What I really want to know is. . .

Why aren’t the lanterns allowed on Earth? I’m all curious now after the Sinestro Corps stuff.”

Current DC Continuity dump of the day: All of the Earth Lanterns are allowed on Earth. Hal Jordan and John Stewart appear regularly in Justice League of America and both are involved in the proceedings of Final Crisis. Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner, however, cool their heels on Oa pursuant with their assignment to the Lantern Corps Honor Guard.

I’m Andrew, and I love answering questions about comic books.

Seven Soldiers doesn’t get nearly enough credit. Way to go, MGK.

See, if I’d read a story where Frank killed somebody who was really innocent it’d be different. And I think I read somewhere that he totally lost it once and shot somebody for jaywalking, which obviously isn’t cool.

But in the Dixon-penned stories I read, Frank only went after people he had the goods on. People whom we knew were guilty, since being the reader gives us that kind of omniscience. A lot of the time he was killing in self-defense for what that’s worth.

On a case by case basis, he never killed anybody who didn’t have it coming. Now, before you criticize me for saying that certain people “have it coming”, let me ask you if you’ve read the Mutant Massacre storyline. Early in that one, Colossus broke Riptide’s neck and killed him. This was after he had seen Riptide gleefully slaughter scores of innocent people. Would you say that Riptide had it coming?

Now, as far as my belief that it’s more acceptable–more merciful–to kill somebody quickly than to kill them slowly?

Do I really need to explain that one?

If so, here’s my explanation: I am less likely to feel sorry for a motionless corpse than I am likely to feel sorry for somebody who is screaming in agony, pleading for mercy, sobbing, and in horrible pain. One victim is not suffering (at least not any more). The other victim is. Basically I’m one of those guys who thinks that Dr. Kevorkian isn’t such a bad chap. Make sense now?

All good choices, btw. Oswalt’s book didn’t get nearly the respect and attention it deserved.

Mr. Lurker, do you think that’s how fans of the character and his current book would describe him? Or would they tell you that they enjoyed seeing him do this kind of stuff?

When I read part of Chuck Dixon’s Punisher run over fifteen years ago, he WAS sort of a good guy. He was a guy I could root for. He didn’t torture anybody in the stories I read. He wasn’t written as a bastard. He was written as a crime fighter who just happened to kill people. Since A) they were bad people and B) they were going to die sooner or later anyway, this didn’t bother me so much.

He’s changed since then, and even if it’s good for sales I’m really not a fan of it.

Do you think the Saint of Killers shouldn’t have killed an entire town to get at a pair of bandits?

Frank Castle isn’t a hero. He’s an obsessed mad man who ON OCCASION helps the “innocent”…