![]() Do you get your inspiration more from movies or television or just from people around you in Croatia? : What sort of approach did you take on character design for this book? It takes place in both the past and the present with soldiers in Vietnam who are later seen as veterans. I used it a lot while working on The Terminator. Something like The Punisher meets “Mad Max 2,” one of my all-time favorite movies.Īctually, now I remember… I had a small endoskeleton model that I borrowed from my friend. And my dream would be a Punisher book with lots of cars. I really like that car, but it was way before I bought the actual model. The Dodge Charger, I used it in my Terminator book. I did a variation of that rocket in my Starlight book. And a Tin Tin rocket model! Two of them! A bigger one and a smaller one. The only models I have are one Dodge Charger from “The Dukes of Hazzard” and a Ford Capri, a car owned by my father and still in my garage. Or, at least not really focused on work.Īs for weapon models, etc., I don’t have them. Think I would feel uncomfortable having one in my studio. ![]() : Do you use in-person models or get your hands on physical objects for reference? So I render the things in my head and draw them from the angle I want. I have the exact image in my head, and I don’t want to change the image just because the object on a photo is taken from a different angle. Happens that I always have to draw an object from a slightly different angle than it is on a photo, so that excludes copying the photo. It’s rare for me to find a photo that is exactly what I need. I use photo references a lot, but I don’t copy them. Goran Parlov: No, I never had that habit. : Do you use a mirror or photo reference of yourself? The important part is not to observe comic books only. How do you achieve that? Is it purely out of your imagination and sketching? So here he doesn’t carry that frustration with him. Goran Parlov: This is a Frank Castle before the “anger.” Before his family has been killed. : This is a pre-Punisher Frank Castle, so what sets him apart from his skull-wearing future self? But I always like to use those immediate emotions that the script gives me. ![]() Yeah, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I am disgusted, some other time it’s something else. If I read the whole script, later I would only remember the emotions from when I first read it, not really feeling them. And the emotions it gives me in that moment, I put them on the page right away. This way I allow the script to surprise me. I read it as any other reader, page by page, day after day. If I am the first to laugh, I know many others will too. Goran Parlov: It is very positive thing for me. How do you translate that reaction on your part onto the page? : You mentioned that you often laugh when reading Garth’s scripts. Maybe the fact that I’d been working on the Terminator books right before I started my run on the PUNISHER MAX had some influence on me. Yeah, I am a big fan of the Terminator and it was just easy for me to adapt the things from the movies into the Punisher books. Frank, in my version, acts like the Terminator, thinks like him, walks like him.įrank is the Terminator for me. Wow, thats’s it, you just freeze! It’s even better when the endoskeleton does that. I took that from “The Terminator.” The way Arnie stares at us, with that red eye. I love his steady, emotionless face, but with eyes that burn – the stare that scares you. He works in binary code, 1 or 0, plus or minus…guilty or not guilty, as simple as that. He’s all business, emotionless… Or at least it appears so. Matter of fact, in the first issues I pictured him as the Terminator. Goran Parlov: I love the fact that he acts like a robot – the Terminator. : What is it about Frank Castle and his world that keeps capturing your imagination as an artist? ![]() We talked with Parlov about tackling each script, drawing inspiration from everyday life and constructing a pre-Punisher Frank Castle. Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov plan to explore these facets of Frank even further in the pages of the long-awaited, PUNISHER: THE PLATOON, debuting in October. Surrounded by blood and death, the man who would become the Punisher witnessed the cruelty and awfulness the world had to offer, but also the power of violence. Before the skull, Frank Castle shipped off for Vietnam where his life changed forever. ![]()
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