 Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-In. I'm Shannon and today we're going to be taking a look at Ghostbusters Volume 8, Mass Hysteria Part 1, written by Eric Burnham and illustrated by Dan Sconing in celebration of the Ghostbusters 30th anniversary. So stay tuned. So hey guys, welcome to Comic-In. If you're new, make sure you hit the subscribe button and the little bell. Comment below. Hit the like button and maybe even share with your friends. Good job. We have cookies and milk. I might be seeing a matcher. All right, so as I said, today we're taking a look at Ghostbusters Volume 8, Mass Hysteria Part 1, written by Eric Burnham, illustrated by Dan Sconing, and this is the celebration of the Ghostbusters 30th anniversary. Ghost of the Gozerian, the destructor, was once drawn to Manhattan but could not complete his work. That's the good news. The bad news is that he isn't the only god who has taken notice of Earth. This volume collects issues number 13 through 16 of Ghostbusters. The stars of this volume are Peter Venkman, Egon Spangler, Ray Stans, Winston Zedemore, Ron Alexander, the rookie from Ghostbusters Video Game who now has his own Ghostbusters franchise in Chicago, who works alongside Ron Alexander as well as after Mass Hysteria Part 2, he brings on board two other former members of Ron Alexander's Ghost Smashers. Also included in this are Jenny Moran, who is another former Ghostsmasher, Kylie Griffin, Melanie Ortiz, Louis Tully, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, and even a small part for Eduardo from Extreme Ghostbusters. Eduardo does portray some shop help, raise a cult books alongside Kylie Griffin, so that's pretty cool. I hope sometime they bring on board the other two Extreme Ghostbusters, so that'd be nice. Also featured in this story is the villain. We have the Sumerian goddess of chaos and the sister of Gozer, Tiamat. So we start off with Winston Zedemore getting married and of course Peter is, he's being his usual belligerent self. All the while the other Ghostbusters, the rookie Ron Alexander, Melanie Ortiz and Kylie Griffin are off busting ghosts while the Ghostbusters and Janine are celebrating Winston's marriage. So of course the Ghostbusters get called to this, it appears to be a hotel or apartment building or something or other, some kind of office building I believe, and they encounter this hanging ghost. They are able to defeat the ghost and continue on. Winston and his newfound wife say their vows and of course Peter Venkman, being ever so lovable and being the ambassador of Cooth ends the celebration with, alright let's go to the bar. So before Winston and his new bride are able to celebrate their newfound marriage and their honeymoon, it begins raining blood and then we cut to the scene in Dana Barrett's apartment. That's right guys, we get the return of Dana Barrett and eventually Louis Tully. Tiamat visits Dana Barrett and instead of having two hellhounds like Gozer had, Tiamat has two griffins and so Dana contacts Janine and asks her to keep Peter and the guys out of it but she needs help. So of course Janine sends Kylie and Melanie to kind of investigate. Then we start seeing cars floating in mid-air and during this part we get a nice little cameo that Dan Schoening did of the Delorean from Back to the Future. Of course back in, this takes place shortly, a little while after Ghostbusters video game so it's probably the early to mid 90s I believe. So Delorians were still pretty well seen around cities at the time. So while Kylie and Melanie are tasked by Janine to investigate Dana's apartment it's revealed that Oscars in Europe visiting his father and Winston ends up cutting his honeymoon short in order to help the other Ghostbusters with the whole reigning blood situation. Louis Tully ends up returning to New York from California and he gets picked up by his cousin. I don't know what Dan Schoening was trying to say with this but it does kind of make sense. He kind of pretty much portrayed Louis's cousin as Eugene Levy. For those of you who don't know, Eugene Levy was the father in the American Pie movies. He played in several Steve Martin movies, very hilarious actor, but you get little cameos like this throughout the throughout all of IDW's Ghostbusters specifically when Dan Schoening is doing the art fort. I think he likes to put in little little Easter eggs there like that to see who's really paying attention but I thought it was really cool. So anyway Dana becomes possessed by one of Taimant's griffins and then Louis ends up being seduced in a bar by Taimant disguised as a very attractive blonde woman. Walter Peck orders the Ghostbusters to figure out what's going on with the blood rain and about that time when he and Peter are arguing because Walter Peck is currently the director of Peacock which is the basically it's the Paranormal Oversight Commission in New York City. The Ghostbusters answer directly to Walter Peck which makes for some very hilarious back and forth particularly between he and Peter. Um but anyway while they're going over this, Jeanine's online one and another call comes through. Peter quickly answers it and a voice comes over the phone says Peter help it's Dana. He takes off like a bat out on a motorcycle with a proton pack strapped to his back ready to help his one true love. Um the way Eric Burnham portrays the Ghostbusters in these comics Ray and Egon are portrayed extremely close to their movie counterparts. Um however Peter and Winston are portrayed more closely to their real Ghostbusters counterparts. Peter does look more like you know the Bill Murray version but his personality is more like the real Ghostbusters version of Peter Rankman. Uh Winston on the other hand um he's kind of they kind of took merged the personalities of the movie Winston and the real Ghostbusters Winston together for this IDW Ghostbusters Winston. And he I don't know why but Dan Skoning didn't really um draw him to look similar to the movie Winston's Edamore like he did with the other three Ghostbusters. I mean obviously you can tell he's Winston but he doesn't really have that Winston look to him you know with the other three Ghostbusters and Janine and Dana and Lewis Tully you can obviously tell he took a lot a lot of inspiration from the movie from the actors who portrayed him in the movies. However with Winston it it's almost like he completely revamped him. He's a lot more muscular he looks like um and I don't know it kind of makes sense the way he appears but it's kind of off-putting especially considering he tried so hard to make the other Ghostbusters and Janine and Dana and Lewis all look like they're movie counterparts you know it's kind of it's a little weird but anyway and I mean when you guys if you guys haven't read this yet Dana Barrett the way Dan Skoning drew Dana Barrett looks exactly like Sigourney Weaver. I mean it's just amazing and you can tell he took the design of Sigourney Weaver from the uh first Ghostbusters movie and used it for this for mass hysteria. She's got the leggings like she wore in the first Ghostbusters movie talking to her mom on the phone like in the first Ghostbusters movie uh so on and so forth it didn't really take much from the Ghostbusters 2 with the exception of maybe her hairstyle um so anyway shortly after Peter gets to her uh Dana's place the others arrive Ray, Egon, Winston, Janine, Kylie, Ron, the rookie, Melanie all of the other Ghostbusters thus far only to find that Tayamot has possessed both Dana and Lewis um so of course the elevators are out and so the Ghostbusters have to make their way up several flights of stairs to get to Dana while on their way up the stairs to take on the Sumerian goddess they are attacked by a ghost judge which uh Peter kind of gets very irritated right away because he's kind of keeping him from helping Dana who just to the way they portray Dana and Peter's relationship is just amazing it's like they both love each other so much but who know they're no good together as a couple but they also know that if they if they're around each other then they'll more likely end up becoming a couple uh it almost kind of seems like um for those of you who ever watched the soap opera One Life to Live kind of like Todd Manning and Blair's relationship on One Life to Live um they love each other but they can't get along and they can't stay together otherwise they'll just kill each other and it really digs deep into Peter's persona into his psyche into his personality um what he's willing to go through for this woman um she is his one true love but he knows they're no good together and he's willing to drop everything anytime she needs him uh to come to her rescue is the uh what happens here in Massachusetts so anyway Peter's getting very irritated and he calls upon Winston he's like Winston you're almost practically a lawyer right I guess Winston's new wife is studying to be a lawyer I think I'm a little off put by that but he says yeah and he comes up with some uh legal term shows a trap and busts this ghost judge then the ghostbusters encounter future versions of the original four Peter Ray Winston and Egon and of course when the future Winston tells the younger Winston kind of whispers it to him that uh you and I both know that the only way to stop this thing you're the only one who can stop this thing uh because it takes a sacrifice a great sacrifice um to stop her uh that'll be revealed in mass hysteria part two um so finally they do reach time let's temple and they attempt to blaster only to get thrown back like goes are dead to him in the first movie but then they decide all of them decide to cross their streams we're talking a whole butload of proton energy coming at this Sumerian god Peter Egon Ray Winston Ron the rookie uh you get Kylie Griffin Melanie Ortiz and Jeanine all using their proton streams against the goddess and everything goes white and it's believed at the end of this volume that Dana and Lewis are no longer possessed but Egon wants to run some more tests so that's pretty much where this ends but then we pick back up right where part one left off in mass hysteria part two which i'll go in at a later into at a later date uh but overall i really enjoyed uh both mass hysteria part one and part two i consider the mass hysteria um one and two to be another ghostbusters movie pretty much you got ghostbusters you got ghostbusters two you got ghostbusters a video game which is essentially our ghostbusters three and then you've got ghostbusters mass hysteria which would essentially be ghostbusters four that's how good of a job they did with this story um if we ever did get if we would have ever gotten a ghostbuster another ghostbusters movie i would have liked to see them bring mass hysteria to the big screen um i mean i guess they still kind of can if they uh decided to do an animated movie which would be pretty good they could still they could keep all the original uh actors with the exception of herald ramus of course uh have them do their voices do the voices but i mean that that's how good the story is that's how awesome uh eric bernham wrote it um and dan sconing did an awesome job with the artwork like i said there were uh i had a few little um kind of quandaries about uh why dan uh designed uh winston the right way he did and why eric kind of portrays peter as um more of the real ghostbusters peter bankman as opposed to the bill burt bill murray peter bankman but very great story i give it a 10 out of 10 so yeah i mean if you guys haven't read it yet i highly suggest going out uh going on comic solace you're going out to your local comic book shop picking up ghostbusters volume eight mass hysteria uh from 2014 uh like i said this right after mass hysteria two you get ghostbusters uh the full ghostbusters chicago you get three members of the uh former uh ghost smashers joining with the rookie which he said in other issues that he he keeps the rookie to keep him grounded uh so he doesn't get a big head on his shoulders um even though he's kind of the owner of the chicago ghostbusters franchise he's still called the rookie um i don't know if they i think they might have actually revealed his name in the comic but i could be mistaken i want to say they did but it's like just a one off line or whatever everyone else just refers to him as the rookie so yeah like i said 10 out of 10 um i highly recommend this comic uh mass hysteria part one and part two both equally as good and in part two you get to see the return of gozer which we will go into um probably later in the week maybe next week depending on how much time i have sorry for the late upload skies i've been i uh i produced a ton of funko pop videos to have on hand just to be able to upload something the same day every week every tuesday my work season just started back a couple weeks ago so i'm really busy plus i'm doing this whole horror video um production thing on my other channel been trying uh john was supposed to get me a review of scooby-doo green land meets green lantern and green uh arrow which i sent him a copy of to review um he's been having problems getting his uh review posted to google drive and sent to me so i'll see what i can do maybe tuesday i'll be able to get that for you since we're supposed to be filming the next episode five of the watching on my horror channel uh twisted zombie productions uh so until then guys take care get you some ghostbusters comics and have a good one