![]() Yo-Yo finding out about Hope, Coulson and May talking about their missing time together when they were L.M.D.'s and that tearful scene of Simmons and Fitz just sitting together all were great character beats. As compelling as Aida has been as the villain, Anton Ivanov is a character I could have done without.įortunately, the core characters' emotional work did help save this episode. I never was concerned for their lives, but also didn't doubt they'd get past him. He's never come off as threatening, and that is especially the case in this episode where there are endless versions of him to attack May and Coulson. Beyond Aida, I've been pretty disappointed in Zach McGowan as the Superior this season. Instead, it feels like we're brushing past it pretty quickly. Again, I wish this episode had more time to allow these characters to wrestle with the fact they lived an entire other life over in this artificial reality, and try to figure out what that means for them. The same goes for Fitz, who found himself grappling with the weight of what he'd done in this alternate life. But as much as Aida yo-yoed to evil very quickly, her exploration of what it meant to do good for the sake of empathy was very interesting. I was hoping for more than just one episode for Fitz and Aida to deal with the repercussions of the Framework storyline in their normal lives. Unfortunately, it was a bit too much condensed into one episode and lost some of its impact because of that. ![]() What would have made for a spooky superhero in the '70s was not the same in the '90s, and it isn't the same now as it was then.Play Mallory Jansen has been given a lot of great material to work with this season, and getting to play the emotional spectrum of someone experiencing everything from love to heartache for the first time was especially effective. Blaze, then Ketch, and now Reyes," Compton said. "I think Marvel has always lacked a powerful legacy character like DC has in spades, and recently they have been able to use Ghost Rider as one. "We can relate to characters who, no matter how powerful, seem to have things happen to them rather than for them because all too often that's how it seems our own lives are going," said blogger and podcaster Dean Compton, of The Unspoken Decade blog.Ĭompton said the cool visual of Ghost Rider is always a draw, but that the character may benefit from being updated for each generation. "Danny Ketch also reflected a broader trend from that period of handing the mantle of Silver and Bronze Age characters on to newer, younger incarnations."Īnd now, an as-yet newer, younger incarnation is Reyes, who becomes the Ghost Rider in part to protect his brother. "The Danny Ketch Ghost Rider benefited from a generally 'dark' tone of superhero comics in the 1990s, where anti-heroes like the Punisher, Venom and Spawn rose in prominence," said Norman-based Rob Vollmar, comics writer, critic and the book review editor for World Literature Today magazine. The most popular run of "Ghost Rider" comics, in the 1990s, featured another Rider: Danny Ketch, who became the Ghost Rider when he touched a medallion on a motorcycle he found. Nicolas Cage played Johnny Blaze in two “Ghost Rider” films. He's tricked by Mephisto, however, into becoming the spirit of vengeance, Ghost Rider. Reyes follows several other characters as Marvel's Ghost Rider, the most prominent being Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch.įilm fans may know the Ghost Rider as Johnny Blaze, the stunt rider who makes a deal with Mephisto to save his father from cancer. ![]() The issue also introduces a new villain for Ghost Rider. This time, the artist is Danilo Beyruth ("Deadpool v Gambit").Ī mysterious object is unearthed in Southern California, and it brings the Hulk into the area. ![]() But as the product of a harsh inner-city upbringing, Robbie's street smarts, overall distrust for most people and clear contempt for his violent surroundings make him the perfect host for a Spirit of Vengeance.” “His vehicle of choice, the automobile, very clearly sets him apart visually,” Smith said in a 2014 interview with “In comparison to his vengeance-seeking predecessors, he's very young and inexperienced in most aspects of life. Reyes was raised in an east Los Angeles neighborhood of violence and drug trafficking. Reyes is played by Gabriel Luna in the show. ![]() The latest Ghost Rider is Robbie Reyes, created in 2014 by writer Felipe Smith and artist Tradd Moore. The Ghost Rider wrapped up his storyline on the TV series "Agents of SHIELD" this month, but he's back in comics in a major way with a new series from Marvel Comics. ![]()
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