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All right, So we want to get into The Punisher
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number fourteen. This was on sale August sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight.
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Written by Mike Baron, penciled by wils Potassio, inked by
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Scott Williams, lettered by Kenneth Bruzanak, and colored by Glennis
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Ween Oliver.
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So before we get.
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Into things, let me give you a little rundown of
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the characters here. Of course we want to have the Punisher.
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He's definitely involved in this issue. We have Winston Piper,
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a twenty nine year old career criminal who looks young
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enough to blend in with high school students. He's using
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the school as a hiding place and has ties to
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the Kingpin. A young lady by the name of Roxanne,
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one of Frank's students. She's intelligent, interested in actually learning,
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and stands out from a lot of the chaos going
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on around her. There's also McDowell, another student in Frank's class.
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He's eager to help, maybe a little too eager, and
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represents just how dangerous and out of control things have
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gotten at this school. There's Calton Rhodes, a student connected
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to the tougher crowd of the school. He's armed and
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apparently involved with the gang activity Frank is investigating. There's
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also going to be the appearance of one of the
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regular faculty members at the school who also gets drawn
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into Frank's investigation and tries to help, despite Frank very
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much preferring to work alone. And then finally there's the Kingpin.
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Wilson Fist doesn't really step onto the stage personally here,
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but his influence hangs over the entire story. As a
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matter of fact, it's on the cover Kingpin Rules. Frank's
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investigation begins because he has evidence connecting Kingpin to gang
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activity inside the school.
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Let's get into what.
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Happens in the issue, So the title of this story
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his social Studies. Frank Castle's latest war takes him to
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some place a little unusual, a high school classroom. His
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target is Winston Piper, a twenty nine year old career
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criminal who's managed to disappear into the chaos of the
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school by passing himself off as a student. Piper has
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ties to the Kingpin, and Frank has reason to believe
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he's using the school as a base of operations. So
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Frank does what Frank Castle apparently does when he needs
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to infiltrate a high school, he becomes a substitute teacher
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using the name mister Melcure. Frank walks into a social
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studies class that is already completely out of control. Students
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are fighting, threatening faculty, carrying weapons, and generally treating the classroom.
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Like their own private clubhouse.
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Frank immediately establishes that he is not going to run
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the class like an ordinary substitute. When one student challenges
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him with a knife, Frank disarms him, beats him down,
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and throws him right up of a window. With that
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little demonstration out of the way, the rest of the
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class begins to understand that their new teacher might be
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slightly different from the ones they're used to. Frank continues
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taking attendance, trying to locate Winston Piper while getting a
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sense of the students around him. One of them, a
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young woman named Roxanne, actually seems interested in learning, and
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Frank begins discussing the social contract with her and the
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rest of the class. The lesson is interrupted when an
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armed gang member comes looking for a student named Keldon Rhodes.
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Frank allows Calton to.
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Leave, but quickly realizes that whatever is happening at the
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school is much bigger than some unruly teenagers. He leaves
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Roxanne in charge of the class and begins investigating. Along
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the way, Frank takes a gun away from another student, McDowell,
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who enthusiastically offers to help him. Frank ends up finding
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kids doing drugs in a utility closet and eventually makes
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his way toward the basement, despite another teacher warning him
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that a gang has basically taken over the area. Frank
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discovers that Whenston Piper really is living underneath the school,
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and more importantly, Piper's operation just asn't dealing drugs. Frank
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overhears Piper in his associates discussing a payment of one
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and a half million dollars from Libya in exchange for
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blowing up the school. The gang still intends to get
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approval from the Kingpin, which confirms that Frank has stumbled
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into something considerably larger than what he expected. While Frank
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watches from hiding, his thoughts briefly turned to his own son.
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Had his family survived, his son would now be around
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the same age as the students Frank is dealing with. Unfortunately,
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Frank's backup arrives in the form of exactly the people
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he does not want helping him, McDowell and another one
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of the teachers. Their arrival gives away Frank's position. Gunfire
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of ups, and Frank kills one of Piper's armed men.
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Winston orders his people to retreat and escapes into the
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sewer beneath the school. Frank makes it very clear that
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he wants to teacher of McDowell nowhere near the fighting.
