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Hey, everyone! Our boy Robbie Reyes is back in GHOST RIDER: ROBBIE REYES SPECIAL #1 hitting shelves this October!

I wrote a short story for this one, drawn by Daniel Bayliss and colored by Luis Wences.

Also amazing cover art by Humberto Ramos, Gerardo Sandoval and J. Gonzo!🔥💀🔥

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New Cover Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto

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I really do love the deal Robbie Reyes comes to with the demonic entity Eli Marrow at the very end of All-New Ghost Rider (2014). Here, Robbie discovers the best way to channel the power of the Ghost Rider without losing himself to Eli’s demonic influence after Robbie is forced to kill a mafia boss who holds his disabled younger brother Gabe hostage, permanently bonding himself to Eli’s spirit in the process:

From All-New Ghost Rider (2014) #12 by Felipe Smith.

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An interview with Felipe Smith

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Felipe Smith - Naruto and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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My Friend, My Dude.

Felipe Smith returning as well!

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ROLLER DERBY GHOST RIDER FROM THE CHAMPIONS COVERS GETTING HER 616 DEBUT!??!

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Finn by Felipe Smith

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Ghost Rider Vol 8 #5 (Cover Art by Felipe Smith)

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Preview: Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1

Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1 preview. Three brand-new tales! #comics #comicbooks

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Marvel Announces Robbie Reyes Special for Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month

For Hispanic & Latin American Heritage Month, Marvel Comics has announced a special "Marvel's Voices" one-shot spotlighting Robbie Reyes.

Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1 will feature three new stories.

Carlos Hernandez and Moises Hidalgo's tale will see what Robbie Reyes has been up to while stranded in the God Quarry and how his family and friends are dealing with his sacrifice.

Felipe Smith and Daniel Bayliss' story will see Robbie face off against and interdimensional enemy that will require his full power.

Melissa Flores and Jan Bazaldua's tale will feature the debut of Fantasma, who is a Ghost Rider created by Luciano Vecchio for the New Champions variant cover program in 2023. Isabella "Izzy" Alvarez is a roller derby champ with a cursed secret. She teams up with Robbie to defeat a horde of Hellhounds.

Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1 goes on sale on October 2, 2024. The special features a main cover by Humberto Ramos, a variant cover by J. Gonzo, and a variant cover by Gerrardo Sandoval featuring Fantasma.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Humberto Ramos' Cover of Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1)

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Ghost Rider [ Robbie Reyes ]

Marvel & @felipesmithart

[felipesmithart]

I believe this has been officially announced, so I’m posting! @idwpublishing and @vizmediaofficial joined forces to bring the ultimate ninja crossover miniseries: TMNT x NARUTO! You know what I answered when asked if I’d like to do some variant covers! I could never turn down a chance to draw my homie TURTS (shoutout Turtle Crew ‘12!) & drawing Naruto and Team 7 is just as exciting! Also, we’ve had 25 YEARS of Naruto?!

This is my variant to issue #1. I’ll post more as the issues are announced including some process stuff.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto Variant Covers

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS

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Robbie vs the Blüe Krüe

The Roast Rider got his ass kicked by a bunch of teenagers on PCP^2, at least until Johnny Blaze came in to assist him and told him to tap into the fire of Vengeance Within (or, the overclocked prey drive of the Asshole Within). Was this a case of a wise master assisting a young hero who had already proved himself against a similar threat? Or is something different going on?

Robbie has already fought Guero Valdez. He’s tackled him (then gotten his ass kicked because Guero had two friends and a gun with him) and he’s broken his leg as the Rider (...about as fair as that gun?). Robbie was willing to fight Guero back in issues 1 and 5, while Guero was flaunting Gabe’s stolen wheelchair, but now, when Robbie has a much clearer idea of how dangerous his own powers are, and no ongoing quarrel with Guero, Robbie doesn’t want to fight.

Being outed as a superpowered vigilante is the kind of thing that attracts Social Services, and Robbie is petrified of a visit from Social Services. But he refuses to fight Guero here. He snuffs out his own indignation at being assaulted on the school grounds and waits for rescue. (Or, he loses control again and Eli hijacks his anger and steals his body. But it was a solid effort.)

