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Robbie reyes ghost rider review11/14/2023 ![]() It is almost as if Moore is going for an anime style here, there’s that same kind of dynamism here, and I have to say that I kind of… like it. As I’ve said, Moore’s approach to the comic is extremely stylised, and his characters often appear rather… lean, which is kind of weird. On the art, we have Tradd Moore doing the pencils, with Nelson Daniel and Val Staples doing the colours and VC’s Joe Caramagna doing the letters. Hopefully, we can see more in the following issues. I know that this is only the first issue, but it still stands as a valid point. With Robbie though, we don’t have any of that background. With Johnny, we knew that he’d made a deal with the Devil himself, and thus he didn’t have a choice when he was made into the Ghost Rider. If there is one thing that I didn’t like though, was how and why Robbie transforms. He is trapped in his life, and his brother is trapped nd thus with, and the two of them just want out. Unlike that Ghost Rider, Robbie aspires for something greater, something with more meaning than what he has right now. He is clearly different from Johnny Blaze in many respects, and his attitude to life is one of those things. Smith’s approach means that he eases the readers into the character and in his attitude and way of life, and that in itself is quite important. Marvel #1, but I’m fine with the approach used here. I wish that the transformation here would have been as superbly enjoyable as that of Kamala Khan into Miss Marvel in G. The fact that it is nothing surprising nor different is of little consequence. Smith hits all the right notes though, and he tells the tale competently enough. The story is very straightforward and going from A to B for the reader is an equally straightforward matter as well. It just so happens, unfortunately, that this transformation is a very… bloody one. Robbie Reyes has to become Ghost Rider and for that, he needs to undergo a very specific transformation. After all, there has to be some particular point where the hero turns into a superhero. And where there are cops AND street racing, there are going to be bullets in the end. Of course, where there is street racing, there are cops. Live in the slums of LA isn’t all that good, and the two brothers live a dull life. Where Johnny used to be a stunt bike racer, Robbie is a street racer, struggling to make ends meet since his job as a mechanic doesn’t really pay all that much and he has a brother to take care of. But at the same time, he is also similar. Robbie Reyes reads completely different from how I would expect Johnny Blaze to read. What Smith and Moore have done here is take the “new” in All-New Ghost Rider and run off with it. And Tradd Moore’s art, though very stylised, is also appealing to a degree. ![]() But still, it was an interesting story since Felipe Smith is tasked with setting up the character’s origins. Given how much I avoided reading up on all the new series coming out from Marvel this year, this has been the biggest surprise so far, I think. But, the Ghost Rider in All-New Ghost Rider #1 isn’t Nicholas Cage, it is a teenaged mechanic named Robbie Reyes. There’s something about a leather-wearing superhero with a burning skill, chains all over his body, riding a bike and cackling like a madman.Īnd that’s stuck with me. Which is a very round-about way of saying that the movie was barely good. Unlike other Marvel movies to date, it seemed stuck in an age of storytelling that had long passed. ![]() The first time I ever encountered Ghost Rider was with the Nicholas Cage-starrer movie of the same name.
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