“Ghost Fleet” is back for round two and it’s a knockout. Issue #1 intrigued me, a comic about big trucks goin’ fast and smashing shit on the surface but with the glimmers of something deeper. That something deeper is what issue #2 opens with and now it’s got me hook line and sinker. The mysteries are boundless and my questions are counting up to immeasurable levels. However, this never feels cheap or lazy, it’s a deep seeded mystery that becomes exponentially more exciting with every teenie-tiny tidbit and kernel of information.
WRITTEN BY: Donny Cates
ART BY: Daniel Warren Johnson
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: December 3, 2014
Reviewed By Torin Chambers
The opening scene alone has so much new information and new mysteries it’s almost staggering when you really think about it. I’m not even sure where to begin. A Senator named Roland Cohle walks down an industrial looking hall, wearing a red hooded cloak. He comes to a wooden door with an incredible design, it looks like something HP Lovecraft would think up, that doesn’t fit in with its surroundings. Possibly the facility was built around it?
Next to the door is a fingerprint analyzer that Cohle must use to gain access to “The Silhouette,” an ominous backdoor shady government cult name if ever there was one. Things only escalate exponentially from here. The room contains a raised platform, surrounded by a small lake of what looks like blood. On this platform there are numerous others dressed like Cohle sitting around a fire with a few armed guards overlooking them. On top of all that there’s a massive carving of what appears to be an owl overseeing everything in the room, their God/Master?
All of that happens in the first 3 pages, I can never stop reading Ghost Fleet now until I know what that was all about. Not that I wouldn’t read it regardless, you could take away all the intrigue and you’ve still got genuinely funny humor and balls to the wall action. Ghost Fleet is definitive proof that you can have stupid fun and tell a complex, absorbing story all at the same time.
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Torin Chambers is a rad dude from the nineties who does film stuff or something. Thomas the Tank Engine is his favorite transformer. Find him on Twitter @TorinsChambers