Ghost Rider is coming to the small screen on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD ABC and Marvel announced at San Diego Comic-Con that True Detective's Gabriel Luna will be playing Robbie Reyes, and he made his press debut at a Marvel press mixer at the 2016 summer TV Critics Association press tour.

Gabriel Luna in El Rey's The Matador

Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider

When talking about Luna, who's begun filming Season 4, Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb refers to him as "the new member of our family." "He's just so awesome," Loeb gushed. Luna's enthusiasm for the part of Robbie is contagious; he's as quick to talk about his love of cars as he is to run down his favorite Ghost Rider arcs from the comics. We had a chance to talk with both him and Loeb about why it made sense for Ghost Rider to cross paths with the agents of SHIELD.On paper it might seem like it makes more sense for Ghost Rider to join the likes of Daredevil, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones on Netflix. Loeb explained why the move to a 10 p.m. time slot opened up Agents of SHIELD to get into some of the violence and darkness explored in the Marvel Netflix shows."We had a long talk with ABC about what can we get away with, so to speak. And we just knew that this character was right to tell those stories right now," he said. "So we looked at all the various places that it could be, and in many ways, the fact that it was so unexpected for it to be on SHIELD [was why we chose it]."What makes it exciting is that it's on SHIELD. And that you're suddenly going, oh, first of all, if I'm a longtime watcher of SHIELD, I'm going, cool -- cannot wait. Wanna see what happens. But if for some reason I've lapsed and I haven't been watching SHIELD, now I'm going, you know what, ten o'clock, Tuesday nights, not a whole lot less I'm going to be watching. I'm going to check this out. If it's cool and if it's fun and if they engage with it the way that we already have engaged with Gabe, I think there's an opportunity not only to tell stories -- the really good Ghost Rider stories -- within our family, but then who knows where it goes? Who knows where he rides off to?"So does that mean there's a chance this depiction of Ghost Rider could venture into other sections of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? "At the end of the day, that's not really my decision," said Loeb. "It's the decision made by the network. So, I think our job, our task, is always going to be, how do we tell the story in the most compelling way? And if we can tell that story in a compelling way, then the thing to do is to then have people want more. And if they want more, the networks say, oh, we want more."Get to know Luna a bit better by reading our Q&A with him below.

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With that kind of title -- one of the tentpoles of the company and has been since the Silver Age of comics -- it's immediately going to energize the whole thing and infuse it and give it a sense of danger. The magical element is new to the world. They've always been rooted in a very realistic kind of depiction. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD is a bridge between us the audience and the MCU. It's like Thor's rainbow bridge. Now you're incorporating some of these things that they may not understand. It's a whole new frontier, which is always cool.The most important way is it's a young fresh face. He's a Mexican American, he's from LA. It's just exciting. Every generation has a different Rider, and the Spirit of Vengeance has traveled and inhabited everyone, from Carter Slade on down. But I think it's important to carry in a lot of the influence from those other books, because the idea of that alter ego, that spirit, there's always a fight. It's much like the Hulk. I was talking to my little brother about it, who's got an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel Comics -- he's a grown man now, he's 31. That's what Kevin Feige and Jeph Loeb and these guys have built. We all grew up with it, and we all got to continue to enjoy it and be kids.We read all those books, and what I'm happy about is we infuse it with that dynamic. It's the same but it's different. It's the same tragic story of this curse that they have. They do a deal with the Devil or they do a deal with Mephisto or whoever, or you have to have this bargain with this spirit Eli who lives in Robbie, which is part of the all new Ghost Rider. So I think it's a great balance of being new and fresh and exciting, and also maintaining the proper dosage of the history and mythos of the character. It's a really nice balance. I think Jed and Mo and the writing team has done a really good job of doing that.There's a run where it's the Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider together. It's the Dan Ketch Ghost Rider, which is a really good run. I read the new ones, obviously. I have a bunch of them. I have one where it's Johnny Blaze travels back in time and then is side-by-side with Carter Slade, so there's the Phantom Rider. There's all these books. There's one where he does the penance stare on Galactus, which is incredible. It's an incredible power anyway, to make people experience the pain that they caused, and it's effective even on Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, so imagine how much s**t he's giving himself about that.Absolutely. I mean, I signed on the line to do all the work necessary to make the Ghost Rider real. That's extremely exciting. What also excites me is Clark [Gregg's Phil Coulson] has appeared in the books, and that's a really, really cool thought, that at some point people would draw Robbie in my likeness is a crazy idea. I want to do my best to be the best representation I can be and be a strong representation in whatever form it takes.[laughs] First of all, those things are so beautiful, and so powerful. They sound like a dragon. We go light them up on stage and it's just shaking the entire soundstage, and then the scoop's not even on. We have a blower on the top of the hood that we don't even use because it's highly illegal, for one. At that point, it's a 700 horsepower vehicle. It's just awesome. But, you can't really touch the car unless I'm it driving. Brock, who's one of our transpo guys, goes around with a towel all day rubbing it down. It's pristine. It's beautiful. All day, he's just rubbing her down.I do love cars, yes. Corvette Stingray, probably a '67, would probably be my dream car. I was at a party for a new show called Harley and the Davidsons at the Petersen Automotive Museum the other day. There's the Speed Racer car and a GT -- the old '66 GT and the new Ford 2017 GT side-by-side. Just beautiful things; things I'd read about as a kid as concept cars, like the first Dodge Viper. I remember I read about that and saw the concept and then thought that the actual physical car was not as cool, but they rarely are. It was still kind of a cool car. I bought the Hot Wheels, let's just say that.

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD returns with Season 4 on Tuesday, September 20th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz