Monday, July 8, 2013

Manic What If? Day--What If All The What Ifs Were About The Punisher?

How can you tell that the 90s were a little bit Punisher-obsessed?

Take a look at the What Ifs of the era...

OK, that's an obvious one...and a fair one, at that.

Not nice, Frank...

Hey, let's cross-pollinate one of our other 90s crazes!

Followed 6 moths later by...

...and followed, once again 6 months later, by back-to-back Punisher stories:


4 Punisher stories in a 13-issue stretch? I suppose we're lucky that the entire What If? series didn't devolve into a monthly "What If The Punisher Had Killed [Fill In The Blank]?" or "What If The Punisher Had Joined [Fill In The Blank]?"

Of course, we should be grateful that they never got really silly, like "What If The Punisher Fought Crime In Space?" or "What If The Punisher Came Back As Frankenstein's Monster?" Because Marvel would never be that silly...

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