He then notices woman with a nice body that he likes – and wants - as the conversation goes on. Sparks tells Riley that he and Washington will soon deploy to Afghanistan. The two men have a beer together at a local pub, where they rehash old times and their experience during their time in Mexico. While spending Christmas with his family, Riley gets a surprise visit from Sparks. After one of his nightmares, he and his mother have a small talk, and he learns a few things about his father that are both disturbing but meaningful to the plot as well. Riley starts being plagued by nightmares of Roba taunting him. Physically, Riley is fine, but his superiors fear that his mental state is still in question.
The story then jumps to Decem(four months and a few weeks later) Riley is being debriefed about his experience to his superiors. He is later found by a Texas sheriff who takes him to a hospital. He collapses in the sand and just lays there to die. He has vague memories of people helping him, but by the time he makes it across the border, about a month later, he has badly infected cuts, sores and wounds, is badly dehydrated, and has become delirious. After a quick rest, he makes for the border, and within days, is struck down by dehydration and delirium. It is only by using the major's lower jaw bone as a trowel that Riley is able to dig himself up from the grave, which takes him thirteen hours. Riley is now in a coffin with Major Vernon's corpse and wondering what he's going to do. He shouts at him and catches him off-guard, making a comment that he basically knows what he's thinking of doing to her ("Prom's not for month's yet!" etc.), before continuing his story.Īfter being buried alive in the previous issue, Lt. Riley's story until he interrupts himself when he eyes one of the terrorists taking a good look at one of the young female victims also being held hostage and how upset and uncomfortable she's becoming. Riley is left behind, and Roba punishes him for the escape by having him dragged outside, thrown into a coffin that has been dug up, and then buried alive with the decaying corpse of a deceased soldier, Major Vernon.īack at the school, Ghost continues to tell Lt. Eventually, two USSOCOM operators, Sparks and Washington, manage to escape after learning that the cartel plans to kill them for resisting the brainwashing. By June 2006, Riley is seen as the best man at Tommy's wedding.ĭuring these flashbacks, many of Riley's adversaries are seen wearing "ghostly" makeup (presumably a hallucination of Riley's) of similar style to that worn by participants celebrating the Day of the Dead. In March 2004, he finally puts an end to his father's abuse and kicks him out of the house. Throughout this ordeal, the reader sees flashbacks of Riley's early life, from his childhood and how he had to endure an abusive fiend of a father, to his early years in the SAS and how he - after coming back from his first tour of duty in Afghanistan in January 2003 - takes care of his abused mother and helps clean up his drug-addicted younger brother, Tommy. During their captivity, they endure continuous torture and advanced brainwashing techniques as Roba intends to use them for his own interests. Riley and the surviving members of his team are captured by Roba's cartel. Riley manages to fight his way out of trouble only to be shot by Roba himself, leaving the action at a cliffhanger. His hunch turns out to be correct when one of his comrades turns his gun on the team and reveals that Roba is aware of their presence. Riley suspects that there's a traitor among them. However, things start to unravel during the mission when a team member is killed after his parachute fails to open during a jump.
The task force is assigned to eliminate Roba, a Mexican drug lord working with anti-Western terrorists. Riley is recruited from his unit, the legendary 22nd Regiment of the Special Air Service, to join a task force made up of DEVGRU and Delta Force operators. He then begins to tell about an old friend of his, Lieutenant Simon Riley. The narrative begins in a school in Lysychansk, Ukraine, and shows Ghost being held captive by a group of masked men. The first installment begins to tell the story of how Ghost came to use his skull-branded balaclava.
#Cod mw2 ghost series#
The comic series is set before Ghost became a member of Task Force 141, with events from both before and leading into the game, focusing on the origins of the character, his skull-like mask, and why he calls himself Ghost. Modern Warfare 2: Ghost relates to the history of Ghost, an important character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The comic was published by Storm Productions and written by David Lapham, with art by Kevin West and Federico Dallocchio, who drew the covers of each issue. Modern Warfare 2: Ghost was announced by Community Manager Robert Bowling via Twitter on August 17, 2009.
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