Cosmic ghost rider art series#

Moving to the Hanna-Barbera studio the following season, he worked on layouts for the animated series Motormouse and Autocat and Wacky Races, as well as 'the first Scooby-Doo pilot nothing spectacular, though. You're more or less designing the background, putting the characters into it so they'll look like they're actually walking on the surface'.

'Layout,' Ploog recalled in a 1998 interview, 'is what happens between storyboarding and actual animation you're literally composing the scenes. Toward the end of his hitch, he began working on the Corps' Leatherneck Magazine, doing bits of writing, photography and art.Īround 1969 he began working on Batman and Superman animated TV-series at the Los Angeles studio Filmation, doing what he called 'cleanup work for other artists.' The following season he was promoted to layout work on those' characters' series. Marine Corps, leaving in 1968, after 10 years. After his parents divorced and sold the farm when Ploog was about 10 or 11 years old, his mother took the children to live with her in Burbank, California. He began drawing while a young child whose imagination was fired by such old-time radio dramas as Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and Gunsmoke, and such thriller anthologies as Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Tales of Horror. 1971), with art attributed to Ploogīorn in Mankato, Minnesota, Mike Ploog was one of a family of three brothers and a sister raised, initially, on a Minnesota farm. Army publication PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly #224 (c. His style at the time was heavily influenced by the art of Will Eisner, under whom he apprenticed.īiography Early life and career A typical spread from Will Eisner's U.S. In comics, Ploog is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' 1970s Man-Thing and The Monster of Frankenstein series, and as the initial artist on the features Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night. Ploog ( / p l uː ɡ/ born Jor 1942) is an American storyboard and comic book artist, and a visual designer for films. The art looks great, and the action is kinetic, but the story lacks any clues about the second Riders identity and doesn’t have a direction for Frank other than survival.Michael G. Overall, the issue isn’t that interesting, but the journey looks great while you’re reading it.Ībout The Reviewer : Gabriel Hernandez is the Publisher & EIC of, a comics review site dedicated to indie, small, and mid-sized publishers.įollow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Final Thoughts:Ĭosmic Ghost Rider #2 ups the bounty hunter challenges for Frank Castle but doesn’t do much else. And the action scenes have a distinctly Star Wars vibe that will appeal to sci-fi fans. Phillips doesn’t do much to flesh out Starstalker’s personality, but he has potential if handled well in the future. His outfit looks out of place for present-to-future Marvel, but his cybernetic hunting bird is a top-notch accessory. Well, what do you get? You get a semi-lengthy introduction to a swashbuckling scoundrel of a bounty hunter named Monark Starstalker. In other words, this second issue is making the same mistake made by Zeb Wells and Nick Lowe over on Amazing Spider-Man – introducing a big mystery but not dropping any clues in the reminders. The big hook of the first issue is the mystery surrounding the presence of a second Cosmic Ghost Rider, and while the second Rider appears in this issue, we learn nothing about them, what they want, where they come from, or how they came to be when Frank is still the Cosmic Ghost Rider. Now, Frank escapes one bounty hunter just long enough to encounter a second hunter hired by the Shi’ar to capture (not kill Cosmic Ghost Rider) for some unnamed purpose, and that’s it. Plot twist: the killer is a second Cosmic Ghost Rider. When last we left Frank Castle, he was held at gunpoint by a bounty hunter looking to make a payday in response to the Cosmic Ghost Rider indiscriminately killing his way through several planetary colonies.

But if you want to know more about the mystery, this issue is lacking. If you like eclectic space-faring characters, bounty hunter shenanigans, and top-notch art, there’s a lot to like in this issue. Will Frank finally let the flaming skull out of retirement before more innocent lives are lost, and who is the second Cosmic Ghost Rider?Ĭosmic Ghost Rider #2 is not bad but not as good as issue #1 for a specific reason I’ll get to in a minute. Cover art by: Valerio Giangiordano, Morry HollowellĬosmic Ghost Rider #2 introduces the next bounty hunter to take up the task of capturing the Cosmic Ghost Rider.