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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4515501" data-attributes="member: 8158">The "source material"? When was the source material ever all that mature ore even horrifying? It started out as a cheesy 1970's comic book, and like many cheesy 1970's comics (Power Man, Iron Fist, Master of Kung Fu) it was inspired by some flavor-of-the-month pop culture trend (mainly Evel Knievel). It was kid stuff.The 1990's comic had a dark overtone, like every other comic in the early 90's, and enjoyed a spike in popularity where Ghost Rider guest-starred in basically every Marvel comic published at the time. It was awful, derivative stuff. I remember looking at the Marvel Universe entry for Ghost Rider's enemy Blackout, and his "significant appearances" were basically him murdering a long string of supporting characters. It was grim, mean-spirited, loaded with massacres, but none of that lent itself to any quality source material.</blockquote>