Pomade

by Dan Schoening

Recommends - IDW’s Ghostbusters

Ghosts, goblins, ghouls, gods, and geeks from other dimensional planes… It is hard to believe that so much unspeakable horror can lurch about in the shadows of our world.

Most folks can happily live their lives with little to no interaction with these forces, but those that get pulled in will find themselves overwhelmed by the things that go bump in the night. When your life is being swallowed up by the gaping maw of supernatural terror…

Who you gonna call?

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Holtzmann asking the important questions.

in honor of Ghostbusters 101 #3 being released tomorrow, here’s another fake comic cover and the picture it was inspired by.

i’m thinking about tweeting this one to the guys mentioned at the bottom of the cover; they’re a few of the people who make the comics. they are my heroes. and i got to meet one of them, Erik Burnham, the other day. he is the coolest guy i’ve ever met and is also a huge nerd, and was kind enough to show me some pages from future issues! he told me some of the jokes he wrote for the comics too. he is very proud of the jokes he slips in there.

also please read the Ghostbusters comics. they are a blessing.

My entire takeaway from Ghostbusters 101 #3 is that Holtzmann has roommates, she’s a bad roommate, she sleeps like Sid from Toy Story, and she sleeps IN her jumpsuit and goggles, but takes off her necklace. Look at this beautiful garbage child. 👌✨

I’M FUCKING SOBBING

Check out my model sheets from these many posts ago!

Various concept art by Floro Dery for The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

the only Transformers movie worth watching more than once.

Ghostbusters 101 #1 (IDW Publishing)

Well, this takes me back.

Erik Burnham was writing this comic when I first started the whole God of Comics thing for Living Myth Magazine. It had this weird stylized Dan Schoening art that made it instantly recognizable and tried to marry the various cartoons and comics that came before (excepting the one with the gorilla) and worked excessively well. It also set the stage for the themes IDW would continue to explore in the comics that followed: themes like integration, family, and diversity.

Without Erik Burnham’s work on Ghostbusters, there would be no TMNT, no Jem and the Holograms, no GI Joe. The modern IDW comics owe a lot to this title and Transformers, so the idea of Erik returning to work on the characters he did such a good job with before is exciting… especially following the fallout of the last feature film.

Let’s get this out of the way now: I enjoyed the new movie. It was not as good as the first but was loads better than the second and it could easily spark a whole new franchise. The deleted scenes are great, the themes explored therein are a lot of fun, and the characters are kind of amazing (I have a head canon that Patty is putting herself through college and is majoring in New York’s history and sociology).

The set-up here is that the original team – Venkman, Stantz, Zeddemore, and Spengler – are opening up franchises because of course they are, and that means bringing people into the home office to learn the ropes. Some of those students poke around where they shouldn’t and end up merging two universes together, a thing that happens in IDW quite a lot (and explains their weird and often excellent crossovers).

In practical terms, this means that Venkman, Stantz, Zeddemore, and Spengler will get to work with Holtzmann, Yates, Tolan, and Gilbert as equals, with respect to both iterations of the franchise being seen as equally valid. This is the best sort of writing, and this comic promises to be a lot of fun.    

Ghostbusters International #1 - 5 Covers by Dan Schoening

It’s all been leading to this: Panic in the Sky! Don’t miss this epic Sonic the Hedgehog comics event starting in July!

Don Towley’s original model sheets for Donald Duck (1937).