John Ostrander

John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake keep The Spectre in the uncomfortable space between divine justice and human damage. This second omnibus leans into judgment, guilt, faith and horror, with Jim Corrigan caught inside a force that can punish almost anything but cannot easily understand mercy. It is DC supernatural storytelling at its most severe and morally haunted.

The Spectre by Ostrander & Mandrake Omnibus Vol. 1 takes DC's spirit of vengeance into moral horror rather than simple punishment. John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake make the question uncomfortable: what does justice mean when the being delivering it has almost unlimited power and very little human softness left?