How is such an evil guy so likable?

Because he's enjoying himself. Same reason people enjoy watching Palpatine in the star wars prequels. The guy just has so much fun being evil.

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You storytiming this bud? Please do

I would but unfortunately I can't atm, you can however read it here readcomiconline.to/Comic/Punisher-MAX-Presents-Barracuda

Or perhaps another user will storytime it, it's not very long

He's fucking hilarious.

He's like the Joker, if the Joker was actually funny.

Let's do this, bitches.

is the first page. Here's the second.

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Can't wait for the show to use him. They improved Jigsaw, maybe they'll do Barracuda justice as well.

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Barracuda's likeable because
1) He's not a total dumbass. He has his bursts of emotional fuckery, but usually they're when he can afford them and they don't mess with his critical shit, which puts him a cut above most comic book villains. He put R-Rated Nick Fury in his place for god's sake (although he did receive a top secret beatdown afterwards for his trouble)
2) He's jolly. He's like if Santa Claus was a bloodthirsty crack dealer with military training
3) The things he does are entertaining. There's a reason he's the standout villain in Ennis' Punisher run. He makes "classic Punisher villains" like Jigsaw seem like rejects from a Dick Tracy comic.

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Oh shit, I forgot Christopher Walken was in this.

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>Barracuda is an airborne fag and a SGM
+2 reasons to hate him

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how's he gonna get the mob money when he betrays oswald?

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who'd a thunk Barracuda raped our present president

this stuff is honestly trash.

Is this what teenagers think is "mature"?

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This. Needs more exploring of gender roles and how society pushes women down.

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>The things he does are entertaining.

Well, up until My War Gone By finally had him do horrible things beyond just fuck with and kill other villains and bit-parters (Yorkie excepted).

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all things considered, Barracuda respects pronouns

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>Is this what teenagers think is "mature"?
Teenagers maybe.
I'm enjoying it as the kind of edgy comedy I expect from Ennis.

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I figure the guy Barracuda popeyed first was Chrissy, Paulie's recognizable enough and I figure that's Silvio on his right given the volume of hair, but who's at the wheel? It's not fat enough to be Pussy or Bobby.
Ain't balding like Tony.

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You know the party can't start without him.

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>finally had him do horrible things
he was going to murder an infant and it's implied he fucking ate someone

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no, it's what Garth Ennis thinks is funny and I also think it's funny

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Meant more that they finally directly showed something, prior to that everything really bad always seemed to happen either off-panel (torturing and murdering the Mitchells, the cannibalism incidents, etc.) or be only offhandedly mentioned or was stopped before he could actually go through with it (like what he was going to do to the baby).

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it's just dumb

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Don't think that he was going to kill Hemo, just manipulate him, like, pose as his bodyguard while being the real brains of his inherited empire or something. He also seemed to genuinely like the kid (then again, he also seemed to genuinely like 50).

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>That blushing one
God damn it.

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that's the point

>panel 3
I love Ennis, but damn me if he isn't the most unsubtle motherfucker sometimes...

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And that's the story of how Barracuda cannibalized a pornstar in a lifeboat.

>ywn be as hardcore a muthafuckin' gangsta as hemo

subtlety is for cowards

And what the hell? Let's do the Fury MAX arc with Barracuda as well.

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smajs are fine

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you know I think this tableau might not be genuine

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Simply gregariousness can be potent, and Barracuda has that in spades.

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I feel like Parlov doesn't get enough love

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i cant believe i just now noticed the entire Sopranos crew was in that car

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I always forget how aggressively depressing MWGB is

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It's always a good read when you want to feel like crawling into a hole and dying.

This is just ridiculous, I love it.

barracuda is really respectful of his friends choices

So we have Donald Trump AND Christopher Walken in this comic?

That was bloody brilliant. Feels like I'm watching a villain version of Archer.

Artist uses real actors all the time
Morgan Freeman plays a part in a later Punisher Max

And the Sopranos. There's probably other cameos. I get the feeling that Leopoldo and Flannery are meant to be based on someone.

