Announced today at C2E2, spinning out of the events of Fear Itself is a brand new Ghost Rider series from Marvel. It had been previously teased, but now we know that Rob Williams will be writing and Matthew Clark will be illustrating. The book will begin in June with a Point One issue and will start for reals a month later in July.
Johnny Blaze is still going to be a central character in this series. Old school Ghost Rider fans are going to be seeing Johnny’s classic bike and look. But part of our hook is Johnny being given a faustian pact – he can rid himself of the curse of the Ghost Rider forever if he’s willing to pass it on to someone completely anonymous to him. It’s the old moral chestnut of ‘you could have a million dollars but someone you’ve never met in China would die.’ Johnny’s sick of this life. Of what he sees as a terrible curse. Our initial arc is called “Give Up The Ghost.”‘ But if he does pass on the Rider, who will it move to? People will have to buy the book to find out.
