The first trade paperback of the exciting new series based on the successful movie and cartoon show, "The Ghostbusters: The Other Side" features all-new tales of everyone's favorite spook hunters. The only thing worse than getting on the bad side of gangsters is capturing the ghosts of some of the most historically notorious figures in organized crime. And when you upset the spirits of the mafia, you better be prepared to go to the mattresses. But when the Ghostbusters find themselves in Purgatory, they need to find a way out, and fast, before they end up spending an eternity in Hell!
I think this was one of the first comic book spinoffs of the Ghostbusters, and it does okay. The characters sound right for the most part, and the story, while perhaps a bit convoluted for its length, is mostly interesting. The art is sufficient to discern the different characters most of the time, although the antagonists are a bit similar in look (but there's a decent reason for that). It's occasionally funny, has some decent action, one or two plot holes wide enough for a truck, a random pretty girl for Winston to have a moment with (a plot thread that really needed a little more development) and a couple editorial decisions that left me going "really"?
All in all, it's a decent if unspectacular Ghostbusters story that is mostly inoffensive, but also unmemorable.