They really liked doing that for MAX. Remember when Morgan Freeman was charge of a special forces team in Punisher MAX?

Thank you for the story time based user.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and well, guess that you were born in the late 90s or even later

I always forget it was Fury who knocked his teeth out.

>Taking Ennis seriously
>Especially when he's writing about a character specifically designed to be comedic

Is this the power of autism?

Thank you for the story time. Barracuda always reminds me no matter how bad things get, you can always face them with a shit eating grin.

To this very day i still use "fuck outta here, fore i beat you to death wit' my balls!"

There's a difference between "likeable" and "interesting".

>you have to be over 30 to understand edgy humour
What else is required, an extremely high IQ?

Mup da doo didda po mo gub bidda be dat tum muhfugen bix nood

BTFO

So did he fuck that guy or just jam the gun in his bum?

Wait, what the fuck? Why's Fifty a busty white bitch on the cover?

Goddamn I love Barracuda

Aw diddums is it not nuanced and culturally sensitive and progressive enough for you? Awwww

And no bitch, nobody here thinks this is "mature", just entertaining.

Why is Angelone giving me Hollywood vibes? He reminds me of a celebrity, but I just can't put my finger on it? Steve Buscemi? Shit...

Don't worry, I'm sure everyone here thinks you're really smart and mature and they're all very impressed.

Barracuda has always been a very progressive open-minded villain.

I love that that he's canonically shown a dislike rap music rather preferring musicians like Stevie Wonder

Jesus, is EVERYONE in this comic a shithead? How the fuck could their commander officer have been a member of the Klan, how does that even work?

Only gets a hard on when his wife is dressed as Che Guevara

Yay!

I think thats how 50 seems himself in his mind

why couldn't he just fuck and get another son

Is Barracuda asking for the M60 a reference to Frank saying the same thing in Punisher Born, or am I reading too deep into it?

>Best black character Marvel has ever written
>He's an absolutely fucking horrible human being and everyone loves him for it
Really makes you think

Nigga, he was a green beret.

>somethin' tells me you an' mister digby have more in common than yeh think
my fucking sides

>loves him for it
That's stretching the truth. He's strong and smart, so he's useful.

I mean everyone who reads the comics, not in universe.

I had a feeling it was something like that

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It's his gleeful awfulness combined with his competence. The Punisher, especially Ennis' Punisher, almost always squares off against idiots. It's awesome to see someone whose just as good as Frank but is having a grand time on top of it.

He has an almost Mignola-esque quality to his art.

Eating her would be a really bad idea. You can survive 3-5 weeks without food. A big guy like Barracuda could probably last until the upper end of that, but you can only go 3-5 days without water. The water it would take to process raw meat and the saltiness of blood would make dehyrdation worse, not better (same reason why drinking seawater will kill you faster - it takes your body more water to process the salt out of it than you actually get back from drinking). And if Barracuda couldn't wait at least a week before eating Wanda (i.e. the time it would take them to die from dehydration) then we've veering to Edgey McEdgeTown-level writing.

Otherwise, this storytime was damn fine. Just that very last line makes no sense whatsoever.

"Eating her" is a metaphor for "he survived solely on female juices"

this is some a-class banter

That's not how hemophilia works.

To be fair, it's left ambiguous.

Oh fuck I'm fucking dying

It's that fucking deputy

what was your first clue?

>Barracuda's face

My kind of savage.

christopher walken

If you're looking for subtlety in an Ennis comic then, well, that's like coming to a pizza parlor and ordering a goddamn chow mein.

Oh my fuck

underrated as fuck

Wasn’t his whole appearance in War gone by to make a point about how retarded the U.S was since they essentially were taking twisted drug dealers and giving them military training and all that did was make them better criminals or something

>to make a point about how retarded the U.S was
that's just MWGB in general

F
RIP Godfather Oswald

I assume we can take that as a yes. Don't worry. You'll get it when you're older, it's not haha funny to you because you think you're above it all. but you'll understand I promise.

