Cover Story - Top 20 Real Ghostbusters Covers

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Edited by Robert Beach 

Well, today’s the day, the long-awaited premiere of Ghostbusters 2016.  At the time of writing, I haven’t seen it yet as I’m getting this article out of the way in advance but I’m personally really looking forward to it.  I like the cast; Paul Feig is a amusing director, and I’m thoroughly interested to see the new spins on Ghostbusting this new generation puts together.  In the meantime, Ghostbusters are just dominating the cultural landscape, so I figured I’d join in with this week’s cover story taking a look at the Marvel comics spun out of the 1986 animated show The Real Ghostbusters. 

I already wrote about the series but if you missed that: it was a hit animated series continuing the team’s adventures from the film and fleshing out their characters.  The tie-in comic embodied the visual style and quirky humor of the show and the film perfectly and feature some amazingly good work in this medium.  So, with that said, let’s dive into the shallow end and get the cover story on the top 20 best Real Ghostbusters covers. 

Static Thoughts - Top 10 Real Ghostbusters Episodes

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This Friday we’ll see the premiere of Sony’s Ghostbusters reboot.  The long awaited revamp of the 1980s comedy classic has had everyone talking pretty much since its announcement. Most of the chatter has been based entirely on gender politics and grousing but let’s not let that taint this particular moment for us.  

Instead, I’ve elected to look back on the Ghostbusters we came from in anticipation of the Ghostbusters we’re headed for.  However, rather than just gush about the movie, which is already rightly regarded as a classic, I’m looking back on the film’s spin-off animated series The Real Ghostbusters. 

I think I can say without any hyperbole of nostalgia goggles that The Real Ghostbusters was the best-animated show of the ‘80s.  I’m coming at this from someone who watched the show as an adult, and it holds up phenomenally well: great voice cast, well-written episodes, tons of great comedy ideas skewering horror tropes, it’s just a terrific series and is honestly leagues above a lot of its contemporaries.  Given that, I’ve elected to rank my top 10 best episodes of the show, with honorable mentions going to The Headless Motorcyclist, Station Identification, Knock, Knock, and Apocalypse- What Now. 

Static Thoughts - Extreme Ghostbusters

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In 1984, Columbia Pictures produced Ghostbusters, a horror comedy starring a quartet of hilarious comedians and a ton of great genre elements.  The film was initially intended for an older audience, which is why most of the humor in the film is about sex and adult situations with the special FX action sequences packaged around the dialogue heavy gags and comedy.  However, much to Columbia’s surprise, the film proved a massive hit with kids whose parents took one look at the trailer featuring a cartoon ghost logo and claymation monsters getting zapped with lasers and decided to bring their children off to see it.  

Now with a merchandising juggernaut dropped into their laps Columbia needed to maintain interest from their audience while the sequel was in development.  Their solution was The Real Ghostbusters, a top notch ‘80s animated series premiering in 1986 and lasting till 1991.  Then, six years later in 1997; they made a sequel show called Extreme Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters 1st Trailer

They’re making a new Ghostbusters movie and it’s finally got a trailer.  I’ve been psyched for this movie since they announced the basic plan for a female centric Ghostbusters and then the casting breakdown gave me even more hope.  I’m a massive Kristen Wiig fan and Kate McKinnon has had “super star in the making” looming over her for far too long.  So, if you’re coming here for some harsh angry put down of the very concept of women wielding proton packs then sorry but you’ve visited the wrong shuffle. 

What’s more, I’m not really one to regard the Ghostbusters franchise with the kind of holy writ and reverence a lot of folks I know do.  As far as I’m concerned, Ghostbusters is a fun movie and a great handful of shows and comics, not some unassailable classic that should never be updated, reworked, or experimented with.  Maybe that’s just my background being in comics where re-workings are more common but the way I see it, if you aren’t taking the time to invent new ‘Busters and a new team why bother doing Ghostbusters again?  Either way, let’s talk about the trailer. 

Ghostbusters - Get Real #2 Review

I take a look at the awesome comic book Ghostbusters and animated Ghostbusters crossover from IDW, Spoilers: there's a cameo by the Extreme Ghostbusters.  Check it out over on Front Towards Gamer:

http://ftg.operationsupplydrop.org/2015/07/31/ghostbusters-get-real-2-review-comics/