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When they refuse to listen, Frank sells the argument, physically
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dropping the teacher and kicking McDowell before ordering them both back.
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Upstairs to wait for the police.
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He then goes after Piper alone before heading into the sewers.
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Frank stops back at the classroom and tells Roxanne to
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keep the lesson going until he returns. Wants back underground.
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Frank reflects on the Kingpin and his long running war
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with Daredevil. Frank knows he has information taken from the
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Kingpin's own files and realizes that sooner or later, Wilson
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Fisk is going to become very interested in exactly who
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has been interfering with his operations. Frank eventually catches up
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with Winston and the remaining gang members.
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Something unusual happens.
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Rather than simply killing everyone, Frank decides to use rubber
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bullets and a concussion grenade, reasoning that many of the
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people involved are still kids. Frank actually catches himself, wondering
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whether he's going soft here. The grenade scatters Piper's group,
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and Winston falls into the rushing sewer water. He desperately
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calls for help as the current pulls him away, but
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Frank makes no attempt to save him.
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Another young gang.
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Member tries to attack Frank from behind, but Frank easily
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knocks him down, and instead of killing him, Frank gives
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him a choice. Get out of the sewer, go back
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to school, learn to read and write, become a regular citizen,
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or the next time Frank sees him, he'll kill him
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once again.
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Frank wonders if he's going soft.
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With the immediate threat eliminated, Frank returns to the classroom
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as though nothing particularly unusual has happened.
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Roxanne is still teaching.
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Frank takes control of the class again, and afterward he
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talks with her about her future. She tells him she's
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graduating soon and wants to attend college, but doesn't really
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know how to get started. Frank tells her to begin
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preparing for the PSAT and, to her surprise, announce it
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that he intends to come back to school the next day.
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Roxanne warns him that Kelton and his gang are probably
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going to try to kill him, but Frank's response, teaching
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is his life. Needn't going to let a couple of
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punks stop him and justice. Frank is leaving, McDowell catches
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up with him and asks for his guns that.
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Frank borrowed earlier.
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Frank tells him, well, they were destroyed. McDowell complains that
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he paid a lot of money for those. Frank stops,
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looks at him, and he asks how much, and that's
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where we end it The Punisher number fourteen. All right,
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So my thoughts on the book, My thoughts on this
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issue Social Studies. I like this issue. I don't think
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it's one of the absolute best Punisher stories we've had
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so far, but I do like the gimmick here. I
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like the idea of Frank Castle going into a high
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school and pretending to be a substitute teacher.
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And yeah, that's it's pretty ridiculous.
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I mean, come on, Frank Castle has a social studies teacher,
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but with this school, I can kind of buy it.
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This place is a disaster.
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These kids are carrying guns, knives, they're doing drugs and
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utility closets. They're threatening teachers. I mean, the bar to
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get somebody into this classroom is probably pretty low, and
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they're probably happy somebody showed up. And I think that's
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really where the fun of the issue is.
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For me. It's not really.
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Winston Piper or the terrorism plot. It's Frank dealing with
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these kids.
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You know.
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He walks into the classroom and immediately he's got this
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giant kid testing him. This dude looks like the biggest
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guy in the room, probably the biggest trouble maker in
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the room, and Frank makes an example out of him.
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He takes him down, throws him out the window, literally
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throwing him out of the school. And I kind of
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love that because Frank is making a statement. He's saying, Okay,
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whatever rules you guys had before, those are over.
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Mister Melchior's here now. Now this is his school. Over
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the top, absolutely.
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I mean, this feels like one of those late eighties
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movie versions of, or the music video version of a
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horrible inner city high school where every single person has
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a weapon and nobody has any control over anything. It's
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exaggerated and ridiculous, but that's the story they're trying to tell.
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Where I think the issue starts to lose me a
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little bit.
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As Winston Piper Okay, Winston specifically twenty nine years old,
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but supposedly he looks young enough to pass for a
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high school student. Fine, okay, I'll go with it. But
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he's not really much of a villain. We don't get
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a lot from him. He doesn't really challenge Frank, doesn't
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go one on one with him. He's basically there because
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Mike Barron needed a reason to get Frank into the school.
