War of the Realms: The Punisher

In 2019, Marvel’s epic War of the Realms event got a brutal, street-level spin-off with The Punisher, a single-issue tie-in by writer Gerry Duggan and artist Marcelo Ferreira. It drops Frank Castle into the chaos of the Dark Elves’ invasion of Midgard, forcing even the Punisher to adapt his one-man war when the monsters come for his city. A lean, visceral snapshot of a vigilante operating in the middle of a supernatural war, it’s a tight, standalone story that shows how even a mortal with a gun fits into the grand, mythical scale of the event.