Five Ghosts Delivers Amazing Art, Story

  I don't do a lot of formal comic book reviews on this blog, but I picked up the first two issues of a new comic book from Image this weekend called Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray, and it is phenomenal!  Easily the best new comic I've read since Abnett and Lanning were tearing it up on Guardians of the Galaxy. 

Five Ghosts tells the tale of 1920's treasure hunter Fabian Gray, a man both literally and figuratively haunted by five amazing spirits and the knowledge that his deeds may have doomed his own sister. When things are at their most dire, Gray can call upon the powers and faculties of one of his five ghosts: the Detective (Sherlock Holmes), the Archer (Robin Hood), the Wizard (Merlin), the Samurai (Miyamoto Musashi), and the Vampire (Count Dracula). These spirits grant him supernatural abilities. He might remind longtime comic book readers of Marvel's Dominic Fortune, but mixed with a liberal dash of the occult.

Writer Frank Barbiere's solid story comes to life under the talented hands of amazing artist Chris Mooneyham. Mr. Mooneyham's pencils, inks, and colors suggest the supernatural dynamism of Mike Mignola, but with a touch of Howard Chaykin at the peek of his powers.

This five issue mini-series stands at two issues in, and with a recent reprint of issue one, should be readily available. While reading it I immediately thought that Fabian Gray would make the most awesome RPG or skirmish wargame character!  Run, don't walk, to your nearest comic book store and snatch up copies of Five Ghosts, you will not be disappointed!

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott