jye4ever
Broke and happy
The SS Punisher pulls off the Ennis Punisher look perfectly and it is a great PF with lots of goodies; I had it for awhile but traded it like an idiot.
There was also a 12 issue Punisher series that Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon did reintroducing Punisher and the 37 issue Punisher Marvel Knights (also by Ennis) right before MAX; it isn't as violent as MAX, but still a great read; everything from crossdressing cyborgs to cannibals who live in a mountain of corpses under Times Square. Issues 33-36 were funny as hell as Punisher repeatedly outsmarts Spiderman, Wolverine, and Daredevil. Even if you don't pick up the Marvel Knights series, you should pick up these issues just for the story.
I collected the MAX series for forty issues or so, and I really liked the military-world affairs perspective and the Barracuda run was perfect, but the MAX series was too sadistic for me.
Nice..
Can't way for my Max HC's to arrive...
Sadistic is what I'm looking for when reading something called "The Punisher"