, most comics are
I spontaneously remember why I keep my Punisher reading to MAX and some select storys lol
Yeah, it's very telling how they ignore the best way to deal with chuds being associated with the character is via legal action against them using the Skull
And hell, if they want to make it a story thing, literally have the Punisher go after chuds, he's done it before
Just do a big storyline where he's hunting down a bunch of them who have taken up using his name and symbols to hurt innocent people
I'm not even a professional writer and I could do this shit fifty times better than they are
This is modern-Spiderman-comics level of fucking terrible character ideas.
I love Spider-Man and yeah, at this point there's far more bad Spider-Man than good