Plot
Picking up six months after the Ghostbusters' defeat of Gozer, the team's life has settled into routine: another night, another ghost. Ray Stantz in particular is feeling unfulfilled by the work. The issue juggles three simultaneous threads: Janine Melnitz makes a romantic play for Egon Spengler, a mysterious "brain-dead" ghost continues to haunt the New York subway, and Michael Draverhaven, an escaped mental patient introduced in Issue #1, is targeting the Ghostbusters directly.
Covers
The issue was released with two covers:
- Regular Cover: Art by Steve Kurth, Serge LaPointe, and Blond
- Variant Painted Cover: Featuring Winston Zeddemore, painted by Dan Brereton
The two-cover release was a notable reduction from the six variants offered with Issue #1.
Cast and Appearances
Characters
Equipment
Items
- Krazy's Secret Silly Sauce
- Keymaster Cologne (also featured in Issue #1)
Locations
- Krazy's (a restaurant)
- The Firehouse (Ghostbusters headquarters)
- Dana's Apartment
Continuity Notes and Trivia
- Page 1: Winston admits he has a fear of clowns.
- Page 5: Egon reveals he worked at Krazy's restaurant one summer and experimented in the deep fryer.
- Page 9: Ray and Egon discuss Einstein. Egon briefly changes his hair to match his animated counterpart's hairstyle from The Real Ghostbusters, one of several nods to the animated series across the Legion run.
- Page 10: Peter jokes about hand modeling and developing a four-bottle-a-day Aloe Vera habit.
- Page 12: Peter notes his mother thought of him as a young Robert De Niro.
- Pages 19-20: A bystander mentions the Mayor and the Boogeyman.
Publication History
The planned release date for Issue #2 was March 2004, but publication slipped to July 21, 2004. The Legion mini-series as a whole experienced significant scheduling delays from its original monthly pace. The full four issues were later collected in a softcover trade paperback released by UK publisher Titan Books in July 2005 (ISBN 978-1845760755), along with a colored version of the one-shot "The Zeddemore Factor."
See the Ghostbusters: Legion series page for full publication history, including the cancelled ongoing monthly series and the 88MPH hardcover that was offered for pre-order but never published.
References
- Ghostbusters: Legion #2 (88MPH Studios, July 2004). Story by Andrew Dabb, art by Steve Kurth.
- Ghostbusters 88MPH Studios Comics series overview (Fandom wiki corpus).
