Post by Fritz on Dec 8, 2005 16:55:56 GMT -4
Anybody else get this yet?
The people in the UK might have it already, but this week Titan Books released Real Ghostbusters: A Hard Day's Fright in the United States.
It reprints a bunch of stories Marvel UK did around the same time Now was publishing RGB stories in the United States; some of which ended up as back-up features in Now's Slimer! comic, and in Vol.2 of Now's RGB series.
And interestingly enough, Now's RGB#21 was a fill-in issue featuring three Marvel UK stories, one of which, "Ecto-X" is reprinted in this volume. Like the TV episode "Robo Buster", it pokes fun at RoboCop, though this time the robot is Egon's invention (and there are a couple of refernces to Ecto-X as "Robobuster"--I wonder if that was the working title and they changed it upon discovering Dic had used it already?)
Like the Saturday morning shows of the time, they're light on plot and heavy on Slimer. Ecto-x is defeated, for example, by Venkman telepathically communicating with Slimer.
--WTF?
But still, it's a fun little book, and if the writing and art quality is far behind 88MPH and Now's efforts, at least unlike 88MPH the characters look "right" to me (lol).
The people in the UK might have it already, but this week Titan Books released Real Ghostbusters: A Hard Day's Fright in the United States.
It reprints a bunch of stories Marvel UK did around the same time Now was publishing RGB stories in the United States; some of which ended up as back-up features in Now's Slimer! comic, and in Vol.2 of Now's RGB series.
And interestingly enough, Now's RGB#21 was a fill-in issue featuring three Marvel UK stories, one of which, "Ecto-X" is reprinted in this volume. Like the TV episode "Robo Buster", it pokes fun at RoboCop, though this time the robot is Egon's invention (and there are a couple of refernces to Ecto-X as "Robobuster"--I wonder if that was the working title and they changed it upon discovering Dic had used it already?)
Like the Saturday morning shows of the time, they're light on plot and heavy on Slimer. Ecto-x is defeated, for example, by Venkman telepathically communicating with Slimer.
--WTF?But still, it's a fun little book, and if the writing and art quality is far behind 88MPH and Now's efforts, at least unlike 88MPH the characters look "right" to me (lol).
