Ask any hardcore Punisher fan what their favourite run on the character is, and they'll probably extol the greatness of Punisher Max - a series written and drawn by Garth Ennis and and the late Steve Dillon respectively.
One particular story from that series, which didn't have Dillon on art duties, was Born - an arc that focused on Frank Castle's days in Vietnam. It was a massive hit, and encouraged a collective reappraisal of the character's origins and in particular his relationship with violence. Now - in 2017 - we'll finally be getting a follow-up: The Platoon.
Ennis is this time joined by Goran Parlov - his collaborator on the original story - in a series that will explore the months leading up to the Valley Forge incident. That's pretty exciting even if you're not a Punisher fan, especially since it's been a little over eight years since Ennis was last able to write Frank Castle, and particularly so, given the high regard in which Born is commonly discussed.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
