Pop culture updates #15.

• Parts 1-11.
• Part 12 (Bubba Ho-Tep)
• Part 13 (Lower Decks)
• Part 14 (Joe Bob)

Finally some trickles of Ghostbusters!

First, updates on...

Ghostbusters World (2018)

From here...

Erik Burnham who draws the comics says he worked on it.

He's already incorporated the '09 game, and "Sanctum Of Slime", into the comic, so I bet this gets integrated.
Hell, I bet the "Ghostbusters 101", premise of ghostbusting students was a setup all along to canonize the players as characters.
Just my theory, anyway.

We'll see how this works its way into canon (or not), and if the game is a hit.
Hell, if they can make a fucking Emoji movie, then why can't this be a nudge towards the GB animated film?
Again, we'll see.

Yep, its canon!!

There's a story mode, and it uses the likenesses of the classic characters from the comic book.
That's Ray above.
In case you can't make out the word balloon in that image, Ray is saying..

"Tell us what you know!
Is it Tiamat?
A new incarnation of Ivo Shandor?
Another child of Koza Rai?
Talk!"

Tiamat is from the comics.
Ivo Shandor materialized in the '09 video game.
Koza Rai is from the comics.
And, the ghost he's badgering is the Grundel from RGB.

And if that isn't Easter egg-y enough...

You can wear the suits from GB1, GB2, or GB: ATC.

You can use the proton packs from GB1/GB2, GB:ATC, or RGB.

The ghost index is an upgraded version of Tobin's Spirit Guide.

...and the stores are dimension portals from the comic book.

SO, I'm gonna take a wild stab, and say GB World is going to fold back into the comics for the next storyline.
Whether they do or don't, its already pretty damned canon just by existing.


And THEN, this just dropped today...


Ghostbusters/Men In Black (2019)

Finally!!
Oh....but its a board game.
Video games can dance the edges of canon....but board games?

Well....Alien vs Predator was a comic, then action figures, THEN a video game, THEN a movie.

So....this can get the idea out there, and get the ball rolling towards something canon.

Worth commenting on, anyway.

Have a feeling this'll be an IDW storyline someday too.

And, that's those.
See you next time.