Punisher: Nightmare #[nn]

Frank Castle looms large on this collected edition, rendered in raw, visceral detail by Mark Texeira — dual pistols blazing with firelight as the skull emblem burns against the darkness behind him. Writer Scott M. Gimple, the showrunner of TV's The Walking Dead, brings his knack for gritty, character-driven drama to Marvel's most relentless vigilante, with Texeira's heavy linework and Frank D'Armata's smoldering colors setting a fittingly brutal tone. "Nightmare Part 1: Enemy Close" signals exactly the kind of punishing tension this 2013 arc has in store.