I read Punisher way back in the day when Jim Lee was doing it -- maybe it's better now, but he lacked emotional complexity. Very pretty though. Jim Lee does the best wet hair ever.

He was all the gritty but with none of the appealing psychosis of Bats or animal magnetism of Wolvie.

I figure I can see that. Like I said, his gimmick is pretty thin. He shows up best in crossovers and guest spots with people who's morality is more acceptable, like DD and Spidey. The current series is fun for the amazingly innovative meanness Ennis comes up with on a regular basis, but he decided from the start not to try and go anywhere beyond the superficial. The only real change is how much Punny enjoys his work now.

He's in a mini with Wolverine right now, and when Wolvie's the one explaining why the bad guy doesn't need to die, I look at you funny. Wolverine even kills the good guys (although it's Ultimate Wolvie I'm thinking of, precisely).

Freakazoid!! I loved that cartoon. The theme song was also great.

Also need to clarify that I know Julie from Calamine from being a super-stalker fan who showed up at her solo shows when no one else did, not because I knew her "before she was famous" (although arguably she's not that famous even now). Do I get to keep my cool points?

IIRC mieskie also indicated that whatever the bullshit consensus of the actual posters, it was far outnumbered by the numbers of lurkers who supported him. I had no idea the meme lurker support in email predated us.

Whoa, I never realized that either. And FTR, I always thought that was me (click at your own risk - not a good posting day for many of us, certainly not me.) I'm not sure.

ETA: warning

Wolfram, why did you force me to read that?

Now I hate everyone.

Yeah, those were some good times.

Not.

I should probably remove the link.

Edited previous post.

He's in a mini with Wolverine right now, and when Wolvie's the one explaining why the bad guy doesn't need to die, I look at you funny. Wolverine even kills the good guys (although it's Ultimate Wolvie I'm thinking of, precisely).

And you have that right. The Punsisher reserves the right to ignore you and Bronson up the place as he sees fit. Wovie's pretty cool. Every time he sees Magneto he proves he's got guts.

Freakazoid! Chimpanzee!

Wolfram, you didn't remove the link.

And now I'm grumpy too.

Happy to see I missed that argument on the first round, though. Ouch.

I should probably remove the link.

Edited previous post.

Too late. That was my birthday, by the way. Heh. The day before was the date of my dad's birthday. He'd died only a month before. I used "majority" when I meant most. Wolfram tried to create a representational government, and we all took a jacuzzi in the guac.