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New set of Marvel's The Punisher Behind-The-Scenes Photos reveal Billy Russo's new face!

Jun 5, 2018

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While I was knee deep in frustration trying to migrate my site to a new host, a gallery of Marvel’s The Punisher behind the scenes photos leaked online revealing a close up of Ben Barnes’ version of Billy Russo and his newly scarred face!

And here’s a BTS video showing Billy in action.

SPOILER ALERT! Behold Jigsaw! #punisher #thepunisher #marvel #netflix pic.twitter.com/XPedAT1kkv

— The Punisher HQ (@PunisherHQ) May 30, 2018

To be honest I freaking love this version of Jigsaw! In my opinion, he’s far better than what he looks like in the comics over the years and in The Punisher War Zone 2008 film starring Ray Stevenson as The Punisher. But of course, some people, who are longtime fans of The Punisher, are a little bit upset that this version of Billy does not resemble his comic book counterpart or the 2008 film version. Others, on the other hand, believe that this may not be the final design of Jigsaw’s appearance. And that they are planning on adding some CGI animation to Billy’s face come post-production time when the filming of Season 2 wraps up which will occur sometime in Mid-August.
There is one problem, though. There are no dots found on Jigsaw’s face that gives the viewer any indications that Billy’s face will be edited with CGI to add more scars to the face than what is shown in the photos. Adding CGI animation to anything in films and TV shows are very expensive to do, costing movie makers millions of dollars to do the work. So, it is likely that they will resort to either adding more makeup to Billy’s face or just leave him as he is and make Punisher disfigure Jigsaw’s face some more in the climax of Season 2 perhaps.
According to the comics and in the 2008 film, Jigsaw’s face was put back together by a group of amateur doctors at a back alley hospital clinic which explains why Jigsaw’s face is grossly disfigured. You won’t see anything like that in the Punisher series because it looks like Billy’s face has been repaired by a group of highly professional plastic surgeons after what Frank has done to it at the climax of Season 1.
But all those plastic surgeons will never be able to bring back Jigsaw’s face to what it was before Frank disfigured it. And that leads Billy with only one option to take – swear to get even with Frank and make him pay for what he did to his face, which he will try to do in Punisher Season 2 when it premieres on Netflix sometime in either late 2018 or early 2019!

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Sherry Konkus lives in Owosso, MI. She is the proud owner of the Camac Athena EX Concert Grand Harp named “Grover” and Camac Mademoiselle named “Ernie.” She’s also the proud author of The Punisher Harp Zone. Sherry is the one who came up with the idea of portraying The Punisher from Marvel Comics as the punishing harpist who plays the harp in memory of his family who was killed by the mob years ago.

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Why does The Punisher play the harp?

It’s easy to imagine The Punisher shooting up criminal hideouts and blowing off the heads of thugs and mob bosses as the ultimate punishment for their crimes. But it’s hard to imagine (and believe) that there is also very gentle side to The Punisher no one knows about except for The Defenders (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist), Microchip (aka David Linus Liberman), and Spider-man (aka Peter Parker) who actually saw and became amazed at him doing something no one has ever thought he could do with his violent hands– play the harp. A gentle stringed musical instrument no one could ever believe that The Punisher would have such talent and ability to use his otherwise destructive hands to gently and tenderly pluck and caress its strings.

Indeed, it’s very hard to imagine and believe that the Punisher’s violent hands that brake bones, strangle necks, and punch out guts are the very same hands that softly and tenderly pluck, caress, and gracefully sweep across the strings of the harp.

Why does he do it, you asked? Because Frank is doing this in memory of his family whom he communes with through songs, poems, and prayers as he gracefully wave his battle-scarred arms and hands across the strings to fill his private family shrine with harp music that moves The Punisher to joyful tears.

Where did the Idea of The Punisher and his Harp come from?

It’s a concept I, Sherry Konkus made up myself. It combines my new found obsession with The Punisher that I had since 2014 and my life long love for the harp. It is the very best concept I ever made. This is my version of The Punisher from Marvel Comics who is portrayed by me as the punishing harpist who plays the harp in memory of his late family who got killed by a criminal mob years ago and whenever he needs a break from waging a one man war against organized crime.

The Punisher was created by Gerry Conway with the help of artists John Romita, Sr. and Ross Andru. His name coined by Stan Lee. The Punisher is owned and trademarked by MARVEL.

The idea, concept, and inspiration behind The Punisher’s portrayal as The Punishing Harpist who plays the harp in memory of his family is in fact my own. Sweetest. Idea. Ever.

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New set of Marvel's The Punisher Behind-The-Scenes Photos reveal Billy Russo's new face!