Ghosted Compendium

by Joshua Williamson, Goran Sudžuka (Artist), Davide Gianfelice (Artist)

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Joshua Williamson’s breakout hit horror series!   Jackson Winters is one of the greatest criminal masterminds to ever live...except he's rotting in jail after his last doomed score. But when a filthy-rich collector breaks Winters out, he's tasked to put together an elite team of paranormal experts to do the steal a ghost from a haunted house of horrors!   Skybound's horror/crime mash-up is equal parts Ocean's 11 and The Shining from writer Joshua Williamson (DARK RIDE, BIRTHRIGHT) and artists Goran Sudzuka ( The Last Man), Davide Gianfelice, and more!

Genres: Comics

456 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2023

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

scooby-doo level plot. starts with an ocean's eleven style heist movie where the object to steal is a ghost (volume 1 is alright), volumes 2 and 3 turn into just ghostbusters (which is fine), then volume 4 goes full wacky woo woo mode where the main big bad is trying to steal "death" (not the grim reaper personification death but the concept of death itself -- it's never really explained HOW this would work) and the main character then becomes the grim reaper.

[Jared · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oof what an interminable, wretched slog this turned into. The first story arc was dumb in a fun way, and if it had ended there, or at least continued in the same vein, it would have been reasonably enjoyable. But each successive plotline increased in stupidity and decreased in entertainment until the final arc, which was nearly unreadable. The premise of the series was a bit silly to begin with, but bit by bit the plots began to dispense with even *internal* consistency or any kind of actual plot logic as the protagonist became increasingly dull and insufferable. And the transformation of the only remaining likable character in the book's final panel would have had me hurling the entire volume across the room if this weren't a library book. Kinda wish I had DNF'd this.

[Kris Shaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mediocre amd derivative. Also, the binding is super tight, like a mousetrap. You let this book go and it goes SNAP shut. Watch your fingers.

[Fernando · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me ha costado pero, al fin, terminé esta recopilación de toda la serie "Ghosted" (titulada "Fantasmas" en castellano, para qué pensar más).

A pesar de una ilustración muy normalita aunque solvente, su trama irregular va perdiendo fuelle desde la idea inicial, con un destello de originalidad en un planteamiento que fusiona esas historias de casas embrujadas con las de un equipo variopinto perpetrando un gran robo, aportando cada integrante sus capacidades únicas al plan.

No obstante, termina cayendo en picado en un clímax tan loco como ramplón que ni se molesta en explicar sus motivaciones de plan malvado y grandilocuente, digno de un antagonista caricaturesco estilo James Bond.

Los personajes, aunque interesantes, están apenas esbozados, rozando el estereotipo, mientras que las escenas de acción y tiroteos, en su modelo "horda de monstruos cercando a los protagonistas", se repiten casi matemáticamente cada pocas páginas en un eterno querer sin poder.

Aunque no aburre tampoco aporta demasiado y se limita a estirar el chicle de los dos primeros episodios con un cierre final sin volumen.

Simplemente, entretenimiento rápido si te gustan las historias de cazafantasmas porque el auténtico "robo" está en el precio y eso que escogí la versión original que recopila toda la serie mientras que en castellano lo han dividido en dos volúmenes tapa dura del que te aconsejo sólo el primero si no eres completista.

[Justin Labelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this more than the other gr reviewers seem to have.
It is derivative but also great fun.
You’ll like it if you like Hellboy, bprd, Constantine, Lucifer… I mean supernatural adventures as a whole.
Not always well explained but then that’s kind of what makes the supernatural intriguing after all. The art in the first and last section are the best.

[Leanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this, the art work is great the story’s are a nice easy read and I found myself caring what happened to the characters

[Mariano · Rating 3 out of 5]

It starts off really well, the first arc is great. But then it derails and gets to an unsatisfying ending.

[Luke John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, fun read that's initially a heist story where the target is a ghost, but ultimately spins out into a wider tale with about four separate arcs that are loosely connected.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting concept for a storyline, but this didn’t do it for me overall.

[Nafis Fuad · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fine. Good for passing the time on a lazy evening but not something that will stay with you for a long time.

[Sebastian Lauterbach · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yikes, a story that was finished in 5 issues, somehow had to continue for a total of 20. Doesn't work at all.

What I want to say here is that the first 5 issues are actually quite enjoyable both the story and the artwork. They even got a satisfying conclusion and a very clear ending.

Then the book takes a hard nose dive. The story becomes super random and quickly loses its charm and the artwork is substantially worse. The main character has the biggest plot armour I've seen in a long time just for the book to work. Villains won't kill the main character because ... I don't know, for the story to continue?

I'm also subtracting a whole star from my rating due to this awful Paperback Compendium Edition from 2023. It has bad binding, smells terrible and starts to come apart after just one read-through. Other compendiums collection 50+ issues hold up much better than this one. Oh and also the summary on the back of the book only refers to the first 5 issues, I wonder why?

Not recommended