The Ghost Fleet #2
Much realer...and cooler, than any ghost you're ever likely to encounter
Writer: Don Cates
Artist: Daniel Warren Johnson
Publisher: Dark Horse
If you like Lost, Hellboy, The X-Files, True Detective, trucks, explosions, action and mystery, you should be reading this. If you don’t like any of those things, what’s wrong with you?
The Ghost Fleet is quickly becoming my favorite Dark Horse book. Maybe, my favorite book at all.
Cates doesn’t pull any punches with this issue. Immediately, we’re thrown into the fray, thrown out to the ravenous packs of ghost fleet trucks like savage wolves trolling the highways of America for some unexplained ghostly cause. I love it. The first segment, that secret group, so closely mirroring the Illuminati groups that a lot of people claim rule the world now, Cates throwing them a bone but also establishing this book as something completely different. It’s creative, bold, and entertaining. It’s clear, by the end of this issue here that Cates is setting up a power struggle that may go on for many issues, maybe even arcs. I’m completely okay with that. These elements of mystery, secrecy, violence and atonement all filtered through the savage, raw, horse-powered appeal of highway trucking is a deft and smart choice that will allow this book to touch on some really interesting ideas while still appealing to fans of action and intrigue. That cliffhanger helps too.
Daniel Warren Johnson, the helmsman of this book’s look, is on his A-game, too. He finds a way to make me care about cars, about roads, trucking, machines and grit like I never have before. Trace’s re-design or evolution of sorts is striking and terrifying. I’m still not sure if I’m supposed to like him or not but I’m sure as hell scared of him like Robert is. It’s brilliant, careful and still in your face action and mystery that I’m confident Johnson can keep up for a long time.
I was scared when I read issue 1 of this book, scared that this book would never touch on the bottled lightning feel of that initial look into this world. My fears have subsided, with one more issue this good, I’ll be a die-hard fleeter even more than I already am. You should be in for the long haul.
Writer: Don Cates
Artist: Daniel Warren Johnson
Publisher: Dark Horse
If you like Lost, Hellboy, The X-Files, True Detective, trucks, explosions, action and mystery, you should be reading this. If you don’t like any of those things, what’s wrong with you?
The Ghost Fleet is quickly becoming my favorite Dark Horse book. Maybe, my favorite book at all.
Cates doesn’t pull any punches with this issue. Immediately, we’re thrown into the fray, thrown out to the ravenous packs of ghost fleet trucks like savage wolves trolling the highways of America for some unexplained ghostly cause. I love it. The first segment, that secret group, so closely mirroring the Illuminati groups that a lot of people claim rule the world now, Cates throwing them a bone but also establishing this book as something completely different. It’s creative, bold, and entertaining. It’s clear, by the end of this issue here that Cates is setting up a power struggle that may go on for many issues, maybe even arcs. I’m completely okay with that. These elements of mystery, secrecy, violence and atonement all filtered through the savage, raw, horse-powered appeal of highway trucking is a deft and smart choice that will allow this book to touch on some really interesting ideas while still appealing to fans of action and intrigue. That cliffhanger helps too.
Daniel Warren Johnson, the helmsman of this book’s look, is on his A-game, too. He finds a way to make me care about cars, about roads, trucking, machines and grit like I never have before. Trace’s re-design or evolution of sorts is striking and terrifying. I’m still not sure if I’m supposed to like him or not but I’m sure as hell scared of him like Robert is. It’s brilliant, careful and still in your face action and mystery that I’m confident Johnson can keep up for a long time.
I was scared when I read issue 1 of this book, scared that this book would never touch on the bottled lightning feel of that initial look into this world. My fears have subsided, with one more issue this good, I’ll be a die-hard fleeter even more than I already am. You should be in for the long haul.
A Look Inside
