Punisher #8

Frank Castle's face fills the cover of this 2004 Marvel MAX entry in near-total shadow, bathed in deep blue with the Punisher's skull emblem glowing red in his eye like a distant threat still burning. It's a striking, minimalist portrait — Tim Bradstreet's cover work distilling Castle's relentless intensity down to a single, unflinching gaze. Garth Ennis and Leandro Fernández continue "Kitchen Irish Part Two" beneath that cover, promising the kind of hard-edged crime storytelling the MAX imprint was built for.