This comic ( #25) was awesome from beginning to end! I loved the fight scene b/w Deacon and Ghost Rider. If I was Ghost Rider, I would have taken those blades with me to dish back at Zadkiel.
The part with the Penance Stare was great. It appears that Deacon had no soul to begin with and he gave it up to Zadkiel, along with his humanity.
The part that kind of bothered me was the fact that Blaze was stabbed and brutalized by Deacon but he was afraid to turn back into Johnny Blaze without killing him? That doesn't make any sense.
The 90s Ghost Rider was vaporized, blown to bits, crushed, even beaten by his own bones, and when he transformed back to Danny, he was totally fine.
Why are they giving him this Movie-like weakness?
Finally read #25! (just now, good grief), and can fianlly read the posts related to it.
About the movie weakness, I think this is more of a marketing issue than anything else. Marvel intentionally gives similarities to the book and the movie for the purpose of appealing and connecting to fans who got into the book cuz of the movie. A vast majority of those who liked the movie never read the comic, so I think Marvel makes connections to the movie in order to give these new readers a chance to relate somehow. I think that it's a strategy to appeal to a larger reader base (a reader base who'se never really been into comics before). Ofcourse this is just my opinion and I may be completely wrong.
My opinion's such cuz since Way's time, I kinda noticed some easter eggs related to the film in the pages of the book:
In one issue, GR had his chain wrapped around his body twice, just like the film.
Then, during the Casualties of War arc, after Jack o' Lantern calls GR "bonehead", he starts mumbling how the word sounds corny, but is actually cool in its corniness ("bonehead" was a word used more than once in the movie, and if I remember right, was one of the many dialouge kinks that movie critics panned cuz it was cliche).
These both happened in issues that came out the following months after the movie's release. Which kinda made me feel like it really was a marketing ploy from Marvel. And now we have this movie weakness of not being able to transform when severely beaten.
But then again, just my thoughts. It may all just be coincidence for all I know.
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