>>77840702>Ah, Punisher Max. The only Punisher,that counts.Well, at least the first volume anyway. Aaron's MAX was basically another "What If?" ending like The End. "What if Frank was a sociopath all along? Isn't it totally DEEP that he let his family die so he could become the Punisher?" When in reality that's not what happened at all. He's not crazy, he's hyper sane. Ennis understood that he's not incapable of emotion. I mean, Up is Down and Black is White? That was totally just Frank going through the motions about his family being dug up. Yeah, okay Aaron, whatever you say.
>but Frank should have saw the mobsters coming Well Ennis never really went into detail about what happened before the shooting, did he? Just the immediate fallout and that "they were witnesses". It can easily be inferred that Frank and his family stumbled upon what was happening with the mobsters, and that by the time Frank realized what was what, it was too late. There's a dozen different ways it could have gone down so that he had no idea what was coming.
Basically, they weren't gunning for him and his family. He wasn't fighting the VC in the bush, he wasn't aware there was even an enemy. Frank, for all intents and purposes, had no reason to suspect any real danger until it was too late. Ennis practically explains that his love for his family possibly clouded his judgement, or his "Frank senses", to meme on you for a second. That doesn't mean he asked for it, nor does it mean he was secretly happy his family was gunned down. (pic very much related)
None of Aaron's thesis (he basically uses Bullseye as a mouthpiece for this) on the Punisher washes with what Ennis already laid down before him.
I'm only saying this because I'm reading through it again and I feel like venting to no one in particular. It's a fun story, and I enjoy well enough, (y'know, despite Dillon) but it's not really a good ending for MAX Frank Castle.
