Monday, March 30, 2009

Jason Aaron is Laughing at Ghost Rider Fans

Ever since Aaron introduced ninja-nurses, nunchuck wielding nuns & reintroduced Blackout and Orb, I feel like he's trying to fuck with Ghost Rider fans by adding the sort of stylized writing that the title is used to. He's really attempting black humor at the same time (unsuccessfully) as trying to unfold a story about the fall of heaven. 

I like Jason Aaron's writing most of the time, for example Scalped is a fucking good book. It's a twisted view of the poverty and corruption in a modern Indian reservation. The main protagonist returns home to the place he vowed to never return when he was 13, to find that the traditionalist way of life has been replaced by a new casino and the new tribal chief of police and treasury and owner of a new casino ushers Daschiel Bad Horse into his service, but Dash has got a secret that could be a cataclysm the "rez" could never come back from. 

In ninja-nurses arc, Aaron is pitting a soul of retribution against some hot big-tittied nurses with golden weapons. Uh, what the fuck? The excuse here being that the only reason they even pose a real threat to him is that they are under the service of archangel Zadkiel, whom is the real power behind the Ghost Riders. 

Next he uses Blackout to fight the Caretaker with other failed villains such as Orb, and Deathninja (really?) When Blackout comes face to face with the Ghost Rider he never fought (Johnny Blaze) he comments on who he thinks is stronger, and turns out the lights. We just see blackness and sound effects from what could only be described as a writer/artist shortcut from an otherwise lame fight. Then the fight between Deathninja and Caretaker was  just goofy. 

The banter that we see with Zadkiel and Daniel Ketch is the worst, though. I just find it stupid that an Angel would talk like a pissed-off Patrick Stewart,

 i.e. "you insufferable little twit"
"what was that? I couldn't--"
"I said yes, of course it's for their own good"

really? that's how you think how he would talk. so maybe when he appeared to Abraham it went something like this: 

"I Abraham will kill my son Isaac"
*Zadkiel appears*
"d00d, don't be fucking stoopid"
"what?"
"dont kill ur son, u asshole!"
"I can't hear you, im 150 years old!"
"I SAID GOD LOVES YOU, DON'T DO IT"

There's much more, but you just have to either find out for yourself, or save the extra cash for a killer book right now, like Ed Brubaker's Daredevil. 

Before I go, I have three words to leave you with that could possible be the sentence used to describe Aaron's entire tenure on this title : flaming, skeleton, sex. 

Enjoy.

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