*Cover A
**On the cover are:
***Starscream (robot form; Decepticon Seekers, Commander) is on the upper left.
***Bombshell (robot form; Decepticon Insecticon) is under Starscream.
***Cliffjumper (robot form; Autobot) is firing at Starscream and Bombshell from roof.
***Ectotron (robot form; Autobot) is on the bottom left corner.
***Astrotrain (robot form; Decepticon Triple Changer) has its back to the reader being shot at by Ectotron.
***Jazz (robot form; Autobot) is behind Ectotron's left leg.
***Ray
*Cover B
**On the cover are:
***Firehouse
***Ghostbusters
***Ectotron
***Slimer
***Starscream's Ghost
*Cover RI-A and RI-C
***On the cover are Ectotron and the Ghostbusters.
***The Firehouse only appears on RI-A.
*Cover RI-B
**Ectrotron blasts the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
*Fan Expo Dallas Cover
**On the cover are:
***The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Slimer, and the Ghostbusters.
***Megatron, Optimus Prime, Starscream, Ectotron, and Bumblebee.
*Con Cover
**Ectotron holds up a behinds the scene photo from Ghostbusters II with Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and Dan Aykroyd posing in front of Ecto-1a.
*SDCC Cover
**The Ghostbusters and Optimus Prime, in his Ecto-35 design, head through the Autobot's orange grid tunnel seen 23 seconds into the second season of the Transformers G1 animated series' intro sequence.
**Winston has the Proton Pistol.
*Page 1
**In panel 1, the shot of Cybertron matches the opening scene of the Transformers 1986 animated series pilot "More Than Meets the Eye" Part 1. The proceeding character designs also match the animated series.
**In panel 2, the various Transformers are:
***In the air:
****On the left is Decepticon Seeker Commander, Thundercracker in tri-jet form.
****In the middle is Decepticon, Mini-Cassette, Lazerbeak.
****On the right is Decepticon, Skywarp in tri-jet form.
***In the bottom left is Decepticon Sunstorm.
***To Sunstorm's left is Autobot Trailbreaker.
***In the middle with their backs to the reader are Autobots Grapple and Brawn.
***Above Grapple and Brawn is Bumblebee in his Cybertronian form.
***In the right corner, back to reader, is Autobot Windcharger.
**In panel 3, in air is Thundercracker and Skywarp again.
**In panel 3, the three similar Decepticons are Reflector.
**In panel 3, the Decepticons are firing at the Autobot's ship, the Ark.
**The civil war mentioned is the second between the Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots were built to handle consumer goods and desired peace while the Decepticons were military hardware and desired conquest. The Autobots turned to stealth and learned to transform and won the first war. The second started in 9 million BCE and lasted 4 million years, putting a massive strain on the planet's resources. Several Autobots went on an interplanetary expedition but Megatron interfered and they crashed on Earth where they were left in a catatonic state until 1984 in the 1986 animated series.
**In the animated series, a group of Decepticons led by Megatron immediately followed the Ark into space and ended up on Earth.
*Page 2
**Gozer and the Terror Dogs manifest in new robotic base forms. Behind them is the Temple of Gozer.
**Behind and above them is the background from Transformers: The Movie's title sequence when the camera dives into an "O".
**Gozer repeats one of its lines from the first Ghostbusters movie, "The Traveler has come."
*Page 3
**Instead of the Ghostbusters, the four who face Gozer are Decepticons Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, and Shockwave.
**In panel 2 are the familiar twin pillars and alter that also appeared in the first Ghostbusters movie.
**Like in the first Ghostbusters movie, Gozer shoots lightning out of its fingers at the four.
*Page 4
**In panel 4, the two statue faces are based on two Quintesson Judges, Death and Rage.
***The Quintessons are the race who created the Transformers and were overthrown then ousted from Cybertron. "Judge" is one of the names given to the leaders.
**Instead of Ray, it is Megatron who goes up the stairs to address Gozer.
*Page 5
**In panel 1, a dragon on the temple door is a depiction of Tiamat?
**Like in the first Ghostbusters movie, Gozer tells the Decepticons to choose.
*Page 6
**Like in the first movie, Gozer suddenly announces the choice is made.
**Megatron's reaction about someone choosing mirrors Peter's in the first movie.
**Shockwave's "what did you do?" mirrors Winston's line in the first movie.
**Starscream is in Ray's position of having chosen the Destructor Form.
**In panel 3, the two ends of the temple roof bears the two statue faces of the Quintesson Judges, War and Wisdom.
*Page 7
**The Destructor Form is a giant version of Starscream.
***The crown is based on the one worn by Starscream during his coronation ceremony in the Transformers: The Movie.
***The Matrix of Leadership is also worn.
***The necklace has the heads of Skyfire, Megatron, Optimus Prime, and Shockwave.
*Page 9
**Ectronymous invokes Primus, the creater-god of the Transformers.
*Page 10
**The bridge is set up much like it was in "More Than Meets The Eye" Part 1:
***Bluestreak, Trailbreaker, and Prowl at the front
***Jazz to Optimus Prime's right
***Ironhide to Jazz's right
**Ectronymous offers up a theory about Earth being a colony. It technically was a colony or least inhabited by the Transformers in its various continuities. There also several like Antilla in the G1 animated series, Omicron in Beast Wars, and recently the 13 legendary colonies in the IDW comics canon, including Antilla, Devisiun, Arduria, Velocitron, and Eukaris.
*Page 12
**Ray's "we have the technology" and Peter's "Better. Stronger. Faster" quip are both nods to the Six Million Dollar Man series' title sequence.
**In panel 5 is the Sky Spy. It collected data for the Tansformers as well as vehicle scans, like in the panel, Ecto-1 is in a scan cube.
*Page 13
**Prospect Park is Brooklyn's second biggest park but the only one with a lake.
**The ghost appears to be visually based on a Quintesson Prosecutor.
*Page 14
**Winston mentions the Los Angeles Dodgers. Incidentally, it was founded in Brooklyn before being moved to Los Angeles before the 1958 season.
*Page 15
**Peter alludes to the New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Philadephia Phillies.
**Peter references "Take Me Out to The Ballgame."
**Ray mentions the Iroquois and their history with lacrosse. It served many purposes like keeping the Iroquois Confederation united, practiced ritual warfare, and pleased the gods.
*Page 16
**The Peristyle can be seen in panel 1 behind Egon and in panels 3 to 4. It indicates the bust takes place in the southwest corner of Prospect Park.
**Ectronymous vaporizes the parking ticket, a nod to a deleted scene in the first movie.
**Officer Frank and Tim are visually based on ? Cop from deleted scene?
*Page 17
**Ghost Starscream appears. In Transformers lore, he was reduced to an ethereal form after Galvatron killed in in Transformers: The Movie. He schemed to restore his body but was ultimately banished into space.
1. Page 4: In panel 4, on both ends, are faces of Quintessons Death and Rage?
2. Page 5: In panel 1, a dragon on the temple door is a depiction of Tiamat?
3. Page 6: In panel 3, on both ends of temple roof, are faces of Quintessons War and Wisdom?
4. Page 13: Is the ghost visually based on a Quintesson Prosecutor?
5. Page 16: Are Officer Frank and Tim visually based on anyone? Same cop from Ectomobile blows up ticket deleted scene?
6. Page 16: Is that Prospect Park's Peristyle behind Egon and the officers?
7. Is there a 15 easter egg? On face of Cybertron in first panel?
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