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They will have a series of rotating writers, most of whom are moderately successful crime (prose) fiction writers. One arc by one guy, then another arc by a different writer, and so on... that's how it will go for about the next year or so, editor Axel Alonso has said.
I doubt any of them can match Ennis' run on this title.
They're not going to have the opportunity, to be fair. One of the things about what's possibly the most considered, and consistently great, pieces of long-form comics fiction ever (it's just better than 'The Sadman', 'Teh Invisibles' or 'Shade', even, because more thought out) is that it took Garth Ennis a while to get it right - the 'funny' Punisher, which he wrote for a long time, is going to struggle to be remembered. Unlike the later, darker work.
To write Frank Castle properly you almost have to become him, I suppose - I doubt it's an easy process, so the idea that a set of yard-dog, busted-up, screenplay-submitting Lee Childs wannabes are in charge of the franchise now, for four issues only, seems like a guarantee that sales will plummet |
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