Review by the Dork: Space Ghost

Writer: Joe Kelley
Artist: Ariel Olivetti
Publisher: DC Comics (2005)
Price: $14.99 (Softcover)
Format: TPB
Includes: Space Ghost #1-6

I have always loved Alex Toth's Space Ghost from its early days as a Hanna-Barbera 1966's TV cartoon, to Mark Evanier and Steve Rude's 1987 Comico adaptation to a comic book, to his appearance as a talk show host for Cartoon Networks' 1994 show Space Ghost Coast to Coast and now as a SERIOUS rendition by Joe Kelley and Ariel Olivetti.

Kelley and Olivetti's Space Ghost is supposed to be more "reality" based; which to me is just classic. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of that pitch to the DC editors.

So a nod to the editors Joey Cavalieri and Robert Greenberger for making this happen.

There was supposed to be a follow up series but to date it has not materialized.

This was quite enjoyable and easily recommended. Now if Kelley and Olivetti would just tackle Herculoids I would be a happy man.