Review Evil Dead / Army of Darkness.

Before I begin my review on the pile of awesomeness that consist the Evil Dead, I would like to take a minute of your time and apologize for the absence of…. Everything, no short stories, no reviews, nothing new, on my blog for the past week.

  

I am sorry.

It was (and still is) completely unprofessional from my part to simply do nothing for a whole week, there isn’t a specific reason that kept me from writing, but even if there was one, I should at least notify with a post. I didn’t and for that I apologize again.

Back on the review. 

 

 My first face to face encounter with Ash was about 5 – 6 years ago. I stumble upon him from pure luck on a crossover that he had with MARVELS Zombie Earth

“Zombies Superheroes? I say what a MARVELous idea”

(also known as Earth – 2149, because fuck yeah). I read it. I dint like it or dislike it, mostly ignore it.

The reason for that strange behavior was that at that time I hadn’t watch the three movies that consist the begin of this epic journey.

 

Yeap those are the ones.

I say begin because it does continue in the comic and pretty faithfully at the spirit of the movies I must say (well at least the most parts).

The story begins few months after the end of the third movie. Ash has managed to return at his timeline along with his girlfriend from the past, and gets attacked by the zombies right away, he kills them all and ends up in mental institution, because zombies? Yeah right you nutjob!

  You psychotic nutjob!

Long story short he escapes, saves the world by stoping another attempt of the old gods to enter our world, in the process he also ruins the experiments of the Reanimator (another character from horror films as wikipedia informs us). His girl dies in the process but he gets yet again a new one.

See for your self’s if you don’t trust me.

Then he goes back to the cabin in the woods, after that he fights Dracula (yes that one), then he dies and goes to the Marvel Zombie Earth were he dies again? No! The Ash of that earth dies (Ashley G. Williams) while the regular Ash (Ashley J. Williams) lives on (all explained in 3 hectic and needlessly confusing pages).

He finally escapes from that hellhole to end up in the All-Werewolf Marvel universe.

Some crossovers follow with Xena (yes he meets Autolucus and he gets to have sex with Gabriele), Darkman,what? Fredy and Jason? Fredy vs Jason vs Ash?

Fredy vs Jason vs Ash.

Fuck yeah

in a run so awesome that it became a movie? (haven’t seen the movie).

At some point he finally returns to his world. A world flied with possessed persons and zombies and all kind of horrors, in a society that has been completely destroyed, leveled to the ground by…. Ashs evil duplicate.

Now he, The Chosen One has to gather allies to aid him in his fight against the evil monster that he is (or his evil other self is). Also (and most importantly) that happens…

 Just so you know, I happen to find it extremely funny.

Now that’s a nice and beautiful panel.

The story goes on and on and it’s an excellent one. We get hints for “The Chosen One” or “Ones” meet new characters and learn more thinks about the Necronomikon. I really don’t want to make any more spoilers so I cut it here.

Conclusions: READ IT NOW! If you have already read it, READ IT AGAIN!

P.s.: There is word on the street (I mean wikipedia) that a new EVIL DEAD movie is being made, from a movie to a comic to a movie again? one can only hope. 

 When your oun hand gives you the finger....

shit got serious

Ο Ζάλοκ και ο κοντός. Μέρος 1ο

Ή ώρα ήταν τέσσερεις μετά τα μεσάνυχτα. Ο Ζάλοκ πετάχτηκε από τον ύπνο και χτύπησε το κεφάλι του σε ένα από τα δοκάρια τις αποθήκης, ένα λουτρό βομόλοχιων που θα έκανε τους δασκάλους του (θαμώνες του πανδοχείου επί το πλείστον και με τον κάπελα να κάνει δίνει τις δικές του δημιουργικές παρεμβάσεις κατευθυνόμενες στον ίδιο ανά τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα) περήφανους ξεχύθηκε από το στόμα του. Προσπάθησε να θυμηθεί την τον ξύπνησε όταν το ξανάκουσε. Κάποιος κοπάναγε (ήταν πολύ δυνατός ήχος για να χτυπάει απλά) την πόρτα του πανδοχείου. Κατέβητε από το πατάρι του στάβλου και πήγε στον μπόγο με τα πράγματα του για να πάρει το ξίφος του. Μια κρυφή ελπίδα φούντωνε μέσα του ότι στην πόρτα θα έβρισκε ληστές που θα πολέμαγε και τότε δόξα και πλούτη θα ήταν δικά του! χώρια που δεν θα χρώσταγε ποια στον κάπελα.

