Originally Posted by
Doombot
I agree with statements earlier in the thread, Ghost Rider suffers from far too many retcons/reimaginings. There seems to be no definitive version of what the Ghost Rider is. Way too many differing ideas, even if you wanted to get into the Rider, you may like one series and then be repulsed by what's done in the others. I don't even know who the current Rider is at the moment. I see a weird skull helmeted guy in a charger pop up, and before that wasn't there's like two blue flame headed Riders, one or more of them were women? I don't what the hell is going one. Pretty much anything to do with the Rider is a complete mess. Marvel needs to get a great writer involved and hammer out what this character is supposed to be, what the demon is, what are his powers, what are the motivations of the man and the demon, what the direction of the story supposed to be etc etc. Everything is all over the place. Even Rider's Heaven'Hell mythos are a mess and they don't feel connected to the larger Marvel Universe. Every time a new Rider story is made it's like a new version of Hell and Satan. Does Marvel even have a legit version of Satan? Or Heaven? It always feels off.
I always felt the best thing to do with the Rider is to get him away from the MU big cities, get him out into the wider unexplored Marvel version of the USA. He should be on the move, haunting back roads and lonely destinations, something more akin to how the Hulk sometimes is done, especially the 70's TV series. Whoever the Rider is, he's terrified of and mostly in conflict with, the demon, and the demon with him. Figure out why the "Satan" figure gave or cursed the man with this demon, why the man accepted and what the demon itself wants. While the main character is dealing with all these things, he and the demon, should be hunting and destroying all manner of supernatural beings, monsters, ghosts, demons, as well as human killers and general bad people. Have the demon be terrifying, but tone down the nigh-unstoppable, indestructible, force of (super)nature bit.
Get something like this figured out and leave it that way. Stop wiping the slate for this character, it's beyond damaging. It's a shame because he has one of the most iconic and recognizable looks in all of comics. You always know, that's the Ghost Rider, but unfortunately never know who the Ghost Rider is.