In essence, the Punisher has always been a story of retribution - and now former Punisher writer Matthew Rosenberg is taking the lessons he learned about writing a revenge story and applying them to his new Image Comics series, We are taking everyone with us. Frank Castle will stop at nothing to exact retribution for the death of his family; Likewise, Rosenberg's new miniseries blurs the lines between love and revenge.
As first announced by The Hollywood Reporter, We are taking everyone with us reunites Rosenberg with artist Stefano Landini; the duo faced the Punisher together in the mid-2010sushering Frank Castle from a street-level anti-hero into the wider Marvel Universe.
In other words, Rosenberg and Landini know a thing or two about revenge on a grand scale. They're taking all that experience for this new book and pouring it into a thirteen-year-old girl named Annalise, who, like Frank Castle, wants to avenge her fallen family.
Former Punisher creators announce new Indie Comic Revenge saga coming from Image Comics in 2025
We are taking everyone with us #1 – Written by Matthew Rosenberg; Art by Stefano Landini; Available March 26, 2025
After his wife and son were brutally killed, Frank Castle turned his life into a kind of savage vigilante justice by becoming the Punisher. Although much of that time was spent as a lone antihero, using violence to make his way through the criminal underworld, writers Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Landini were instrumental in taking Frank off the streets and onto the bigger superhero stage. Marvel heroes and supervillains. Regardless of how large the scale has grown, the Punisher remains a character rooted in the concept of revenge. Rosenberg and Landini's new miniseries aims to breathe new life into this idea.
As We are taking everyone with us creator explained:
There are so many big motivating factors in stories and the most powerful ones are love and revenge, so when you can have a story that has both... We wanted to do a pretty brutal revenge story that had a lot of love and compassion and see how those ideas touch each other.
Published by Image Comics, We are taking you with us follows young teenager Annalise, whose mad scientist father has just been killed. With only her robot bodyguard to help her, she faces the world's greatest spy and the deep, ingrained ideas of compassion, love, revenge and all the ways in which they intersect. The series combines these themes with a world of futuristic concepts, making it familiar and completely original.and quickly rising to the top of many comic book fans' must-read piles in 2025.
“We’re Taking Everyone With Us” utilizes themes that even the most casual Punisher fans will recognize
A story as old as time
Rosenberg and Landini may have left Marvel behind to create this new series, but any Punisher fan looking for a classic revenge story approached from a new angle will find something to enjoy in the new miniseries. Like Castle, Annalize has to choose between moving on with her life or essentially turning her world upside down in response to her father's death. Coming from two celebrated writers with plenty of experience exploring these heavy themes, Annalise's journey is sure to be unique. Image comics' We are taking everyone with us It's a revenge story, like Punisher, with a purely original vision and world.
Source: Hollywood reporter
We are taking everyone with us #1 will be available March 26, 2025 from Image Comics.