Spirits of Vengeance: War at the Gates of Hell

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.