Man, I loved this run. I thought it was even more over-the-top than his original. The Vietnam beginning was so solid. The last story was relentless, just showing that core of Castle that makes him the Punisher (that is completely lacking in the TV series, tho I still enjoy the show). And Barracuda? Loved that character. Now I'm going to reread it.
you're right, this is a great run. i have all 3 Gart Ennis Punisher Omni's. i love the humour in the Marvel Knights omni, but the max Run is simply the best. Whoever says that they expected more from Garth on this run are just wrong. every story-arc develops nicely and has an epic ending. Frankly, i prefer this over 'Preacher', just because Garth made the Punisher exactly who i imagined him to be ...
"General Zakharov...sir, you were right. You were right about everything, all along." "In every detail but one. That was no American. It was a Russian who was born there by mistake."
Great review 👍🏽. I like how these are dark, it puts you in the world setting of the Punisher where everything is messed up. Barracuda reminds me of Nate “Boone” Craft
Hey Gem, how was the Dark Tower omnibus you got behind you? Please review that one if you haven’t already. BTW I believe Punisher first appeared in ‘73/‘74, not ‘76.
i havnt read Dark Tower yet... Manimal has read multiple time and the novel too i believe... i think i kept think 76 b/c thats the date they used in this story
I just got, here issued as THIRD book, Up is Down, Black is White. Looks good so far. The same style like two books before, Born and Mother Russia. Hard for digestion, but brutal as the Punisher should be. Thanks for the review.
Best story from the Max run in my opinion is the mob story I forgot what it’s called but reading it showed me how balls to wall insane punisher the comic can get
Yooo hold up i haven’t had a chance to watch the Captain America review yet! Too much content brother! Lol. Back to back bangers though, i love both Punisher and Cap!!
Are the omnibuses missing a lot of content? They only have 1,800 pages across 2 volumes, but the complete collection has 2,800 pages across 7 volumes? Someone please answer. Thanks.
These books or the marvel knights ennis run would both be good...dont really need any prior knowledge. The Back to the War omnibus has more classic material.
A compilation I have has a misprint listing Born as a 6 issue arc, when there's clearly only 4. Weird thing is that it is a third printing and never got changed.
i have a question man , i would like to know if these 2 omnibuses contain the stories that are in the 6 small hardcovers you had in your video with all the punisher omnibuses, because i want to buy punisher max by garth enis and i dont know if these omnibuses have all the punisher stories by garth enis..
I've got all three Punisher Omnis from Ennis but haven't started reading them yet. Even though the Marvel Knights Omni is more PG-13, story-wise how does it compare to the Max Omnis? When I begin reading these volumes I'm not sure which one to start out with.
I was debating on buying this set, but compared to the 6 volume oversized hardcovers these two omnibus are lackluster. Since 2010, I had almost every oversized hardcover except volume 4 (which was always OOP and expensive) and figured I would sell those and put them towards the omnibus as I expected omnibus one to cover the first 3 oversized hardcovers (issues 1-36) and the second one to vol. 4-6 (issues 37-74). However, these two omnibus take us through issues 1-60, while the 6 volume hardcovers take us through through issues 1-74. To be fair, Ennis didn't write issues 61-74 so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about their exclusion, but still Marvel had an opportunity to put the entire 2004 Max run of Punisher in two huge volumes. So what I did, instead of buying the two omnibus, I just went to ebay and looked for the long sought Vol. 4 OSHC and low and behold there were quite a few listings, so I grabbed a near mint copy for $55 and now I have the complete arc in OSHC. This was a very good run, but IMO it's got nothing on Ennis' Marvel Knights (MK) Punisher. I missed the dark humor of the MK run and that run grabbed my attention.
I’m trying to figure this out, there’s these 3 omnibuses. 2 punisher max omnibuses which I’ve just bought (the ones in the video) and then there’s another by the same author that comes before (marvel knights one). I think you have to read marvel knights first but you don’t have to
Gem Mint Collectibles Good to know! It looks like the Max series was a great starting point to get acquainted with the Punisher. Anyway, I've always loved your reviews and did a comic book haul myself too! Have you seen the Punisher Netflix series?
Gem Mint Collectibles I still need to see it. Although I'm a bit hesitant because the film/TV is usually different from the book. Anyway did you like the Jason Aaron run? Thanks again!
Good honest review bro really enjoyed it plus 8 like the over the top review when looming through the book It funny I had the opposite view to you I never read anything Ennis and I read max runs first and loved it so much I went and read marvel knight as well looked at preacher and the writing was good i just didn't like the cartoonist ruchy art and theme, I like the realistic tone of the max run compared to Ennis earlier work
Punisher born and barricuda were great, but generally I prreferred Punisher warr zone. But to be fair, that could just be nostalgia. I got the first book of warzone with a punisher action figure when I was like 10 and I didn't start reading the max titles until I was 19 or something.
