Ghostbusters, Volume 6: Trains, Brains, and Ghostly Remains

Ghostbusters (IDW Collected Editions)

by Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening (Illustrations), Evan "Doc" Shaner (Illustrations)

The original Ghostbusters are back in Manhattan, picking up the pieces of their interrupted lives. Ray and Egon throw themselves into their research, while a decision Janine made when she was busting ghosts comes back to haunt her, and to top all of that a ghost ship roams the waters off Long Island.

Collects volume 2 issues 5-8 and The New Ghostbusters Stripped back up stories Blah Blah Blob, No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn and Visitation.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror, Supernatural

104 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2013

About the author

Erik Burnham is a Minnesotan writer and artist that first broke into comics with a series of humorous short stories in the Shooting Star Comics Anthology. These stories featured his original creation, Nick Landime, and culminated in a one-shot: Nick Landime vs. the World Crime League, published by Shooting Star in 2005.

Off and on, in this same time period, Erik also produced a short run of an online strip, The Down Side, until technical issues wore him down. He aims to return to the strip one day.

In 2007, Erik found produced work for two other anthologies – a short humor piece for History Graphics Press’ Civil War Adventures #1, and a horror story for Gene Simmons’ House of Horror #3, produced by IDW Publishing.

This lead to several other projects for IDW, up to and including his critically acclaimed run on the ongoing GHOSTBUSTERS comic book.

Erik has worked on other projects not related to comic books, and hopes one day to share those with the public at large. In the meantime, he still lives quietly in Minnesota; any rumors about this being because he’s completely afraid of the forty-nine other states (and Canada) remain unverified at this time.

Reviews

[Ron]

Life keeps on chugging for the Ghostbusters. They lasso a ghostly train in upper New York state, Janine comes to rue cheating the challenge from last volume when she is called into account and Egon has to save her. And then their is the ghost ship haunting Long Island Sound that keeps Ray heaving overboard! Plus Ron gets himself arrested in Chicago! Fun times!

[Rachel]

A fun story where the Ghostbusters are still trying to figure out what occurred in their last adventures and then they are faced with a whole new set of problems that are coming back to haunt Janine from when she was a primary in the Ghostbusters before.

[James Bowman]

IDW's Ghostbusters continue to satisfy! The highlight of this volume is Egon and her boyfriend Roger facing Norse ghosts for Janine, though the rest of the stories are solid too. (B+)

[Jye]

I wish that the artwork stayed consistent in this one, but the story is still great and feels like it’s really building towards a huge finale.

[Ian Williamson]

I absolutely love this ghostbusters series. It has mainly hit the high notes with story telling. Burnham is building up to something I hope is amazing, each issue he is sprinkling little ideas that seem to be throw away pieces that come back in later storylines. We are well into the series now and he has fleshed the ghostbusters out so they seem real, he's built them the Marvel way real heroes with real problems on top of the supernatural. His ensemble cast prove worthy foils too. The art is top notch again and doesn't suffer when Burnham takes over himself for a couple of issues. Again some lovely hidden Easter eggs included, my favourite been the plane behind Ray been the one Dan Ackroyd gets Indiana Jones on in Temple of Doom.

[Mike Jozic]

Thoroughly enjoyable. Continues to be one of the best licensed books on the market and one of the most entertaining series currently on the shelves.

[Cookie]

Too bad Dan Schoening didn't draw everything this time...

[Scott wachter]

Egon stares down a crew of dream-invading Draugr. The draugr blink first.

[Sarah Sammis]

http://www.pussreboots.pair.com/blog/...

[Josh]

Doc Shaner sure has come a long way since the two fill-in issues he does here.