![]() ![]() ![]() Which results in the best single comic book panel I’ve seen this week, at right.īurnett’s weathered art and expressive character designs make everything pop with slightly exaggerated style, while Antonio Fabela’s colors explode off the page and delight in details, like the starfield within the midnight black of Cosmic Ghost Rider’s armor. So Frank decides that he’s going to do the one thing he’s been thinking about ever since he died: He’s going to go back in time and murder Thanos when the Mad God was an infant in his cradle, and prevent him from becoming his timeline’s galactic armageddon. What matters is that Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 begins with Odin kicking Frank Castle out of Valhalla because the man just can’t stop beating everyone up, and then gets even better from there.īaby Thanos and the Cosmic Ghost Rider. Writer Donny Cates and artist Dylan Burnett lay the backstory out in a narratively efficient and visually arresting way in the first three pages of the issue, and none of it matters. This is a Frank Castle from an alternate timeline in which Thanos took over the entire universe, a tidbit I discovered only after devouring the entire issue. “Wow, Susana,” you’re saying, “that sounds really complicated. Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 has a continuity behind it - a completely ludicrous confluence of fictional events in which Frank Castle (the Punisher) obtained the powers of Ghost Rider (the flaming skull motorcycle guy) and the Silver Surfer (who wields the Power Cosmic) at the same time. Today I’m going in the opposite direction. Comics advocates usually try to get around this is by recommending stories that don’t come with a lot of continuity baggage. The looming presence of continuity can be daunting for anyone looking to get into comics for the first time. Welcome to #1 Comic of the Week, a series where our comics editor, Susana Polo, tips you off to a neat new story or series that kicked off in comics this week - just in time for some weekend reading. ![]()
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