Love it. Been reading through all Punisher from the early days. These earlier ones are much better stories and more violent than people might realize.
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I haven't been keeping up with modern comics super tightly but I imagine the average Punisher filler issue hasn't changed too much. "A bad man exists. Then the Punisher goes sicko mode on him."
I do really love the Jim Lee era art. I think it's just so well defined. The coloring and inking on these random issues is not consistently top tier, but in panels where it is good, it is really good. I much prefer the sharp and often not literal color choices to the more grounded colors applied by digital airbrush tools in modern comics.
I am not up on the most recent, but semi recent Punisher like the Becky Cloonan run I felt was excellent, and then Matthew Rosenbergs run was pretty good, especially the War Machine part.
Garth Ennis Punisher is great, but these older ones from the first volume are gems easily overlooked, and they aren't even all on the subscription app, so I have to read the actual old comics for a lot of it.
The skin color change story though, that sure was something.