Another cleverly-scripted issue of this series. I'm now wondering if I need to rethink all those times that I skipped over the series in the quarter bins. It seems that ghosts are possessing mobsters in order to live the good life. The Ghostbusters pose as a rival mob and take them down. But there's some hinting about larger stories going on, which I find very interesting. It's one of the things that often draws people to film-adaptation comics - the opportunity to flesh out the fiction. A film has to do a number of things very quickly in order to keep its audience entertained. Very often, there's little room for establishing the world of a film, especially back in the old days before extended series of films were even a thing. So a comic gives writers a chance to do so. The old DC Star Trek comic is a perfect example, really, as is this comic. Although the likenesses are very unlike, we get a glimpse into some of the other cases the Ghostbusters have faced, rather than simply the world-shattering ones we get in the movies. A comic like this provides a much more solid foundation for the characters and conundrums presented in the films.
More to come...
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