Reddit reviews Punisher: Born

This page is part of a Punisher comic called Born which can be found here or here (includes an extra story)

Here's an origin story list I'm slowly building with every thread like this:

SUPERHERO ORIGINS
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DC

• Aquaman | The Trench - Johns
  
• Batman | Year One
  
• Deathstroke |
  
• Flash (Barry Allen) | The Flash - Manapul & Buccellato
  
• Green Arrow | Year One
  
• Green Lantern | Secret Origin, DC: New Frontier
  
• Hellblazer |
  
• Joker | The Killing Joke
  
• Nightwing | Year One
  
• Red Hood | Under the Red Hood
  
• Shazam | Power of Shazam, Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil
  
• Superman | The Man of Steel, Birthright
  
• Swamp Thing | Saga of the Swamp Thing - Moore
  
• Wonder Woman | The Legend of Wonder Woman, The True Amazon, Rebirth, Wonder Woman - Azzarello
  
  Marvel
  
  
• Black Bolt | Inhumans
  
• Black Panther | Who is the Black Panther
  
• Captain America | Man Out of Time
  
• Daredevil | The Man Without Fear - Miller
  
• Deadpool
  
• Dr. Strange | Season One
  
• Fantastic Four
  
• Ghost rider
  
• Guardians of the Galaxy
  
• Iron Man | Extremis
  
• Kingpin
  
• Moon Knight
  
• Punisher | Born
  
• Silver Surfer
  
• Spider-Man | Ultimate Spider-Man: Power and Responsibility
  
• Thanos
  
• Thor | First Thunder
  
  Valiant
  
  
• Archer & Armstrong | Archer & Armstrong - Van Lente
  
• Bloodshot | Bloodshot - Swierczynski
  
• Harbinger | Harbinger - Dysart
  
• X-O Manowar | X-O Manowar - Venditti
  
  Image
  
  
• Invincible | Invincible
  
• Spawn | Spawn
  
  Feel free to make suggestions!
  
  Sidenote: You don't NEED to start with origin stories. Sure, it's a familiar narrative structure to start with the "beginning", but don't let that prevent you from enjoying other stories (most origins can be summarized in 2-3 sentences). Think about Darth Vader's first appearance; there wasn't an origin story until MUCH later.
  

This is a "low-brow" response to your request, but Garth Ennis' Fury: My War Gone By, and Punisher: Born are awesome (and are sort of "partner" stories), which are definitely rooted in some superhero tropes, but have a lot of interesting stuff to say about Vietnam and the post-Vietnam military industrial complex.





Ennis is at his best when telling stories about war IMO, and also has an ongoing anthology series, aptly named War Stories, which I've heard is good, but I've never read them myself. IIRC, War Stories is more closely based on true events.