Daredevil: 10 Punisher Storylines For Season 2

7. The Bully/The Creep

A little more down-to-Earth is this two-parter written by Ann Nocenti and Mike Baron, respectively, which saw two different sides to the same story through the eyes of first Daredevil and then The Punisher €“ it's superhero Rashomon! Introducing Frank Castle by having him star in an episode, and then getting the same events from Matt's POV? Neat idea, and would actually do well to highlight the similarities and differences between the two with a little more subtlety than just... making them fight. Surely everybody's bored of comic book characters fighting each other, after seventy-five-or-so years of it? Actually, to be fair, there is a bit of crapping in €œThe Bully€ and €œThe Creep€. It would also fit into the mould Daredevil has so far made, which gave almost equal screentime to Wilson Fisk as Matt Murdock, making viewers €œunderstand€ the motivations of the villain as much as the good guy. Expect a similar treatment being afforded to The Punisher whatever happens €“ but there's worse examples than this to follow.
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