Ghost #2 – Review

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick & Christopher Sebela (story), Ryan Sook & Drew Johnson (pencils), Andy Owens (inks), Dave McCaig (colors)

The Story: Finally, we learn who keeps drinking all the milk in the house and leaving the carton.

The Review: Reading this issue, it occurred to me that DeConnick isn’t very focused on making her various titles very new reader-friendly.  The most recent Captain Marvel #1 pretty much dropped us in at a rather uncertain point in the heroine’s life and did very little to catch you up to speed on what was happening.  At least Ghost comes with recap pages that give you some idea of where things stand in Elisa’s life.

But that’s not enough to excuse DeConnick (or Sebela) from the hard work of properly ingratiating the characters or giving us a clearer idea of who they are, what they do, how they’re related to our protagonist.  A few times, you get the distinct sense that they’re making inside references to events that preceded this series, events which anyone who didn’t actually read the Ghost mini wouldn’t be privy to.  Consider Vaughn half-joking to Caroline that he “half-saved” her life, to which she responds, a bit coldly, “You think that’s funny?”

“No.  No, I do not,” he immediately responds.