Stunning art and a story that only Garth Ennis could tell! He's paying the price for his deal with the Devil - is the Ghost Rider condemned to ride the highways of Hell for all eternity? His saving grace could be in the form of an unlikely ally - an industrious angel with a deal that would free Ghost Rider once and for all! Collects Ghost Rider #1-6.
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Garth Ennis is the award-winning writer of Hellblazer, Hitman, Punisher, Preacher, Pride and Joy and War Stories. He is much in demand for his hard-edged, wickedly humorous style.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful!,
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This review is from: Ghost Rider: The Road to Damnation (Hardcover)
This is the Ghost Rider as he was always meant to be. He is a forlorn tormented soul whose fading humanity, while dimly present, is tarnished by the hate and brutal violence that only hell could provide. The Ghost Rider is finally correctly typecast as hell's bounty hunter. It is the role he was always meant to fill. And the art in this novel is beautiful. If landscapes in hell can be called beautiful....
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous Art, Average Story, Weak Characters,
This review is from: Ghost Rider: The Road to Damnation (Hardcover)
A brief synopsis: An evil demon named Kazann has escaped Hell and is attempting to unleash Hell on Earth. An angel, Malachi, trying to cover up his mysterious connection to the demon, frees Ghost Rider from Hell to catch and return Kazann to the underworld before bounty hunters from both Heaven and Hell can claim the demon as their own.
The biggest reason to get this book is for the art. Ghost Rider has never looked this good. Also well done is the brief back-story of where Ghost Rider's been as of late. It was better than the typical revamping of the origin story that's used so often when writing a character that's been out-of-action. But as beautiful as the art is, the story and the characters don't take each other seriously and the entire book suffers because of it. Ghost Rider is very naive and constantly asking questions, making him seem a child-type character and not the Spirit of Vengeance that readers love. The characters seem to make light of the entire situation, which is an interesting and different approach to the theme of the book, but ultimately it doesn't work. Ghost Rider and the subject matter he deals with isn't meant to be light-hearted. The finale is also very weak. For something as serious as Kazann has planned, the feeling of danger isn't conveyed by the characters. Another thing, it all ends in a nice, neat little package which didn't fit the story. Overall, The Road to Damnation is a disappointing arc simply because of the lack of character in the characters and the light-hearted tone.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The long hard road out of Hell,
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This review is from: Ghost Rider: The Road to Damnation (Paperback)
Anyone familiar with the tumultuous history of Ghost Rider in comics knows that the character has never been handled particularly well. With the release of the movie starring Nicolas Cage (who I feel is quite miscast; for me, Kurt Russel would have been the best choice to be Johnny Blaze, but I disgress), Marvel is naturally blitzing everything Ghost Rider that they can, beginning with this mini-series released before the current series by Daniel Way. Written by legendary Preacher creator and current Punisher writer Garth Ennis, Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation finds Johnny Blaze trapped in Hell with no chance of escaping. Until he is made an offer by a mysterious angel to return an evil entity called Kazan back to where he came from, and in return, he can be free. So, off he goes, but not before running into a murderous archangel named Ruth, and a demonic, [...] cowboy named Hoss. If you're an Ennis fan, you'll be happy to find his trademark dark humor throughout this TPB, as well as his stabs at religion and violent absurdity. You'll also find Ennis making many stabs at the character of Blaze himself; fully showing off just how gullible he is. The best part of Road to Damnation is undoubtadly the stunning artwork of Clayton Crain; whose bloody CGI-esque renderings are simply mouth watering. Not to mention that for a book not under Marvel's mature themed MAX line (or even the Marvel Knights line), Road to Damnation features a boat load of gore and mature content that came as a surprise to me. If there's any downsides to the TPB, it's that it ends too quickly, and some of the dialogue is far from the best to come from Ennis. That aside, Road to Damnation is probably one of the best takes on Ghost Rider in recent memory, and whether you're a fan of the character or Ennis, you should give this a look.
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