Issue(s): Punisher: Blood on the Moors
Cover Date: Dec 91
Title: "Blood on the moors"
Credits:
Alan Grant & John Wagner - Writer
Cam Kennedy - Penciler
Cam Kennedy - Inker
Richard Ashford - Assistant Editor
Nel Yomtov - Editor

Review/plot:
Ok, Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy, we get it: you're Scottish. You made that abundantly clear with Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD #11. That doesn't mean you can only write stories about characters going to Scotland.

Although i guess it's fine to see a New York super-character learning about the local cuisine.

The local pastimes.

The local fighting techniques.

And the local execution methods.

The story has the Punisher pursuing a group of drug distributors. Their plan is to smuggle cocaine by putting it in whiskey, which will then be extracted when it gets through customs at the other end.

While he's in Scotland, the Punisher is captured by the local police, who express some sympathy for what he does (but still get punched in the face).

He also winds up teamed up with the local equivalent of a super-hero, a guy called the Clansman, who is supposed to be the ghost of a medieval Scottish warrior called Red Ian.

But he is really the police officer that was sympathetic to the Punisher earlier. He has found the magical sword of Red Ian.

The Clansman is killed in this story. But the Punisher puts his sword back at Red Ian's grave, where presumably another hero could find it. Seems like something Paul Cornell might have used for Captain Britain and MI13 or something, if he had been aware of it.

If you're worried about the drug dealers, the Punisher shoots them all. But you knew that.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A