Δύο λεπτά μετά με το σπαθί στον χέρι πλησίαζε προσεκτικά την πόρτα, από τα γύρο σπίτια ίδι ακούγονταν φωνές και παράπονα για την φασαρία, καθώς και μερικές προτάσεις για το τι ακριβός έπρεπε να κάνει αυτός που χτύπαγε τη πόρτα καθώς και ο πιο στενός του οικογενειακός κύκλος. Τα χτυπήματα σταμάτησαν και μια βαριά και τραχιά φωνή με έντονη προφορά άρχισε να απαντά. Ο ηρωικός μας βάρβαρος κοίταξε πίσω από την γωνία του πανδοχείου σίγουρος ότι θα έβλεπε καμιά εικοσαριά άτομα με έναν γίγαντα για αρχηγό. Η πραγματικότητα ήταν όπως πάντα λίγο απογοητευτική. Ήταν ένας άνθρωπος μόνο. Κοντός. Πολύ κοντός.

Με ένα στεναγμό άφησε το σπαθί να γέρνει στο τοίχο του πανδοχείου και πλησίασε τον μουσαφίρη, ο οποίος μόλις τον είδε σταμάτησε να φωνάζει και γύρισε και τον περίμενε με τα χέρια σταυρωμένα στο στήθος.

-                          εμ πως θα μπορούσαν να σας…

-                          Δωμάτιο και φαΐ.

-                          Ναι αλλά βασικά είμαστε κλειστά και ο κάπελας δεν είναι εδώ…

Ξανά διακόπηκε από τον επισκέπτη του. «Δεν με νοιάζει, ε, ουφ» ανάμικτα συνθήματα πέρασαν από το πρόσωπο, του κύριος κούραση και απογοήτευση, συγνώμη αυτό βγήκε λάθος, άκου φίλε, είναι αργά, πεινάω και πονάω σε σημεία που δεν θα έπρεπε, με ληστέψανε πριν από δυο μέρες και από τότε τα νεύρα μου είναι λίγο τεντωμένα, έχω κάποια λεφτά που τους ξέφυγαν και πολύ λίγη υπομονή, μπορείς να κάνεις κάτι;».

            Ο νεαρός τον κοίταξε, δεν τον κοίταξε όπως κοιτάς στην καθημερινότητα σου κάτι, απλά βλέποντας Τι είναι, αλλά το κοίταξε όπως κοιτάς κάτι όταν θες να δεις Πώς είναι. Κατέληξε ότι ο συγκεκριμένος κύριος είναι μάλλον ειλικρινής.   

-   Έλα μαζί μου, έχω κάτι στο στάβλο να φας και μπορείς να κάτσεις να ξεκουραστείς μέχρι να έρθει ο γέρος.

            Ο σύντομα-πελάτης έγνεψε καταφατικά.

-   Ευχαριστώ μικρέ. Πώς σε λένε;

-   Ζάλοκ ο Γενναίος.

Τα φρύδια του σηκώθηκαν ανεπαίσθητα και ένα χαμόγελο αχνοφάνηκε.

-   Ο Γενναίος ε; μάλιστα, το όνομα μου είναι Βαρθολομαίος, Βαρθολομαίος Ολντμποουν, να το θυμάσαι αυτό το όνομα μικρέ, να το θυμάσαι.

Review on Anita Blake Vampire Hunter.

Hi people!

Today’s review will be slutly different than usually (pun intended).

