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Daredevil Only Became MCU Canon After Born Again’s Creative Reboot
With the release of Echo bringing the MCU back into the gritty criminal world that was, long ago, the bread and butter of its TV series boom on Netflix, much has been made of the show’s repositioning of Marvel’s canonical context to that era through characters like Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin.…
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Marvel’s New Punisher Comic Sure Sounds Like It’s Dropping the Pretense He’s a Hero
Marvel Comics has had a Punisher problem for quite some time. The murderous vigilante’s skull logo has been appropriated for years by police officers and members of the military services who seemingly admire the character’s ability to act outside of the justice system as judge, jury, and executioner and still technically be called one of…
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Netflix’s The Punisher Is A Brutal Humanisation Of Frank Castle That Can’t Face Its Own Demons
The last time we saw Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, he’d fully embraced his Punisher persona and taken to doling out his personal brand of justice even after he’d killed the people directly responsible for the death of his family. It’s interesting, then, that that man is not the Frank Castle we…
