Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Ghost Rider #29 - Marvel


Johnny finally learns this issue of all of the horror that Danny has perpetrated in the name of Zadkiel. I do have one question here though, Danny has been going around and killing all these other Ghost Riders around the world. I'm not sure if the all call themselves Ghost Riders, but they're all Spirits of Vengeance. Anyways, he's been killing them and absorbing their powers. I assume that's why he decides to make a play against Johnny . . he feels like he's at the point where he's strong enough to do so . . he has a chance of beating him. But he's doing all of this for Zadkiel. Has it not occurred to him that there's going to come a point where Zadkiel feels that he's absorbed enough of the others and decide that he wants all of that power for himself? Has Danny asked himself, what happens to him when Zadkiel is strong enough that he no longer needs him? Will he go walking home, powerless and bewildered? Or, will Zadkiel just cast him aside . . throw him away like a used tampon . . and maybe kill him as an example? Either way, I don't think Danny has a very bright future in front of him. Anyways, this issue Danny and Johnny go at it "Mano-e-Mano". Well . . kind of. It's actually more like penance stare against penance stare. But that wouldn't be a very exciting book if they just stood there staring each other down. Sure there would be the fight going on in their heads . . on the psychic plane, but . . as an outsider . . it would look like there were just 2 guys who burst into flames and then were standing there watching each other burn. How stupid would that look? Anyways, Danny's done a lot of wrong in his life, but he doesn't really care. While Johnny is filled with remorse and guilt . . sometimes, I think, survivors guilt. So when Danny subjects him, it's not long before he's just ready to give up. "Yes. Yes. Take it . . please. Just take it away." Luckily Sara is close by and she snatches him up to pull him out of his self degradation. "No. Leave me. Get out of here . . . . NO! No, take it away! NOOOOO!" He kind of sounds like a little whiny bitch at the end there. Sara whisks him away and holes him up in Nepal for the next several days while she tries to talk the fight back into him. But, as usual, the fight comes to him. Two of the Nepalese Ghost Riders come bursting into his room, "You and Mr. Blaze had best come with us . . . or else there'll soon be nothing left in all the world that you might still call Holy." I like the story that Jason Aaron is constructing here. I think there's more than a few leaps in logic, but . . we are dealing with Heavenly and Hellish powers here so . . I guess there's got to be some room for a little latitude. I'm also appreciating Tan Eng Huat's art. I don't think he's necessarily the best artist, but . . he is unique. And he brings a unique feel and look to this book. Plus, I think his style works out perfectly with the frantic, desperate nature of this story. I enjoyed his scenes between Johnny and Danny here. It seems he's been given a lot of artistic license, and . . it's paying off. I'm just wondering, where's Lucifer in all of this? He's got to still have his hooks in Johnny a little bit . . . right? Anyways, I thought it was a good issue.

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