if this comic was made today, it would've set twitter on fire

Man, I loved this run. I thought it was even more over-the-top than his original. The Vietnam beginning was so solid. The last story was relentless, just showing that core of Castle that makes him the Punisher (that is completely lacking in the TV series, tho I still enjoy the show). And Barracuda? Loved that character. Now I'm going to reread it.

@audian666

5 жыл бұрын

you're right, this is a great run. i have all 3 Gart Ennis Punisher Omni's. i love the humour in the Marvel Knights omni, but the max Run is simply the best. Whoever says that they expected more from Garth on this run are just wrong. every story-arc develops nicely and has an epic ending. Frankly, i prefer this over 'Preacher', just because Garth made the Punisher exactly who i imagined him to be ...

"Not gonna give any spoilers..." Proceeds to tell exactly what triggered the Punisher's descent into becoming the Punisher... LOL

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

lol yea might be a spoiler...u dunno...i loved Born tho.

@captainamerica258

4 жыл бұрын

You can't even spoil a comic book

@xXCigarXx

3 жыл бұрын

I figured that's like....the basic punisher knowledge.....like spider-man getting his powers from getting bit by a radioactive spider....

Ennis is a damn GENIUS.

Barracuda added a lot of Ennis classic humor!

@audian666

5 жыл бұрын

THIS, especially in his own mini-series !

I rate how you always give an honest opinion on your recent reads/reviews.

Great review 👍🏽. I like how these are dark, it puts you in the world setting of the Punisher where everything is messed up. Barracuda reminds me of Nate “Boone” Craft

Love Garth Ennis, one of my favorite writers, great reviews man. 💎💎💎

Another great recent read vid/review. I might be picking these up

Great honest review, now if Marvel only gets their shit together and give us a Muppets Max 😂

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

please no

Just finished volume one the other day, O'Brien a freak lol. Great video Homie!

I'm gonna pick these up. Thanks for the review.

man what sucks is i just started getting into comics, and i'm so interested in buying these two omnis but can't find them anywhere

@joeschmoe4573

3 ай бұрын

If you're still looking, Volume 1 Reprinting has been up for pre-order for a minute.

Good review G - Man. Thx & have a great day.

My favorite story was mother Russia. The whole run is worth buying

@drebodollaz3504

5 жыл бұрын

That’s not the max run tho. Unless they redid it. But good story nonetheless

@HansYuan

5 жыл бұрын

"General Zakharov...sir, you were right. You were right about everything, all along." "In every detail but one. That was no American. It was a Russian who was born there by mistake."

@frankcastle4547

4 жыл бұрын

@@drebodollaz3504 what?It was in Max run since day 1

You've sold me on another omnibus!

This run has some of my favorite crime stories of all time!

these are simply awesome

The punisher has always been my favorite from MARVEL since the 90s. Miami is still my home. and dammit this is one raw comic channel 🤙🏼✌🏼

I REALLY want to get this. Almost pulled the trigger several times but something else always comes up (like Gem Mint Auctions!!!!) Great vid!

Cheers for no spoilers got this in my pipeline 💎💪

Yooo hold up i haven’t had a chance to watch the Captain America review yet! Too much content brother! Lol. Back to back bangers though, i love both Punisher and Cap!!

I just got, here issued as THIRD book, Up is Down, Black is White. Looks good so far. The same style like two books before, Born and Mother Russia. Hard for digestion, but brutal as the Punisher should be. Thanks for the review.

Garth Ennis is my favourite comic writer, he also writes the Crossed comics which is very controversial.

Good review!

Love this series.

I read it at Barnes and noble in between classes.

Good honest review bro really enjoyed it plus 8 like the over the top review when looming through the book It funny I had the opposite view to you I never read anything Ennis and I read max runs first and loved it so much I went and read marvel knight as well looked at preacher and the writing was good i just didn't like the cartoonist ruchy art and theme, I like the realistic tone of the max run compared to Ennis earlier work

You know I had to come back and watch the review. Now I got to figure out how to get some out of print Omni’s 😆

Finally you read this my favourite marvel run hands down

@arrinmixon5190

5 жыл бұрын

Why?

@RedRightStrawHat

5 жыл бұрын

Because of how Ennis writes real grounded stories that you could relate to and how he surrounds the punisher with interesting characters

Love the slavers story arc from punisher MAX

Its the bindning good? ive seen some say that the pages come lose and stuff

Hey Gem, how was the Dark Tower omnibus you got behind you? Please review that one if you haven’t already. BTW I believe Punisher first appeared in ‘73/‘74, not ‘76.