The reason for that is because today I will walk us through the book series of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter.

The comic will be brought up later on.

Let my tale you something first though.

I was really intrigued when I decide to make a review for this books, one reason was that I wanted to comment on some think other than a comic, another that I liked the series, but a number of issues aroused.

The first was that I was about to criticize another writer, one that I admire, one that is better than me in every possible way, Laurell K. Hamilton.  

 You can find info on her here and here.

I decide to go with it because this isn’t as much as a criticism (Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in an intelligible (or articulate) way, as wikipedia  kindly informs me) its more like impressions I had after I read her work. The difference between these tow is as slight as the difference between PC and Mac.

Totally different think I say!

The other issue is that the series of Anita Blake is a long one, 21 books long to be exact, of which I have read only the 20 first. I toyed with the idea of reading the last one and doing the review after, but I decide against it because it wouldn’t change my overall opinion of the series. I will make a separate review on it after I read it. Maybe.

I usually re-read the subject of my review before I write it, or at least a big part of it so I want make some stupid mistake. That said, I cant re-read Anita Blake series before the review due to its massive volume, I fully intended to read them some time later on but I really wanted to make the article now not a year later. If you find any horrible mistake in the article, contact me so I can correct it.

Let us now dive in the sea that is Anita Blake.

The main faces:

Anita Blake: Vampire hunter, Reanimator, Federal Marshal and penguin admirer are only some of the jobs and title she possess, other include The Executioner, Masters Vampire Jean-Claude lover and a plain pain in the ass for her boss (even if she is his star reanimator). Add a bunch of lovers and is surprisingly this girl have time to sleep.

 Jean-Claude: Master Vampire, Anitas lover, he spends his time between been a badass Master Vampire of St. Lois and warring his undead life off because of the Anita and her often ridiculously dangerous plans, well they aren’t always her fault, but what can a ancient All Powerful Vampire Lord can do but worry?

Beside that I mean.

Richard Zeeman: Alpha werewolf, teacher, and possibly a model in his free time, he is in love with Anita but spend his time sulking in the corner because he is….monogamic animal

Reactions of real people, after they heard the above statement.

Bunch of other lovers: I am not gona mention them for two reasons, I don’t remember them, I don’t care fore them. Really I don’t.

Edward, a.k.a. The Death: Da best assassin, he hunts paranormal targets because killing the top animal in our food chain (the human people, the human) is too easy for him.  

Pictured : people weaker than a Master Vampire or an Alpffhahahaha,

nah just kidding, they would kick any vamps ass.

The story, the world and the rest: one word to describe them all. Epic. You want more? Ok, the public knows about vampires, werewolf’s, zombies the whole bunch of them, they are part of the country recognized and protected buy the law, not everybody likes that but that’s life for you.

The points I liked:

1)      Great plot: each book has something new in it, be it a Cro-Magnon Vampire, Vampire secrete police, an old Aztekian Vampire/Goddess, a werechimera, the Mother of Darkness and the Father of Light, my point being that each book has new and fresh material to powder on.

2)      Nice stages: it explains it self, Hamilton stages her scenes at great places, be it a dungeon of madman, a forest, a werebeast lair, caves, crime scenes, each place has the correct vibe. You might find it strange that I find this important but I simple cant like a story (no mater how great) if I haven’t a background to place her in.

3)      Interesting characters: Guilt ridden vampire/werebeast, scared emotionally and physically vampire, big serial killer with victim profile petite black haired woman, sadists, masochist, angry leaders, looming presences, redeeming templar knights everything can be found in here.

