Starting with the obvious: this 2005 crossover, subtitled Means And Ends, sees the two vigilantes duking it out over their respective philosophies. Which is to say, despite working outside of the courts Daredevil usually lets criminals get locked up when he's done with them. When The Punisher's done, there usually isn't anything to lock up. What could have been a really rote, phoned-in crossover actually wound up in the hands of David Lapham, award-winning writer/artist of indie crime series Stray Bullets. The plot fits right into the state of things in the Netflix Daredevil series, too, with Wilson Fix toppled from his throne as the Kingpin of crime in Hell's Kitchen. That attracts every Tom, Dick and Stabby to vie for a place at the top of the city's criminal underworld, which Daredevil and The Punisher struggle to contain whilst simultaneously struggling to deal with each other's approaches to crime-fighting. The only way it falls down is it use of every silly Marvel villain in the chest, but that can be easily changed.
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