Каратель. Книга 2: Війна в Баґалії

The Punisher (2018) (Collected Editions)

by Matthew Rosenberg, Szymon Kudranski (Illustrator), Ольга Любарська (Translator)

Карателя екстрадували у найпекельнішу країну — Баґалію, де панує Гідра!

Френк Касл уже бував за ґратами — але не в острівній державі, що кишить суперлиходіями. Щойно Каратель опинився за ґратами, барон Земо робить свій хід! Він хоче легітимізувати Баґалію на світовій арені, але хіба можливе верховенство закону в державі, підконтрольній злочинцям? Чи витримають плани Земо випробування гартованою люттю Френка? Той знаходить шлях на волю, та навіть для такого крутого хлопця ціла армія бойовиків може виявитись непереборною суперницею. Земо втрачає контроль — і вдається до крайнощів, щоби повернути його. Готуйтеся до війни на вулицях Баґалії!

Містить випуски: Каратель #6-10

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book

136 pages, Hardcover

First published May 29, 2019

About the author

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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.

I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."

Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

"Now we can begin to do the Lord's work together. We will use your divine fury . . . " -- Sister Mercy

Although not quite as much 'fun' (for those who love illustrated wanton or non-stop violence - you twisted readers!) as Vol. 1: World War Frank, this follow-up directly continues the on-going storyline with vigilante Frank 'The Punisher' Castle now imprisoned in a small foreign country by Baron Zemo. With assistance and encouragement from the blind, scarred Sister Mercy (a.k.a. the prison nun Sister Mercedes - an intriguing supporting character), the uncomplicated tale is basically Castle's carnage-extreme jailbreak and escape from the nation. Antagonist Zemo gets a lot of unexpectedly humorous dialogue and scenes as his luck runs out and his world comes severely crashing down around him.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Punisher gets sent to a Hydra prison in Bagalia, the country run by Baron Zemo. Time for a prison break. The latter half of this book happens really quickly and what happens isn't really earned. Looks like the last volume will be a hunt for Zemo.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was fun to read but man they are dragging the story feels like.

Okay so this one starts with Frank in prison and well tortured badly by Zemo and he meets Sister mercy there and we her history with Frank and its a fun revelation and well Frank fighting the Hydra guards and also criminals in the prison and I love the way he along with some people take it over and its gory and graphic (censored) and then the big part where he breaks out and goes after Zemo and well has to kill more Hydra gonns and also fights with Jigsaw, which was a bit unclear but regardless in the process destroys Bagalia and I love the look on Zemo's face when he sees a man has brought down a nation like whaaaaat but the final volume will be a great ending feels like!

Its a fun volume and yep is bloody and brutal like the last few volumes in the series and the writer delves into the horros of being taken criminals and behind the scenes politics of forming the country while at the same time showing how smart Frank is and using his army experience to good effect and also show how he can even take down Nations to stop an enemy and yep its taking the character far but yeah feels like we are meandering the same spots, the story could have ended this volume but regardless a good ending. So yeah a good one time read! As for the art, yep still sketchy and hard to figure some things out but it doesn't reduce the fun of reading the series.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

In typical Punisher fashion, the crazy son of a bitch goes on killing everything in his way. This time it's more Nazis. So that's always fun to watch.

Zemo things he has everything figured out. He kidnaps frank, tortures him, and puts him in prison. He then uses Chamlion to create a fake Punisher and have him do even worse things than usual. This leaves Punisher stranded in the hell hole with all these Nazi scum. But that's exactly where Frank wants to be. The man is ready to blast and cut every motherfucker till he gets to Zemo.

It's fun, entertaining, gory, and it'll even make you laugh at times. Watching Zemo try to keep control is too funny. Punisher having some one liners is also pretty great. The art can be pretty gritty and fucked up to. Though the art is sometimes hard to follow and the story is basically Punisher is god-level powers and fucks everything up. So can get boring to some.

I do think this is highly entertaining despite plot being pretty bare. A 3 out of 5! Last volume coming right up!

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gets even worse than vol. 1. Rosenberg writes the same basic story as he did in War Machine and Kudranski's art devolves. The guy isn't a terrible artist, but can't draw an action sequence that makes any coherent sense. And it looks like there's more to come (?) as Baron Zemo escapes.

[RG · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continues straight on from Vol 1. Would have worked better as one massive volume in my opinion. Not normally a massive fan on Rosenbergs writing but in this case I had fun.

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

So outrageously OTT it's not even funny anymore.

On the other hand Zemo desperately trying to play PR for his country while everything goes wrong is hilarious and there are some good lines here and there.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Punisher makes a prison break in an entire nation of supervillains. Like a kid in a candy store, he makes the most of the situation. It's a little over the top but I like the Punisher set firmly in the Marvel Universe like he is here. I like the idea of Punisher vs. Zemo, as Zemo has fought Captain America for so long the idea of a killing machine like the Punisher would be something a little different for him.

Overall I really enjoyed the story and art, but this is once again just a piece of a bigger story.

[Jesse A · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot more entertaining than the first volume.

[Jaye Berry · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was the most drawn out prison break to ever happen, for fucks sake. Hated the first volume, hated this too. When it just kept going and was tons of explosions and oh no Zemo got away again? Jeez catch him and move on already.