The points I don’t like:

1)      Disturbingly huge amount of sex: now that I write it I feel weird, I mean here I am, a guy twenty four years old saying that there is too much sex. Well there is. But you know it still feels weird to say it. What I mean when I say too much sex (or as is more accurate “disturbingly huge amount of sex”). At the first three books Anita made a point to avoid having sex with the gorgeous models that surrounded her because she was a nice catholic girl (even if she change her religion for convenience) and wanted to have a meaning for her, wanted to be in a relationship. At the forth book she finally has sex with Jean-Claude and after that…

I like a good sex scene in a book, I really do, but after the forth book the amount of sex in the books allows us to compare them with porn sites. We see Anita change. She has relationship with one guy (Richard), she leaves him because his is stupid as hell (transforming from human to werewolf on top of a woman, thus covering her in your disgusting fluids and leftovers  (skin and hair), then run off with your pack in the woods without giving a flying fuck for her (hint she is in shock), is we have to admit a deal breaker) and goes to have sex with another (Jean-Claude) and be his lover for some time, then goes with the first guy on a mission and ends up having sex with him too, then the Ardeur comes along and reason takes a coffee break. What is the Aurdeur you ask? Well think of it as a force that leads you to do thinks (sex to be precise) and in return you get power, Anita gets new supernatural powers and her partner… well he kind of gets what he really wants or needs some think like a genie that you need to have sex in order to get the wish…OR you can get raped and then get a wish, because apparently Ardeur doesn’t cares on what some one might want. So while at the start we see a Anita just going out and gathering lovers at some point that stops and she starts to just have random sex with anyone-ANYONE who just happens to be in front of her, be it guards at a the club, bodyguards, ex-boyfriends, GUYS THAT SHE SUMMON FROM ACROSS THE STATE! Ok I get that the Ardeur makes all this stuff to happen and that she does have a problem, that though isn’t an excuse to fill the book with sex! One to two sex scenes? Ok three? Oooook? Four? All of them shown in the fullest? A third of the book rotating around the sex? That’s a little too much on my taste. You really want to put them in there because its essential to the story? Fine mention them, don’t go and disrobe them again and again. They are good on to them selves but they ruin the rest of the book. You give me story, then a chapter on sex, some dialogue and then another chapter on sex and you really expected me to remember the story? Really?

2)      Nothing else: nothing, my only problem is the ocean of bodily fluids that threatens to drown the story and it’s a pity because the story rocks hard.

Here is a photo to watch and relax after the long read.

From the whole series as far my favourite book are from one to four and the ninth one, on  which she leaves her lovers for some months and goes with Edward on a mission. At the latest books Anita manages to somewhat control the Ardeur thus decreasing the sex with anyone (no, not zero, just back to enjoyable levels) and giving a chance at the rest of the story to shine.

In conclusion:

Read the books, take them slow but read them all. I look forward for better stories in the Anita Blake universe.

A Lullabys Review.

Hello everyone!

In today’s review we will talk about fairy tales!

No, not it! I said tales not tails, that was intentional wasn’t it?

No that’s not it either, I don’t even know what that is!

Eeeh, not quite…

No.

Again no! I am saving that for later but lets take a minute to appreciate

 the boo/ I mean the art of this picture.

Fine! We will not talk about fairy tales! We will talk about Lullabies a specific Lullaby to be exact.

Now that’s just mean. Stop it and let me do my job. Ok? Ok.

Yeap folks that’s finally it!

That ladies and gentleman is hands down one of my favorite series. It goes to my own personal hall of comic fame along with Poison Elves, Bone, Ghost Rider and some others that you will learn all about later. But to answer your curiosity The Dark Knight Returns isn’t in there (close but no cigar) neither The Metabarons (couldn’t even read the first issue of that thing).

So why  is this a great and thus successful and long comic series you ask.

Well to tell the truth they aint that long of a series only eight comics have been published as far as I know. The reason for that hubris is that... well I can’t really find any. It might not have good sales, or the artists couldn’t work together or a number of other things. The comic ends before it gives us a solid story.

But it does give us a solid start!

First we are introduced to the characters, Alice a girl from our world that ends up to the wonderland, Cheshire cat, Pied Piper another kid from our world, the Little Red Hood witch happens to be a werewolf along with her grandmother an unexpected gift? From the big bad wolf?, Jimmy Hawkins and his parrot Crew (Crew is the name of the parrot) and Pinocchio.

