robbritton wrote:mrmichaelt wrote:Whoever told you that was erroneous. There's only one writer on the comic. Patty, Holtzmann, and Erin are playing pretty well off the original team. The argument can me made against Abby and her snide comments but she gets taken down a peg every so often.
Also it'd be very unlikely for Erik not to address this, he's pretty good at that sort of thing. It was said elsewhere on the forum, but it does fit with her established character that she'd be annoyed to encounter a team who are loved and encouraged in their dimension, and would lead with snark. Think how she was when cross with Erin until the Aldridge Mansion encounter - putting down her tenure, and referring to her "stupider" college. It does fit.
(Add standard bit about how they should turn the whole franchise over to Burnham here! )
That it does and I think in this coming issue, I do believe that we are going to get a scene with Abby and Erin that reveals just how sideswiped Abby is from finding out that other Ghostbusters teams exist in other dimensions.
mrmichaelt wrote:During the Ghostbusters 101 panel, Tom Waltz confirmed the story follows up on the events of the Ghostbusters 101 mini-series. The Answer The Call team incorporates some lessons they learned from the prime team like new ways to use their equipment and containing them instead of destroying them. Waltz teased Kelly Thompson thinks everyone is going to like seeing Kevin's fears.
Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqVzKiYOlQw
Timestamp: 9:15-11:03
Quote: "The story is basically there, it's going to follow on 101. They learned some lessons from the prime Ghostbusters, that's what we call them at IDW now because we have so many Ghostbusters, so the prime Ghostbusters have shown them some new ways to use their equipment. If you've been reading 101, Ray kind of scolded Holtzmann on this idea you can't just destroy the ghosts. You have to do something to them. You have to contain them or they're just going to come back and probably come back worse so they're taking those lessons and incorporating them to their world but what they're going to run into is a ghost that feeds on their nightmares and their fears and turns them around back on them. And in some ways that's going to be horrifying and maybe too much for these girls to take on we'll find out, uh Kelly promised me she though thought that she thinks everyone is going to want to see what Kevin's dreams are like. And how those are going to turn out."
Yeah it is amazing how such a simple thing like a cross over with the original Ghostbusters can make the ATC characters more fun and interesting. For me anyway I know there are people who loved them before, but now that they have teamed up with the originals they don't feel as seperate from them as they once did. They now feel like just another branch only set in another dimension. Now I know
I am probably getting way ahead of the big plan that IDW has, but if both these stories continue in comic form for the next couple of years could we see an Infinate crisis situation unravel in Ghostbusters? I mean the Ghostbusters/TMNT sequel is a good sign that the Ghostbusters are far from done with Dimension hopping. What if there is an entity so bad that it wants to destroy all reality so you bring in every Ghostbuster from every conceivable dimension. That is probably a pipe dream, but at this point I am not ruling anything out.