The Punisher: The End
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| The Punisher: The End | |
 Cover to "The Punisher: The End". Art by Richard Corben |
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| Publisher | MAX Comics imprint of Marvel Comics |
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| Format | one-shot |
| Publication date | June 2004 |
| Main character(s) | Punisher |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Garth Ennis |
| Artist(s) | Richard Corben |
| Colorist(s) | Lee Loughridge |
The Punisher: The End is a one-shot title published by Marvel Comics under the MAX imprint. The story focuses on the Punisher's final days in a post-apocalyptic future.
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In a Post-Global-Holocaust world, the third and last world war has ended. A war that went from Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, and then to China. The human race has vanished from the face of the Earth due to dozens of hydrogen bombs going off across the world. Frank Castle, the Punisher, is still alive. When he tries to rise up from the ashes of New York City, not a rat or a bug has survived. Castle is now an old man, possibly somewhere in his mid or late 70's.
After some 40 years Frank Castle is caught and is sent to Sing-Sing. Before the bombs drop several police officers come down to kill off the prisoners, including Frank. While performing a grisly mission as the bombs approach the U.S. This saves them, as the bombs hit while they are in the shelter.
A year later, Frank and another man, Paris Peters, emerge into a wasteland. Background radiation is in the air. It is noted by Frank that it would take a thousand years for it to drop down to safe levels. Frank knows they will die from radiation poisoning. It is also noted by Paris, in jail for financial crimes, had followed the cops down to the shelter out of curiosity. Paris and Frank are the only survivors, the cops having died at Frank's hands for various hinted-at atrocities. Frank's mission is to get to another bomb shelter, hidden deep beneath the former site of the World Trade Center.
Frank had learned of this location via another prisoner who had died in his arms. They call themselves the Coven. A group made up of Generals, senators, oil magnates, and computer billionaires. According to the wounded prisoner, they ran the world and are responsible for the nuclear holocaust. The knowledge the man gave Frank allows him and Peters to enter the base. They kill their way towards the group. Frank's radiation poisoning is getting worse. It is learned other members of the Coven, hiding in similar bases across the world, have self-destructed due to outbreaks of insanity.
The survivors attempt to convince Frank that with the resources they control in the bomb shelter, they can repopulate the world, but Frank won't have these people running the world again. Frank kills them all. When Paris asked why he killed them Castle says, "The human race. You've seen what that leads to." Then he turns on Paris. A simple prisoner being on D-Block had not fooled Frank. It turns out that an arson attempt by Peters had unintended victims, several children from a nearby elementary school. Frank strangles Peters to death.
Later on, fire consumes Frank as he is seen trying to make it to New York's Central Park to spend the last moments of his life at the place where his wife and children were killed.
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