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A look into Punisher War Journal #19 'Trauma In Paradise'

The cover and the inside art is drawn by Jim Lee, who is my favorite Punisher artist. He gives Frank a proper grittiness, has exaggerated but rarely wonky figures, and pays attention to drawing guns both in making them look like more than collections of random bits and in choosing unusual models. In the cover Frank has an L86 LSW in hand while speeding towards tropical danger. While the LSW sadly doesn't actually appear in the comic, the Sterling submachinegun is a decent consolation prize.

Full credits:

A jet ski, a Hawaiian shirt, a bueatiful sunset, and all the ontologically evil thugs you can shoot.

Micro, Frank's long time sidekick, gets to do some actual shooting this issue rather than simply being Frank's man in the chair.

Punisher holds bloody stick while someone else babbles about the plot, big Doomslayer 2016 energy.

Frank shooting his acquired Sterling SMG.

More Sterling action.

Frank is trapped.

Fortunately, he thinks up a clever plan to escape.

Budda budda budda firefight.

Micro opens fire to make an intentionally flashy entrance.

He then uses cultural appropriation for good in order to scare the superstitious thugs.

Micro meets up with Frank and they share what passes for humor.

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  • I remember this one. I bought it when it came out right from the magazine rack at Walgreens (how I bought most of my comics back then).