Blog Archives: July 2008

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New Watchmen Posters

   Warner Brothers has just posted some new movie posters for Watchmen. They were even nice enough to post high res versions. I'll say they were really promoting this movie hardcore at Comic Con last week. Everyone at the DC Booth (the employees) were wearing Watchmen T-shirts (which ev

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Talking: Daredevil #109

Spoiler. Wow, big moves. Things are really heating up in this book. Snipers, mystery, and dudes named Big Ben. Man this is a great book! How do you not love this book? Man I lost it when Dakota was shot. It is an interesting situation; I think what makes me like comics so much, well one of the m

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The Spirit Is Watching You...

...But are you going to watch The Spirit?

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Post Comic Con Pull List

I am going to get: -1001 Arabian Nights Adventures Of Sinbad #2 - Batman Death Mask #4 - Black Panther #39 - Blue Beetle #29 - Caliber #4 - Comic Book Comics #2 - Femme Noir Dark City Diaries #2 - Green Latern #33 - Hercules #4 - Jim Butchers Dresden Files Welcome To The jungle #4 -

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Lookee here, it's a drawing of the Watchmen by the King of San Diego himself, Jim Lee! Via And perhaps the most frightening Joker Brian Lee O'Malley posts a Ramona Flowers Desktop image. Get the full size here.And below you will find a photo of an unidentified animal that washed up on Long Island.

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Watchmen/Heroes Mash-Up

Can the Smashing Pumpkins make ANY collection of images look cool? 

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Bateman on Batman

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Comic Con Hangover

How long does it take to get over a serious case of sensory overload? All I can do right now is sit and stare at my coffee cup. Some highlights from the con, personal and comic book related: - Meeting James Robinson and talking to him about Starman. Stay tuned for the interview. -Listening to Grant

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Watch Out Universe, Scott Pilgrim is Coming

Yes. Coming in February: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe. Play it Cool Hotshots. 

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We Are Back!

What a crazy trip it has been. So lets talk Con. Who went, and what was your favorite thing that you saw? I saw footage of the Web Series Grant Morrison is working on, it looks crazy good. I saw tons of cool stuff in artist alley. The bonus footage of Punisher War Zone put to heavy Metal music w

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Pulp Secret San Diego Comic Con in Pictures

  Jeph Loeb Gives Pete the hug he richly deserves   We just got back from the biggest gathering of sequential artist and fans on the planet.  All I can say is that it was so unbelievable my brain exploded...every day.  Not only did we spend every moment of the days talking with all

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Neil Gaiman to Write Batman Story

  Author Neil Gaiman just released that he is currently writing a two-part Batman story called "What Ever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" which artist Andy Kubert (1602), will be drawing.  Gaiman was very cryptic but did let out that the two issues would both be over-sized.  Part one is

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Con Journal: Friday

Good day! Well it's day two of the San Diego Comic-Con and we have been busy as hell talking to anyone and everyone on the con floor. This is the Stack's second year at the Con, and though everyone is murmuring about Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton grabbing some of the spotlight, it's still a fanta

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Comic Con SD 08

Wow It is a crazy good time here. First off, we saw Tropic Thunder. It is a silly, kind of racist, funny ass good time! But I wanted to give a teaser of what you nice people can look forward to seeing. We had a really fun interview with Jeph Leob. We did a panel with Greatest American Hero! I sa

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Talking: Moon Knight #20

Spoiler. Hey Moon Knights doesn’t suck. Moon Knight has turned me off lately. Yes he is fighting giant werewolves, but at least he is not talking to that dead guy in this comic. I wasn’t really into the Moon Knight being crazy or the talking to a dead guy no one else sees. This comic is a

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Review-a-Day #59: Golden Apple Comics

Review-a-Day #59: Golden Apple Comics from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Comic Con Pull List Time

I am going to get: - Avengers The Initiative #15 - Batman Gotham After Midnight #3 - Black Panther #38 - Black Summer #7 - Brave and The Bold #15 - DareDevil #109 - DMZ #33 - Fall Of Cthulhu #14 - Fallen Angel #28 - Gravel #3 - Green Latern Corps #26 - Immortal Iron Fist - Invincib