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

i havnt read Dark Tower yet... Manimal has read multiple time and the novel too i believe... i think i kept think 76 b/c thats the date they used in this story

Best story from the Max run in my opinion is the mob story I forgot what it’s called but reading it showed me how balls to wall insane punisher the comic can get

In your opinion what is the best more brutal omnibus of the punisher? I want to buy one lol but I wanna get the most gruesome one LOL

Yo Gem, how do you feel about the crossed series. Is that violent enough? Lol

Anyone know where a copy of this is at without costing an arm and a leg?

The binding was messed up on my copy of vol. 1

Hey man. I like your cube shelves set up. Looks very efficient. Do they sell those on amazon?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

these are from IKEA. They're called Kallax.

A compilation I have has a misprint listing Born as a 6 issue arc, when there's clearly only 4. Weird thing is that it is a third printing and never got changed.

I was debating on buying this set, but compared to the 6 volume oversized hardcovers these two omnibus are lackluster. Since 2010, I had almost every oversized hardcover except volume 4 (which was always OOP and expensive) and figured I would sell those and put them towards the omnibus as I expected omnibus one to cover the first 3 oversized hardcovers (issues 1-36) and the second one to vol. 4-6 (issues 37-74). However, these two omnibus take us through issues 1-60, while the 6 volume hardcovers take us through through issues 1-74. To be fair, Ennis didn't write issues 61-74 so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about their exclusion, but still Marvel had an opportunity to put the entire 2004 Max run of Punisher in two huge volumes. So what I did, instead of buying the two omnibus, I just went to ebay and looked for the long sought Vol. 4 OSHC and low and behold there were quite a few listings, so I grabbed a near mint copy for $55 and now I have the complete arc in OSHC. This was a very good run, but IMO it's got nothing on Ennis' Marvel Knights (MK) Punisher. I missed the dark humor of the MK run and that run grabbed my attention.

This is an excellent comic

I've got all three Punisher Omnis from Ennis but haven't started reading them yet. Even though the Marvel Knights Omni is more PG-13, story-wise how does it compare to the Max Omnis? When I begin reading these volumes I'm not sure which one to start out with.

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

the MK run felt more like a MAX run than the MAX run to me... i did a review on that one too

Gotta love the punisher.

Well Imma add this to cart next week, hopefully it holds up!

@dimebagdarrell6564

3 жыл бұрын

Just started reading max vol 1. Really like it. Worth every penny, and I'm barely about 50 pages in. I'm confident it will get better and not worse

i have a question man , i would like to know if these 2 omnibuses contain the stories that are in the 6 small hardcovers you had in your video with all the punisher omnibuses, because i want to buy punisher max by garth enis and i dont know if these omnibuses have all the punisher stories by garth enis..

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

yes these are the omnibus that was collected in those 6 OHCs

@GhostofFamagusta

5 жыл бұрын

@@GemMintCollectibles good to know bro!!

Loved BORN and anything with BARRACUDA... "yo Hemo !!!"

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@frankcastle4547

4 жыл бұрын

It's not hemo,it's Oswald

Are the omnibuses missing a lot of content? They only have 1,800 pages across 2 volumes, but the complete collection has 2,800 pages across 7 volumes? Someone please answer. Thanks.

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

from my memeory, the run was only 6 volumes...maybe the other volumes like Born are not included?

That retcon of the Punisher's origin in Born was amazing.

I love his preacher run,so should I check this one out?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

yea but I liked Preacher better. I prefer his Marvel Knights run over the MAX.

@turtleanton6539

4 жыл бұрын

For sure

Yes so dope

Got hooked after reading these two, to be honest! Is it worth reading the MK version?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

reading these made me appreciate the MK version more... i think you should!

@cristinadomingo9003

5 жыл бұрын

Gem Mint Collectibles Good to know! It looks like the Max series was a great starting point to get acquainted with the Punisher. Anyway, I've always loved your reviews and did a comic book haul myself too! Have you seen the Punisher Netflix series?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

yea i enjoyed the netflix series... micro kinda pissed me off though.

@cristinadomingo9003

5 жыл бұрын

Gem Mint Collectibles I still need to see it. Although I'm a bit hesitant because the film/TV is usually different from the book. Anyway did you like the Jason Aaron run? Thanks again!

nice review. In your opinion, do you think Marvel will reprint these 2 omnis at some point?

