First issue hits shelves in October

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Of course

We never should've gotten involved in Vietnam in the first place.

I read this recently, and this has to be the best big two title I read since I don't know how long, and the best Ennis title in years as well.
The arrt was gorgeous, abiding to all the rules you expect from a great Alex Toth comic, and it told its story in a fairly original way.
Parlov is one of the very best artist when it comes to action, and Ennis finds the perfect balance between emotion and geo-politics. His female protagonist could (should?) have been "more" characterized, but then again, htis book is about the urgency in war, survival reflexes, finding brothers in arms to se ethe next day, in the middle of a war you haven't chosen to be part of.
What's quite intriguing is how Ennis inserts himself in the narrative, looking for the founding moment of what came to be the Punisher. But as an echo to his early works about the Irish civil war (True Faith, Troubles, For A Few Troubles More), the absurdity of it all leads us to no such character climax, at least not "on-screen". Therefore the book comes off as remarkably measured, which is a great angle for a Punisher Book.

I never felt connected to the Punisher before this book, despite all the previous Ennis work, Baron, Rucka, etc... But this is a Frank Castle book, and knowing what he would become, this gives a worthy perspective, one that will be followed by at least a sequel "season", Castle's second tour in 'Nam.

I don't know about that : while his first punisher run was at the time much welcomed and revigoring for the title, twenty years after, it doesn't read that well. Its parodical ultra violence has been played to death and lacks the substance of his third run on the character.
His second run was often even worse than that, pure shock value, with the stupidest stories : while the idea of an underground mob of dwarves that cut the legs of its competitors to even the game (with one of the most original and was somewhat fun back then, it was at the same time nothing more than juvenile. The War zone mini was quite frankly terrible, pure and unnecessary parody.... His Born series, I don't remember that well, because the art was so ugly that it kind of ruined the experience for me.
As for warfare, I don't know, some of his Vertigo stuff was nice, but it also often was a tad boring. Have you read all of his Avatar warfare series, his recent tank series at Darkhorse, his Dynamate Battlefields series, etc? A lot of those is either repetitive, or not very inspired, if not amateurishly drawn...

My favorite Ennis remains the Crisis days, Demon, Hitman, Punisher Max (including all of his Fury series &  Baracuda), some Hellblazer, and Godess.
I also don't particularly enjoy most of his endings : it's too often a western movie-ish walk into the sunset by the heroes after a final battle, and I find that frankly quite lazy.
But when he hits gold, it indeed is pure gold.