This is a pretty cool story-arc. But then again, with Garth Ennis writing it, what did you expect? Then on top of that, we got Clayton Crane doing the art, and I do mean art. And of course one of the coolest characters out there, Ghost Rider. Well . . . a version thereof anyways. But you know what I mean. So all around this should be a hit book. And it probably is. The opening page, with our band of bad guys riding across the plain, in a rain-storm, and the clouds and lightning in the background, was sheer perfection. Basically what happening now is that our anti-hero is picking off the gang one by one. The really gruesome part about this issue, is where we see one of the guys, who isn't dead yet, but, he might as well be because he's immobile and the buzzards are already starting to feed off of him. Ewww! I gotta say, the way the story was reading, I was pretty sure that Parham was the Ghost Rider. I figured that he made some kind of deal with the devil to get out of the war alive. I'm sure he's not the only one who thought about it. But now . . . I'm leaning towards Caleb. I think something happened when George Reagan and his gang attacked Caleb's farm and killed his family. I think that's where this version of the Ghost Rider was created. But at the end of this issue, it seems as if there's some other kind of force moving in. Whatever it is, it's being preceded by a cloud of red fog. Overall an interesting issue. We learn a little more about our participants, on both sides. And we get to see some amazing artwork by Clayton. If you want to see how much this guy has improved, just look at the art from the first Ghost Rider mini that he did, and compare it to this one. World of difference.
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