u/TheMidnightAss

I was thinking about it recently, and Jack's deepest motivation, even more than his love of Bella was being a monster catcher.

It's his deepest driving force. I don't think he gave as much of a fuck about the wrong or right of his actions or others as much as it was just his inner Capt Ahab needing to constantly catch the next monster.

He goes from case to case, problem to problem, and just tkeeps going bc its his purpose.

Like, he overlooks an absolute megaload of Will Graham doing some insane shit just to lean on him whenever there's a monster he can help him with (plus he gets that will is complicated).

Jack didn't call for backup when he went to confront hannibal the first time. he wanted to throw fisticuffs. Its what truly makes him feel alive. And when he semi lost (hannibal played dead) and got stabbed, he didn't let it go even after his wife died. He flew 10,000 miles to beat Hannibal's ass one more again.

The funny thing is, he seems like the most reasonable one of the lot, but that's because he tries to mostly work within the bounds of what he is supposed to do, and there is less of a "sick" motivation compared to everyone else bc his deepest drive is more or less a net good (unless ur will's brain or chilton).

The thing is, without Hannibal & Jack at opposite ends, I don't know if Alana or Will ends up as corrupted as they did, Miriam Lass, Chilton, Bella, Bedelia, etc. etc.

We've all seen the fan film Thomas Jane made. I am living with a film crew in South America that can do crazy action scenes for very cheap, very well. Rich kids, but very talented, and alot of film school and stunt school friends, and as a consequence, Ive met alot of talented actors down to do side projects for fun.

One of my favorite stupid punisher adjacent stories is Barracuda's South America adventure from Max with Hemo.

I showed it to a few of the film makers, and I told them "imagine if we did this justice". Two of the three heads thought comics were stupid, and the last went and ended up reading it a week or so later. He came back and said "ok, i dont know about do black man-woman in dress, but the rest i like". I told him its essential to the story.

We talked about it over a few days. We could put together a budget knowing we'd make not a single dime back, but itd be a hilarious thing to adapt page for page and it isn't a long story.

My question, would you guys rather see a series of shorts, that do the story in bits, call it 5, 10 minute pieces put out once a month over a few months, or just a whole unofficial thing. And any smoothening/fleshing out of the story or just say fuck it and do an exact adaptation that looks good, has great action, and is funny?

Only like a few thousand people would actually probably like it, idk how large the Max comics fan base is, but it would be hilarious. Also Id likely be canceled for it lmao.