The comic flirts with questions on friendship, trust and I believe that if it would continue it would get to deeper questions and more become more mature, not in pictures (is easy to be mature just in the pictures), but in the story.

In these few issues we are introduced in a really interesting world, were all the characters from the fairy tales exist but not quite the way we imagined them, some that we know as heroes turns out that they aren’t, we see characters at their weakest and at their best, struggling with their usual problems and/or some new ones.

The artwork is great, actually is one of the best that I have ever seen. Take a look:

(puking rainbows)

Yes I know that there are better artists and sketchers out there but (and as the great Yahtzee put it “it’s a big and sticking but”) a comic art work isn’t all about the sketch in its self, is how the sketch fits the story and more importantly the feeling of the story that the writer wants to give, you might bring the best artist and the best writer and the result would suck bulls if the one couldn’t understand the other.

These guys here are in perfect sync, the artwork is exactly like the story not mature, but not childish either, without a lot of details, but with enough to keep you interested.

As a conclusion: Search for it. I don’t know how I don’t care how, go out there and find these eight issues, find a nice quiet spot, take your favoured coffee with you and enjoy the time that follows.

Ζάλοκ ο Ορεσίβιος του Λοφίσκου Μέρος 2ο.

-         Τι θα γίνει ρε βόδι θα το φέρεις το νερό; ή πάλι χαζολογάς με τα άλλα μαλλακισμένα του χωριού; Ε; όλα τα βόδια την ίδια χρονιά γεννήθηκαν.

Ο Ζάλοκ τον άκουσε και αναστέναξε. Σήκωσε το βαρέλι με το νερό και προχώρησε προς το καπηλειό. Αναρωτήθηκε για πολλοστή φορά πώς κουβάλαγε ο κολόγερος το νερό προτού πάρει αυτόν στη δούλεψή του, το βαρέλι ήταν το διπλό από τον κάπελα και αυτός ισχυρίζονταν ότι σφουγγάριζε όλα τα πατώματα δύο φορές τη μέρα.

Δεν θα πρέπει να ήταν και πολύ καλός στο καθάρισμα μίας και το μέρος ψιλοβρόμαγε προτού το αναλάβει ο ίδιος και τα τραπέζια είχαν μια κολόδη υφή παρότι τα καθάριζε κάθε μέρα με στάχτη και σαπούνι όπως έλεγε, ίσος να ήταν άρρωστος κανά δυό μέρες πριν φτάσει ο Ζάλοκ στο χωριό και δεν μπορούσε να καθαρίσει καλά το μέρος γιατί τώρα τα τραπέζια ήταν καθαρά.

-         Άντε ρε μουλάρι που είσαι; Έχεις ιδέα πόση έχεις ακόμα μπροστά σου;

-         Μάλιστα κάπελα.

-         Άσε τα μάλιστα και κουνήσου! Προτού σφουγγαρίσεις το μέρος καθάρισε το τζάκι, τον φούρνο και τα τραπέζια, μετά να τρέξεις στο σιδερά να πάρεις καρφιά για να συμμαζέψεις την αποθήκη. Τι κάθεσαι και με κοιτάς σα βόδι ρε! Τρέχα μικρέ, τρέχα! Πώς περιμένεις να με πληρώσεις άμα κάθεσαι και με κοιτάς σαν κότα με πονόκοιλο!

Ο περήφανος βάρβαρος κατάπιε τον εγωισμό του και δεν μίλησε, σεβάστηκε την ηλικία του γέρου και δεν του υπέδειξε (όπως θα έκανε σε κάθε άλλον) ότι ήταν αδύνατον να τον κοιτά σαν κότα με πονόκοιλο γιατί πρώτων δεν είχε φτερά και δεύτερον δεν είχε πονόκοιλο.  Αντίθετα έγνεψε θετικά και έπεσε με τα μούτρα στην δουλειά. Ξεσκόνισε τα ντουλάπια, έβγαλε τις στάχτες από τον φούρνο και το τζάκι και τις έβαλε σε ένα κουβά για να τις χρησιμοποιήσει αργότερα, σκούπισε με ένα πανί τα τραπέζια και ξεκίνησε μετά το σφουγγάρισμα του καπηλειού. είχαν ήδη αρχίσει να έρχονται οι πρώτοι μπεκρήδες όταν πια έφυγε τρεχάτος για να προλάβει τον σιδερά.

