Showing posts with label Christopher Hastings. Show all posts
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May 31, 2022

The Unbelievable Gwenpool # 15

Cover Date: May 2017; On Sale Date: March 2017

Writer: Christopher Hastings; Artist: Myisha Haynes; Letterer: VC's Clayton Clowes; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Editor: Heather Antos; Supervising Editor: Jordan D. White; Editor-in-Chief: Axel Alonso; Cover Artist: Paulina Ganucheau

Gwenpool and Hawkeye are told a story of Asgardian dwarves and a gem they carved hundreds of years ago that could allow a soul to possess another being's body.  The museum curator telling them the story asks if Hawkeye has been able to recover the meteor stolen from their exhibit, and Hawkeye tells her that the dwarves have used the ore to carve another gem.  Gwen says that the gem, and her ghost friend Cecil who is trapped inside it, is locked in the Ghost Rider's trunk, but then realizes that since she read the comics she knows Ghost Rider's identity and where he goes to high school.  They are unaware that another dwarf, working as a janitor in the museum, overhears their conversation.

At the school, specifically inside Ghost Rider's trunk, Cecil the ghost is speaking with Eli Morrow, the evil spirit that powers the car.  Eli attempts to convince Cecil that he needs to possess Gwen's body in order to achieve vengeance, but Gwen arrives with a blindfolded Hawkeye and grabs the gem from the car.  Robbie Reyes sees what's going on from a window and runs outside, just as a truck full of dwarves drive by and grab the gem from Gwen before speeding off.  Robbie transforms into Ghost Rider and is convinced by Gwen to team up with her and Hawkeye to save Cecil.  This leads to a chase through the city that ends at the docks, where the dwarves are preparing the ritual to place one of them inside the gem.  To stop the heroes, they release the vessel they had chosen to possess, a giant purple monster hidden inside a crate at the dock.  Cecil convinces Gwen to place the gem on the monster, allowing Cecil to take over its body and chase away the dwarves.  Cecil is happy to have a body again, and he tells Ghost Rider that the spirit inside his car is "pretty friggin' evil, dude."  Robbie agrees and drives away, leaving Gwen and Hawkeye to clean up the mess.

The Unbelievable Gwenpool # 14

Cover Date: April 2017; On Sale Date: February 2017

Writer: Christopher Hastings; Artist: Myisha Haynes; Letterer: VC's Clayton Clowes; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Editor: Heather Antos; Supervising Editor: Jordan D. White; Editor-in-Chief: Axel Alonso; Cover Artist: Paulina Ganucheau

Gwenpool and her ghost friend Cecil meet with a sorceress, their goal being Cecil's return to a corporeal form.  The witch tells them that there is a vessel in Los Angeles that can help them, Cecil would enter it and would then be able to return to life.  She locates a magical portal in Los Angeles and prepares to send Gwen and Cecil through it via her bathtub, but hesitates when she recognizes the type of magic that has created the portal.  Gwen and Cecil jump through anyway, before the sorceress can tell them that the magic came from Satan.

In the Hollywood Hills, a group of Asgardian trolls are in the midst of a ceremony that involves both a sacrifice of one of their number and a large diamond that they have stolen.  They're being watched by Kate Bishop, the teenage Hawkeye, but before she can act the party is broken up by the arrival of Ghost Rider in the Hell Charger.  While Ghost Rider and Hawkeye fight the trolls, Gwenpool and Cecil pop out of the Hell Charger's trunk, which was the portal that the witch had sent them through.  During the melee Cecil tries to grab the diamond but finds himself sucked into the gem.  When the police arrive the trolls and heroes scatter, with Ghost Rider grabbing the diamond and throwing it into his car before he leaves.  Gwen hitches a ride with Hawkeye, but they quickly realize they can't catch up with him.

Later, Robbie arrives back at his house and leaves the diamond inside his car.  Cecil, still trapped inside the diamond, hears the voice of Eli Morrow asking him if he has really achieved the vengeance his spirit needs to move on to the next world.