Happy Halloween everyone, it’s been really wild this year for me. Watched ALL the Simpsons Halloween specials, Halloween themed movies, horror movies and of course this years draw off.

Speaking of, here’s our FINALE for this years Halloween Draw off, and it’s Ghost Rider. That’s right, Blackout earlier this month was a prelude to our final subject matter, it was always planned to be Ghost Rider from the start. Aside from Spider-Man, Ghost Rider is my favorite Marvel character. However unlike Spider-Man who I got into initially through cartoons and other media, Ghost Rider was purely a self driven quest through only the comics, and as such I’ve always taken personal pride in my fandom of the character.

Though I was mostly brought up on the 90’s series featuring Daniel Ketch as the rider’s host, I actually much prefer Johnny Blaze as the rider. I feel Johnny is a much more rich character as he’s a man trying to fix his mistakes. Further more the idea of having a raging demon inside him and keeping him on the run was much more suspenseful than the 90’s series where Danny simply played second fiddle to his demon, which was an avenging spirit in search of his memories.

However the very early stories featuring Blaze were really quite terrible, in fact I’m left to question how on earth Ghost Rider even lasted as long as he did based on those stories, only when we got to stories talking about the the demon inside Blaze, Zarathos, did the story get REALLY good, even though it was the last story arch. The 90’s series with Ketch was what really cemented the character’s place as the spirit of vengence and really made the character an icon.

Anyway, this concludes this years Halloween Draw Off, and I’ll be back to do it all over again next year!!!!