The Punisher is a vigilante who considers killing, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence and torture to be acceptable crime-fighting tactics. Driven by the deaths of his family, who were killed by the mob when they witnessed a gangland execution in New York.

The Punisher’s brutal nature and willingness to kill made him a novel character in mainstream American comic books in 1974. By the late 1980s, he was part of a wave of psychologically troubled antiheroes and was featured in several monthly publications, such as the Punisher War Journal.

To celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama, Marvel is proud to present an all-new story teaming up one of the world’s most recognizable political figures with the world’s greatest super hero as President Obama joins Spider-Man in “Spidey Meets the President!”

Written by Zeb Wells with art by Todd Nauck and Frank D’Armata, the story takes place in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day and finds one of Spider-Man’s oldest foes attempting to thwart the swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States.

Paul Tobin is an up and coming comic book writer who started with “Bananna Sunday,” under the pen name Root Nobit, it was illustrated by his wife Colleen Coover. He later broke into the Marvel Bullpen by writing different titles for the Marvel Adventures line such as MA: Fantastic Four, MA: Super Heroes, and others. His latest piece is part of the King Size Spider-Man Summer Special which he also did with Coover.

On comics should be good-blog Brian Cronin writes about Paul Tobin and his contribution to the comic world.

The Terror Titans are a supervillain group in the DC Comics. They are a mirror group to the Teen Titans, being comprised of “legacy” villains. The Terror Titans make their first strike as Kid Devil throws an impromptu party at Titans Tower. Dreadbolt, in his civilian identity, plants several surveillance/teleportation/jamming devices around the tower, and later lures Kid Devil into an ambush. Kid Devil is defeated and captured by the Terror Titans.

According to Brainfreez-blog the roll out of the Milestone characters in the DC Universe begins this week in Terror Titans #3, introduction of Static to the regular DC universe.

Static was one of the most popular characters in the original Milestone lineup, and went on to his own animated series Static Shock on Kids WB after the Milestone comic line ceased publication. At Warner Bros. animation, and under the guidance of his co-creator, Dwayne McDuffie, Static was able to interact with the animated DC Universe, meeting the Terry McGinniss Batman (Batman Beyond) as well as members of the Justice League.

Static’s appearance in Terror Titans will be followed up in issue #4 before the character moves to the Teen Titans series, where he will join to the team.

Venom is a fictional character, a symbiote life form in the Marvel Comics universe. The creature is a sentient alien with a gooey, almost liquid-like form. It requires a host, usually human, to bond around for its survival. In return the Venom creature gives its host enhanced powers. If Venom fully bonds with its host it takes full control and the host will be taken over by the symbiote. In effect, when the Venom Symbiote bonds with a human to form a super-villain, that new dual-life form itself is also often called Venom.

Gavok wrote a post about Venom after reading Separation Anxiety (Venom #23-26) written by Howard Mackie and drawn by Ron Randall.

In a bout with splitting hairs, I always found it interesting that they named a videogame after this story. For one, the game’s story isn’t based on Separation Anxiety, but Lethal Protector. Second, the game is meant to be a sequel to Maximum Carnage, even though that story came after Lethal Protector. Third, even though Carnage had nothing to do with Lethal Protector, they toss him in as the final boss for the hell of it. Hey, they did have those sprites lying around from the last game.

Onto the comic. Eddie is meant to be shipped to a research facility in New Mexico and spends some time held in an overly sci-fi restraint device. Despite being without his symbiote and being completely prone, he has dozens of guards aiming their guns at his vital organs in case something happens. They’re that scared of him.