I have a very limited knowledge of Ghost Rider. When I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember the Danny Ketch run the most. I wasn’t even aware of Johnny Blaze back then. But Ghost Rider seemed pretty mature for my little 11-year old brain at the time. I bought the first six or seven issues of the Danny Ketch Ghost Rider, then ended up moving away and then discovering Image.

Well, I’m a huge sci fi fan as an adult, especially of the pulp style, and when I happened to see this Cosmic Ghost Rider character, I thought, “Oh, cool! Sci fi Ghost Rider! What? He’s Frank Castle? He was the right hand of Thanos?! He was Galactus’ Herald? Whaaaat?” So I bought a trade paperback of Cosmic Ghost Rider and I was disappointed hard core. It was almost like a comedy. It didn’t seem to fit right for me. Granted, I was an Image kid who morphed into a DC-mostly adult fan, so my knowledge of the Punisher was/is limited. But I don’t remember The Punisher ever being goofy and cracking jokes like Deadpool. Yet that is what it was. I was expecting this dark, twisted, mature sci fi superhero book, but ended up with goofy Deadpool in space.

That’s a lot of hemming and hawing to ask, was he always supposed to be a jokester? It seems like such a huge personality change.

Cosmic Ghost Rider has by far one of the coolest designs I’ve ever seen and he’s being wasted as a less-funny Deadpool.