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Superstar writer Jason Aaron's searing take on the Spirit of Vengeance finds Johnny Blaze facing off against the forces of heaven itself in an epic saga that sends Ghost Rider down a blazing new road! When the rogue angel Zadkiel tries taking over the world' Ghost Riders--that's right, there's more than one!--Blaze and his flame-headed alter ego are in for the fight of their lives! Featuring the return of the OTHER Ghost Rider, Danny Ketch, in a team-up you never imagined and a showdown that had to happen! Strap in for a tale of insanity jam-packed with new villains, old No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The character was revived in the 90s as part of the grim 'n' gritty nadir of mainstream comics, steered to oblivion by Howard Mackie, the man responsible for some of the worst excesses of superhero dross in that woeful, must-be-forgotten decade.
There have been a couple of attempts to revive the title since, but nothing that particularly stuck until writer Daniel Way was given the character to relaunch a few years back. Way's approach brought a couple of intriguing hooks, most notably (and controversially) that Zadkiel, the demon behind Johnny Blaze's powers, was actually a renegade angel, making Ghost Rider a servant of heaven, not hell. However, though Way's book was fun in places, it was also quite a light and fast read. I never felt he nailed it. Enter Jason Aaron... and let the madness begin.
Using Way's renegade angel concept as a springboard, Aaron let's his imagination run wild, throwing in sexy kung fu nuns, demonic truck drivers, serial killers, chain gang thugs and a whole host of alternate religion Ghost Riders (since Blaze works for the Christian version of the deity, wouldn't it be cool if there was also be a Hindu Ghost Rider and a Buddhist Ghost Rider etc.?) He re-introduces a clutch of "classic" GR villains too, giving them an amusing, irreverent spin - most notably The Orb, who I always loved as a kid because his head is one giant eyeball, and who, under Aaron's watch, becomes a hyperactive chatterbox heading towards for a painful splinter...
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