But here’s the thing…underneath the pretense of what this issue is, illustrated by Gerardo Sandoval (who is fantastic,by the way) and the inks by Victor Nava, with colors by the man himself, Antonio Fabela, and letters by VC’s Travis Lanham, is a really really great story about what – at his core- Frank Castle might be like. It touches on things like him losing his mind, his slightly skewed view of things that happen around him – as illustrated in the way that he recants stories to his son, Frankie, and the fact that the man that so often gets written off as some psychopath who only knows killing can actually have a soul.
Granted, things that Frank may or may not have done in the past don’t always align with most people’s perceptions of good and bad as he walks a very narrow line in gray, but it’s a very stark constrast to the violence that he so often gets called out for, be it from other teammates, from people who know of his reputation, or otherwise. While some of that does, indeed, take front and center and obviously causes some distress between those that he does work with, the balance of his time and his attention to his son – who has no clue that uncle “Fredo” might actually be his father, is quite sweet.
The biggest question I have for this title is that if Frank actually went back in time to right wrongs, all while acknowleding the fact that his travels created time paradoxes, how will this effect the future and who the man actually will become? Is this perhaps the reason why Cosmic Ghost Rider ends up “destroying” the Marvel Universe as we’ve known it so far? I can only guess how things will unfold in the next issue of this 3.5 out of 5 surprisingly human little title.
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(W) Paul Scheer, Nick Giovannetti (A) Gerardo Sandoval (CA) Gerardo Zaffino
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