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And then the plot gets kind of weird.
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But based on this cover, I thought we were getting
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a drug story.
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We've got this young.
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Girl who looks like she overdosed, pills all over the place,
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Frank holding her, and behind them you've got Kingpin rules
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spray painting on the lockers. That cover tells me, okay,
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drugs are getting into the school, Kingpen is involved somehow,
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Frank's pissed and he's going to go clean this up.
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That's not really a story we get, though. Instead we
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get Libyans paying these guys a million and a half
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dollars to blow up the school and I'm sitting here going, okay, why,
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I mean, Winston is using the schools as headquarters. Why
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are you blowing up your own headquarters? What exactly is
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the Kingpin's part in all this?
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I don't know.
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It's strange. It's a strange plot. Honestly, I would have
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rather had the story that the cover.
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Was trying to sell to me. Now, the Kingpin stuff,
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I do like that.
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Part works for me because you can feel Frank getting
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closer and closer to Wilson Fisk. Frank is starting to
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poke around in things connected to the Kingpin. He knows
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things that Kingpin probably doesn't want him knowing, and eventually
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these two are going to cross paths, and now I'm
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looking forward to that. I also like the Daredevil reference.
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Frank calling Daredevil a liberal whimp, but also admitting that
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he respects him.
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That's pretty funny.
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It feels like Frank, and it's kind of interesting because
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Frank spends his entire issue doing something that Daredevil would
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probably approve of. He gives people second chances. Frank says
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a couple of times that he thinks he's getting soft.
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I mean, I don't think he's getting soft. I think
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he understands.
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These are kids.
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There's a difference between some hardened criminal who has murdered
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a bunch of people and a teenager who's making terrible decisions.
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Frank hasn't decided that these kids have crossed that line yet,
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and that's important with Frank. There is a line, and
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once you cross it, once Frank decides you're done, you're done.
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These kids aren't there yet, and I think the moment
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where he thinks about his son helps support that his
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son would have been around.
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The same age as these kids.
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Frank knows kids screw up, they do stupid things, and
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if there's still a chance that one of them can
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get out of this can get out of this life,
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he's willing to give them that chance. That's why he
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uses rubber bullets. That's why he lets the kid go
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on the sewer and basically tells him go back to school,
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or how to read and become a normal citizen, or
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I'll kill you, which is a very Frank Castle version
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of career counseling.
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I guess.
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Roxander I like to she's kind of a shining light
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in the classroom. She's actually there to learn, she wants
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to go to college. She's trying to do something better
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with herself while all this insanity is going on around her,
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and Frank notices that he actually seems interested in helping her.
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And when we get to the ending and she asks
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if Frank is coming back tomorrow, and Frank says, yes, really, Frank,
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you're coming back tomorrow.
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Why your mission's over? Winston's gone.
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He basically flushed the guy down the sewer. There's no
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reason for him to come back.
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And teach social studies tomorrow.
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So the only thing I can figure is Frank actually
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got something out of this. Maybe he thinks he did
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some good, or maybe he liked helping the kids out.
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Maybe somewhere in there, Frank Castle actually enjoys being a teacher. Well,
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let's not go too far with that, because Frank barely
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taught anything. He came in, he threw a kid out
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the window, took some guns away from another kid, left
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Roxanne in charge, went into the basement, shot some people,
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went to the sewer, and then came back. So no,
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I'm not going to call Frank Castle teacher of the
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Year here. Roxanne probably did more teaching than he did.
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But I like that Frank wants to come back. That
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says something about him. Overall, I think this is a
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good issue. I don't think it's top five for me
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out of the first fourteen issues. It's probably somewhere around six, seven, eight,
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something like that. The villain isn't memorable, the terrorism plot
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is weird. The cover promises me a story I think
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I would have liked more than the one I got,
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but the gimmick works. Frank Castle as a substitute teacher
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is fun. That's the thing I remember about this issue
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that in a cover, because this might be my favorite
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cover of the series so far. So Yeah, The Punisher
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Number fourteen Social Studies. Strange issue, fun issue, and probably
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a better story about Frank Castle dealing with a classroom
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full of kids than it is a story about Winston
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Piper and international terrorism.
