Story
After Ray Stantz wins the vote on where to spend the Fourth of July holiday, the Ghostbusters find themselves at the Independence Day Con, a sprawling pop-culture convention.1 The rest of the team expects a boring day of watching cosplay, but the outing turns dangerous when a demon named D'Orka crashes the event and unleashes supernatural chaos in keeping with the holiday fireworks theme. Cut off from their Proton Packs, the Ghostbusters are forced to improvise and find unconventional means to stop D'Orka and contain the situation.1
Cast
The only equipment appearing in the issue is the PKE Meter. The Proton Packs are notably absent, driving the story's central conflict.1
Trivia
- Egon's mycology hobby is referenced during the issue.1
- On page 4, colorist Luis Delgado's recurring "#15" Easter egg is partially obscured in the upper-right corner of the first panel by Ray's dialogue balloon. Delgado hid this number throughout his IDW Ghostbusters coloring work as a personal signature.1
- On page 7, Peter declares he is part of "the real Ghostbusters," a direct nod to The Real Ghostbusters animated series.1
- On page 17, Peter mentions Gozer by name while distracting D'Orka.1
- Cover B by Nick Runge appears on a bookcase in the "Who You Gonna Call: A Ghostbusters Retrospective" featurette included on the Ghostbusters Blu-ray, and again in the "Time Is But A Window: Ghostbusters II and Beyond" featurette on the Ghostbusters II disc, both part of the Ghostbusters 1 and 2 Gift Set (2014).
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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Con-Volution (IDW Publishing, July 2010). Written by Keith Dallas and Jim Beard; art by Josh Howard; colors by Luis Antonio Delgado; letters by Chris Mowry; edited by Tom Waltz.
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Ghostbusters: Haunted Holidays (IDW Publishing, November 2010). Written by Dara Naraghi, Keith Dallas, Jim Beard, and Peter David. ISBN 9781600107788.
