You showed us how it’s done.” Frank is unmoved. Nobody does.” A cop replies, “Like it or not, you started something. Frank rips the sticker off and says, “We’re not the same. “We believe in you,” one of them says while pointing to a Punisher-skull sticker on his car. In July 2019, writer Matthew Rosenberg inserted a scene into an issue of Punisher in which a group of officers run into the outlaw, whose name is Frank Castle, and fawn over him. It’s a relationship that became explicitly incongruous last year when the Punisher himself canonically addressed it. We’re republishing this article to offer background on the role the Punisher plays in the self-conception of many members of the police and military professions. It is the logo of the Punisher, a violent vigilante from Marvel Comics who has become something of a totem for cops and soldiers. One media figure unambiguously on the side of the state is Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who went on air recently wearing a skull-shaped lapel pin. Now, in June 2020, that dynamic has combusted into national protests against state-sanctioned violence.
When this article was first published on November 16, 2017, ahead of the release of Netflix’s show The Punisher, relations between many Americans and the police were unquestionably tense.
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