He deserved better. At least he died a gangsta.

he's good at what he does
he is gregarious
generally level headed

is that supposed to be piss?

How well would a movie adaptation of this comic do?
Lets say not a single detail is left out.

what is an example of smart fun user

because ive been reading comic for a while and I haven't seen it.

I can't tell if that's an upset "Dumbass" or not.

I dunno, the smile on his face as he says it seems to give it away

It doesn't look like much of a smile, especially given his normally more exuberant facial expressions.

He's smiling when he said it. And re-read the speech he gave to Oswald on a few pages prior. Barracuda doesn't have any friends. He has resources that he can use. He's incredibly nice to Fifty, because 'Cuda knows that's how you fuck people into being loyal. And he just said that loyalty is bullshit.

Aye, you're right. I just wanted them to be bros, to be honest.

He said the same thing about their teammate who got sniped. Mocking the otherwise noble idea of doing something gallant like say making a final stand.
It's derisive for sure.

Cred Forums...are traps gay?

i'm not here because its mature, im here being i'm enjoying the read

Fifty deserved better

Yes. But hey, A Mouth's a Mouth.

The artist who did this is a fucking god at expression.
You can just HEAR the lilt in that "Yeah?"

Marrying for money will always fuck you over, rather be low tiet middle class an financially independent than rich and being at someone's mercy.

That's a pretty fucking page

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Nice. Hope this becomes a banner on Cred Forums

it takes a great artist to draw fake boobs that are supposed to look fake

You can actually drink blood and it will hydrate you.
There's a guy who lasted like a half a year on raft drinking fish and bird blood after his water was lost in a storm

they should just draw the dick. fucking american puritanism.

Horror is best left to one's imagination.

I assume that this is a response to While I do agree with THAT statement, showing Fifty's 10'' secret isn't horrific. It's funny.
Hell, a dick is a lot less "horrific" than a dude's face being blown apart, which we see a hell of a lot. Everyone's seen a dick, but very few people have seen heads going pop

I'm confused... Is it Barracuda he's talking about, who put is hands on his car?

He's right up there with Bill Cypher, Tzeentch, Palpatine and the Joker. They just love their jobs.

I feel I should ask, does this dude have any superpowers aside from being strong and smart?

He's got a big dick too

Nah just some random punk talking big about himself.

There were no superpowers in the Ennis MAX stuff. It was it's own world. No superheroes at all.

Although, Fury clearly had something weird about him. He was still damn near 100 years old in the framing story for My War Gone By.

>superpowers in the Ennis MAX stuff
Wolverine and Sabertooth MAX exist in the same world. But their backstories aren't as far fetched.

Though even the people willing to acknowledge the non-Ennis Punisher MAX stories tend to ignore that and Foolkiller.

i don't get it can someone explain the joke to me

he's wiping his dick on Leo's pillow

Thanks man
Despite hearing about Barracuda for years, this is the first story I've read with him

Thanks for storytime dude

No problem, I love doing it.

>He's an absolutely fucking horrible human being and everyone loves him for it
No, people love him because he's competent and gleeful. He's a perfect foil for Frank. He's just as competent and even more amoral but he uses his skills for personal gain rather than hurting the evil. He's jolly and hedonistic rather than dour and ascetic. They were both soldiers in terrible wars but one was using it to satisfy personal greed while the other was trying to survive it.

>The only man fuckhuge enough to pull off a live action Barracuda is dead
FUCK

Reminder that in an alternate universe, Barracuda is Eminem's former homeboi

God, that was embarrassing to read.

>That art
Jesus

>tfw we'll probably never see Barracuda in Frankflix because normies and the mouse will think he's a racist caricature.

Literally the only bad comic 'Cuda was ever in. Beat that hit rate, other villains.

