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Ghost Rider #1(of 6)
written by Garth Ennis
art & cover by Clayton Crain

Ennis is two for two this month with his slight tweaking of the Ghost Rider world. Here we have GR riding for his soul every day in Hell and every day he fails. But an angel that's fucked up is gonna help bust him out of hell so that he can take care of a demon for him. It'll be a race against time as both Hell's and Heaven's agents are out after this guy.

And Ennis loves to make the good guys look evil. Here he has one angel cause a miscarriage and another one has a kid stick a colored pencil into his eye. You want to talk about issues for these people. It really blurs the line between Heaven and Hell and that's the point but then why is there a heaven and hell even? Eh, this is fun stuff and although my mother wouldn't like the host looking so bad, I think its great stuff. Not that I have anything against them that is, heh.

Crain's work is simply amazing. Just downright beautiful and horrible and all the adjectives you can think of all wrapped into one. His art is simply amazing and this is a definite step up from Carnage vs Venom, as good as that looked. Here he really has more depth to his work. And hey, it takes place in Houston, a real hell hole if I ever saw one.

Rating - Great