Punisher #2

The tagline says it all — "The man is different, the mission remains the same" — and this 2024 Marvel series wastes no time making that point viscerally clear. Rod Reis's cover depicts a new Punisher in full tactical black, guns blazing, locked in a fierce clash with a powerful, muscular opponent who is being sent airborne by a crimson energy blast amid a storm of debris and gunfire. It's a striking, kinetically charged image that sets up David Pepose and Dave Wachter's "The Negotiation" as a series with serious momentum and a fresh take on the skull-bearing mantle.