A New Ghost Rider Series
mwhitt80
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I was looking at CBR the other day and came across an article that stunned me a little.
"All-New Ghost Rider" by Felipe Smith & Tradd Moore
They claim Marvel announced this series at NYCC, but I never saw it. Heck I made a joke about Ghost Rider being in Thinderbolts.
Now unlike the previous series by Rob Williams (which blew); I'm interested in this. The preview art seems interesting and the story concept sounds pretty strong.
They are bringing in a Ghost Rider with no John Blaze connection (similiar to vol 2s first 15 issues), and making Mr. Hyde the first villian (an early Dan Ketch villian). The new Ghost Rider is a latino kid from lower LA and he drives a flaming muscle car.
It has potential to be a pretty decent GR series
"All-New Ghost Rider" by Felipe Smith & Tradd Moore
They claim Marvel announced this series at NYCC, but I never saw it. Heck I made a joke about Ghost Rider being in Thinderbolts.
Now unlike the previous series by Rob Williams (which blew); I'm interested in this. The preview art seems interesting and the story concept sounds pretty strong.
They are bringing in a Ghost Rider with no John Blaze connection (similiar to vol 2s first 15 issues), and making Mr. Hyde the first villian (an early Dan Ketch villian). The new Ghost Rider is a latino kid from lower LA and he drives a flaming muscle car.
It has potential to be a pretty decent GR series
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I didn't hate the last try at Ghost Rider, the first handful of issues were decent, it kind of lost it's way after that unfortunately.
I just don't know about a car. The motorcycle is almost as much of the character as the flaming skull.
And car racing has definitely been hot in pop culture the last few years (certainly more than motorcycles). Seems a smart move.
Aaron also gave us the awesome "Bandit" Ghost Rider (he drove a flaming Black Trans Am) that introduced the car Ghost Rider.
Speaking of which: how do you make a dead baby float?
The previous series basically ignored what happened in the Way/Aaron series. This seems like it is going to follow up on some of the ideas, and I think the art they've shown of the new GR is interesting and fits a latino kid from gang ridden lower LA
[Edit: Just looked a little closer, and the first image is someone else. But the second and third images are Tradd.]
I have never seen the appeal of the character in any format.
Hell, I think D-Man is less ridiculous.
Otherwise... I have questions about the practicality of a car based hero.
1. Being in the car cuts him off from the outside world. Does he stick his head out the window to shout at villians? Honk menacingly?
2. Leaving the car to confront bad guys defeats the purpose of his car all together, then it's just a cool ride for a guy who's stuck on foot a whole lot. But what does he do when a guy goes down a narrow alley, or the the 5th floor of a building? Or on a boat.
3. Where does he park? Does he have to worry about tickets? What happens if he locks his keys in his car?
A motorcycle just felt more plausible when it came to including it in unlikely places, and it allowed GR to interact with the world around him.
The intake on the skull is pretty badass though.
As long as how he gets there and looks rad in doing so the story should be awesome. I can't imagine riding riding a flaming car that can do hellfire things a problem. The Ghost Rider kicks tail off his bike or car. His flaming skull on a bike just looks way cooler than Cap waiting on the Quinn Jet to land.