Robbie can fight three-on-one. He’s picked a fight with two men at the same time who both outweighed him in Issue 7. He could probably hold back his anger at the same time; maybe Eli would get control or maybe he wouldn’t. But Robbie doesn’t want to take the risk of Eli stealing his body and doing something...

...yeah that.

Robbie doesn’t want Guero to get seriously hurt, now that his feud over Gabe’s wheelchair is over. He doesn’t want to kill him. Since Eli went on his rampage, Robbie now has a much more visceral understanding of how sincere Eli’s previous rants about “punishing some degenerates” really were, and how easily his powers can kill.

Moving on to the Blüe Krüe.

“REYES YOU PUNK BITCH! I’M GONNA TEAR YOU TO SHREDS!”

This Liefeldian monster is still Guero.

At this point, Robbie and Eli are fighting for control of Robbie’s right hand, the one holding the steak knife, and they are paralyzed by their stalemate. All Robbie has to do is let go, and Eli will fight Guero for him. He knows Eli would do it; Eli will fight anybody, and he’s already tried to kill Guero. But Robbie holds on, long enough that Guero can get in close and knock them out. (This has the opposite of the intended effect, but it’s the effort that we’re interested in.)

Finally, Robbie has a mental breakthrough and figures out how to wrestle control of the Rider away from Eli, galvanized by the sight of Guero falling off the bridge into the concrete-lined Los Angeles River.

Robbie doesn’t-want-to-kill Guero so badly that he overcomes Eli’s possession through the power of...what the hell is their relationship again? Spite? The power of spite. Robbie really doesn’t want to kill Guero.

But Robbie doesn’t know his own strength. In saving Guero’s life, he cripples him. And I think Robbie has hung around enough occupational therapists to know exactly what he just did.

Now, we’ve established Robbie’s main concern here: don’t hurt anybody else. Because these are his classmates. These are his neighbors. They have unnatural strength and they’re carrying rocket launchers and they’re under the command of a supervillain and they’ve been terrorizing LA for the past month or two, they’re not innocents, but they’re not the hardened mercenaries that Robbie dispatched so easily in Issue 5. And ANGR isn’t about 🔥INNOCENT BLOOD,🔥 it’s about caring for your neighborhood.

Robbie gets his ass kicked because he’s afraid he will maim or kill a child by accident. He holds back.

Johnny Blaze turns up and reminds Robbie that he needs to “coexist with the demon” and “harness his rage,” in other words, let Eli help him get a little rough with the troubled teens. And it works; they rout the Blüe Krüe. They meet violence with violence and beat the shit out of a bunch of high schoolers on uppers.

But while Johnny Blaze is a stronger Ghost Rider than Robbie in some ways, and definitely more experienced, it’s worth questioning whether Johnny actually knows what he’s talking about. Because he doesn’t. “I don’t know what this kid is,” he’s said. He talks about Eli like he’s an actual Spirit of Vengeance because that’s the only type of Spirit Johnny knows how to work with, even though he and Robbie know that Eli is a human ghost with an agenda. Johnny is flying by the seat of his pants and Robbie is hanging on his every word.

ANGR is not a pro-establishment comic. Well-meaning people fail Robbie all the time. Mr. Wakeford scared the shit out of Robbie mentioning Social Services. Dr. DaCosta missed Gabe asking her about hearing voices, assuming that Gabe was being metaphorical. Mr. Canelo tried to short Robbie’s pay. ANGR isn’t even a pro-superhero comic. Eli uses Gabe’s love of superheroes to twist him toward violence, and he tried to do something similar to Robbie.

Johnny’s advice didn’t work in the longterm. Robbie ends this issue regretting how Guero got hurt. Robbie looks pathetic and comical here...

...but he’s holding to his principles in the only way he knows how.

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The only thing I'm sad about NYCC is Felipe Smith not being there. I would've loved to ask him to sign my Robbie Reyes' Ghost Rider volume book. 😞