[/list]Erm, actually:
- In GR second run, the bike was sentient and could ride alone, often to come back to his master, sometimes even to transport other people away etc.. once Suicide used the bike to find GR...the whistle is movie-only, but really i think it's somewhat more in tone with the first GR.. i should ask to Biggun, but i think it happened once something like GR whistling to call the bike..
- Well, in all the Champions run Zarathos was pretty much in check, only later it came out more and more predominant in GR form.
- Well...no. Roxanne seems to die on GRII by hand of Anton Hellgate, but becomes a demoness of Blackheart(Black Rose), in the end published few weeks ago she is resurrected and comes back to Johnny. (after that the story becomes very intricated with Hammer Lane serie, i hope Way is able to retcon this mess...=_=)
- No. In GR1 there was an issue (#56) with both(okay, that wasHamilton Slade, the new Phantom Rider, possessed by the spirits of his ancestors, Lincoln Slade and Carter Slade, previous PR)
- No, most of issues of GR first run were set in desert, western like backgrounds, later also because JB was isolating himself from people in fear of what Zarathos could do.Even the awesome Avengers #214(http://ghostrider.omegacen.com/AV214.html) was set on desert..
- No, take Hag & Troll, D'spair/D'sprite of the second run, or even the Avengers on the first (lol, just kidding), 2ond class demons were never a problem for GR, especially on his second run.
- No, really. Only Larroca(pretty good i also think) and some minor artist depicted it as a searing fire from GR eyesocket to the victim's eyes. Saltares & Texeira, the (immense)artists of the first part of GRII and the creators of the visuals of the penance stare always depicted it ony as a hollow look from GR pure blackness, empty eyesockets, sometime later also with reddish flashback images (showing "inside" the mind of the victims), you know the way they painted that look was really scary! Few times i also remember a tiny light far in the eyesockets, some later artist started to draw fire inside the eyesockets, then it came Larroca. The crispburned eyes are Movie only material, but i think they can be seen as a homage to the barbecued victims of Vengeance...
- uhmm..i hear Mephisto never actually fights in the movie, and in the comics too..Blackheart.. i think the only time i saw him fighting was in Heart of Darkness...and there he was pwned... it seems most of the people got information about BH while playing Marvel VS series videogames, while he was never much a fighter type... he IS powerful, but he likes more scheming.Same as his father.
- I'll try, my memory is not too good but i recall a line in GR second run: he was falling from 4th floor(he was fighting D'spair) and he attempted to grab a lamp post with the chain, to "imitate Spider-Man" as he said, naturally he bent the lamp post... once at christmas he tried to atone for freaking out the people by visiting a terrorized man and his mother (it was a christmas special issue i think) he also made some good gag exchange with Spider-Man at times, mostly involuntary, then with Zodiak or some later issue he did say "surprise" while emerging from water.. the problem is most of the gag were by other characters, with GR acting as the "supporting guy", especially with Spider-Man, sometimes Punisher, often Johnny Blaze.
- Interesting interpretation, really, i think Biggun knows more on this, but isn't repressed anger better?
- Er, what?Zarathos is an elder demon, almost powerful as Mephisto, in the comics he was always pictured as a flaming being as opposite as most of other demons(i am talking of both his GRII appearance, yes, the purple GR thing with cape and etcetera, and also the giant flaming demon of GR1). Is it stated in the movie thet he is possessed by an elemental? Also, in GR1 Zarathos presence inside JB was uncovered only in Ghost Rider #76...
1) As I stated, I stated for
Blaze and in my issues, there is no whistle that I can find.
2) There are some issues that make it appear that Blaze uses the GR power at his will. There are also some issues that make it appear that its really uncomfortable.
3) Roxanne is dead, as of movie press time, if she is alive NOW, it really has no bearing on the film since its already almost 1 1/2 years old, therefore wasn't alive.
4) As I stated, they never met. In issue 56 it was a descendant, and as you stated, PR.
5) I disagree. They were not written as westerns, western scenery doesn't make it a western. Most if not all the Marvel Spotlights origins take place in NYC.
6) There were plenty of fights where he was damaged by "demons" clearly less than his caliber. Not to mention mortal woundings.
7) Now I haven't gone thru my collection but as early as issue 36, and probably earlier he sent fire from his eyes. He continued to do so through the series, regardless of artist. So again, the comic takes precedence.
8) There are clearly COMICS that show Blackheart and Memphisto in DEMONIC forms. They are NOT carried over to the movie. They have been shown here in this forum before the movie came out.
9) Again, NOTHING near as bad as the movie lines were. I am not just talking about GR either. Wolverine called him Bonehead, Spidey is a quick witted wordsmith, so if a Spidey line in the comic comes off as "humor" its because of Spiderman. Now did I miss a scene with Spidey and GR? That might have made the movie.
10) Like you said, interpretation. But one of my favorite crossovers, Team UP 58 with Spiderman, it's clear that Blaze's intent was to hurt the trapster and got an earful from Spidey. It maybe towards the end of the issues, but its clearly a battle between Blaze and Zarathos for GR.
11) Yes, the movie they clearly reference it as a fire elemental. Blaze is trying to control the fire and he commands the fire elemental inside him.. or something like that.
HFM
