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reickel's review against another edition
4.0
Great "debut" for DWJ and he fits really well with Cates here. Fun story, exciting art.
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Trigger warning: animal abuse, super cute dog tortured and killedcaitcoy's review against another edition
5.0
Ghost Fleet starts with the buddy cop friendship of two combat-trained truckers, Trace Morales and Robert Ward. Both men work for the Ghost Fleet, a trucking service which has a long and deep history of transporting the most dangerous cargo anywhere you pay them to take it. While on one of their trips across country to transport cargo that they are forbidden to look at, Trace and Robert run into serious trouble. Even for ex-military men, it’s the kind of trouble that neither is quite ready for. The fallout of that night begins a chase leading straight into the arms of a cult that’s been collecting strange, unknown items. What are the intentions of the shadowy cult and can the Ghost Fleet survive the conspiracy it finds itself entangled in?
Ghost Fleet is like if Big Trouble in Little China had a baby with Kung Fury with more John Carpenter scattered throughout. It’s unapologetically violent, with a lot of morbid humor and nods to 80’s action movies all over the place. While it starts with an already crazy story, it’s pretty clear that Cates and Johnson had so much fun with this series. Even beyond the nods to classic movies (Trace looks exactly like Snake Plissken), Cates and Johnson even hide jokes in the sound effects and art. At no point does Ghost Fleet take itself seriously but the ending makes it truly go off the rails. I couldn’t help but wonder what it could have been if they’d gotten the full twelve issues to tell the story. The ending was undeniably rushed and I really wish they'd had the time they deserved to wrap it up.
When you pick up a book like Ghost Fleet, you have to accept that it’s going to be ridiculous and not something that you take seriously. There is a ton of violence in it so if you’re bothered by that, this is definitely not the comic for you. But if you’re a fan of movies like John Wick and Escape from New York, it’s a truly fun, insane ride.
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trike's review against another edition
2.0
The hell I just read?
Some sort of Mad Max mash-up with Big Trouble In Little China/Escape from New York by way of Supernatural, a combination that eventually explodes. Literally.
The last act is just balls-out crazy; on an action scale of 1 to 10, the story oscillates between a 6 and 7 on the blood-and-guts meter and then jumps to a solid 108. It’s got plenty of attitude, but pegging the needle on far end of the weird-shit-o-meter feels like a nutso choice.
The art is fine but the coloring actively fights the story. A couple times I had to go back to try and puzzle out what was going on. It’s some of the worst coloring I’ve seen in years. I typically don’t even mention the coloring because most colorists are quite competent. Not so here.
I really hated what happened to Axl the dog. Completely unnecessary. And fucking brutal. Making a smirking comment about it doesn’t help.
Some sort of Mad Max mash-up with Big Trouble In Little China/Escape from New York by way of Supernatural, a combination that eventually explodes. Literally.
The last act is just balls-out crazy; on an action scale of 1 to 10, the story oscillates between a 6 and 7 on the blood-and-guts meter and then jumps to a solid 108. It’s got plenty of attitude, but pegging the needle on far end of the weird-shit-o-meter feels like a nutso choice.
The art is fine but the coloring actively fights the story. A couple times I had to go back to try and puzzle out what was going on. It’s some of the worst coloring I’ve seen in years. I typically don’t even mention the coloring because most colorists are quite competent. Not so here.
I really hated what happened to Axl the dog. Completely unnecessary. And fucking brutal. Making a smirking comment about it doesn’t help.
polarcubby's review against another edition
4.0
it was a good read. interesting story. but the dog was too much...
toastx2's review against another edition
4.0
Iimage comics release of The Ghost Fleet: The Whole G*ddamned Thing. (Review copy)
The Ghost Fleet is a secret shipping system enacted by partnership with Andrew Jackson and Privateers. The Ghost Fleet transports sensitive material whereever and whenever it needs to go. They never know what cargo they carry
After being Hijacked, Trace wakes from a crash to find his Hijackers with their flesh boiled off. He breaks the code and looks in the popped open wreckage of his Semi-Truck and sees the Cargo with his own eyes. He is no longer part of the Fleet, he is hunted by them.
This is the trade paperback for (I believe) a 6 part comic run. Stellar art work, great plot. Feels a lot like Big Trouble in Little China which makes sense as it dedicated to Kurt Russell .
Great writing by Donny Cates, artwork by Daniel Warren Johnson, color by Lauren Affe.. There are a couple areas in this that could have been skipped. Most meta references in comics are flops.. This had one of those.
The Ghost Fleet is a secret shipping system enacted by partnership with Andrew Jackson and Privateers. The Ghost Fleet transports sensitive material whereever and whenever it needs to go. They never know what cargo they carry
After being Hijacked, Trace wakes from a crash to find his Hijackers with their flesh boiled off. He breaks the code and looks in the popped open wreckage of his Semi-Truck and sees the Cargo with his own eyes. He is no longer part of the Fleet, he is hunted by them.
This is the trade paperback for (I believe) a 6 part comic run. Stellar art work, great plot. Feels a lot like Big Trouble in Little China which makes sense as it dedicated to Kurt Russell .
Great writing by Donny Cates, artwork by Daniel Warren Johnson, color by Lauren Affe.. There are a couple areas in this that could have been skipped. Most meta references in comics are flops.. This had one of those.
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