I really didn't want to buy issue six, but I bought all the other damn issues so I really needed closure. While I've never posted on the GR forums, I hope you don't mind my thoughts.
- The art: pretty freaking cool. To me, seems perfectly appropriate for a flat-out Ghost Rider comic book. However: completely wrong for this story. Lots of talking, not enough action, and the action that was there was either lacking or extremely crowded. I'd love to see more Ghost Rider riding through the open road through the desert and less fat crippled old men in mechanical wheelchairs.
- The writing: ooh! Lacking! And it's Ennis! He does such a fantastic job with Punisher, and his Preacher story was of course fantastic. But this... I got where he was going with it, or where he wanted to go, but maybe he should have been story consultant and not flat-out writer. "Buttview?"
- The story: nah. Ennis thinks creatures from the afterlife are *****ebags. We get it. If you want to tell a story about etherial hypocricy, write an original story. If you want to write a story about a man with a flaming skull for a head who made a pact with the devil, DO THAT! Don't waste my time talking to "Ms Catmint."
- The character: Is GR usually a whiner? And a dupe? Because he was both in this story.
Overall, I'd say the whole thing was kind of meh, but definitely had potential. I'd like to see another mini-series putting GR back in the MU without making him boring, but it could be that just isn't possible. A lot of people tell me that Ghost Rider is essentially just a really cool poster, but not much of a comic book. So far, with this as the execution, I'd tend to side with the poster-pimpers.