Marvel Comics and Avengers Forever #2 Spoilers and Review follows.
Ghost Rider Tortured Badly…
…By Black Skull!
The promise of the book can be determined by perusing its solicit.
AVENGERS FOREVER #2
JASON AARON (W) • AARON KUDER (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
VENGEANCE IN THE WASTELAND!On an alternate Earth ravaged by the multiversal Masters of Evil, Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes has been taken prisoner by the planet’s dark wastelords, the brutal War Machines. And what the Rider endures at their hands will change him forever — into the most unbridled force for vengeance any universe has ever seen. That’s unless Ant-Man, Tony Stark and his bunch of ragtag heroes can pull off the mother of all rescues.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
The Black Skull continues to torture Robbie Reyes Ghost-Rider…
…including successfully amputating his leg?!
The multiversal Deathlok tell him he is special in the multiverse, but…
…the torture continues the next day when Reyes is able to show some defiance.
The following day of more torture…
…Reyes haunted car shows its defiance, but the Ghost Goblin is able to subdue it.
The vehicle is secured and readers learn about more about the Venom / Red Skull hybrid Black Skull as well as the Green Goblin / Ghost Rider hybrid Ghost Goblin.
Looks like Robbie Reyes is the multiverse’ All-Rider?!
The next day, the Black Skull puts the All-Rider in a room full of alternate Earth Robbie Reyes (plural)…
…who kill each other leaving the All-Rider the last man, um, spirit (of vengeance) standing.
The book ends with Deathlok again tending to the All-Rider as…
…the Tony Stark Ant-Man is working on a prison break for them!
The Pulse:
I am intrigued by the multiversal Avengers team aka All-Vengers and am glad Marvel gave Robbie Reyes an identity that doesn’t confuse him with Johnny Blaze, but the All-Rider is just as hokey as All-Vengers. Anyhow, it was a very dark, emotional story of torture. Not sure this All-Rider can carry a book on his own, but they tried in this issue. The end was expected considering the Tony Stark Ant-Man was on the cover. Decent art, but an overall dark, haunting issue. 6.5 out of 10.
