Spirits of Vengeance: War at the Gates of Hell
2018
A dead angel. A silver bullet. A kept promise. For ages, the war between Heaven and Hell rages in the unseen corners of society, both sides in delicate balance that could topple if the right weapons were in the wrong hands...When an undercover angel is murdered, Johnny Blaze the Ghost Rider must find the killers and punish them...but this time he won't do it alone: HELLSTORM! SATANA! BLADE! They are the SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE! Acclaimed grindhouse writer Victor Gischler (X-MEN, PUNISHER MAX) and superstar artist David Baldeon (WEB-WARRIORS, NOVA) weave a tale of supernatural action and intrigue! COLLECTING: SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE 1-5
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came to this from the Hulu series “Hellstrom.” I'm liking the series in that it is following a kind of supernatural/mystery arc with characters who seem to have an interesting back-story.
I am not a big comics/graphic novel fan, so I probably missed a lot of nuance in the story, but in general I was not impressed. It seemed like the Ghost Rider's role was to say things like “you shall feel the vengeance of Ghost Rider” and then unleash a lot of flames. The book teams up Damian Hellstrom and his sister, Satana, both of whom are the children of Lucifer, who goes by a different name in this book, Johnny Blaze aka the Ghost Rider, and Blade. The culprit in this book are demons and the McGuffin involves the 1,000 year old get-together between angels and demons. The team put together the clues and do the appropriate superhero things.
The graphics are a big part of graphic novels, but I found the graphics in this case to be a bit confusing. Sometimes I had to puzzle out what I was supposed to be seeing.
I imagine that this is the “B-team” of Marvel. I was not overly-impressed.