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Well look at that, the Sandman 20th anniversary poster! ViaAnd the accompanying informational page! Can't tell the players without a program:Brian Lee O'Malley posted these pictures of the Scott Pilgrim t-shirts you can get at Comic Con: And the good folks over at The Mindless Ones posted another T

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Review-a-Day #58: DC Universe - The Stories of Alan Moore

Review-a-Day #58: DC Universe, The Stories of Alan Moore from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: The Incredible Hercules #119

Spoiler. Wow Greg Pak is really having some fun with this comic. It rocks. The freaking dog is a skrull? Funny turn of events. What is not to like about this comic? Splash pages, post hooking up talks, fights, flashback montage of fights, oh and the freaking dog gets his head bit off! Man this comic

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Robert Kirkman and ME in the New York Times

Look, there's been a lot of coverage already of this morning's announcement in the NY Times about Robert Kirkman's appointment as a partner at Image Comics. However, they seem to be missing the most important point... I was quoted in the article as if I'm some sort of expert: The founders, includ

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Heroes: Going Postal, Episode 2

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Talking: John Constantine HellBlazer #246

Spoiler. Wow, this is a great comic. Creepy, weird, and yet a really good time. The art is amazing, really pulls you into this world. So in this issue you get a clearer picture of what is happening, and it ain’t pretty. What I liked about this issue is that John couldn’t really save the day,

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Dustin Nguyen continues to post some amazing art on his blog. Here is a well-timed watercolor of the Batman universe. I love the Barbara Gordon and Alfred.Here are a couple of Star Wars/Fine arts mashups, all entrants in the Worth 1000 Star Wars Ren photoshop contest. There are a bunch more on the s

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Review-a-Day #57: Gray Horses

Review-a-Day #57: Gray Horses from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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IFC's Lunchbox

Why, who's that in this episode?

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Review-a-Day #56: Kujibiki Unbalance

Review-a-Day #56: Kujibiki Unbalance from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Francis Manapul draws Frankenstein over at the Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin Time Blog.  And Cliff Chiang has posted a bunch of awesome pin-ups over at his blog: Teela from He-Man!The Phoenix! 

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Watch Men!

By now you've probably heard or had a look at the Watchmen Trailer that's been much ballyhoed in the last 24 hours and I'll tell you, I watched it and it didn't really grab me. Maybe the anticipation is so great, and I did just see Dark Knight but... I'm worried. What did you guys think?Here's an a

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Talking: Tiny Titans #6

Spoiler. OK So I was wrong about Tiny Titans. This is a fun silly comic. Plus they put a lot of work into it. As well as they kind of keep continuity. In this comic Blue Beetle joins the Titans. I really feel like they are reading Teen Titans and they pull stuff from the comic to use in theirs.

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Review-a-Day #55: Doctor Strange - The Oath

Review-a-Day #55: Doctor Strange - The Oath from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Femme Noir The Dark City Diaries #1

Spoiler. Hell yeah Femme Noir! First off the art is tight. So great, really sets the tone for this noir type of world. Could 3 ladies be the vigilantes known as Blonde justice? It has a Will Eisner’s Spirit feel to it. Old timey detective action. So far they have set up an action packed world

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Review-a-Day #54: The Reformed

Review-a-Day #54: The Reformed from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Comic Book Club w/ Brendan McGinley Pics

   We had a great time at this week's Comic Book Club at The PIT (People's Improv Theater).  Guest Brendan McGinley talked with us about his new comic Dose 2 (Indelible Comics) hot off the printers and the unfortunate tale of his trip to pick it up.  Brendan also spoke about his work at

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Christian Bale Terminator Salvation Teaser Trailer

 Here's a little peek at the upcoming Terminator 4 movie, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins starring the Dark Knight himself, Christian Bale.  The film is currently scheduled for a 2009 release.  Be sure to check back here at Pulp Secret for all your Terminator news.  What did

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Pull List Time

I am going to get: - Burn #3 - Captain America #40 - Chariatan Ball #2 - DC Wildstorm Dreamwar #4 - Flash #242 - Goblin Chronicles #3 - Helen Killer #3 (so crazy?) - Incredible Hercules #119 - Marvel 1985 #3 - Mice Templar #5 - Mighty Avengers #16 - Omega The Unknown #10 - Perhapan

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Review-a-Day #53: Crisis on Infinite Earths

Review-a-Day #53: Crisis on Infinite Earths from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Pilot Season Urban Myths #1

