Hello /co/csuckers!
This will be my first storytime ever so I feel like an introduction of what this comic means to me is in order. Please bear with me here.
The Road to Damnation, by Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain, was the first modern comic I read in my life. I stumbled across it when I was about 13-14 years old and I remember perfectly how impressive it was for me.
Up until then I had only read Spiderman and Daredevil's original run (stuff from the 60s), in a collected edition that was also in black and white, so the art and the colors in this graphic novel just straight off blew my mind, and how extreme Ennis's story was compared to the 60s cheesyness was really something else. I found the concept of both Angels and Demons being tyrannical pieces of shit rather interesting. No wonder this was written by an atheist...
I don't see anyone talking about it today and it makes me sad. I don't really know how well it's regarded in /co/ or if it's just considered "edgy" in a condescending manner (which might be the case considering how a lot of people react to Ennis's work), but it holds a really special place in my memory and I will always think of it as a masterpiece.
I hope I do it justice and don't fuck up too much today... Now, if you're ready and willing, sit back and enjoy the ride(pun absolutely intended)
I'll try to add fitting music and also the couple songs that are referenced in the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw
How come the Ghost Rider gets raped but the Joker doesn't?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW_7XBrDBAA
>angels are dicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0rURntFQE
"Whitness meeee!!!"
also anybody lurkin'?
What is it with Ennis and asses and faces?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgo_wNeBypA
>angels are total dicks
Robbie Williams was so wrong...
>u wot m8
Issue #2!
What is with Ennis and despicable tycoons?
gotta love this guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTnZhlDmrM
>Oooooohhh... Shiny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IyX5LXGyg
>spoopy scawy skeletals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHzLzhcvMxA
I AM COMPLEEEEEEETE
Issue #3!
Anybody there? How are you doing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBRuXnO_2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qivMfz3VFYE
"I wonder if senpaii Kazann-kun will notice me..."
kek
TOASTY!
[insert joke about previous experience with Hentai concerning the use of tentacles as a sexual apendix]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLpvUCGCWvQ
>>83754897
Fuck, what thread was it I saw you in before? Earth X?
>>83756516
maybe?
I open a fuckton of threads all the time. dunno.
did I say something nice or stupid?
>also, what is it with Ennis and exploding churches?
Oh shi-
>Miss Catmint best waifu
On the road to issue #4!
>Did I mention angels are dicks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw__Yj-J-QU
>nobody aknowledges the lady's corpse
>What is it with Ennis and ex-military?
>>83755090
with garth writing, they are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKR9MYYdBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB0yIn6jBg
>>83756557
Nah you said pretty much what was in the op
I was actually keeping an eye open for when you storytimed this.
>>83757052
oooooh, you mean like 2 weeks ago.
yeah. totally me. it was a Ghost Rider appreciation thread though
Glad you came. I was looking forward to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQAKbrWhoI
>how much of a dick can an angel be?
Issue #5!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i97OkCXwotE
>you are now hearing the saxophone instrumental version of Girl from Ipanema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-chc7bfxEM
>woah, angels really are dicks, aren't they?
>>83757452
skipped a page, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHCCTrka8RQ
Issue #6!
It's the final countdown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It2jlKdeJI4
SHAZAM!
>"I'll get you Tenacious Deeeeeeeeeee...!"
Well... That's unfortunate.
also
>can angels even stop being huge dicks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsJUxVIANk
>Fat Ghost Rider comic when?
It was me, Johnny!
It was always me!
>angels are dicks
>demons are dicks
>the devil is a dick
>god is a dick
>everyone's a dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRae5mRoRE
The End.
I hope everyone who came to read liked it.
I also hope I wasn't too much of a slow poster.
My commentary was probably cringey sometimes but oh wel... I hate silent storytimes.
I'll bump the thread a bit so more people get to see it.
See you around!
Complementary ending credits music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_6eUgpo30
Thanks anonbe sure to storytime again
>>83757565
>>83757219
>>83756722
>>83756103
>>83755466
>>83754897
those are some sweet covers
to be fair the whole art looks great
>>83757886
karma's a bitch
>>83757242
>>83756932
why do they even bring the dead woman??
Well shit. Now I don't know how I feel.
I don't do well with "neither good nor bad" endings
bumpo
>>83756158
>Special intervention to substitute music by superior track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63COyZlTyU
>>83756932
>the song mentions a Greyhound bus
>>83756848
>>83756739
hmmmmmmmmm...
You've chosen a good comic to dump.
>>83759330
Thank you anon.
It actually felt natural to choose it given how little GR you get to see in /co/
>>83759408
Well outside of this, for more recent stuff, which i'm assuming is easier to find DLs for, you've got the ANGR series, and then like Way/Aaron's little combo run on his solo series.
If I had my old laptop with that run, I'd dump some of it, because Aaron's part was a lot of fun and Heaven's on Fire is still one of my more liked stories
last bumpo before sleepy time
>>83756601
>what are you doing?
crashing this bus with no survivors
>>83754897
Good choice for the storytime OP, kudos.
>>83757406
This part always struck me as tremendously dumb. She has been talking to an actual demon that she saw created from the liquefied remains of people she worked with and she is just now realizing this was bad.
>>83756932
Does Hoss backstory mean that any human soul that gets to hell becomes a part of the host of demons and can work for hell to obtain a good position?
>>83764689
The entire premise is Hoss has been working for a promotion. The bigger question is do humans become angels and thus rank up too. Did Ruth start as a human?
>>83755090
this is Spawn-tier fuckery
>>83756969
I'm suppose to believe heavenly "peace and love" was communism? Even if it's to showcase that angels are assholes, marvel is fucked up
>>83757725
kek
>>83755587
Is this where he plays Get down with the sickness and browses 4chan?
>>83766245
not necessarily referring to comunism there...
>>83765054
I don't know if she ever was a human but Hoss states she is getting promoted too
I wonder what they're promoting her to, since she's apparently only second to Jesus
Also, she and her sister are said to be the two best in the host, which is kinda weird because I'd expect s Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Ramiel or Sariel to be up there (the seven archangels), so she's definitely been going up the ranks
>>83766890
>>83765054
I just checked wikipedia cause Malachi mentioned a book in the Bible named after Ruth
She was apparently the great-grandmother of David, so yeah, I guess she started off as a human
It's an interesting premise, to be able to trascend humankind while in Heaven/Hell
>>83766890
Uriel showed up in another Ghost Rider story, while Gabriel was in the Howard the Duck and Devil-Slayer minis released through MAX.
There was an angel named Sariel in The Punisher: Purgatory, but I didn't seem to be THE Sariel.
>>83757886
I guess their ducking was has no concept of race.
>>83755139
Me. Good work, OP. Also loved this arc when it first came out. Also love the arc with the several Spirits of Vengeance. After that, meh.
bumo
bumperooney
