Redemption and sympathy: The Orlando Sentinel reviews Garth Ennis' Pride and Joy:

"It's ultimately a story of redemption, a common theme for Ennis dating back to his work on Preacher. Pride and Joy, however, is a great deal more grounded, free of any supernatural sidelines or religious musings. It's also one of the author's most mature stories. Fans of The Punisher's over-the-top bloodletting should know that this is a story about family with violence as a backdrop and not the other way around. Admittedly, there is an obligatory disembowelment and an empathetically painful knifing, but this is Garth Ennis. For anyone who's gotten through his later stuff, Pride and Joy will seem incredibly tame.