Spoiler. Wow, so far every comic I have read in Top Cow’s Pilot Season has rocked. They are all very unique. The worlds that they build are very different and fun then mainstream comics. I am just upset that you have to go online and vote for your favorite one. Because I want to keep reading a

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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog - Act I

Joss Whedon loves super-villians. He also loves musicals. And now he has combined the two, with a large helping of Neil Patrick Harris and a dash of gold cumin, to create Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along blog. The webseries features Mr. Harris as a struggling super-villian with a penchant for singing abou

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Spirit Trailer Leaked

Watch it, fast, before someone takes it down. Or go watch a series of video dating confessionals, because that is what it looks like: A psychedelic dating video.

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Review-a-Day #52: Kasumi

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Heroes: Going Postal, Episode 1

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Brian Lee O'Malley "leaks" a panel from Scott Pilgrim Volume 5 (title forthcoming). It's not a lot to look at but I'm still excited: (It's Ramona!) Check out a ton of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse paintings from 1978-1983 over at Comicrazy's:This man may be an actual superhero:From the Big Pic

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Invincible Lives!

Sort of. Our old pal Invincible is going to be popping up on iTunes, cell phones and even MTV2 as a digitally animated comic. Similar in style to the animated trailers that Marvel did for World War Hulk and DC did for the Young Liars, Invincible will feature the actual comic panels from the book br

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Talking: Hack / Slash #13

Spoiler. Man why aren’t you reading this comic? It is good times people. Cassie survived a slasher (bad guy monster type) and now she and her big partner Vlad hunt down slashers and make them pay. So in this issue we get to see the puppet master behind all the evil wooden creatures. What I lik

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Batman Gotham Knight!!!!!!

Spoiler. Buy this DVD you won’t be disappointed. I really loved all 6 different Batman stories! Batman is a little Manga’ed out. But it is still the same Batman you know and love. Plus Kevin Conroy is Batman! The action is sick, there were a couple moments, when I have to rewind. I said out

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Review-a-Day #51: Batman Contest Winners

Review-a-Day #51: Batman Contest Winners! from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Fan Film: Captain Blasto, Episode 4

More of the extremely well made Captain Blasto:

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Fan Film: Baman Piderman

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Friday Extra: Hellboy Universe

Personally when a really good movie comes out that I'm anticipating I try to immerse myself in the subject matter of the movie.  It really helps give me a renewed sense of creativity and helps to form a more meaningful connection with the (impending) movie.  In the case with Hellboy 2, I've gotte

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Leah Rocks!

  Congratulations to Leah, the winner of our Persepolis Contest.  Pulp Secret's own Jeaux Janovsky has been hard at work assembling all the prize swag.  Seriously, you wouldn't believe the favors he had to perform to get some of this stuff...Recognize the NBot?  You should, it's an origina

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Talking: The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli (Maine is crazy)

Spoiler. OK So yes I was in Maine and I am blogging a little too much about it. But here is a crazy story. (OK maybe crazy is wrong term you decide) I have provided the link below to back up my story. OK so I was in Maine and I see this soda Capt’n Eli then I am in a comic book store and th

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Indy Mogul Forges The Good Samaritan

It's Hellboy week here in the office (not to be confused with Dark Knight week, which is next week).  To celebrate we're doing some awesome Hellboy episodes.  You may have seen our recent Hellboy Spectacular edition of The Stack, but now you need to check out what our brother's at Indy Mogul hav

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Comic Book Club w/ Greg Pak: Father of Hulk Recap

  We've just posted photos from this week's Comic Book Club.  Our guest this week was the Son (or maybe Father) of Hulk, Greg Pak.  Greg has worked on countless Hulk comics for the last several years.  See if you've read any of them:  Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, and now Skaar: Son of Hulk.  G

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

An amazing John Lennon interview from 1969 called I Met the Walrus. The animation is so meticulously done I can imagine them toiling all 39 years, from then until now, working on it. Via A mildly doctored photograph of George Lucas and J.J. Abrams. The only thing they photoshopped was Lucas' hair.Vi

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Day late Pull Time

Thursday is new comic book day, friendly reminder. OK this is what I am going to pick up: - 100 Bullets - Action Comics - Batman Confidential - Berlin - Captain Britain and MI !!!!! - Detective Comics R.I.P. - Drafted - Eternals - Fiction Clemens - GameKeeper - Goon - Green Arro

