Happy Mardi Gras Nerds! In honor of Mardi Gras, I decided to post a review on a Punisher trade that debuted in 1992. Why this particular book you ask? Well, simply because it takes place in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. The book is called The Punisher: Die Hard in the Big Easy. For those of you who don’t know, New Orleans is known as the big easy because we like to take our time and just party every night. Anyway, I decide that this book would be good for today’s post.
The story begins and ends in New Orleans, but there is a “flashback” to catch us up to why the Punisher is in the state of Louisiana rather than his normal New York turf. You see, Frank was in the middle of stopping a drug bust in New York when the shit hit the fan and there was no survivors. No one he could question about their supplier. Well, when Frank worked clean-up he noticed that one of the men had a Louisiana license as well as LA plates on his car. So Frank had Microchip look into the name on the license while he made his way to Louisiana.
Well, when Microchip got back to Frank he knew to ask around for Rocky. Well, this scared the locals because they knew he was dead and they figured that Frank had something to do with tha, It turns out that Rocky worked for the local thugs and answered to man named Harold Monsarrat. Monsarrat had some connections in the underworld of New Orleans as well as the high-class. It was a mighty thin line that Monsarrat was walking and if Frank had his way, Mr. Monsarrat won’t be walking on it much longer.
When Monsarrat’s first plan to take of the Punisher fails, he calls in a man known as the Mortician. He is an expert in Voodoo as well as a henchman of evil. The Mortician and his men managed to capture Frank and bury him alive. Frank got out of that ordeal with a little help by a witness to his burial. Once Frank regained his nerve, he went after the Mortician as well as Monsarrat. Any Punisher fan knows whats in store next. He does get the bad guys and he does walk away, but I am not telling you how. You need to get a copy of this trade any way you can. It is a must read for any die-hard Punisher fan.
The story is written by John Wagner and drawn by Phil Gascoine.
Published by Marvel Comics
I give this book a rating of a strong 8 out of 10.
