The Spirit of Vengeance...isn't the only one?

Ghost Rider #28 Review
Ole Flamehead has been getting a lot of publicity since Scalped writer Jason Aaron took the helm of the series and it's understandable. I've been reading this volume of Ghost Rider since its mid-teens and man...it was pretty god awful. Now, there's actually stories I want to read about since they seem to be going somewhere. This issue in particular answers some questions that may have been on the mind of any G.R. fan.

Have you ever wondered why the Spirit of Vengeance is only in the USA? Well Aaron answers that by depicting a Tibetan ghost rider by the name of Khrag 'Thung. Unfortunately, this version of the Ghost Rider meets his demise a few panels later at the hands of Danny Ketch, which leads to the main conflict of the issue...Blaze Vs. Ketch.

The two duke it out for a bit until we discover that Ketch has his own Ghost Rider and, undoubtedly, flaming skulls will ensue in the following issues.

There are a couple of little things about issue #28, the first being why is there a blue Ghost Rider when in the comic there is no visual of blue flames? I was really looking forward to some cool blue and red, complimentary color combos but none were to be seen. What gives? The second thing is a much bigger problem. It's cool Marvel decided to add a history of Ghost Rider to the back of the issue but it really sucks they added a dollar onto the price tag too. We could've went without the history but since the reader has no choice, we have to pay the price for the content we didn't even want.

Ghost Rider is finally getting good and I can't wait to see where it goes next.

4/5 stars