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The Uncommon Excellence of ‘Untold Tales Of The Punisher Max’ #2 [Review]

By Matt Seneca

There’s a palpable intensity at play all through this comic, one that’s due in part to the taut, highly violent story Latour lays out, but mostly to the thrill of seeing a Marvel comic that’s drawn this way, by a hungry young gun finally being given the chance to play on the biggest stage comics have on offer, and sacrificing none of his artistic individuality to it. This comic is cartooned, not illustrated, with the slightly creepy photo-traced gloss of the average Marvel comic stripped away like a bad paint job, realist anatomy set aside in favor of expressive posing and figure drawing that actually tells us something about who each character is. The Punisher looms black and hunched in the corners of panels, his massive, vein-popping form never fully fitting into a single frame, as his all-too-disposable nemeses scamper around the Kentucky farmhouse the whole issue’s set in, blowing each other to smithereens as their faces twist and distort like silly putty.

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Source: comicsalliance.com