(W) Garth Ennis (A) Darick Robertson & Various (CA) Tim Bradstreet It's the Punisher at his deadliest as revered writer Garth Ennis starts his landmark run! Hard-hitting Punisher tales by one of Frank Castle's signature writers! But do the Punisher's origins trace back even farther than the fateful day in the park when he lost his family? In Vietnam, with his platoon under attack, Captain Castle must make a grim choice. And in the modern day, Punisher's old partner, Microchip, resurfaces with a startling offer! Nick Fury has a proposition, too - a dangerous mission involving a Siberian nuclear missile silo and a lethal retrovirus. But Castle's actions set off a chain reaction that will bring him into conflict with a ruthless Russian general - and take the world to the brink of war. Plus: Mobster Nicky Cavella returns to plague the Punisher, and a wave of violence rocks New York to its core! COLLECTING: BORN #1-4 and PUNISHER (2004) #1-30 Explicit Content

Experience the gritty and uncompromising PUNISHER MAX from the very beginning! When a mob hit killed his beloved wife and children, Frank Castle became the Punisher - an unstoppable one-man army waging war on every piece of criminal scum plaguing New York's streets. But do the Punisher's origins trace back even further? In 1971 Vietnam, Captain Castle's platoon faces a Viet Cong attack - and to survive, he must make a grim choice. Then, Punisher's old partner, Microchip, long thought to be a casualty of Castle's war, resurfaces with a startling offer! Will the Punisher play patsy for the CIA? If not, will they let him walk away? And in a story ripped from the headlines, Castle must take on rival Irish gangs when a bomb goes off in Hell's Kitchen! Collecting BORN #1-4 and PUNISHER (2004) #1-12. Explicit Content

(W) Garth Ennis (A) Goran Sudzuka (CA) Andy Clark So these two FBI agents walk into a warehouse? Special Agents Shaw and McGregor handle the routine cases nowadays, which is just the way Shaw likes it. She's pushing 40, a borderline burnout, the ghastly memories of her last investigation still clinging like shadows. McGregor is younger, more dedicated, hanging onto some measure of idealism whatever the world might throw at him. When two fellow agents go missing inside a Long Beach warehouse, Shaw and McGregor are sent to investigate. But what they find waiting is far from routine, as the local police have already discovered to their cost. Before the night is out, our heroes will encounter terror beyond their most appalling nightmares-in a place where the night may never end at all. A new kind of horror story for modern America, written by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, Crossed) and drawn by Goran Sud?uka (Y: The Last Man, Hellblazer)

(W) Garth Ennis (A/CA) Goran Sudzuka FBI Special Agents Shaw and McGregor find their reality twisting once more, plunging them into an entirely new dimension of terror. Their guide is Paul Carnahan, the child-killer whose crimes they sought to punish, a man known to be dead and buried. As this all-too-human monster tells his story, the pair begin to understand the web of guilt and evil that has them in its grip - a truth that will demand a dreadful price from both. Stricken with her own memories of wrongdoing, Deputy-director Driscoll struggles to reach the agents under her command, only to realize that her crimes may already have sealed their fate. Carnahan holds the key - but what now looks out from behind his eyes is a great deal more than just a murderer. Old sins and ancient lies combine to herald a terrifying new dawn for all man-kind, in the second and final volume of A Walk Through Hell. Written by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, JIMMY'S BASTARDS) and drawn by Goran Sudzuka (Y: The Last Man, Hellblazer) Volume two collects the last arc of this modern horror epic, issues #