France's favorite Punisher comic writer is
Chuck Dixon. France told
Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of
them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action,
but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from
one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some
information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War
Journal.'".