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Hulk Smash DVD Player

From the Press Release of the upcoming Direct to DVD releases of Hulk Vs. Wolverine and Hulk vs Thor: HULK VS THOR – It's gods versus monsters in this epic 45 minute movie! Never have we explored the explosive power of the Hulk like we have in this new film, every major character from the Marvel T

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San Diego Comic Con Announcement #1

Were gonna be hosting this: Thursday, July 24th: 12:30-1:30 William Katt: Greatest American Hero Comic—Join Alex, Justin, and Pete from Pulp Secret for one of the biggest announcements at this year’s Comic-Con, an event that’s been 25 years in the making. Catastrophic Comics’ William Katt (

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Talking: The Astounding Wolf-Man #7 and Brit #7

Spoiler. Wow, both these comics were really good! Things are getting really intense in the Wolf-man world. His wife and kid are about to leave him. Then his so called boss or teacher Gary, kills Wolf-Man’s wife and then to save her bites her. Then Wolf-Man walks in and Gary is like no it is no

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

A Zombie lawn ornament. Putting this in your neighbors garden is a quick easy way to commit murder because that will scare the bejeezus out of anyone. Via A late entry for Project: Rooftop's Man of Style contest. We just announced the winners yesterday but Dean just put up a bunch more Honorable Me

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Heroes: Going Postal Promo

Words fail me. Get it?

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Review-a-Day #50: Batman - Year 100

Review-a-Day #50: Batman Year 100 from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Coelacanthus #11 Local Maine Comic

Spoiler. So I was on vacation in Maine and I stumbled upon a cool comic book store and the guy who worked their Dave recommended this comic. He said it was by a local guy so I gave it a shot. Turns out he was a fan of Pulp Secret and a nice guy. Plus he had good taste in comics. Like the cove

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Review-a-Day #49: Batman - Harley & Ivy

Review-a-Day #49: Batman - Harley & Ivy from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Review-a-Day #48: Batman - Dark Victory

Review-a-Day #48: Batman - Dark Victory from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Review-a-Day #47: Batman - The Long Halloween

Review-a-Day #47: The Long Halloween from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Hancock is a rental

Spoiler. So I just saw the movie. I can't really blame Will Smith for this movie not being as great as I would have liked. There were some great moments, but over all the movie tries to do too many things. I liked drunk Hancock too much. That was fun and original. A superhero who is tired of bei

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New Harry Potter Photos Posted

  New photos from the set of the most recent installment to the Harry Potter movie franchise have been posted in all their high resolution glory.  For all the fans out there you can be sure that Harry Potter has been ensured a future on the silver screen that will last until you have two

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Review-a-Day #46: Batman - Haunted Knight + Contest!

Review-a-Day #46: Batman - Haunted Knight + Contest! from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Secret History of the Authority Hawksmoor #4

    Spoiler. Well we get to know more about our boy Jack and his love hate relationship with San Francisco. But first we got to see him take down a giant robot. The art and writing in this comic is fantastic! We get most of the back story from the wise yet crazy homeless man named Sal. Da

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Review-a-Day #45: Challengers of the Unknown Must Die!

Review-a-Day #45: Challengers of the Unknown Must Die! from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Almost July 4th Pull Time

  I am going to get: - All Mew Atom- American Splendor- Angel After the Fall- Astonishing X-Men (New Team!)- Astounding Wolf-Man- Batman R.I.P.- Blue Beetle- Boys- Brit- Buffy The Vampire Slayer- Cable-  Fables- FX-  Jonah Hex- Living Corpse-  Punisher war Journal-  Terry Moores Echo- Supergirl

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Eventually everything will be a viral Dark Knight promo campaign.Via Can't get enough Terminus! Via And a couple more images from Craig Thompson's blog. I can't wait to read this book.

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Wall-E - Bone Connection?

I just saw Wall-E last night, what a fantastic movie. Bone fans: Did the cockroach remind any of you of a less talkative Ted the Bug?

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Review-a-Day #44: Wanted, Film to Comic

Review-a-Day #44: Wanted - Film to Comic from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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FOUR Punisher Posters

We've got four new teaser posters from Lions Gate, for The Punisher: War Zone. See if you can spot the differences: