Keith Champagne (writer), Tom Nguyen (pencils), Moose Baumann (colors)
The Story: The Ghostbusters are running out of time. If they don’t get through the pipeline and back into their own bodies soon they’ll be trapped in Purgatory forever!
What’s Good: It’s over.
What’s Not So Good: Telling a Ghostbusters story with Heaven and Hell involved is fine. The fact that there are ghosts almost requires there to be a higher power from another plane of existence. So when Peter met the angels, it forces you to say, “fine, I’ll bite.” But Heaven and Hell suddenly being a fixture of the story in the last few panels of the last book, with no setup is just bad. It’s lazy writing, desperately trying to add scope to a small uninteresting story. Speaking of the writing, is there a reason we didn’t see the boys get their bodies back? Could it be that there was no clever way to get them back in there without divine intervention? Who can say? I would just think that the audience would get to see that since that was their goal for most of the series. On the plus side, being in Purgatory gives Venkman a new affinity for deep dish… sigh.
Conclusion: To say I didn’t like this story is a bit of an understatement. My level of disappointed nerd-rage is hard to put into words. I would say for Ghostbusters fans this is about as close to nuking the fridge as you can get. The story had potential but things went downhill at an alarming rate. Stay away Ghostbusters fans, it looked good from afar but up close it’s far from good.
Grade: F
-Ben Berger
Filed under: IDW, Reviews Tagged: | Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters The Other Side 4, IDW, IDW Publishing, Keith Champagne, Moose Baumann, Tom Nguyen