[Nicole Westen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sister Mercy was the best part of this book.

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not really the Punisher I fell in love with but a good well balanced scenes of stupid one-liners and violence. The art was somewhat hard to follow here and there, but still fluent war-like brutal fun.
Not perfect, but damn close to it.

[Lukas Holmes · Rating 3 out of 5]

First half-Oh well this is kinda interesting.
Second half-Oh it's just a video game now? Cool.

[Gauthier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nick Fury did the unthinkable: he made a deal with Zemo, leader of Bagalia, to hand him over the Punisher. While the latter is in prison, Zemo makes the world believe that the Punisher murdered non criminals. Frank has no choice: not only does he need to do what he usually does, which is to get rid of criminals, but he also needs to prove that he is innocent of the kills he did not make. As he escapes the prison and wreaks havoc in Bagalia, the Punisher finds himself in the only place in the world where he is meant to be. It's tough to believe that Bagalia will survive.

This second volume follows World War Frank and is as filled with violence as the first one. It's always satisfying to see a fictional world where criminals are the ones who are terrorized instead of being the ones terrorizing, and the Punisher does just that. I just wished the said criminals were not looking so ridiculous in their outfits (did I mention this in the first volume's review?). What I enjoyed the most is that there was absolutely no appearance by any superhero of the Marvel universe, which made it easier for me to immerse myself in the story (as much as anyone can be immersed in such a non-believable story). I bet they'll be there in the next one, though, so I'd better get ready for that.

Overall, this volume was a solid Punisher story with plenty of action and what makes the character appealing. There is even some touch of humor to help us not take the whole thing too seriously, and the art is efficient in carrying us through the story.

[Shannon McShortall · Rating 5 out of 5]

A vast vast improvement on the last 5 issues, Rosenberg turns up the heat and provides an incredibly compelling and cinematic story of Punisher vs the country of Bagalia, with some great drama, action and characterisation for the titular character and his newest foe, Baron Zemo. It seems the weaknesses in those first few issues came from welcoming Punisher back into a self contained narrative following his role in Secret Empire, and once that rough start has been waxed through, there lies a genuinely fun and intense Punisher story that takes the ideas presented in the first volume of Punisher hunting bigger game, and makes it still accessible as a Punisher story, exploring themes of power, violence, morality and the state of international relations

[Nate]

Rosenberg writes his “Punisher breaks out of prison” story here, as Zemo kidnaps Frank, puts him in jail, tortures him, and parades a fake Punisher around to create a story for the press. It’s light on plot like the previous volume but more entertaining. Zemo trying to control the situation when Frank starts causing trouble is legitimately funny. And I like Kudranski’s art, but his inks in the bonus pages make me wish this was a black-and-white comic, because the color obscures his nuances too much.

[Emmett Spain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wild, dark, occasionally darkly funny volume that has Frank wreaking havoc in a Bagalian prison, and on the wider Bagalian nation, in the hunt for his latest nemisis, Baron Zemo.

I really appreciated the scale of this volume, and the deepening of the characters, especially Sister Mercy, who added a little brightness into the dark and heavy world of Frank Castle. One of the better Punisher volumes I've ever read. YMMV.

[Alex Sarll]

I'm not sure whether the notion of a nation run by and for supervillains, propped up by shameless lying, is timely or superfluous in the face of a real world which mostly fits that description. Less of a full-on actionfest than Rosenberg's previous volumes, more a prison drama, at least at first. Plus one real deep cut from Frank's backstory.

[Ronan Barradas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enquanto Frank Castle estava preso, a rotina dele no cárcere, o mini exército que ele treinou, os desafetos e etc tava indo bem e escalonando de forma interessante. Depois da rebelião virou uma parada meio Busca Implacável com Liam Neeson tanto na imortalidade do protagonista quanto na burrice aliada à resiliência do Retalho, do Zemo e dos asseclas.

[Lucy Batson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad per se, but treads a lot of ground we've seen before (Frank in prison). Baron Zemo is holding quite a large Idiot Ball for most of this story, and it makes suspension of disbelief a lot harder.

[Chalupa Batman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Follow up storyline to the World War Frank storyline, Frank is in a Hydra prison in which he manages to escape to continue his hunt of Baron Zemo. So pretty cool action scenes between him and the Taskmaster, as well as against Jigsaw. Fun read! Oh, and he ends up killing the Mandarin.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic Frank Castle. Fun read! Great artwork.

[Laura Lawson · Rating 4 out of 5]

More war! They really need to stop underestimating him!

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of a comedown after the first volume. The Punisher fighting faceless goons like Hydra works, though. Again, I'm not the biggest fan of Punisher interacting with the Marvel-verse in such a upfront way, but I'm still in for the ride.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars
Punisher goes to jail in a super evil country, and kills everything around him. Before then the last volume.

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit over the top...but it's The Punisher, right?

[boofykins · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume is a little more over-the-top and a tad more campy at times than volume one. This isn't a bad thing! It's kind of a mindless thrill ride and that's sometimes all you need. Baron Zemo trying to keep his composure in front of his constituents while Castle is jamming a shotgun into his gears is worth the price of admission alone! Add in Jigsaw's banter with Zemo and you have a winner!