Terry Crews is still alive

I wouldn't want to see Barracuda in Netflix, it would just be disappointing

Awwww sheeeeit

He's too pottymouthed for it. They would have to censor him and turn him into a generic black guy. Probably silence him too like The Russian in Punisher 2004.

jesus my sides

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Alternate Universe? Boy, I thought this shit was canon.

I would probably say even ICP's comics were better

One of the worse comics I ever read in my life.

Jesus fucking christ, you haven't been here long, have you?

I never got this, Terry Crews doesn't look anything like Barracuda

Bara's old school.

Fucker was in Nam with Fury, right?

No, that was Frank. Barracuda was in Nicaragua in the mid-80's. That storytime was posted here

That fucking face holy shit

Of the three AU Cudas, Noir was the only good one.

I feel like the entire comic was a setup for this page.

>The fucking glint in his eye on the last panel

You know I read this for the first time some months back and my first thought was that the prison bitch looked suspiciously like Donald Trump, but this is fucking Garth Ennis in like 2007-2008 so it couldn't be a lowbrow 2017 Trump cheapshot.

I mean Trump has been a object of mockery since the 80's, and I don't think Ennis would be above jabbing at a c list celebrity.
But aside from the hair the design doesn't resemble Trump that closely, so you can probably take it either way.

Trump jokes were a New York thing before they were a global thing. This was Ennis trying to get a little NY street cred.

>Stole a guy's car just to change the radio station.

No. Fifty got exactly what he deserved, just a bit delayed.

tfw no big titted unfaithful pornstar slut wife

Storytimes are always appreciated but it needs a disclaimer that if anyone in this thread hasn't read the rest of My War Gone By you're doing yourself a huge fucking disservice.

The M60 is commonly called the pig by american soldiers. You're probably reading too deep into it but it might be a reference anyway. The saying would likely be common enough

Why does he have it so in for the Punisher? It looks to me like Nick Fury did him in a lot worse.
The eye and finger was probably wasn't a dream either, but still.

Fury fucked him up, but didn't do any permanent damage. Broken bones can be healed, a missing eye not so much.

Also Fury deliberately didn't kill him, while Frank definitely did his best to kill 'Cuda.

He is!
But he's fucking glorious.

Barracuda is channeling the big scary,hood, nigga, so hard that he might as well be an Avatar from Unknown Armies.

He says himself he can't really touch Fury, not in any way that'd matter anyway, since his service game too majestic. Whether someone up top who owes Fury or would love an excuse to put a mad dog like Barracuda out to pasture or even some kid with a hard on for the war hero there'd just be an endless stream of people trying to do him in for it and nothing gained from doing it to set him up against all that.
Barracuda is relatively fearless, but he ain't stupid.

He really should have just went cold turkey until Fury left. He put too much shit on his plate for him to let slide. Costanzo, the literal body pile, talking up and down to his face about how the coke and kills were too much of a good time to give a shit about either of those prior transgressions, talking direct shit about the uniform meaning fuckall but a vehicle to have that good time.

Barracuda told Grand Wizard Danby himself that Fury wasn't a figure to be taken lightly, then goes and does it himself. If anything I'd figure Barracuda learned from this incident to be smarter about a setup. Look at how he plays Angelone, he could have just said to his face in front of everyone that he whacked the messenger crew for disrespecting him, but he avoids the conflict altogether by feigning ignorance. Of course he planned to fuck Chris anyway, but he had something to gain from it and Chris and Frank are in a different league to where Fury ranks. Just for starters the Mafia and the Punisher, regardless of their respective fans, are both wanted criminals anyway.

I just noticed Barracuda's stolen car is in the very first panel.
I knew the guy in the bandages was mumbling Barracuda
>Bu.Bu.Bu.Bu.
>Ba.Ra.Cu.Da.
but I thought he was just traumatized and it was for irony, he saw him in the rear view mirror and was trying to warn them the whole time.

what did he do?

Yeah ok. I just meant he didn't grow up with that hood music is what I meant.