Thanks for the review man, this was gonna be my next purchase but knowing now a bit more, I might drop it a bit in my list of priorities. Still gonna get them eventually!
I agree with you Stephen, Preacher is better. Punisher Max is just ok. Sold all my trades of Punisher Max so I could buy The Batman Grant Morisson Omni and the Grayson Omni :)
I kinda think Ennis is way over hyped when it comes to the Punisher stories. I liked the more serious tone he took this time but Born absolutely pissed me off. Turned Punisher into a nut job who just needs to kill rather than a guy with a strong sense of justice who also wanted revenge and to keep what happened to his family from happening to anyone else. If I go with the narrative Ennis put out in Born then Frank Castle is to blame for his family dying because he made a deal to keep killing which followed him home to his family. Its all his fault which totally messes up the character for me. If that was who I thought the Punisher was I'd have never been a Punisher fan. I didn't like the Ennis humor in the other Punisher stories before MAX so I appreciated the serious tone. My favorite Punisher stories are older ones.....Probably with Suicide Run being my favorite, but the Cell and the Slavers were cool stories also Mother Russia and the one with the girl who was abused by her mob husband til Punisher killed him (Widowmaker). Great honest review Gem! Damn we missed the shot of Micro taking a shotgun blast to the face.
if this comic was made today, it would've set twitter on fire
Man, I loved this run. I thought it was even more over-the-top than his original. The Vietnam beginning was so solid. The last story was relentless, just showing that core of Castle that makes him the Punisher (that is completely lacking in the TV series, tho I still enjoy the show). And Barracuda? Loved that character.
Now I'm going to reread it.
you're right, this is a great run. i have all 3 Gart Ennis Punisher Omni's. i love the humour in the Marvel Knights omni, but the max Run is simply the best. Whoever says that they expected more from Garth on this run are just wrong. every story-arc develops nicely and has an epic ending. Frankly, i prefer this over 'Preacher', just because Garth made the Punisher exactly who i imagined him to be ...
Ennis is a damn GENIUS.
Barracuda added a lot of Ennis classic humor!
THIS, especially in his own mini-series !
"Not gonna give any spoilers..."
Proceeds to tell exactly what triggered the Punisher's descent into becoming the Punisher... LOL
lol yea might be a spoiler...u dunno...i loved Born tho.
You can't even spoil a comic book
I figured that's like....the basic punisher knowledge.....like spider-man getting his powers from getting bit by a radioactive spider....
My favorite story was mother Russia. The whole run is worth buying
That’s not the max run tho. Unless they redid it. But good story nonetheless
"General Zakharov...sir, you were right. You were right about everything, all along."
"In every detail but one. That was no American. It was a Russian who was born there by mistake."
@@drebodollaz3504 what?It was in Max run since day 1
Great honest review, now if Marvel only gets their shit together and give us a Muppets Max 😂
please no
man what sucks is i just started getting into comics, and i'm so interested in buying these two omnis but can't find them anywhere
If you're still looking, Volume 1
Reprinting has been up for pre-order for a minute.
Great review 👍🏽. I like how these are dark, it puts you in the world setting of the Punisher where everything is messed up. Barracuda reminds me of Nate “Boone” Craft
You've sold me on another omnibus!
I rate how you always give an honest opinion on your recent reads/reviews.
Love Garth Ennis, one of my favorite writers, great reviews man. 💎💎💎
I read it at Barnes and noble in between classes.
Hey Gem, how was the Dark Tower omnibus you got behind you? Please review that one if you haven’t already.
BTW I believe Punisher first appeared in ‘73/‘74, not ‘76.
i havnt read Dark Tower yet... Manimal has read multiple time and the novel too i believe... i think i kept think 76 b/c thats the date they used in this story
This run has some of my favorite crime stories of all time!
Anyone know where a copy of this is at without costing an arm and a leg?
Finally you read this my favourite marvel run hands down
Why?
Because of how Ennis writes real grounded stories that you could relate to and how he surrounds the punisher with interesting characters
The punisher has always been my favorite from MARVEL since the 90s. Miami is still my home. and dammit this is one raw comic channel 🤙🏼✌🏼
I just got, here issued as THIRD book, Up is Down, Black is White. Looks good so far. The same style like two books before, Born and Mother Russia. Hard for digestion, but brutal as the Punisher should be. Thanks for the review.
