AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 341: Benjamin Percy on building the ‘Percyverse,’ ‘Predator Kills the Marvel Universe’, and Red Band ‘Punisher’

Welcome back to another packed episode of the AIPT Comics Podcast! This week, we’ve got a news lineup that’s as stacked as a summer event checklist! Marvel Knights is back with Jimmy Palmiotti leading a new Daredevil/Punisher series, Marvel’s unleashing a wave of eye-popping InHyuk Lee “Street-Verse” variant covers, and there’s fresh intel on 1776 #1 just in time for America’s 250th anniversary. Plus, we’ve got Hayden Sherman’s teases for the Absolute Universe from FAN EXPO Boston, a Danger Girl Artist’s Edition Kickstarter, the return of Die with Die: Loaded, and Maleficent making a dark comeback from Dynamite.

And stick around, because in our feature interview, writer Benjamin Percy joins us to talk about the brutality and heart of Predator Kills the Marvel Universe, the evolution of Frank Castle in Punisher: Red Band, and his growing corner of hyper-violent Marvel storytelling.

Let’s get into it.

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AIPT Comics Podcast Picks of the Week:

Dave:

1. Cruel Universe 2 #1 (Various)
2. Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #5 (Juni Ba)

Alex:​​

1. Poison Ivy #35 (G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara)
2. One World Under Doom #6 (Ryan North, R. B. Silva)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Alex: Uncanny X-Men #19 (Simone, Marquez)

Dave: Ultimate Wolverine #8 (Chris Condon, Alessandro Cappuccio)

In our Judging by the Cover segment, Dave loves Ivan Shavrin’s Variant Cover for Eddie Brock: Carnage #7, and Alex can’t get enough of Alex Eckman-Lawn and Juan Ferreyra‘s covers for Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1. Check them out below!