About Heroes

Author: Ivan Velez Jr.
Penciler: Javier Saltares
Inkers: Javier Saltares, Mark Texeria, and Klaus Janson
Colors: Brian Bucellato and Tom Chu

Two things that I can sum up my review: Fuck, I miss those 2 page recaps, hell I think they stopped doing those in 98 and someone please hire Ivan Velez to take over Ghost Rider! Now if you don't know the story behind this issue, well during Marvel's dark days, I mean real dark, not Civil War/horrible stories dark, Marvel was in bankruptcy and had to cancel any book that didn't bring in any money. The following issue, revealing the final fates of Danny Ketch and Ghost Rider, was written, penciled, and inked, but never published. Even though the story ended with Ghost Rider 94, they didn't take any chances and cancelled the book with issue 93. So many readers were pissed, including Danny Ketch fanboy Omar Valdivieso!

This issue includes a reprint of Ghost Rider 93, which was a damn good idea. Because when you read issue 94 the payoff wouldn't have been as great if you didn't have issue 93 fresh in your head. I don't know if it was charity on Marvel's part or if they are just trying to cash in on the new GR movie, but who cares we got our finally! So was it worth the wait after eight years?

So what happened at the end of GR 93? Well it ended with a cliffhanger: the apparent death of Dan Ketch, which at the time was the human host of the Ghost Rider. The new story reveals what truly happened to Danny Ketch. Dan’s future, his relationship with Johnny Blaze and with his girlfriend Stacy, and the return of a character long thought dead all hit emotional high notes. We even get to see Ghost Rider’s ascension to the throne of hell, much better interpretation of it than in Way's run. Ghost Rider uses his new powers and seeing Vengeance show up makes me wish they would release an issue 95 and make the series on going. I'm hoping that some of the things mentioned in this issue will be brought up in the new series, but I think that's just wishful thinking on my part.

The art is simply amazing; hell Texeria's inks are still as good as they ever were. Which goes to show that not all the art in the mid 90's was superflexed out guys in spandex with lots of useless pockets! The colors are the only new part of the art and damn what a difference eight years makes on technology. I think that #94 finally gave us all the closure and finale that we had waited for far too long. Long live Noble Kale! A-