Garth Ennis is really good with these old west stories. Too bad the artwork and the story were so...mismatched. Or maybe it was the artwork and the medium. Everything was oh-so-dark, the bad guys didn't have any particular features to differentiate them from one-another and the biggest issue: the panel transitioning. It's supposed to be 'sequential art' but a lot of times I had no idea how we got from one panel to the other. And that's just bad storytelling. Combine that with the dark coloring and the blurry faces and most of the time you can't figure out what's going on.
Still,taken individually, I think the panels look very nice, the dark look contributes to the horror feel of the story and the artist should work more on telling a story rather than illustrating one. ( )

During America's Reconstruction, Ghost Rider avenges the lives taken by those who would hide behind the white robes of the Klan. ( )

Awful. Just awful. I read this for work and hated it. The artwork is dark (as in difficult to see dark) and the transitions are painfully bad. The action I would think would be in the panel isn't there, often leaving big gaps in the storyline. The artwork that is there leaves me totally confused. The story was gruesome for the sake of being gruesome and felt like a stereotypical horror film, with characters getting picked off one-by-one in a new and disgusting way each time. And though I thought there was little in the way of character development and interaction, there was a moment towards the end that left me beyond confused (does that move me to the realm of flabbergasted? I don't know). Oh main character,Travis Parham, has slept with a prostitute he just met, when they are dragged outside by the bloodthisty villains. He's had his arm torn off and the town is being slaughtered. As Travis and Jenny the prostitute are slowing creeping away from this, he's trying to convince her to take his money and run away to California (which she earlier expressed an interest in). Jenny becomes this noble figure, carrying Travis and refusing to leave his side, to the exchange of "Oh, Jenny--!" and tender embraces. Why do these characters even care about each other? Of course, then sweet Jenny's head appears to be town off (it was really impossible to tell because of the artwork). But why would the brief exchange of money and sex lead to this sort of a relationship, particularly when the story has stressed how hard and unforgiving the frontier is? I suppose if I liked the Ghost Rider story in any way, maybe this would've appealed to me more. Maybe. But instead it just left a bad taste in my mouth. Ugh! ( )