Synopsis & Review by Nick Summers:
Synopsis: The Punisher returns from a mission and is hurt, he asks his assistant Micro for help. They talk and Micro says it's better for Frank to take some time off and go on a vacation or something, he says he's already got him tickets to Africa where he can relax a little. Frank has no choice but to go. Meanwhile in Texas, a hunter stares at his collection of shot animals. In Kongo, locals are running away from something. In South-East Asia, with Wolverine. He finds a man and notices his clothes, made from an animal who was forbidden to hunt. He asks where he got it he gets scared Wolverine says to take off his clothes and decides to go to Afrika as well. At the same appartment where the Punisher stays, a man asks to his familiy if they've got enough money left to go to Texas? Frank arrives in Africa and befriends the locals and a doctor. He tries to get some sleep but due to the rain he can't. When he wakes up he hears a shot and sees army men helping the locals out. Punisher decides to help them as well as he hears that they're after hunters. Later on he finds more local injured and decides to check it out.
Skip over to Wolverine who's having some fun with a monkey. He hears a growl and sees the Punisher fighting with a bear, killing it. Wolverine rushes in trying to stop him, Frank says it was only self-defense, Wolverine says still doesn't necesarely and a fight comes up. Wolverine pushes Punisher into a river he gets almost killed by a crocodile, but manages to free himself and does an Indiana Jones sketch. When he makes it to shore Wolverine is gone and Frank wants revenge. Meanwhile Wolverine goes further into the jungle. Meanwhile, the locals are up to themselves as they discovered some men from Texas are out. The Punisher has found Wolverine and a rematch finds place. Punisher shoots him, but then Punisher's friends stop the fight and ask for their help. Then some general shoots at a girl says everything was a setup and stuff. Wolverine leaves, Punisher says to let him go as he isn't an enemy right now. Wolverine and Punisher leave and go home, when Frank arrives he gets a letter from Logan says he took care from things in Texas so he doesn't have to do it anymore. Punisher decides what to do next.
Review: Weird story. Though not really being a team-up, as it was almost never the case between Wolverine and The Punisher, it was still nice. Though their's too many lines in the story that you sometimes don't quit understand it, and just skip them and just look at the art, but becides that the story goes on. Guess this story was just ment to let readers now it's forbidden to hunt wild animals, or hurt them, but what the ****, we just go a nice roundup story between two beloved heroes.
Though I don't know much about the Punisher, I don't think that this is quit the way to write him in a story. I just thought he was some guy taking out bad guys and crimegangs, guess by reading this story I was wrong. Or was Frank at those days more of an anti-hero like it was popular to do back then, like with Venom from the Spider-Man comics? Ah, who cares it was still nice to see him fighting Wolverine, those scenes were the best drawned ones and most fun too.
Well, the story's over now, Wolverine appears next into Wolverine (vol. 1) #24, and of course in the monthly Uncanny issues.