Punisher War Journal #5

Frank Castle stands his ground against a wave of snarling Skrull warriors on Clint Langley's striking cover for this 2009 Marvel trade paperback, the skull emblem on his chest a stark white beacon amid the green-skinned horde closing in around him. Langley's painted artwork gives the confrontation a grim, almost cinematic weight — Castle dual-wielding firearms while surrounded captures exactly the kind of impossible odds the Punisher thrives on. Collecting stories from the Secret Invasion crossover era, this volume brings together work by Fraction, Remender, Spurrier, Chaykin, MacDonald, and Dell'Edera for a compelling look at Marvel's shape-shifting crisis through the Punisher's uncompromising lens.