Garth Ennis Interview Part 3: "Yeah, you can do good stuff in comics."

Experience the gritty and uncompromising PUNISHER MAX from the very beginning! When a mob hit killed his beloved wife and children, Frank Castle became the Punisher - an unstoppable one-man army waging war on every piece of criminal scum plaguing New York's streets. But do the Punisher's origins trace back even further? In 1971 Vietnam, Captain Castle's platoon faces a Viet Cong attack - and to survive, he must make a grim choice. Then, Punisher's old partner, Microchip, long thought to be a casualty of Castle's war, resurfaces with a startling offer! Will the Punisher play patsy for the CIA? If not, will they let him walk away? And in a story ripped from the headlines, Castle must take on rival Irish gangs when a bomb goes off in Hell's Kitchen! Collecting BORN #1-4 and PUNISHER (2004) #1-12.
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Garth Ennis (PUNISHER MAX, Preacher) and Goran Parlov (PUNISHER MAX) reunite to bring you the life of Marvel's hardest soldier like no one else could. In the wake of WWII, Nick Fury is fast running out of battles to fight. But the world's superpowers are gearing up for a new kind of war, and they'll need a man like Fury to win it. Knee deep in the messy quagmire of 1950s French Indochina, Fury faces a war unlike any he has ever seen. Witness the most brutal battle ever put on a comic-book page! Then, it's 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion has begun, and Fury gets a new assignment: assassinate Fidel Castro! But when Fury and his team are captured in Cuba, find out just how far Nick Fury will go for his country. Collecting FURY MAX #1-6.

Col. Nick Fury gets a dirty assignment that takes him to Vietnam - and Frank Castle, before he became the Punisher, is tasked to help. Fury must assassinate a Viet Cong general - but when he and Castle are captured in the heat of the war, what do the Viet Cong have in mind for these two POWs? And what is the real reason Fury was sent into the most dangerous place on Earth? Then, Fury comes face-to-face with Barracuda! Learn the origin of the fan-favorite Punisher villain as Fury arrives in Nicaragua to investigate a CIA operation involving the man-mountain. But Barracuda doesn't much like being investigated, and what Fury finds puts the two on a deadly collision course. It's the chilling conclusion of Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov's critically acclaimed masterpiece! Collecting FURY MAX #7-13.