On Sale Date: August 2018
Writer: Donny Cates
Artist: Dylan Burnett
Letterer: VC's Clayton Cowles
Colorist: Antonio Fabela
Editor: Jordan D. White
Assistant Editor: Annalise Bissa
Editor-in-Chief: C.B. Cebulski
Cover Artist: Geoff Shaw
Frank Castle sits in a bar on an alien planet, trying to decide what to do after kidnapping a 3 year old Thanos from Titan. When a fight breaks out in the bar because of Frank he tells the toddler that the person he's been waiting to meet has just arrived. He goes outside and sees Galactus preparing to devour the planet. He flies his bike up to Galactus and allows the giant to read his thoughts, which tells Galactus all about his partnership with Castle in the far future. Galactus offers to take baby Thanos and kill him but Castle wavers in his decision. The Watcher arrives to witness the decision as Frank declares his intent to raise Thanos himself. This act serves to create an altered future, from which comes Cable and his Guardians of the Galaxy, who have time traveled to the past to kill baby Thanos themselves.
THE ROADMAP
Cosmic Ghost Rider's relationship with Galactus was revealed in Thanos (2017) # 16.
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| "Be cool, Honey Bunny." |
CHAIN REACTION
Cosmic Ghost Rider's adventures in space with Baby Thanos proves to be just as entertaining as that sounds in the second issue of the limited series.
Its almost hard to describe what makes this series so compelling. Donny Cates takes black humor and slapstick routines, wraps then around these surprisingly genuine moments of pathos, and then married the whole thing to the craziest ideas he can imagine. It almost shouldn't work, its too bizarre, and if it were most other writers it definitely wouldn't work at all. Cates pulls off the difficult task of comedy in the midst of horror and there were moments I actually laughed out loud. Sky Baby and toddler Thanos and Frank's general attitude toward the situation all hit every comedic beat, this is a damn funny comic.
Underneath the comedy and violence is something more, though, something touching on a level that's unexpected. Cosmic Ghost Rider could so easily be written as a clone of Deadpool and Cates is thankfully smarter through to not fall into that trap. In the midst of all the insanity he drops moments where Castle talks to Galactus about how he could work for Thanos or the earnest attempts he makes to guide baby Thanos down a different path. Its just enough sincerity that these moments hit like emotional bombs.
Guiding those brilliant moments is Dylan Burnett, whose extremely exaggerated art style is fitting this series perfectly. Its not the dour grit of Geoff Shaw but Burnett is more than adept at portraying the craziness in this comic. There's a larger than life quality to his art here, especially since this issue seems more tailored to him than the previous issue. He almost reminds me of early Kevin O'Neill or maybe even late 1980s Keith Giffen.
This was a highly entertaining comic book and a great indicator of what this creative team has in store foe the rest of the series.
Its almost hard to describe what makes this series so compelling. Donny Cates takes black humor and slapstick routines, wraps then around these surprisingly genuine moments of pathos, and then married the whole thing to the craziest ideas he can imagine. It almost shouldn't work, its too bizarre, and if it were most other writers it definitely wouldn't work at all. Cates pulls off the difficult task of comedy in the midst of horror and there were moments I actually laughed out loud. Sky Baby and toddler Thanos and Frank's general attitude toward the situation all hit every comedic beat, this is a damn funny comic.
Underneath the comedy and violence is something more, though, something touching on a level that's unexpected. Cosmic Ghost Rider could so easily be written as a clone of Deadpool and Cates is thankfully smarter through to not fall into that trap. In the midst of all the insanity he drops moments where Castle talks to Galactus about how he could work for Thanos or the earnest attempts he makes to guide baby Thanos down a different path. Its just enough sincerity that these moments hit like emotional bombs.
Guiding those brilliant moments is Dylan Burnett, whose extremely exaggerated art style is fitting this series perfectly. Its not the dour grit of Geoff Shaw but Burnett is more than adept at portraying the craziness in this comic. There's a larger than life quality to his art here, especially since this issue seems more tailored to him than the previous issue. He almost reminds me of early Kevin O'Neill or maybe even late 1980s Keith Giffen.
This was a highly entertaining comic book and a great indicator of what this creative team has in store foe the rest of the series.
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| Sky Baby kinda has a point, Frank. |
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