Today’s Marvel/Netflix panel at San Diego Comic-Con was mostly about The Defenders, with the surprise premiere of the first episode of that team-up show and the news that member Iron Fist is getting a second season of his own series. But Jon Bernthal also showed up just long enough to unveil a clip from his upcoming solo Punisher series.

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The clip featured the tortured Frank Castle that made him so popular when this version of the character debuted in Daredevil Season 2. It started with images of Castle remembering teaching his daughter how to play the guitar, interspersed with shots of the modern-day Frank playing alone, but then suddenly yelling or slumped on the floor or rubbing his head -- just generally devastated.Of course, it’s those ghosts that drive him on his mission, which is what the remainder of the clip portrayed as we see him taking out various bad guys -- apparently different arms of the same drug-dealing ring. In one case, he’s in rural Alabama pursuing a couple of bikers in his van. He takes them out with a few shots before running them over for good measure. Next we cut to Juarez, Mexico, where a dude is flashing money and cavorting with a hooker. Frank watches through his gun sights, and then we suddenly hear the POP of a single shot. But for a beat, nothing happens… and then suddenly the guy’s head is splattered in blood. And the camera cuts to reveal that Castle took the shot from really, really far away.The last victim of the Punisher’s ministrations is a slimy guy in a suit, who has the unfortunate luck to run into Frank in an airport bathroom back at JFK in New York City. Castle kicks his way into the bathroom stall where the guy is, as the suit begs him and says that killing him isn’t going to bring Frank’s family back. Frank is unmoved, however, and he chokes the guy to death with his own tie. Meanwhile, some other men in the bathroom are grossed out by the noises coming from the stall and yell “get a room, you dirty bastards!”All in all, this extended clip didn’t tell us too much about the show’s story other than to remind us that Frank Castle is still out there punishing in the Marvel Netflix world. If you’re a Punisher fan, then that should make you pretty happy.The Punisher Season 1 is expected to debut later this year.

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