Τον συμπαθούσε τον σιδερά του, θύμιζε τους συγχωριανούς του, έτσι ψηλός και γεροδεμένος και αμίλητος σαν βράχος, για κάποιο λόγω οι γηραιότεροι θεωρούσαν μεγάλη υπόθεση να είναι κάποιος λιγομίλητος και σιοπιλός, να δεις πώς το λέγανε… Α! ναι « να μιλάς με τα έργα και όχι με το στόμα».

Τον πρόλαβε καθώς αυτός έκλινε το μαγαζί, με σεβασμό τον παρακάλεσε για τα καρφιά και περίμενε την απάντησή του. ο Σιδεράς τον ζύγισε με το βλέμμα του (αυτόν και το πουγκί του) και τελικά ξανά άνοιξε την πόρτα και το έφερε τα καρφιά. Πήρε τα λεφτά τα ζύγισε με το χέρι του και το έκανε νόημα να φύγει.

Τρέχοντας έφυγε γιατί ίσα που προλάβεναι! Να συμμαζέψει λίγο τον στάβλο για κανά δυό ώρες και μετά για μπάνιο (κάτι μέσα του βόγκηξε στην σκέψη του βαρελιού με το νερό που θα ξανά κουβάλαγε για πολλοστή φορά σήμερα) ώστε να βοηθήσει μετά στο σερβίρισμα, για κάποιο λόγω είχαν περισσότερο κόσμο τώρα απ’ ότι όταν είχε πρωτοέρθει, τι να έφταιγε άραγε;

Αργά το βράδυ, (πίσω στο χωριό του λέγανε αυτή την ώρα νωρίς το πρωί, χα βλάχοι), ξαπλωμένος στο κρεβάτι αναπόλησε την μέρα που πέρασε και σκέφτηκε την μέρα που θα έρθει, της δουλειές και τους πελάτες, του άρεσε κάπως έπρεπε να το παραδεχτεί, αλλά η καρδιά του ήταν ακόμα δοσμένη σε περιπέτειες και δεν έβλεπε την ώρα να φύγει. Ο γέρος θα τον είχε στην δούλεψή του για ένα φεγγάρι και το ένα τέταρτο είχε είδη περάσει, θα πέρναγε και το υπόλοιπο, το χρέος στο πανδοχείο θα σβήνονταν και οι δρόμοι θα ήταν ανοιχτοί πάλι για τον ίδιο.

Lost in the Gameline Part 6

He checked the clock at the upper left side of his screen.

The time read 01:32.

BecauseTTHW:  oh! Fuck man! We give the quest and I got to go. It’s late

Darkshadow89:  k! sure. Add as a friend? We worked well together and it was fun.

BecauseTTHW: Sure.

After a little wandering the found the npc that the quest was asking and got the exp plus a mysterious gift each.

Darkshadow89:  I know those! They give random rewards so something really nice might come to you.

BecauseTTHW: yeah? What type? Weapon, armor?

Darkshadow89:  Anything. I got a bunch of nice healing potions, how about you?

BecauseTTHW: hmm a pet I guess.

Darkshadow89:  You guess?

BecauseTTHW:  Well its an egg and I need to take to some… Ah fuck this shit I am loging out, level up can wait till tomorrow

Darkshadow89: lolls, ok man cya around

BecauseTTHW: Cya.

He logged off, get the glasses and the bracelet of, and had a long stretch.

-       Man, I need to sleep, tomorrow will be hard to get up.

