Storyline: Revelations, Part 1 (of 6)
Date: October, 2007
Price:$2.99 US / $3.75 CAN
Writer: Daniel Way
Artist: Javier Saltares

Synopsis:  The final confrontation between Ghost Rider and Lucifer begins here! Ghost Rider, now back in control after Johnny has (once again) proven himself to be…not so good at it, has begun his brutal final march toward Lucifer’s ultimate destruction. But should the fate of the mortal world—and possibly the immortal world—be entrusted to a vengeful spirit bonded to the soul of an ex-carnival performer? Heaven doesn’t think so.

Opinion: Sigh.  This is one of those books where you find yourself about midway through checking the cover to see how much you exactly spent on such a piece of junk.  Look, I understand that the publishers need to drag things out, they need content for issues to keep the series’ numbers going up and to make their ad profit for each and every issue.  I really do understand - but what happened to quality?  Doesn’t anyone at any point ever stop and ask ‘what the hell are we selling?’.

The fact of the matter is, Ghost Rider is an icon - he is by far one of the coolest characters in comics, only in theory - in practice he just seems to always become a novelty.  A flaming skull and leather and a motorcycle, how much more novel does it get?  The problem is,  those of us who want some substance from our characters, well, we constantly feel let down.

Number 14 is the first part of a story arch, but barely anything progresses, and everything that does happen doesn’t make any sense.  To me, this makes a comic worthless, and the last I saw, there weren’t any ads for Milk or Honda or whatever else is paying Marvel inside Trade Paperbacks.   So yeah - let’s push readers to stop buying the titles monthly and only read trades because our issues do not deliver on story quality.  Then what happens?

I’ll tell you - the guy who’s getting issues in his pull file of your monthly title and doesn’t question the $3 on a classic character’s series finally gets fed up and stops buying your title.   Then the title gets cancelled, then you don’t have a place to sell ads.

This one goes on the toilet paper o-meter  for sure - I think I will stop buying this title after issue 15.  I’m not invested in the storyline at this point and so part 2 of ‘Revelations’ better do the trick, or this one’s out the door.  Besides, outside of Garth Ennis’s take on the Ghost Rider revival, Ghost Rider Volume 3 has been lackluster at best.

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