What makes Frank Castle such a great character to write?
Especially for you Jimmy, since you can’t seem to get enough of him: you’ve inked and edited many Frank Castle stories in the past, as well as scripting the Punisher video game. JP: Not so very deep down, I think I want to be this guy at times. Wouldn’t it be great to just shoot the things that bother us? The reality is that you cannot, but when writing fiction, the imagination can go wild. If it was up to me, this story would have been 6 issues long! Given the opportunity, I would want to go deeper and deeper into Frank’s issues, because I can totally appreciate and understand the world he lives in and his frustration with how terrible people act. As for Suspiria, the major villain in the book, she needs to get her own title… [Laughs] JG: The Punisher is remorseless justice delivered in as violent and twisted a manner possible. It’s fun to work on characters like that; it’s a good way to exorcize anger in ways you couldn’t in life. You can do horrible things to people on paper and not
