CMPodcast 296 – Franken-Castle (comic 2010) Part 2 of 2

Comics Misremembered Podcast

Welcome back to the conclusion of the Franken-Castle storyline from 2010. It was originally published by Marvel as The Punisher Vol. 3 and became the title Franken-Castle with issue #17 until the series ended with issue #21. Rick Remender was the writer of the series. The majority of the art was done by Tony Moore with Roland Boschi doing some fill-in issues. Dan Brereton painted 2 issues (The origin of Hellsgaard and the final issue) and John Romita Jr did the art for a one-shot.

Last week we discussed how the Punisher was murdered and dismembered and how Morbius, the living vampire stitched Frank back together to help fight the Hunter of Monsters.

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In the podcast this week, I talk about the origin story of Robert Hellsgaard and why he hates monsters so much. We also uncover the artifact that Hellsgaard is searching for and why he wants it so bad. This leads to the conflict between Frank Castle AKA Franken-Castle and Hellsgaard and how that conflict is finally resolved.

Once Frank takes care of that problem, he goes on a revenge tour and one of the stops is Daken (the guy that killed him). This leads to a 4 part cross-over event between Franken-Castle and Dark Wolverine. I posted the cover of the Franken-Castle #19 which is part 2. This 4 part event is essentially a 4 issue fight.

We end on issue #21 that explains how Frank Castle gets his old body back and returns to the status quo of the Punisher again.

I end the podcast with previous attempt at telling a different Punisher story with the 4 part miniseries – Punisher: Purgatory. Even though this series had fantastic art by Bernie Wrightson, everyone (including myself) hates this miniseries and I try to explain why.

Jim

Comics Misremembered Podcast 296

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