It’s 2007. The motorcycle mania of the ’70s is over. And yet there are still demons riding hogs and killing innocents.
Ghost Rider dispatches them, and then Lucifer absorbs them. Then Satan (who also rides a bike) rides off, leading Ghost Rider to the site of the Quentin Carnival, long abandoned. This makes him reminisce with the Devil in a way that helps new readers understand his history. Then GR burns down the carnival site.
The Devil keeps trying to communicate something important to Blaze, but honestly I’m not exactly sure what.
I think he says that Roxanne kept him from claiming Blaze’s soul, but it’s not clear how, and there’s something about the family bible not burning down with the rest of the carnival. The “mystery” of all that is compelling enough, but I should have left this issue with at least some idea of what the Devil was trying to accomplish by all this manipulation and partial revelation. Daniel Way’s writing is just not as good as it needs to be to move a character like Ghost Rider from silly to super-cool. And I grant that he is a VERY hard character to write about. Few have a lot of success. But this is the best issue of Way’s run so far.