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All right, So we want to get into The Punisher
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number fourteen. This was on sale August sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight.
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Written by Mike Baron, penciled by wils Potassio, inked by
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Scott Williams, lettered by Kenneth Bruzanak, and colored by Glennis
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Ween Oliver.
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So before we get.
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Into things, let me give you a little rundown of
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the characters here. Of course we want to have the Punisher.
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He's definitely involved in this issue. We have Winston Piper,
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a twenty nine year old career criminal who looks young
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enough to blend in with high school students. He's using
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the school as a hiding place and has ties to
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the Kingpin. A young lady by the name of Roxanne,
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one of Frank's students. She's intelligent, interested in actually learning,
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and stands out from a lot of the chaos going
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on around her. There's also McDowell, another student in Frank's class.
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He's eager to help, maybe a little too eager, and
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represents just how dangerous and out of control things have
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gotten at this school. There's Calton Rhodes, a student connected
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to the tougher crowd of the school. He's armed and
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apparently involved with the gang activity Frank is investigating. There's
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also going to be the appearance of one of the
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regular faculty members at the school who also gets drawn
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into Frank's investigation and tries to help, despite Frank very
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much preferring to work alone. And then finally there's the Kingpin.
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Wilson Fist doesn't really step onto the stage personally here,
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but his influence hangs over the entire story. As a
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matter of fact, it's on the cover Kingpin Rules. Frank's
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investigation begins because he has evidence connecting Kingpin to gang
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activity inside the school.
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Let's get into what.
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Happens in the issue, So the title of this story
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his social Studies. Frank Castle's latest war takes him to
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some place a little unusual, a high school classroom. His
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target is Winston Piper, a twenty nine year old career
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criminal who's managed to disappear into the chaos of the
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school by passing himself off as a student. Piper has
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ties to the Kingpin, and Frank has reason to believe
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he's using the school as a base of operations. So
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Frank does what Frank Castle apparently does when he needs
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to infiltrate a high school, he becomes a substitute teacher
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using the name mister Melcure. Frank walks into a social
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studies class that is already completely out of control. Students
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are fighting, threatening faculty, carrying weapons, and generally treating the classroom.
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Like their own private clubhouse.
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Frank immediately establishes that he is not going to run
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the class like an ordinary substitute. When one student challenges
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him with a knife, Frank disarms him, beats him down,
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and throws him right up of a window. With that
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little demonstration out of the way, the rest of the
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class begins to understand that their new teacher might be
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slightly different from the ones they're used to. Frank continues
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taking attendance, trying to locate Winston Piper while getting a
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sense of the students around him. One of them, a
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young woman named Roxanne, actually seems interested in learning, and
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Frank begins discussing the social contract with her and the
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rest of the class. The lesson is interrupted when an
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armed gang member comes looking for a student named Keldon Rhodes.
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Frank allows Calton to.
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Leave, but quickly realizes that whatever is happening at the
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school is much bigger than some unruly teenagers. He leaves
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Roxanne in charge of the class and begins investigating. Along
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the way, Frank takes a gun away from another student, McDowell,
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who enthusiastically offers to help him. Frank ends up finding
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kids doing drugs in a utility closet and eventually makes
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his way toward the basement, despite another teacher warning him
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that a gang has basically taken over the area. Frank
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discovers that Whenston Piper really is living underneath the school,
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and more importantly, Piper's operation just asn't dealing drugs. Frank
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overhears Piper in his associates discussing a payment of one
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and a half million dollars from Libya in exchange for
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blowing up the school. The gang still intends to get
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approval from the Kingpin, which confirms that Frank has stumbled
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into something considerably larger than what he expected. While Frank
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watches from hiding, his thoughts briefly turned to his own son.
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Had his family survived, his son would now be around
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the same age as the students Frank is dealing with. Unfortunately,
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Frank's backup arrives in the form of exactly the people
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he does not want helping him, McDowell and another one
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of the teachers. Their arrival gives away Frank's position. Gunfire
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of ups, and Frank kills one of Piper's armed men.
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Winston orders his people to retreat and escapes into the
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sewer beneath the school. Frank makes it very clear that
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he wants to teacher of McDowell nowhere near the fighting.