@GemMintCollectibles

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Where would you recommend to sart if I wanted to get into reading the punisher

@GemMintCollectibles

4 жыл бұрын

These books or the marvel knights ennis run would both be good...dont really need any prior knowledge. The Back to the War omnibus has more classic material.

Could you please do a Punisher omnibus revisit?

So was this better than the first ennis omni?

Hey Gem, I got a question.... have you read the Steven Grant and Mike Zeck Punisher series?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

not yet

@acebobbomb

5 жыл бұрын

You don’t what you’re missing, mate!

@acebobbomb

5 жыл бұрын

I mean you don’t know what you’re missing, mate!

Loved the slavers

Hey Man if you like Garth Ennis; you need to read "The Rifle Brigade". Awesome !!

Are there any punisher Max series that aren’t in the omnibus Vol 1&2?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

im not sure if the omnis collect Born and From First to Last

@ryanchaump6577

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry! I’m getting the authors mixed up. This is just the Garth Ennis omnibus, not including Jason Aaron and steve Dillon. My bad!

Thanks for the review man, this was gonna be my next purchase but knowing now a bit more, I might drop it a bit in my list of priorities. Still gonna get them eventually!

Garth Ennis Rules !!

Will there be another punisher omnibus after this max vol 2

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

that completes the Ennis MAX run

Which of the punisher Max books do I read first?

@tobyfoster7341

2 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to figure this out, there’s these 3 omnibuses. 2 punisher max omnibuses which I’ve just bought (the ones in the video) and then there’s another by the same author that comes before (marvel knights one). I think you have to read marvel knights first but you don’t have to

best omni ever

Punisher born and barricuda were great, but generally I prreferred Punisher warr zone. But to be fair, that could just be nostalgia. I got the first book of warzone with a punisher action figure when I was like 10 and I didn't start reading the max titles until I was 19 or something.

Would love to know your updated favorite punisher omnibus!

@GemMintCollectibles

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been meaning to read the back to war omni… I think I’ve read every punisher omnibus but that & the remender Omni

Punisher is my favourite marvel character

💎🍃Fresh

Which one contains the Eminem part?

I think the book was subtly Garth Ennis a little more akin to his Hellblazer run

Does Vol. 2 have the slaver arch?

@scottyarms78

Ай бұрын

Nah that’s the end of volume 1

Did you make the intro?

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

no Richard from Collector-Verse made it for me

@arrinmixon5190

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sweet bro. I didn't mind the predator movie because I didn't expect much, but the story was so uninspiring.

Much respect for your collection but man I loved this run. It's one of my favorite adult runs in comics. I'm a Garth fanboy though

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

i love garth too...i just feel like this was overrated. especially compared to Preacher and The Boys

Dealt more with violence and not too much of Ennis style. That is why I liked it. Barracuda was cool 👍

IMO the regular run by Ennis on Punisher beats this one

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

Lou DP haven’t read

@audian666

5 жыл бұрын

@@GemMintCollectibles i believe he means the Marvel Knights run .....

man , do you even know what a bad video is lmao, always top shel Gem.

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

i try not to lol

I agree with you Stephen, Preacher is better. Punisher Max is just ok. Sold all my trades of Punisher Max so I could buy The Batman Grant Morisson Omni and the Grayson Omni :)

Read barracuda max

It's still marvel

Glad it was serious. Hate Garth style in general.. He goes overboard with the sick crap.

I kinda think Ennis is way over hyped when it comes to the Punisher stories. I liked the more serious tone he took this time but Born absolutely pissed me off. Turned Punisher into a nut job who just needs to kill rather than a guy with a strong sense of justice who also wanted revenge and to keep what happened to his family from happening to anyone else. If I go with the narrative Ennis put out in Born then Frank Castle is to blame for his family dying because he made a deal to keep killing which followed him home to his family. Its all his fault which totally messes up the character for me. If that was who I thought the Punisher was I'd have never been a Punisher fan. I didn't like the Ennis humor in the other Punisher stories before MAX so I appreciated the serious tone. My favorite Punisher stories are older ones.....Probably with Suicide Run being my favorite, but the Cell and the Slavers were cool stories also Mother Russia and the one with the girl who was abused by her mob husband til Punisher killed him (Widowmaker). Great honest review Gem! Damn we missed the shot of Micro taking a shotgun blast to the face.

I thought obrien was funny

@GemMintCollectibles

5 жыл бұрын

loved me some O'Brien

Dealt more with violence and not too much of Ennis style. That is why I liked it. Barracuda was cool 👍