Static Thoughts - Top 10 Real Ghostbusters Episodes

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Edited by Robert Beach

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. 

Cover Story - Top 13 Justice League Europe Covers

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For those not following current events, I write this Cover Story in the wake of the UK’s landmark bad decision to leave the European Union.  This isn’t a series about politics (though lord knows that’s never stopped me before) so I’m not going to devote this page to the plethora of ways in which this is a monumentally bad thing for everyone involved.  Instead, I’ve decided to focus on a nostalgic look back at happier times for Europe and for myself with one of my all time favorite comic books: Justice League Europe.

Running from 1989 to 1993, Justice League Europe is my exhibit A in my argument that ‘90s comics didn’t suck.  It was essentially a spin-off of the very popular 1987 comic Justice League International, an effort by authors Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis to bring the DCU into a more multicultural age.  This was the era when genuine comedy and flawed humanity were introduced to the DCU and it remains one of the most creative, fun, and enjoyable eras in the company’s history.  

Justice League Europe followed in those same footsteps, adopting the ingenuous and hilarious central gimmick of being the superhero team equivalent of Euro Disneyland.  It’s funny, it’s dramatic, it’s action packed, it’s Justice League Europe; and with that said, let’s dive into the shallow end and get the cover story on the top 13 covers.