He visited the bathroom for a quick stop before going to bed. He had a nice sleep, dreams of the game came at him, he saw the woman telling him he was special and that he needed to be careful, for his path was a treacherous one, the future of the kingdom was resting in his solders.

            The next day awoke the most annoying for him time, ten minutes before the alarm got of.

            That was the sol most annoying thing that could happen to him. he didn’t mind to wake up with the alarm of the clock cause he was psychologically prepared for it, but to wake up before was just a waste of sleep, you couldn’t sleep again and you lay there waiting for the clock to go off. Sometimes he thought that this would be the way demons would torture him in hell.  

             But beside that he felt good, as if he had slept for hours.

-       Hmm that’s good for a change.

He washed up, made a coffee to take with him and went to work.

-       Good morning young man! A voice greeted him as he got out of the door.

-       Good morning Mr Evans. His neighbor, he really didn’t have time for him.

-       Early start eh?

-       As usually, as you know, now forgive me but I will be late for work.

-       Don’t want to hold you up son. Have a nice day!

-       Thank you. Have a nice day to. He said and started walking down the street.

The Ghost Rider Vol1 or The Greatest Ghost Rider Ever!

Hi kids!

This review isn’t exactly a review, see it more like me geeking out on one of my most beloved superheroes ever.

There has been some time after the release of the second Ghost Rider movie and buy now I don’t think that there is a person out there that doesn’t know how bad this movie is (he either saw it himself or as in my case got a warning call from a friend or two).

As everyone knows

Everyone that doesn’t live in a cave that is.

no movie can have a frame to frame reproduction of a comic's or a book’s aesthetic and feel, at best they can stay faithfully to the majority of the script giving good references to the original work as the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, at worst we have something like Eragon.

We as viewers understand that (trolls excluded) and cut some slack to the poor bastards that rewrite and edit the story.

But then something like Ghost Rider comes along and pees in our dreams.

I won’t start now the yammering on the movie (the first) tow much time has pass from its release and many others have yammer longer and probably better than me, I will say two thinks thou:

1) I liked Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider, it fits him.

2) The only scene I liked is with the two riders in the desert.

That’s the one!

For someone that doesn’t know Ghost Rider through the comic this is just another mediocre movie, for someone that knows Ghost Rider it’s a tragedy.

Lets see why.

The origin story got in to the movie about right, Johnny Blaze, son of a stuntman, after the death of his father gets adopted buy a stuntman that his father was working with and his family, when he was fifteen he gets in to an accident with his bike and his foster mother dies, before she dies she makes him promise to never ride in the show, so he doesn’t, years later his foster father gets diagnosed with cancer and he is biter that he doesn’t have a son to take over the job (I guess his daughter, an excellent stuntwoman in her own merit doesn’t count), so Johnny makes a deal with the devil to save his foster father, the deal is struck but then the old man without knowing that he is cured, tries an extremely dangerous stun thinking that if he is to die he better do it with his leather on, he dies and Johnny in a scene of anguish, pain, complete stupidity and useless bravado grabs a bike and complete the stun himself. The devil comes soon after to collect but Johnny is resisting him, just in time and to save the day Roxanne walks in and saves his ass.

 Sure that’s how it works.

In the following weeks Johnny Cage pass his days as a stuntman and his nights he tries to hide as he transforms in to the Ghost Rider.

He mostly tries to keep a low profile and you really need to get out of your way to make him come after you, (unlike some other superheroes), in the first 13 issues the only think that really makes him move his ass is the constant kidnapping of his girl.

After a long line of failures Satan finally manages to get Roxanne to renounce her protection on Johnny thus putting him under Satan’s power again until this guy appears.

He reminds me of someone, but I just can’t remember whom.

He frees him from Satan’s power and cut him off his deal, he steel transforms as the Ghost Rider the night but now he is weaker, a lot weaker.

Even in his newfound weakness Ghost Rider starts to go out of his way to help others and later he discovers that he actually likes that, oh! and that he can now control the transformation.