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When they refuse to listen, Frank sells the argument, physically
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dropping the teacher and kicking McDowell before ordering them both back.
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Upstairs to wait for the police.
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He then goes after Piper alone before heading into the sewers.
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Frank stops back at the classroom and tells Roxanne to
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keep the lesson going until he returns. Wants back underground.
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Frank reflects on the Kingpin and his long running war
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with Daredevil. Frank knows he has information taken from the
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Kingpin's own files and realizes that sooner or later, Wilson
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Fisk is going to become very interested in exactly who
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has been interfering with his operations. Frank eventually catches up
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with Winston and the remaining gang members.
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Something unusual happens.
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Rather than simply killing everyone, Frank decides to use rubber
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bullets and a concussion grenade, reasoning that many of the
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people involved are still kids. Frank actually catches himself, wondering
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whether he's going soft here. The grenade scatters Piper's group,
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and Winston falls into the rushing sewer water. He desperately
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calls for help as the current pulls him away, but
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Frank makes no attempt to save him.
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Another young gang.
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Member tries to attack Frank from behind, but Frank easily
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knocks him down, and instead of killing him, Frank gives
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him a choice. Get out of the sewer, go back
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to school, learn to read and write, become a regular citizen,
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or the next time Frank sees him, he'll kill him
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once again.
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Frank wonders if he's going soft.
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With the immediate threat eliminated, Frank returns to the classroom
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as though nothing particularly unusual has happened.
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Roxanne is still teaching.
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Frank takes control of the class again, and afterward he
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talks with her about her future. She tells him she's
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graduating soon and wants to attend college, but doesn't really
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know how to get started. Frank tells her to begin
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preparing for the PSAT and, to her surprise, announce it
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that he intends to come back to school the next day.
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Roxanne warns him that Kelton and his gang are probably
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going to try to kill him, but Frank's response, teaching
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is his life. Needn't going to let a couple of
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punks stop him and justice. Frank is leaving, McDowell catches
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up with him and asks for his guns that.
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Frank borrowed earlier.
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Frank tells him, well, they were destroyed. McDowell complains that
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he paid a lot of money for those. Frank stops,
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looks at him, and he asks how much, and that's
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where we end it The Punisher number fourteen. All right,
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So my thoughts on the book, My thoughts on this
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issue Social Studies. I like this issue. I don't think
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it's one of the absolute best Punisher stories we've had
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so far, but I do like the gimmick here. I
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like the idea of Frank Castle going into a high
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school and pretending to be a substitute teacher.
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And yeah, that's it's pretty ridiculous.
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I mean, come on, Frank Castle has a social studies teacher,
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but with this school, I can kind of buy it.
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This place is a disaster.
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These kids are carrying guns, knives, they're doing drugs and
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utility closets. They're threatening teachers. I mean, the bar to
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get somebody into this classroom is probably pretty low, and
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they're probably happy somebody showed up. And I think that's
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really where the fun of the issue is.
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For me. It's not really.
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Winston Piper or the terrorism plot. It's Frank dealing with
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these kids.
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You know.
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He walks into the classroom and immediately he's got this
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giant kid testing him. This dude looks like the biggest
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guy in the room, probably the biggest trouble maker in
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the room, and Frank makes an example out of him.
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He takes him down, throws him out the window, literally
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throwing him out of the school. And I kind of
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love that because Frank is making a statement. He's saying, Okay,
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whatever rules you guys had before, those are over.
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Mister Melchior's here now. Now this is his school. Over
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the top, absolutely.
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I mean, this feels like one of those late eighties
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movie versions of, or the music video version of a
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horrible inner city high school where every single person has
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a weapon and nobody has any control over anything. It's
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exaggerated and ridiculous, but that's the story they're trying to tell.
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Where I think the issue starts to lose me a
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little bit.
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As Winston Piper Okay, Winston specifically twenty nine years old,
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but supposedly he looks young enough to pass for a
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high school student. Fine, okay, I'll go with it. But
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he's not really much of a villain. We don't get
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a lot from him. He doesn't really challenge Frank, doesn't
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go one on one with him. He's basically there because
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Mike Barron needed a reason to get Frank into the school.