Best story from the Max run in my opinion is the mob story I forgot what it’s called but reading it showed me how balls to wall insane punisher the comic can get
Another great recent read vid/review. I might be picking these up
Garth Ennis is my favourite comic writer, he also writes the Crossed comics which is very controversial.
Love the slavers story arc from punisher MAX
Yooo hold up i haven’t had a chance to watch the Captain America review yet! Too much content brother! Lol. Back to back bangers though, i love both Punisher and Cap!!
Just finished volume one the other day, O'Brien a freak lol. Great video Homie!
Its the bindning good? ive seen some say that the pages come lose and stuff
Yo Gem, how do you feel about the crossed series. Is that violent enough? Lol
In your opinion what is the best more brutal omnibus of the punisher? I want to buy one lol but I wanna get the most gruesome one LOL
Are the omnibuses missing a lot of content? They only have 1,800 pages across 2 volumes, but the complete collection has 2,800 pages across 7 volumes? Someone please answer. Thanks.
from my memeory, the run was only 6 volumes...maybe the other volumes like Born are not included?
That retcon of the Punisher's origin in Born was amazing.
Where would you recommend to sart if I wanted to get into reading the punisher
These books or the marvel knights ennis run would both be good...dont really need any prior knowledge. The Back to the War omnibus has more classic material.
A compilation I have has a misprint listing Born as a 6 issue arc, when there's clearly only 4. Weird thing is that it is a third printing and never got changed.
Loved BORN and anything with BARRACUDA... "yo Hemo !!!"
lmao
It's not hemo,it's Oswald
I'm gonna pick these up. Thanks for the review.
i have a question man , i would like to know if these 2 omnibuses contain the stories that are in the 6 small hardcovers you had in your video with all the punisher omnibuses, because i want to buy punisher max by garth enis and i dont know if these omnibuses have all the punisher stories by garth enis..
yes these are the omnibus that was collected in those 6 OHCs
@@GemMintCollectibles good to know bro!!
I've got all three Punisher Omnis from Ennis but haven't started reading them yet. Even though the Marvel Knights Omni is more PG-13, story-wise how does it compare to the Max Omnis? When I begin reading these volumes I'm not sure which one to start out with.
the MK run felt more like a MAX run than the MAX run to me... i did a review on that one too
You know I had to come back and watch the review. Now I got to figure out how to get some out of print Omni’s 😆
Cheers for no spoilers got this in my pipeline 💎💪
these are simply awesome
So was this better than the first ennis omni?
I REALLY want to get this. Almost pulled the trigger several times but something else always comes up (like Gem Mint Auctions!!!!) Great vid!
Good review G - Man. Thx & have a great day.
I was debating on buying this set, but compared to the 6 volume oversized hardcovers these two omnibus are lackluster. Since 2010, I had almost every oversized hardcover except volume 4 (which was always OOP and expensive) and figured I would sell those and put them towards the omnibus as I expected omnibus one to cover the first 3 oversized hardcovers (issues 1-36) and the second one to vol. 4-6 (issues 37-74).
However, these two omnibus take us through issues 1-60, while the 6 volume hardcovers take us through through issues 1-74. To be fair, Ennis didn't write issues 61-74 so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about their exclusion, but still Marvel had an opportunity to put the entire 2004 Max run of Punisher in two huge volumes.
So what I did, instead of buying the two omnibus, I just went to ebay and looked for the long sought Vol. 4 OSHC and low and behold there were quite a few listings, so I grabbed a near mint copy for $55 and now I have the complete arc in OSHC.
This was a very good run, but IMO it's got nothing on Ennis' Marvel Knights (MK) Punisher. I missed the dark humor of the MK run and that run grabbed my attention.
Are there any punisher Max series that aren’t in the omnibus Vol 1&2?
im not sure if the omnis collect Born and From First to Last
Sorry! I’m getting the authors mixed up. This is just the Garth Ennis omnibus, not including Jason Aaron and steve Dillon. My bad!
Hey Gem, I got a question.... have you read the Steven Grant and Mike Zeck Punisher series?
not yet
You don’t what you’re missing, mate!
I mean you don’t know what you’re missing, mate!
Which of the punisher Max books do I read first?
I’m trying to figure this out, there’s these 3 omnibuses. 2 punisher max omnibuses which I’ve just bought (the ones in the video) and then there’s another by the same author that comes before (marvel knights one). I think you have to read marvel knights first but you don’t have to
Love this series.
Would love to know your updated favorite punisher omnibus!
I’ve been meaning to read the back to war omni… I think I’ve read every punisher omnibus but that & the remender Omni
nice review. In your opinion, do you think Marvel will reprint these 2 omnis at some point?