At that point I firmly believe Marvel couldn’t hold her self back any longer and started throwing idiotic villains at him and some heroes to balance the tide, so we see him team up with the Stunt-Master, Daredevil and The Son of Satan (without of course counting his crossover with the Thing, Hercules and others) and saving damsels in distress the one after the other, he manages to get a job in a movie as a stun double of Stun-Master? (wtf? Seriously wtf?) and finds for himself some new gals to love. He has managed to get his power back (even more that he previously had) as he faces the devil and exorcise him from a woman that turns to be Roxanne Simpson his first and true love. For various reasons he leaves here. His curse wins out in the end and he has to leave the set for good as a) the movie gets canceled and b) his demonic nature revealed to the public. No worries though because soon after this happens!

Only one word can describe this page: Badass!

Yes! He fucking races Death with final prize (what else) his life.

Things go only uphill from there on. No not for Johnny Cage, never for Johnny Cage, for the story, for us.  He continues to wander and help people wherever he can but he discover that as Ghost Rider he has rage in his heart and he becomes ruthless, he struggles every time to control his urge to kill and maim and bath every guilty one in hellfire. He fights an old Ghost Rider that didn’t manage to free himself from the devil, destroys an evil sadistic Genius and his flying disk, meets Doctor Strange, destroys cults,  loses the title of the best Stuntman in a fair contest, travels in time to meet the Night Rider (His first name back in 1967 was Ghost Rider) and to help some Indians,  gets separate from Ghost Rider and manage to unite with him again, catches the interest of Asmodeus, travels to Arabia and finally finds something that resembles a home at a circus as a head stun-man.

At some point Asmodeus goes to Mephisto (previously known as Satan) and asks to have Ghost Rider under his responsibility, Mephisto reveals that the true name of Ghost Rider is Zarathos and decides to have a contest with Asmodeus.

Nah! No way that ever happens, not a snowballs chance in hell.

So he splits yet again Zarathos and Johnny Cage and puts them on a special race. They have to reach the end of a road full with demons and traps together and if they managed it at the end of the line freedom awaits them, they wont be united any more. Of course thinks don’t go as smoothe and even though they reach the end of the line they fight each other and end up united together yet again. But a chain reaction starts. a little time passes and Zarathos comes in contact with a being that reveals him his true identity, he tells him that once he ruled a nation that worshiped him, he gave them power they gave him the souls of their victims, but Mephistot saw his rise and decided to stop him. He manages to trap him and erase his memories thus making him a slave for eternity. The person that reveals all this is called

Or as I prefer to call him: Pimp!

Yeap. This guy orchestrates the permanent release of Zarathos buy giving him all the control of Johnny’s body and imprisoning his mind (Johnny’s mind) in his realm. Somehow Johnny manages to escape and return to the circus were he finds Roxanne that asks his help. The comic (watch this its important) ENDS with the soul of Zarathos and the soul of an archenemy of his trapped inside a gem to fight and torment each other for eternity then this happens

Johnny Blaze and Roxanne go to leave their lives, probably get married, possibly have many kids and maybe they do all that together. And the story ends. That’s it. Fin. Credits roll, the crowd claps and the fat lady leaves the scene.

I insist on the fact of the end because its important, and there are two reasons for that:

1) Every story must have a beginning, middle, and end part. They might be far away (like the Wheel of Time series) but the must exist. I understand the need to extend the story for profit, but still come on, an end must exist.

2) Every other Ghost Rider ever published was either crap, or a mediocre bullshit (probable exceptions the runs of Garth Ennis, Road to Damnation and Trail of Tears), I am referring of course to the second and third volumes of Ghost Rider were chaos and complete bullshit manage to erupt in a tsunami that threatens to swallow all of your good memories of the First Rider.

Conclusion: If you want to know about the Ghost Rider read the first Volume its better than any other, coherent and down to earth (or as much as down as Marvel can get), a real piece of Gold in 89 issues. 

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