The Punisher #3

[history79]

7.66 pages of 23

Comments

[beeyo]

First thought before I read what was going on:

"Huh. I didn't know Kingpin was in 'Nam."

[timgueugen]

He makes me think of Lex Luthor. Punisher vs. Lex Luthor would make for an interesting crossover, but you'd have to do some ridiculous asspull to keep one from killing the other.

[beeyo]

First thought before I read what was going on:

"Huh. I didn't know Kingpin was in 'Nam."

[beyondthefringe]

I see "island full of thugs, sadists, and mercs" and I see "nuclear bomb test" and I expect the two to go together in a hilariously awful way.

[md84]

You will not be disappointed.

[md84]

I always felt bad for the French guy in this story. It's kind of sad that Frank is the only person who doesn't give him crap just because he's French.

[shadur]

Ennis has this... thing about the French. It's even worse in Preacher.

He loves rehashing that "we saved your incompetent surrendering asses in world war 2, you owe us eternal respect and gratitude so shut the fuck up" meme, too.

[silverhammerman]

Which strikes me as really odd coming from Ennis, given how much of a WWII buff he is. I suppose he does tend to write unpleasant and ill-informed people, but I'd expect him to follow up any French bashing with a long rebuttal about how badass the French Resistance was and how the cowardly Frenchman stereotype is both xenophobic and manufactured.

[toby_wan_kenobi]

Also, the whole reason the French had to surrender is because the Belgians, Dutch, and English got utterly spanked by the Germans and allowed the Nazis to flank the Maginot line.

[stolisomancer]

It's not all Ennis. This volume came out in 2002, right before the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" thing hit its full stride in America (it is, as one might expect, a line from "The Simpsons"). A lot of people were making fun of the French around that point, which wasn't helped by the then-new wave of weird nostalgia for World War II. In this period, making fun of the French was a cheap, easy laugh.

Ennis goes on to write The Boys, where Frenchie is a running joke of sorts, but he's also lethal, and his first appearance involves him beating up three Americans who call him a "surrender monkey."

[bradygirl_12]

I always felt bad, too. This mindset of the Francophobe is not only aggravating but boring. Maybe French guy ought to say, "Well, if it wasn't for us helping you yokels out during the Revolution, you'd be eating plum pudding and drinking warm beer."

[toby_wan_kenobi]

POINT.