Frank’s back in New York to chew bubblegum and shoot punks – well, he never really chewed bubblegum!
Becky Cloonan’s third and final Punisher book is actually kinda decent. You don’t really need to have read the previous two to pick this one up as it’s basically just a collection of standalone stories.
Frank goes looking for one of his stolen guns; he foils a robbery during a citywide blackout; he murderizes a Hamburglar-lookalike who’s pushing people in front of subway trains; and he fights a monster at a movie premiere.
None of them are especially memorable or that standout but, for done-in-one stories (though the monster movie premiere story is a two-parter), they’re entertaining enough with some amusingly OTT scenes.
The book is more violent and graphic than I’d expected (it doesn’t have a MAX label) so that was a pleasant surprise – violent and graphic is how the Punisher should be presented! And I think artists Kris Anka and Matt Horak did well to fill in for the recently deceased and definitive Punisher artist Steve Dillon (RIP), though if you weren’t aware of Dillon’s passing, you wouldn’t notice it in the art as the pages don’t look rushed. And the Declan Shalvey/Jordie Bellaire covers are incredible.
They’re not brilliant stories, so don’t get your hopes too high, but King of the New York Streets is a collection of perfectly fine Punisher shorts.
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