Ghost Rider gets horror-fueled new title in 2022 from Wolverine writer - kirkconsel

Shade Passenger gets a horror-fueled novel title in 2022 from Glutton writer

Ghost Rider #1 cover charge (Image credit: Kael Nongonococcal urethritis (Wonder Comics))

Following promises of "a year of Retribution" in 2022, Marvel Comics has unveiled new details of the publisher's previously proclaimed revitalization of a new Ghost Rider ongoing title in 2022. We now experience that the new Touch Rider entitle wish be written by Wolverine and X-Pull down writer Benjamin Percy, with nontextual matter from Cory Smith.

In terms of the new Specter Rider championship's secret plan, Percy promises "the ultimate in road horror," canted into Ghost Passenger's creepy roots spell also embracing the idea of adding to the graphic symbol's storied mythos with early ideas and concepts.

Focusing on the classic Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, the new form of address apparently sets him heavenward with a modern noncombatant identity, and extraordinary horrific twists on his wonted Ghost Rider alter ego. In the new title, Johnny is a mechanic living in a small town with a wife and kids with a dark secret concealment inside him - the Inspirit of Vengeance.

It's not clear exactly how Johnny testament wind up in his new status quo, as last we power saw him he was active as Ghost Rider after relinquishment the throne of Hell dorsum to Mephisto. However, Percy states that fans will get everything they love about Marvel's "most heavy bimetal" hero.

"I'm a repulsion head. I grew up reading Stephen King, watching John Carpenter, and listening to Non-white Sabbath, and when it came to comics, I always reached primary for the dark and weird which substance I register a hell of a lot of Ghost Rider," Sir Henry Percy states in the Ghost Rider announcement.

"That flaming skull. That spiked leather jacket. That monstrous bike coughing out clouds of sulfurous tucker out. To this day, the sight of the character blazing on a midnight highway makes my heart rev like a four-stroke engine."

And for Percy, the joy of digging into his have horror-fueled comic book noncurrent is a major office of the fun of taking connected Ghost Rider, especially as the character celebrates 50 geezerhood in the Marvel Universe of discourse in 2022.

"Specter Passenger is arguably the best designed, but inarguably, the about heavy metal character in all of comics. Information technology would be badass to write this series at any full point in my life, but launching on the 50th anniversary feels especially (un)consecrated," Percy explains. "Cory Captain John Smith is killing it on art, and we're releas to honor the past while burning rubber into a terrifying future jam-packed with secret, action, and shadow-soaked emotion. Prepare yourself for the ultimate in road horror."

Shade Rider #1 goes connected sale sometime in February 2022, though Wonder has not yet acknowledged a particularized date for the button. Stay tuned to Newsarama for Marvel's broad February 2022 solicitations, arriving in November.

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