I'm not reading Jonah Hex because I agree with Chris Sims: it relies on rape too much as a plot device. Try to think of that from a woman's perspective, and how cliched, tiresome, and sad that is.
I haven't gotten this week's PUNISHER yet. Oh god oh god, what happens? I'm SO AFRAID. Ennis' run is coming to an end, and I know he's going to do something sadistic to Frank. I just know it. I trusted Ennis with Frank completely up until Sarah showed up, which was a real betrayal to the Punisher mythos on Ennis' part. I think Ennis went there because it was practically the only thing he hadn't done, and I'm sure there was writer ego involved in that decision, so Ennis could say "yep, I violated the one sacrosanct thing that people thought could never happen in the Punisher." I mean, what's next? Maria turns out to be a slattern and was cheating on Frank? Frank starts taking out innocents? Screw you, Ennis.
You know I agree with you that Ennis has done his most emotionally mature work on MAX Punisher. Nothing Ennis has ever written has gotten to me emotionally in such a visceral manner before. Anytime Ennis does something horribly twisted in any other book, I am unmoved, because it immediately takes me out of the story. I sit there and think "well, it's Ennis being sadistic again." There's no emotional center to that mode of Ennis.
Whereas with Frank, oh MAN. The emotionalism is THERE, 150%, all the time.
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I haven't gotten this week's PUNISHER yet. Oh god oh god, what happens? I'm SO AFRAID. Ennis' run is coming to an end, and I know he's going to do something sadistic to Frank. I just know it. I trusted Ennis with Frank completely up until Sarah showed up, which was a real betrayal to the Punisher mythos on Ennis' part. I think Ennis went there because it was practically the only thing he hadn't done, and I'm sure there was writer ego involved in that decision, so Ennis could say "yep, I violated the one sacrosanct thing that people thought could never happen in the Punisher." I mean, what's next? Maria turns out to be a slattern and was cheating on Frank? Frank starts taking out innocents? Screw you, Ennis.
You know I agree with you that Ennis has done his most emotionally mature work on MAX Punisher. Nothing Ennis has ever written has gotten to me emotionally in such a visceral manner before. Anytime Ennis does something horribly twisted in any other book, I am unmoved, because it immediately takes me out of the story. I sit there and think "well, it's Ennis being sadistic again." There's no emotional center to that mode of Ennis.
Whereas with Frank, oh MAN. The emotionalism is THERE, 150%, all the time.