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A one issue short followed by a longer, multi-part story that doesn't ever really get going. The first little short may be the best part of the entire volume since everything after suffers from a bit of a slow pace and some murky/uninteresting/inconsequential backstory. Luckily the art is still great and the concept leaves enough room for some interesting things to happen down the road. Looking forward to three, but a little worried it might not pick back up.
Fabian and company work on stealing a ship, but are then ambushed by pirates and end up on a very strange island. The question is open as to who set Fabian up and who is hunting for whom.
This volume is so packed with action sequences that it could have streched to another issue or two, but I'm not really complaining considering it's a unusually fast read. Our hero will be captured and will escape multiple times. It's almost funny how many times this happens. He will prove himself against all his foes and to his friends as well, especially after the difficult choice he makes at the very end.Fabian Gray is asked by his former master's daughter Hisano to help her defend her family
More of the same fun, pulp adventures of treasure hunter Fabian Grey from the team of Barbiere and Mooneyham. If you're a fan of Doc Savage style pulp comics than this is the series for you.
Continues to blow out the setting and deliver more of Fabian's international adventures, but it doesn't seem to forward its narrative all that much, even if it fills in a few detail. Still, love the art and a lot of the characters and creature designs are distinct. Fans of the Mignolaverse would like it, I think.
Immediately after reading Vol. 1: The Haunting of Fabian Gray, I had to dive right into Volume Two!My thoughts:I enjoyed this volume a lot! I found it far less confusing than the first and less rushed. Of course, this volume was much longer than the first, so we were able to get more content as well. I really enjoyed learning about Fabian's past in this volume and how he and his sister had trained together once long ago. I also enjoyed that we were introduced to a new character named Jezebel, wh...
A bit by-the-book, but in a way that throws back to pulps of old. Enjoyable, but in the post #metoo landscape it, like most other comics, feels a bit objectifying and stale.
How can such a cool idea end up being so tedious ? Lacks development for me, and the hero is too predictable.
About the same as the first. not bad. entertaining
Good genre fiction/pulp stories focus almost entirely on plot and only pays attention to character development as needed to propel the plot along. Frank Barbiere continues to deliver exciting genre fiction in volume 2 of Five Ghosts. I’m a little disappointed that there is only one volume left to the series. I really enjoy the adventures of Fabian Gray.Chris Mooneyham’s art is outstanding in this series. Shifting his styles to embellish and heighten the impact of the story. He is a great fit for...
Didn't like this story as much as the first trade. Offers more backstory of the main character. The art on the villain was shaky sometimes.
This volume drug a bit, and just wasn't as exciting as Vol 1, but was still enjoyable. Still going to keep reading, but I'm hoping this is just a temporary dip and not a straight up slide.
This volume was good but not great. I am enjoying the story but I did lose interest in some places. Backstory is well and good but too much and I lose sight of the present.
Fabian's quest to revive his sister has him cross paths with former allies as well as new ones, who force him to face consequences for past actions. At the same time, the mysterious Council continue to pull strings from behind the scenes to retrieve the dreamstones in-bedded in Fabian Gray's chest. The volume concludes on the Isle of Dreams where Gray is made to choose between his desires and the needs of those around him.
This series continues to be a blast as we learn more about the perilous world of cursed-ass Fabian Gray, who is maybe kind of a not-so-great a guy, as it turns out.
My review of volume one still stands, this comic is just not for me. Lack of importance of the main characters mission to help his sister and issues filled with random exploration events just doesnt hook me. Love the illustration though.
This review is for volumes one and two.This series is interesting, to say the least. It features a treasure hunter named Fabian Gray who have a piece of Dreamstone embedded in his chest. The Dreamstone causes him to be haunted by five literary ghosts: Robin Hood, Count Dracula, Merlin, Miyamoto Musashi, and Sherlock Homes. Each ghost can take over Fabian's body and gives him the power of that character, such as katana skills as Musashi or magic and wisdom as Merlin. As Fabian discovers new place...
3.5 stars -- A little better than Volume 1. Fabian is still searching for his sister (and best friend's wife). First chapter is a standalone story set in Japan, but does have a tie-in with the main plot line that some bad, secret group is trying to get their hands on Fabian. The rest of the book takes place on the sea with many pirates and much swashbuckling. As with the first book, great art and mediocre writing. I realized that the plot is pretty good, but the dialog is a bit comic book cliche...
Enjoying this series so far.
It’s still going strong in volume 2, and if action sequences are your thing, you’ll find more of them here than in the first. The art continues strong as well, but there are a few instances (the flashback scenes) where the panels look messy and straight-up unfinished. I understand the look he was going for, but I just found it distracting and annoying. Can’t wait to see where volume 3 leads me though (hopefully to some answers concerning HOW these dreamstones actually work...).
