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The End of the Punisher

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Although I’ve heard of the Marvel comic book character The Punisher (Frank Castle) over the years (He first appeared in Spider-Man #129 in 1974), I’ve never been a fan. I don’t know why. I guess I prefer the more traditional costumed superhero. Some guy running around shooting people doesn’t appeal to me.

Sometime later, the character and his symbol (a stylized skull) came into controversy when said-symbol was adopted by a number of law enforcement units. Essentially these officers were aligning with an ultra-violent vigilante which understandably made a lot of people nervous.

Marvel went so far as to change the Punisher’s logo to dissociate the character from the officers and others who had adopted the older symbol and Castle’s vendetta against criminals.

As an aside, it should be noted that very briefly in the 1970s, Marvel changed the name of their landmark character Black Panther to Black Leopard because they didn’t want T’Challa associated with the black militant group The Black Panthers.

Recently, Marvel announced they were ending The Punisher, not only by not publishing comics featuring the character, but having him commit suicide.

What? Why?

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The Vigilante

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Frank Castle, the Punisher – Artwork for the cover of Punisher vol. 6, 1 (Jan, 2004 Marvel Comics). Art by Tim Bradstreet.

Jiki Commons was at the top of his career and he was only fourteen years old. Ever since his first hit movie “Imps” which was released in 2011 when he was only eight, he was in high demand. Every film he starred in was a huge success. He was already a multi-millionaire and seemingly his acting career had no place to go but up.

But Jiki had a dark secret, actually he had two, but only one person knew about the second.

It had happened for the first time when the boy had just turned ten. A very well-known, very rich, very successful producer named Eric “the Red” Patterson wanted Jiki for his next film about a group of kids who get trapped in a haunted house on Halloween. Jiki talked to his Dad and he talked to his agent, and they both thought it was a great idea. It would be a real boost for the boy’s career.

There was only one catch. “Red” said that he had to pass a “test,” to see if he was ready for Hollywood’s “big leagues.” He said it was perfectly normal in Hollywood for fifty-five year old men and ten-year-old boys to have sex, but Jiki had to swear not to tell anyone. Otherwise, he’d never work in movies again. On the third day of filming, Jiki was in his trailer on location when Patterson opened the door and walked in. He locked the door behind him and Jiki’s silent tears streamed down his cheeks as the producer sodomized him.

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