Board Thread:Television/@comment-24416813-20140115063611/@comment-3048593-20170927003525

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: KalKent wrote: I still don't get people who are cynical about a stand-alone show, who claim that the Punisher can't stand on his own as a character, simply based off of 3 previously failed live-action films. Makes about as little sense as people who claim that the Fantastic Four are "unadaptable for movies", based off of 4 previously failed films. I mean, all he does is kill criminals to avenge his murdered family.. Makes for a great John Wick-style movie, doesn't really sum up to a great TV show if for 13 hours all he's doing is murdering criminals and crying over his family. And that's just one season.

But Jon Bernthal's hot, and those abs have me mesmerized. I'll check it out.

As a show maybe, but the character in the comics has been around for a while and had several different series devoted to him. Although I can't attest to the quality of them and what differentiates each series from the other, unless they are mostly the same stories, there should be enough things for the writers to draw from so they won't be repeating themselves, like previously drawing from "Kitchen Irish" story arc, and currently the character of Rawlins from Garth Ennis' 'Punisher Max' run.