BACK FROM THE DEAD, HERE COMES THE COMICS THREAD!

I picked up the IDW Ghostbusters that Humble Bundle had recently, which contained all but the Mars Attacks one-shot crossover and the TMNT crossover series (that I had already purchased on sale last month).

I really, really enjoyed it. The early one-shots aren’t that great, but the direct lead-in to Ongoing Series 1 and everything after is so good. The writer really gets each character and their voice, my mind even went to the different voices when the Real Ghostbusters showed up. The art is fantastic, and each issue has some reference to the RGB toys, usually through ghost design but there’s one issue where they flat out fly Ecto-2! One later issue had the guys wearing the see-through goggles that came with a nerf blaster toy that I had as a kid! The whole thing was so much fun.

The plots are good, tying together GB1, GB2, and the Video Game (the player character is running the Chicago franchise!) while adding new villains and bringing back old ones. The fact that the writer wrote the upcoming “Tobin’s Spirit Guide” and both of the recent board games really gets me excited about those projects.