Re: Ghostbusters: Monthly - THEY'RE BACK!
Posted: December 6th, 2019, 12:52 pm
I'm going to say something I haven't said in my entire life. Brace yourselves.
Is it Monday yet?
Is it Monday yet?
https://www.gbfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25385
LawgSkrak wrote: ↑December 9th, 2019, 1:09 pm Hey everybody, I've been away again for a while, and am looking to get caught up on my Ghostbusters trades. The last one I have is Ghostbusters 101. So what do I need to get in order to get all caught up? If you can let me know in the chronological order they take place in-universe, that would be cool.TMNT/Ghostbusters Volume 2, Ghostbusters Crossing Over, Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary Collection. I don't know off hand is there is a IDW 20/20 trade yet, that one would have the Sanctum of Slime one shot. The next one to release is the Transformers/Ghostbusters trade on February 26.
Also, any one-shots that may not have been collected in a trade, I'm interested in those as well. Thanks.
LawgSkrak wrote: ↑December 9th, 2019, 3:54 pm Cool, thanks. Is the 20/20 thing a miniseries?Yes. But a miniseries of stand alone one shots celebrating IDW's 20th anniversary. So the Ghostbusters one starred the Sanctum of Slime Ghostbusters back home in their own dimension. The TMNT had their own I think. Star Trek I think.
mrmichaelt wrote: ↑December 9th, 2019, 3:59 pmDiamond Distribution seeing in the new decade in their own inimitable style, there.LawgSkrak wrote: ↑December 9th, 2019, 3:54 pm Cool, thanks. Is the 20/20 thing a miniseries?Yes. But a miniseries of stand alone one shots celebrating IDW's 20th anniversary. So the Ghostbusters one starred the Sanctum of Slime Ghostbusters back home in their own dimension. The TMNT had their own I think. Star Trek I think.
EDIT: And here we go, Year One #1 was pushed back a week to January 22.
TB3 wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 10:14 am I love everything IDW have done with our guys and gals in grey (and black, and navy), and really stoked to see both how Year One unfolds and how they tie into Afterlife. As long as we don't get a DC-Crisis retcon/retgone of the IDW timeline, I'm so on board with what 2020 holds for Ghostbusters!I don't think anything's going to be retconned; The 1984 movie continuity (GB1, GB2 & GB:TVG) and IDW continuity are two separate things and once Afterlife comes out in July (which is set in 84 Movie Canon), Erik and crew may pretty much implement parts or all of those elements of lore (depending on what's revealed) from that film much like with GB: TVG and any other GB content (RGB, EGB, SOS, etc.) and put a new twist on it in the IDW canon.
philmorgan81 wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 2:34 pm Oh in my mind all things are canon. Like I have said a million times even with the line From the Afterlife trailer states that there hadn't been a Ghost sighting for 30 years it doesn't effect how I enjoy the comics that are supposed to be set in the Prime timeline. The wiki link for The Ghostbusters ongoing comic gives a nice break down of what is believed to be the comic timeline in its 9 years of running. I talked to Dan Schoening about it at the fan fest and he said that there really wasn't a set timeline that the stories in the comic actually take place. So to me that kind of means that the Prime Ghostbusters are just frozen in the time we are all familiar with. That totally works for me.The 'no-ghost-sighting' quote wouldn't break the canon, because 1989 was when GB 2 happened. 1989-2019 is 30 years.
I am really excited at the wonderful things that can follow the potential success of Afterlife. I would be totally on board with Afterlife being the last live action film that ever comes from the franchise. I get a real swan song feel from the trailer and I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
I am hoping that the film is so good that it secures a good reason for IDW to continue telling more stories in comic form. Weather that take the form of the ongoing series continuing or more series of one shots or spin off comic series featuring the other teams of Ghostbusters, i.e. The Real Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters, Chicago Branch, SOS Team, and so on. Of course seeing that Ecto Force tv series and animated feature getting the Greenlight would be awesome.
Personally now that we have seen that gunner chair in action I am looking forward to Erik and Dan putting implementing it into the IDW comic. Just one more thing for them to play with in this world.
Sayscalled wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 2:39 pmphilmorgan81 wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 2:34 pm Oh in my mind all things are canon. Like I have said a million times even with the line From the Afterlife trailer states that there hadn't been a Ghost sighting for 30 years it doesn't effect how I enjoy the comics that are supposed to be set in the Prime timeline. The wiki link for The Ghostbusters ongoing comic gives a nice break down of what is believed to be the comic timeline in its 9 years of running. I talked to Dan Schoening about it at the fan fest and he said that there really wasn't a set timeline that the stories in the comic actually take place. So to me that kind of means that the Prime Ghostbusters are just frozen in the time we are all familiar with. That totally works for me.The 'no-ghost-sighting' quote wouldn't break the canon, because 1989 was when GB 2 happened. 1989-2019 is 30 years.
I am really excited at the wonderful things that can follow the potential success of Afterlife. I would be totally on board with Afterlife being the last live action film that ever comes from the franchise. I get a real swan song feel from the trailer and I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
I am hoping that the film is so good that it secures a good reason for IDW to continue telling more stories in comic form. Weather that take the form of the ongoing series continuing or more series of one shots or spin off comic series featuring the other teams of Ghostbusters, i.e. The Real Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters, Chicago Branch, SOS Team, and so on. Of course seeing that Ecto Force tv series and animated feature getting the Greenlight would be awesome.
