The story begins with Johnny Blaze,
Ghost Rider, reviewing his life and career for our benefit while he rescues an
attractive woman from a rampaging demon—then the woman turns out to be a
vampire and he kills her too as the two monsters were working together to trap
him…
…so Johnny gets drunk in a bar.,
Then a stranger dressed like the hero of a spaghetti western walks in,
introduces himself as Adam and tells Johnny he can be free of his curse. Johnny
is dismissive, having heard this before and he knows no one offers him anything
without expecting something in return. But Adam says the world is burning and
he can take the Ghost Rider curse from him. Johnny says the world may be
burning but people are still mean to one another. There is a man beating a
woman in the street. Johnny goes out to ask him to stop and the man beats
Johnny brutally. He wakes up in bandages in the woman’s apartment. She explains
the man was her ex-husband and she invites him to eat with her and her son. But
Johnny can’t trust nice people and explodes into Ghost Rider rage and motors
out of there into the desert. He calls to Adam…
...and now he is atop a tall
building in downtown Los Angeles and asks Adam what the catch is. The catch is
that someone else becomes Ghost Rider, someone Johnny does not know. He gives
Johnny some tree root to eat, explaining that the world is tearing itself apart
through sin and he desires to save humanity. He tells Johnny to get on his bike
and ride until the Rider is ripped from his bones. So Ghost Rider zooms down
the side of the building, through the streets and through Hell itself until he
crashes in the desert and realizes…he is no longer the Ghost Rider….
And Adam says, “The war on sin
begins….”