Ivo Shandor wrote:GBPaulRivera wrote: I am curious, what is it you think they haven't explored? I might be forcing you to retread some ideas you've probably shared, but I am a curious person who respects most perspectives on many things.
Well, as a comic-book fan whose favorite writers are Grant Morrison and Alan Moore...I'm looking for someone who really opens up and explores the GB universe in ways we haven't seen before.
Don't try to imitate the style of Aykroyd & Ramis, come out with your own ideas and your own voice. Expand the horizons of what is shown in the films and the RGB animated series. Maybe some cool stuff on other dimensions, maybe with the advent of ATC some alternate realities. Don't limit yourself to what we have seen before. I think this would really benefit the whole GBU (Ghostbusters universe, if I can use such a term). When I was a kid I used to read Simon Furman's Transformer comics. They didn't just imitate the cartoon or the 1986 Transformers animated movie. They expanded the universe so much and those creators really enriched the whole idea of Transformers. We need that in the Ghostbusters universe, in my opinion.
Well you have a good point about exploring the universe, but I think the issue is
1. They're focusing on the Ghostbusters that were written by Dan and Harold, and they have to go the path of The Real Ghostbusters where we have these characters and we explore their universe and its lore through their eyes and not very much from others because its about Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, Janine, some of the new people, and Walter Peck ... so to go away from that is possible, but you can't go so far, especially with a franchise that is owned by a company like Sony/Columbia that will have somebody with IDW who'll look over their ideas and plans and say, no we can't let this or this or this happened, but you can do this.
2. Transformers isn't as limited as Ghostbusters. I mean as much as the new film has opened up to more realities and visiting other dimensions is a cool aspect allowed in the lore of Ghostbusters ... its still a story that is grounded to a reality very similar to ours. I mean in the videogame, the best media to do what you suggest ... story wise the dimensional hopping happened 3 times and the rest of the time it was either New York City setting invaded by ghosts, ghouls, and other creatures in their rogues gallery, or the two universes merging to a degree. Also, Transformers is heavily science fiction, and as much as I'd like to say Ghostbusters is science-fiction, its far more into science-fantasy with terms and ideas that may be science to them, but they bend it to fit their reality's fantasy edge like Doctor Who, but unlike Doctor Who where it can go anywhere (and anytime) as it chooses, Ghostbusters can't because we're dealing with human beings as normal as anybody with their own eccentricities who by accident or chance or fate or whatever, have jobs like Orkinmen when it comes to the paranormal.
3. I respect your views and maybe that's why I loved the new film because an alternate Ghostbusters reality was placed on the biggest media out there, film, but did it really go and do more than the original films and cartoons? No, not on a grander scale. They followed the plot of the original with their own spin on it, but to a degree any further growth will be like how we see with original as done in RGB, IDW, and the videogame, follow what is done, and stem a bit.
4. I personally believe the IDW team has done with Gozer's new minion, his sister Tiamet who practically brought them to an end, traveling the nation/world to bust ghosts, sent to another dimension (brief, but nice), a new GB team, revamping RGB ideas that were cool, exploring old and new relationships, creating new characters, new gadgets, cross overs (TMNT and RGB!), offering different ghost types instead of fully relying on classic RGB monsters, case files on ghosts, and so on.
Well those are my counter points, and believe me, I understand your view and respect it and agree to it to a degree and I'm not saying we shouldn't explore the lore, and we have explored many possibilities through many mediums, but unless you can share your IDEAS that stem farther than what is done now, I don't think we can explore that much with a premise of people catching ghosts. Sure a special cross over with the ATC GB's is nice or a 4-5 issue mini-series would be cool, but again we're gonna reach a point where we'll say well that's as far as it goes.