So I'm thinking about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I just saw it, and it was... ridiculous. Like way dumber than this comic, but I was rolling my eyes throughout a good chunk of that movie. Which is how I react to saying, thinking about, or typing out the conceit of this mini-series/character: The Punisher is the Ghost Rider. And also has the Power Cosmic at the same time.
Except the people were less stupid than in Fallen Kingdom. (Except for one character, who remains awesome which is why I got their Funko after seeing the movie.) And this kinda made a little more sense than that?
Willing to see where it's going, but I remain convinced that what, no, you don't need all that shit in one body. And given they deal with it in that so much power drives Frank Castle nuts, but...
Man, no, this was the most Gary Stu I've seen in a while as far as stuffing power into someone who wasn't meant to have this kind of power. I'll be even more honest: I like Castle because he's a man with a gun, willpower, an insanely high pain tolerance and no powers in a super-powered world. This kinda strips that away by giving him All The Power. Him in the War Machine armor made more sense as he treated the suit as a machine to be used, which it is at it's most simplistic. It was another weapon in his arsenal, another gun to be used, and he was still he same within the armor. The weapon made his job easier, but wasn't necessary, and he could go back to being a guy without the armor if needed.
The powers feel... weird. Weird enough to strip one star. Still, this makes sense as far it goes, and as much as I hate the conceit, I really like the way this issue was done.
So I'll give it an issue or two and drop it if I don't like it.