{"id":15184,"date":"2022-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15184"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:33:22","slug":"ghost-rider-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/11\/09\/ghost-rider-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Rider 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, last issue, I was convinced I had, but I didn\u2019t. This issue, I remember reading. But also didn\u2019t have a copy of (At least, not anymore). Man, what\u2019s going on in my brain? This may the most pristine back issue I have ever seen. The cover doesn\u2019t even want to open all the way. Wow. As we get underway, Spider-Man has caught up with GR and webs him off his bike. But GR is so heavy that it pulls Spider-Man off the wall he was clinging to. He tells Ghost Rider he\u2019ll deal with Hobgoblin and to stay out of it. GR says he won\u2019t kill Hobby, but he will save Mrs. Ketch. Then Blaze shoots them apart with a big explosion from his \u201chellfire shotgun.\u201d Spidey swings off, saying he\u2019s tired of \u201cyou vigilante types\u201d getting in his way, like he\u2019s not a vigilante. GR wants to continue, but Blaze talks him out of it. They ride off to have a chat, both doing wheelies at the same time, which is hilarious. They settle in the graveyard where Dan became Ghost Rider, where Blaze says he knows what GR is going through, because he fought with Zarathos, the demon that possessed him. Ghost Rider says he and Dan\u2019s spirits are merging, and he can\u2019t let that happen because he doesn\u2019t even know who he is. Blaze suggests it would be good for both of them but Ghost Rider is not convinced. Then he turns back into Dan, who declares they have to find his mother and kill Hobgoblin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good times. Meanwhile, Dan has kicked in the door of a local bar to demand the bartender tell him where Hobgoblin has his mother, which is\u2026 hilarious to me. He tells Blaze the bartender is \u201cthe biggest information seller in Brooklyn!\u201d but, like, why would he know where a deranged demon man is? And the barman makes clear he doesn\u2019t even know who Dan is. Great detective work, Batman. But, of course, this inspires some tough guys to want to throw Dan & Blaze out, but we cut back to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hobby is once again furious to have met a nonbeliever. Back at the bar, Spider-Man breaks up the fight, but that lil incident made his tracer start working for some reason, so he\u2019s off, telling the boys to keep Ghost Rider out of his way. Blaze tells Dan he\u2019s got to be more reasonable. He was just telling Ghost Rider merging with Dan would give him more humanity, but Ketch seems like a real lunatic. Anyway, the two motorpsychos light off after Spider-Man, literally in Dan\u2019s case, as he changes back to Ghost Rider just in time for all three of them to smash into the chapel Hobby\u2019s been based out of the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ghost Rider gives his word that he won\u2019t kill Hobby and begs Spider-Man to get Mrs. Ketch out before the place collapses, and our man believes him. He gets her out just before the whole place comes crashing down. GR walks out of the flames, and Spider-Man says he misjudged him, and the he of all people should know what it\u2019s like to be misjudged. GR is not upset about it, but, in true horror movie fashion, Hobgoblin is as he leaps out of the wreckage for a final attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kinda feel like the webs didn\u2019t do much there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there you have it. After McFarlane randomly chose to portray Ghost Rider as a deranged maniac more interested in beating up Hobgoblin than saving an innocent, Mackie takes the chance to put everyone back in the same situation and say, \u201cUh, actually\u2026\u201d This story wasn\u2019t too terribly much more substantial than Todd\u2019s, but with significantly less whining and both heroes more in character, so I\u2019ll take it. Not long after this, GR would do a 4-part crossover with X-Men in Gambit\u2019s native New Orleans, where he and Blaze could compare notes on wearing trenchcoats in environments far too hot for them. As for us, we\u2019re off to see a different X-Team\u2026 unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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