the Punisher MAX - Kitchen Irish

Once again my Norse connection comes through with the second installment of the Punisher MAX series written by Garth Ennis.

This time the Punisher is cleaning up IRA scum and paddy nitwits like only the Punisher can do. Truth be told, the gang war that erupts in the story would probably have done the job and self-destructed without Frank Castle lighting a fuse, but let's say he just hastened the inevitable.

It's a good, complete, gang war story that centers around various Irish gangs fighting amongst themselves in Hell's Kitchen. There is the usual mix of archetypical bad-guys, sadists, idiots, cops and criminal lunatics that you expect from a Frank Castle yarn.

I really dig the MAX series because it allows the story to go into the dark, fucked up places that the comics only ever implied in the past. The Punisher is an explicit comic and concept, and this mature series really does Frank justice. This is real-deal fucked up shit. And it rules hard!