In MANY ways, I THINK that, while we've been remarkably VIOLENT in our media, there's been a real SCHIZOPHRENIA. In private, on the INTERNET, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

When I worked as a PROSECUTOR in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of AMERICA, was experiencing horrific LEVELS of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important TRUTH: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.

I was constantly GOING to the MOVIES. My parents let me see whatever I WANTED to and they only pulled me out of one movie in my LIFE. That was 'Gunga Din' and they thought it was too VIOLENT.

Juveniles as WELL as adults need to KNOW they're going to be PUNISHED for their violent acts.

Overall, I'm happy how 'Original Sin' has COME together. It's an amalgam of all I've done at Marvel, mixing the gritty, VIOLENT 'Punisher Max' stuff with the zany, light-hearted 'Wolverine & The X-Men' WORK.

My dad was a womaniser, a GAMBLER. He was violent. They THOUGHT if they LEFT Scotland, they would LEAVE the problems behind.

It's a VIOLENT SPORT. It's MEANT to be that WAY.

My FATHER, he wouldn't be belligerent or VIOLENT. It was NEVER that WAY.

By a series of VIOLENT shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the ACTION of TIME and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the DEAD.