Books like The Punisher, Vol. 1: Welcome Back, Frank

\ Deadly good reading!\ This TPB edition collects “The Punisher” (2000) #1-12.Creative Team:Writer: Garth EnnisIllustrator: Steve DillonInker: Jimmy PalmiottiCovers’ art: Tim Bradstreet\ BACK WITH A BANG! (ACTUALLY SEVERAL BANGS!)\ \ Solo act again. No micro. No gimmicks: no fancy ammo, no battle-vans, no hi-tech surveillance. Just the basics. Been gone a while. Distracted. The scum of the city need a wake-up call. And here it comes.\ Frank Castle aka The Punisher returned to the Big Apple……and the worms are starting to run away.The Punisher declared war against the Gnucci Crime Family……why?...…Why not?The Punisher hates criminals and he plans to eliminate them so beginning with the Gnucci Crime Family is as good point to begin as anyone else, so nothing personal, no sworn vendetta, no secret motives. The Gnucci Crime Family just got the short straw in The Punisher’s War on Crime.Ma Gnucci is the lady who runs the Gnucci Crime Family along with her sons, but soon enough she’ll notice how fast her blood relatives are starting to fall along with her minions, so she’ll call to “her people” inside of the NYPD to deal with The Punisher……but there are two problems in that scenario……first, the NYPD isn’t dumb to go against The Punisher, oh no, siree, and second, the NYPD loves Punisher’s work since thanks to him, they have a lot less things to deal with, so while they don't say it aloud, they are quite okay with Punisher's work in the streets.However, they need to cover appearances to the public and media that are demanding a response against violence unleashed by the Punisher, so the NYPD forms a “Task Force”……a task force of two individuals. Good luck with that!Even Daredevil will mess into Punisher’s blood path, but maybe the Man without Fear would prefer to stay in Hell’s Kitchen since Frank isn’t in the mood to deal with him.And of course……there’s The Russian. Oh, boy!!!\ I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU\ Frank Castle needs to live somewhere, so with his return to New York, he is taking an apartment under a false name (John Smith… smooth, Frank) and slowly he will get used to his eccentric neighbors: Mousy Joan (fearing of everything), Spacker Dave (pierced punk) and the massive humanity of Mr. Bumpo (with a too healthy appetite).Between casual brief talks in the corridors and odd offerings of food, Frank Castle slowly started to enjoy (in his own particular way) to have this "friends" in the place that now he is living.However, wherever The Punisher goes, mayhem follows him, so the apartment building may turn into a war zone, more than once, but don’t worry for good ol’ Frank, since his pals are there to back him up……not, really! I’m not kiddin’!If you mess with The Punisher, you mess with them too! Oh, yeah!\ WHAT PSYCHO SEE, PSYCHO DO\ Maybe The Punisher wasn’t actually the role model for certain “outlaw abiding citizens” but you can’t blame the media if they think that Frank Castle’s work was the inspiration for a sudden vigilante viral spree where three different individuals started to show their own particular hate against specific kind of criminals…The Holy: A priest in the Spanish Harlem who is killing with an axe (yep) to any schmuck dumb enough to go to his church to tell him their crimes and expecting an absolution.Mr. Payback: A working man of low status who is killing any white collar bandit who makes sneaky strategies with their companies gaining profit at the same time of causing damage to innocent poor people.Elite: An upperclass man who is killing anybody who dares to make the slightest mess in his “clean” neighborhood.A whole bundle of serial killers who think that they are justified of their actions, and maybe you think that Punisher isn’t any better, but maybe the actions of these wackos will help you to ponder about it.