Yes
Got hooked after reading these two, to be honest! Is it worth reading the MK version?
reading these made me appreciate the MK version more... i think you should!
Gem Mint Collectibles Good to know! It looks like the Max series was a great starting point to get acquainted with the Punisher. Anyway, I've always loved your reviews and did a comic book haul myself too! Have you seen the Punisher Netflix series?
yea i enjoyed the netflix series... micro kinda pissed me off though.
Gem Mint Collectibles I still need to see it. Although I'm a bit hesitant because the film/TV is usually different from the book. Anyway did you like the Jason Aaron run? Thanks again!
Will there be another punisher omnibus after this max vol 2
that completes the Ennis MAX run
Good review!
Good honest review bro really enjoyed it plus 8 like the over the top review when looming through the book
It funny I had the opposite view to you I never read anything Ennis and I read max runs first and loved it so much I went and read marvel knight as well looked at preacher and the writing was good i just didn't like the cartoonist ruchy art and theme, I like the realistic tone of the max run compared to Ennis earlier work
The binding was messed up on my copy of vol. 1
Punisher is my favourite marvel character
Hey man. I like your cube shelves set up. Looks very efficient. Do they sell those on amazon?
these are from IKEA. They're called Kallax.
I love his preacher run,so should I check this one out?
yea but I liked Preacher better. I prefer his Marvel Knights run over the MAX.
For sure
Punisher born and barricuda were great, but generally I prreferred Punisher warr zone. But to be fair, that could just be nostalgia. I got the first book of warzone with a punisher action figure when I was like 10 and I didn't start reading the max titles until I was 19 or something.
Dealt more with violence and not too much of Ennis style. That is why I liked it. Barracuda was cool 👍
IMO the regular run by Ennis on Punisher beats this one
Lou DP haven’t read
@@GemMintCollectibles i believe he means the Marvel Knights run .....
Which one contains the Eminem part?
Gotta love the punisher.
Well Imma add this to cart next week, hopefully it holds up!
Just started reading max vol 1. Really like it. Worth every penny, and I'm barely about 50 pages in. I'm confident it will get better and not worse
Could you please do a Punisher omnibus revisit?
best omni ever
Does Vol. 2 have the slaver arch?
Nah that’s the end of volume 1
This is an excellent comic
Yes so dope
Did you make the intro?
no Richard from Collector-Verse made it for me
Pretty sweet bro. I didn't mind the predator movie because I didn't expect much, but the story was so uninspiring.
Loved the slavers
Garth Ennis Rules !!
💎🍃Fresh
Hey Man if you like Garth Ennis; you need to read "The Rifle Brigade". Awesome !!
I think the book was subtly Garth Ennis a little more akin to his Hellblazer run
Thanks for the review man, this was gonna be my next purchase but knowing now a bit more, I might drop it a bit in my list of priorities. Still gonna get them eventually!
Much respect for your collection but man I loved this run. It's one of my favorite adult runs in comics. I'm a Garth fanboy though
i love garth too...i just feel like this was overrated. especially compared to Preacher and The Boys
man , do you even know what a bad video is lmao, always top shel Gem.
i try not to lol
I agree with you Stephen, Preacher is better. Punisher Max is just ok. Sold all my trades of Punisher Max so I could buy The Batman Grant Morisson Omni and the Grayson Omni :)
Glad it was serious. Hate Garth style in general.. He goes overboard with the sick crap.
Read barracuda max
It's still marvel
I thought obrien was funny
loved me some O'Brien
I kinda think Ennis is way over hyped when it comes to the Punisher stories. I liked the more serious tone he took this time but Born absolutely pissed me off. Turned Punisher into a nut job who just needs to kill rather than a guy with a strong sense of justice who also wanted revenge and to keep what happened to his family from happening to anyone else. If I go with the narrative Ennis put out in Born then Frank Castle is to blame for his family dying because he made a deal to keep killing which followed him home to his family. Its all his fault which totally messes up the character for me. If that was who I thought the Punisher was I'd have never been a Punisher fan. I didn't like the Ennis humor in the other Punisher stories before MAX so I appreciated the serious tone. My favorite Punisher stories are older ones.....Probably with Suicide Run being my favorite, but the Cell and the Slavers were cool stories also Mother Russia and the one with the girl who was abused by her mob husband til Punisher killed him (Widowmaker). Great honest review Gem!
Damn we missed the shot of Micro taking a shotgun blast to the face.
Dealt more with violence and not too much of Ennis style. That is why I liked it. Barracuda was cool 👍