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Marvel To Punish Readers With New End Of Days Series From Brian Bendis

Superstar Marvel writer "The Great One" Brian Bendis will be bringing the team from the Netflix TV show based on the comics back to the comics again when Defenders #1 hits stores next week. In an interview with Marvel.com, Bendis talked bringing Frank Castle, also featured heavily in the Netflix corner of Marvel's film universe, into the book with July's Defenders #3.

When I was deciding about what to put in DEFENDERS and what not to put in, someone on Tumblr had posted the original designs of The Punisher. You know he's got kind of a widow's peak hairline, pretty much what you see now but a little different. Maybe a little bit more of like a mob guy.

So, I was reading the article and it spoke about where he came from with some saying Charles Bronson helped inspire the character, and the thing is that Charles Bronson was really an answer to Watergate and the question "Will someone please take care of the bad guys? They're getting away with everything!" I can't think of a time in my life that has felt more like [that] than now. I'm not trying to politicize it but the present day is all kind of chaotic and crazy. A lot of people are getting away with [expletive], and so I think it's a good time for The Punisher to be becoming a TV star and surfacing in our comic.

As the interview went on and on and on about The Punisher, it became obvious that what Bendis has to say about the character is just too big to fit as a storyline in Defenders, or even the two or three reboots the book is likely to get before Bendis is through. So Bendis will be working on a Punisher: End of Days series too, set in the same universe as Daredevil: End of Days, but not necessarily a sequel to it.

No, it's great. You get these characters that react, and you want them to react honestly. Some of them are going to [expletive] their pants, and some are going to figure out what they want. Now, what's cool that you brought up is that some of this we are going to address—and then things developed further where were given the OK to do a PUNISHER: END OF DAYS series, like we did with Daredevil. But this won't be like a sequel, but instead, kind of like a "side-quel" with Punisher. It's in that world with The Punisher trying to attempt his final "Punish."

But yeah, if you like The Punisher, stay tuned to DEFENDERS. You're going to love it.

No word on when the series will come out, and as of now, the art is set to materialize fully formed from thin air.

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