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And then the plot gets kind of weird.
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a drug story.
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We've got this young.
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Girl who looks like she overdosed, pills all over the place,
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Frank holding her, and behind them you've got Kingpin rules
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spray painting on the lockers. That cover tells me, okay,
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drugs are getting into the school, Kingpen is involved somehow,
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Frank's pissed and he's going to go clean this up.
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That's not really a story we get, though. Instead we
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get Libyans paying these guys a million and a half
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dollars to blow up the school and I'm sitting here going, okay, why,
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I mean, Winston is using the schools as headquarters. Why
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are you blowing up your own headquarters? What exactly is
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the Kingpin's part in all this?
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I don't know.
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It's strange. It's a strange plot. Honestly, I would have
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rather had the story that the cover.
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Was trying to sell to me. Now, the Kingpin stuff,
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I do like that.
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Part works for me because you can feel Frank getting
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closer and closer to Wilson Fisk. Frank is starting to
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poke around in things connected to the Kingpin. He knows
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things that Kingpin probably doesn't want him knowing, and eventually
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these two are going to cross paths, and now I'm
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looking forward to that. I also like the Daredevil reference.
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Frank calling Daredevil a liberal whimp, but also admitting that
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he respects him.
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That's pretty funny.
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It feels like Frank, and it's kind of interesting because
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Frank spends his entire issue doing something that Daredevil would
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probably approve of. He gives people second chances. Frank says
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a couple of times that he thinks he's getting soft.
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I mean, I don't think he's getting soft. I think
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he understands.
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These are kids.
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There's a difference between some hardened criminal who has murdered
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a bunch of people and a teenager who's making terrible decisions.
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Frank hasn't decided that these kids have crossed that line yet,
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and that's important with Frank. There is a line, and
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once you cross it, once Frank decides you're done, you're done.
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These kids aren't there yet, and I think the moment
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where he thinks about his son helps support that his
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son would have been around.
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The same age as these kids.
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Frank knows kids screw up, they do stupid things, and
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if there's still a chance that one of them can
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get out of this can get out of this life,
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he's willing to give them that chance. That's why he
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uses rubber bullets. That's why he lets the kid go
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on the sewer and basically tells him go back to school,
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or how to read and become a normal citizen, or
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I'll kill you, which is a very Frank Castle version
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of career counseling.
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I guess.
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Roxander I like to she's kind of a shining light
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in the classroom. She's actually there to learn, she wants
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to go to college. She's trying to do something better
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with herself while all this insanity is going on around her,
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and Frank notices that he actually seems interested in helping her.
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And when we get to the ending and she asks
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if Frank is coming back tomorrow, and Frank says, yes, really, Frank,
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you're coming back tomorrow.
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Why your mission's over? Winston's gone.
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He basically flushed the guy down the sewer. There's no
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reason for him to come back.
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And teach social studies tomorrow.
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So the only thing I can figure is Frank actually
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got something out of this. Maybe he thinks he did
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some good, or maybe he liked helping the kids out.
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Maybe somewhere in there, Frank Castle actually enjoys being a teacher. Well,
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let's not go too far with that, because Frank barely
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taught anything. He came in, he threw a kid out
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the window, took some guns away from another kid, left
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Roxanne in charge, went into the basement, shot some people,
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went to the sewer, and then came back. So no,
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I'm not going to call Frank Castle teacher of the
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Year here. Roxanne probably did more teaching than he did.
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But I like that Frank wants to come back. That
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says something about him. Overall, I think this is a
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good issue. I don't think it's top five for me
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out of the first fourteen issues. It's probably somewhere around six, seven, eight,
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something like that. The villain isn't memorable, the terrorism plot
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is weird. The cover promises me a story I think
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I would have liked more than the one I got,
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but the gimmick works. Frank Castle as a substitute teacher
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is fun. That's the thing I remember about this issue
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that in a cover, because this might be my favorite
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cover of the series so far. So Yeah, The Punisher
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Number fourteen Social Studies. Strange issue, fun issue, and probably
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a better story about Frank Castle dealing with a classroom
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full of kids than it is a story about Winston
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Piper and international terrorism.