Personally now that we have seen that gunner chair in action I am looking forward to Erik and Dan putting implementing it into the IDW comic. Just one more thing for them to play with in this world.
philmorgan81 wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 2:34 pm The wiki link for The Ghostbusters ongoing comic gives a nice break down of what is believed to be the comic timeline in its 9 years of running. I talked to Dan Schoening about it at the fan fest and he said that there really wasn't a set timeline that the stories in the comic actually take place. So to me that kind of means that the Prime Ghostbusters are just frozen in the time we are all familiar with. That totally works for me.Yeah, just to reiterate the IDW timeline. Erik's stance is it's like the Peanuts with no set timeline and "frozen" post events of The Video Game. For the wiki, for the sake of being able to organize the data and make sense of things, I unofficially created a set timeline. Because time is...no, I'm not gonna digress into science lesson. So I have the current present pegged at 1998. But unofficially.
groschopf wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 8:25 pm Ever since seeing the Afterlife trailer, I have to wonder if the Year One IDW series will answer a new question I have: did the Ghostbusters have to retrap escaped spirits and rebuild right after the events of the 1984? If so, how long were they active before getting shut down by lawsuits?Implicitly, until Erik writes his own take into the IDW canon, TVG already implicitly revealed they were active till around 1986 at least.* But yeah, I'm also interested to see when these interviews take place, right after in 1984 or in 1985 etc.
I always just assumed the defeated Gozer, and bureaucracy defeated them shortly thereafter. Perhaps they stayed open until shortly before the events of the second film kick off. Court cases that big can take some time to wind through the court system. Deleted scenes of the old firehouse sign crashing down would dispute that, but we never saw that in film form, leaving it an open question.
I can't help but speculate since Paul Rudd spoke of the '80s as being akin to the Walking Dead, even though he really could just mean two short spurts of activity prior to their climatic encounters.
I'd still love to see overworked Ghostbusters recapturing entities, storing them in a temporary containment unit in an abandoned Sunoco station across the state line in Jersey, and eventually transferring everything to the newer, larger containment unit.
mrmichaelt wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 4:12 pmI unofficially created a set timeline. Because time is.......A great big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... Stuff.
Kingpin wrote: ↑December 11th, 2019, 9:03 ammrmichaelt wrote: ↑December 10th, 2019, 4:12 pmI unofficially created a set timeline. Because time is.......A great big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... Stuff.
robbritton wrote: ↑December 11th, 2019, 3:43 am As I said in the movie thread, the beauty of the IDW GB timeline is that it is canon proof. The second anything contradicts it, it’s just an alternate dimension the main series can riff on.The ironic thing is in the IDW canon, we've already seen two possible futures for the Ghostbusters. Once in the Past, Present, Future one-shot when they fight Gozer with a new Destructor form and during Mass Hysteria when they met their older selves in the stairwell of Dana's apartment. So we're already there in way. Even with Dimension 50-S as well. Heh.
People complain about the crossovers, but the first TMNT one has allowed for so much story leeway I’ll forever be grateful to it.
Also, it’s the one area of the fandom that truly welcomes you whichever version of Ghostbusters is your favourite, and holds them all as equally valid. Imagine any other franchise taking a thirty year old NES game into its canon without breaking the innate reality! IDW GB really is an incredible thing. Honestly, I think it might be my absolute favourite version of Ghostbusters.
Kingpin wrote: ↑December 11th, 2019, 9:03 am ...A great big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... Stuff.Don't get all technical on me.
It's PETER VENKMAN'S turn to be interviewed for the Ghostbusters biography, and he proves to be an elusive subject... until he gets to talking about the national news made by the pretty pesky poltergeist that was haunting a fashionable New York dance club! Disco may have died, but that doesn't mean it won't come back! Ghostbusters: Year One continues here!Neat, we're going to learn about the bust at The Rose.
SSJmole wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2019, 11:49 am Questions I would haveI don’t think they’ve addressed Afterlife anywhere yet. I’d imagine (or hope) they’d carry on with their continuity and have it meet Afterlife down the line via dimensional trickery or somesuch.
Is this year 1 a reboot of the old ones like their version of New 52?
If it's not I know they crossed over with real extreme answer the call ect.... Logically they'll cross over with afterlife. Will it be alternate dimension like the others or will it be time travel?
robbritton wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2019, 12:08 pmAh cool. I wasn't sure if it be like marvel 2099 whenever it met the 616 at time was time travel , now I think it was alternate dimension due to the fact that the future doesn't line up with what happened since 2099 was created.SSJmole wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2019, 11:49 am Questions I would haveI don’t think they’ve addressed Afterlife anywhere yet. I’d imagine (or hope) they’d carry on with their continuity and have it meet Afterlife down the line via dimensional trickery or somesuch.
Is this year 1 a reboot of the old ones like their version of New 52?
If it's not I know they crossed over with real extreme answer the call ect.... Logically they'll cross over with afterlife. Will it be alternate dimension like the others or will it be time travel?
Or there’ll be a new comic line that picks up after Afterlife. Then the original comics run can remain it’s own thing and the new can follow on from the new movie.