HEAR YE HEAR YE I TOTALLY SAW THE PUNISHER

if I had to guess: she took flak at the time from the studio for the color choices, she mentioned that they made it look like the reference books (which were stylized) and Feige or someone in his office tried to brush it off as "oh, we print those cheaply" as a way of diminishing her choice

imo the color schemes in the movie work well and aren't at all atypical when compared to other stylized comic adaptations that have followed!