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Ghost I (Single issues) #27-36
Ghost Omnibus Volume 3
If you don't believe that life is tough when you're dead, ask the spectral avenger Ghost. It isn't easy chasing your murderers through the blood and slime of the Arcadia underworld, but when your dead sister returns to wreak vengeance on the entire city, being dead seems like small potatoes compared to fighting your own Silhouette! Collects Ghost (first series) #27-#36, Ghost Special #2, Ghost Special #3, and "The Woes of Sinful Bachelors" from Dark Horse Presents #145–#147. * Featuring superstar artists Ivan Reis and John Cassaday!
368 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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June 6, 2020
The book really flounders in what was the end of the original series. Ghost is still a strong female protagonist. However, she's also naked in a ton of this and all the women have huge breasts that are just falling out of their clothes. It looks very much like the art was influenced by the Lady Death comics of the time period. The series has lost any kind of coherency at this point and needed to be put down.
July 5, 2018
More of the same and more decent into just out and out bewbs.
World: The art is solid for what it is, it’s good if you want scantily clad women running around and wearing things that make no sense. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it is what it is. World building is also solid, with Arcadia slowly being built up and Ghosts surrounding characters and rogues getting a little bit of fleshing out. It’s it spurts and start but at least there’s that.
Story: The feminist message is still very strong but the boobs and scantily clad and objectifying art is also just as strong, in fact getting more and more to be the main voice of the book. As I said in previous reviews that the two messages don’t fit together and whatever feminist message and rationalisation was used for the art is there, but the boobs are taking over and all rationalisation is pretty much almost out the window. The stories themselves were standard fare and nothing of much note, the villains were fine for what they were. It’s unremarkable.
Characters: Ghost does grow a little in this arc but at the same time there is not a lot of forward motion to her story and we are getting a lot of rehash and lessons learned again and again. There is only so many times we deal with evil gross men and being held in a jade cell. The villains this time around being Margo was kinda interesting but the reason and the logic of her creation is a bit of a stretch and we don’t really get enough quiet moments for the sisters in between and even after the arc (she just disappears). The story with the bugs and the ghosts...zzz.
This book is getting more and more to the pure base lowest demonisation of what it truly is and I don’t really like it. I don’t mind sexy but it has to be done well and make sense.
Onward to the next book!
World: The art is solid for what it is, it’s good if you want scantily clad women running around and wearing things that make no sense. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it is what it is. World building is also solid, with Arcadia slowly being built up and Ghosts surrounding characters and rogues getting a little bit of fleshing out. It’s it spurts and start but at least there’s that.
Story: The feminist message is still very strong but the boobs and scantily clad and objectifying art is also just as strong, in fact getting more and more to be the main voice of the book. As I said in previous reviews that the two messages don’t fit together and whatever feminist message and rationalisation was used for the art is there, but the boobs are taking over and all rationalisation is pretty much almost out the window. The stories themselves were standard fare and nothing of much note, the villains were fine for what they were. It’s unremarkable.
Characters: Ghost does grow a little in this arc but at the same time there is not a lot of forward motion to her story and we are getting a lot of rehash and lessons learned again and again. There is only so many times we deal with evil gross men and being held in a jade cell. The villains this time around being Margo was kinda interesting but the reason and the logic of her creation is a bit of a stretch and we don’t really get enough quiet moments for the sisters in between and even after the arc (she just disappears). The story with the bugs and the ghosts...zzz.
This book is getting more and more to the pure base lowest demonisation of what it truly is and I don’t really like it. I don’t mind sexy but it has to be done well and make sense.
Onward to the next book!
January 27, 2013
Elisa Cameron is one of the most compelling protagonists I've ever had the pleasure of reading. This volume collects the end of her first series, which has two amazing four part stories and a smattering of done in one issues that are just as excellent, as well as some extras from Ghost Special #2-3, and a short story from Dark Horse Presents. Elisa continually evolves as a character, and her journey is so engaging that it is difficult to put this series down at all.
March 29, 2023
This should be seen as a 2.25 or 2.5 rounded up. I wrote the following elsewhere when I still had a few more comic issues left to read, but I've since read them and they don't really change my feelings about anything.
I will give Erik Luke some credit, the writing is still atrocious and just a total incoherent mess. But it has at least gotten more fun now. His last several stories are approaching so bad it's good territory, ALMOT enjoyable on a like B movie level. Almost. It doesn't quite get there, but credit where credit is due. Volume three, while bad, is not nearly as terrible as volumes one and two where. Once I'm done with this story, there are a few more by other writers. It does seem Erik Luke writes the final comic in the volume. Volume four is pretty much all written by Chris Warner.
For the record, that's volume four omnibus, this has all been volume one of the comic technically so far. Omnibus four & five are volume two of the comic. In the Smoke and the Din & The White City Butcher make up volume three of the comic. Against the Wilderness & Death in the Family make up volume four of the comic, and that's all there is to date currently.
While volume one and two were a slog to read, and three was still pretty bad. The art for all of them has remained consistently good. I'm kind of surprised this series gets the love it does. Maybe volumes four and five are great, I'll find out. But man, this makes me glad that Erik Luke did very few comics outside of his Ghost run.
I will give Erik Luke some credit, the writing is still atrocious and just a total incoherent mess. But it has at least gotten more fun now. His last several stories are approaching so bad it's good territory, ALMOT enjoyable on a like B movie level. Almost. It doesn't quite get there, but credit where credit is due. Volume three, while bad, is not nearly as terrible as volumes one and two where. Once I'm done with this story, there are a few more by other writers. It does seem Erik Luke writes the final comic in the volume. Volume four is pretty much all written by Chris Warner.
For the record, that's volume four omnibus, this has all been volume one of the comic technically so far. Omnibus four & five are volume two of the comic. In the Smoke and the Din & The White City Butcher make up volume three of the comic. Against the Wilderness & Death in the Family make up volume four of the comic, and that's all there is to date currently.
While volume one and two were a slog to read, and three was still pretty bad. The art for all of them has remained consistently good. I'm kind of surprised this series gets the love it does. Maybe volumes four and five are great, I'll find out. But man, this makes me glad that Erik Luke did very few comics outside of his Ghost run.
June 19, 2014
more trouble for Elisa as she encounters get dark shadow silhouette! ghost is one of dark horses best super heroes.
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