>"Don' stop me now, muthafucka! Im's havin' such ah good time, choppin' dis meeeat!"

>genuinely excited to meet his favorite porn star

This, OP, is why we love him.

He's kidding, right? There isn't some subtle social aspect here that us nerds can't catch on to, is there?

This dude looks like Stalker from GI Joe.
Well, except for this part.

Oswald got balls

Is this kid suicidally stupid or some sort of evil genius?

I really shouldn't be laughing at the horror of a hulking monster of a man gleefully singing while reducing people to cold cuts, but here we are.

Imagine a movie montage of him in and his crew fucking up a group of people with the actual song playing in the background.

Actually, a Fury MAX series on HBO would be fuckin' awesome.

How underage can you possibly be? Trump has been a joke for literal decades. This page came out in 2004.

wtf just happened?

Love that Christopher Walken is here. He would be in a Barracuda spinoff movie.

My only regret with the Netflix Punisher is it's not R rated enough to get the Baracuda we deserve.

I don't feel sorry for this woman at all

What kinda dumbass runs straight at a bunch of guns hoping NOT to be shot? He's worse than Hemo.

It's barely a smile, and from a guy who's usually exuberant about everything. He's not thrilled, I think they are bros, as much bros as someone like 'cuda can have.

The exuberance is a put-on half the time. It's when he's somber that the real Cuda comes out.

It's implied the CIA identified him so quickly because they had sent Digby ahead on the flight in hopes that Barracuda's incident would pave the way for Hart Consolidated to secure their interests in Santa Morricone's development.
They don't want him killed or arrested in any plans because any negative ties that might get dug up might make their way back to the company from there the company's interests and exactly who they might be in bed with on US soil and what they might be up to towards that end.
If I'm not making it obvious enough, drug money, destruction of old structures for reconstruction that setups economic and political assets.

And here I thought Lockhart was the only non-asshole in the entire story.

They coulda taken the pilot's body along with them for food.

Who's voice ya'll hear when reading Baras dialog?
First it was Tiny Lister, now its Kevin Michael Richardson.

Foolkiller didn't have any powers.

>marry him for his money
>cheat on him for years
>tell fury how much better he is in bed like something right out of a NTR manga
She deserved every bit of this. She used him and got salty now that the shoe is on the other foot.

Um. You’re wish is granted?

thats cruel as fuck but it makes barracuda a better villain.

>Can't pay Nick Fury not to get bored
Jeeeeesus Christ

Charisma.

Oh shit, I need to read this.

It's a direct reference to earlier in the same comic, when the rebels try to storm the palace.

I dont get it

He's implying despite her thinking she's better they both were willing to fuck other people to feel better about themselves at the expense of their partner at the end of the day.
Except he had the sense to go for people who always want money, which he ain't in short supply of any time soon, and wouldn't make him feel worse about age.
She went for someone who wanted her looks and spirit at a certain age, when the expiration date on those hit, well, let's just say she ain't in short supply of getting fucked any time soon herself. Not quite how she liked to be though.

Why is this so strangely wholesome

Fury turned her down and started fucking hookers

Since this is a Barracuda thread, am I the only one who thinks the cover artist for this issue drew Barracuda instead of Face?

probably both

I remember a few anons thinking as such, but in hindsight it was optimistic thinking.

>I just remembered what happens to Oswald
fuck

I'm glad Barracuda isn't in 616 but at the same time a little sad

Optimistic in that they thought 'cuda would be in the issue?

Those covers by Declan Shalvey were the only good thing about that shit run.

Why the hate? It wasn't the best Punisher run ever, but it was good.

Though his archenemy was a sickly yet agile midget with a never ending supply of crescent throwing darts and later a cyborg arm.

He's extremely fragile, and Barracuda is stronger than a gorilla.

Funny the majority of fags in prison are niggers

I mostly just found it mediocre at best, like Ostrander's or the majority of Fraction's.

Holy shit m8 this is gold