Ghostbusters International, Volume 2

Ghostbusters International #6-11

by Erik Burnham

The team is still on the move as they head to Puerto Rico and Ireland as ghosts all over the world need to be busted while Egon chases a mystery about a powerful Scandinavian spell book. Collects issues #6-11.

Genres: Comics, Film, Urban Fantasy, Graphic Novels

151 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2017

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

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

International Volume 1 was more of the same of the previous Ghostbusters adventures, and International Volume 2 is more of the same of Volume 1, so by the transitive property...it's good. Egon would be proud of me.

International Volume 2 rounds off the current story arc, tying back into what's gone before (and in other mini-series such as Get Real which I haven't actually read, but I get the gist). It all comes to a head fairly nicely, although some stuff gets resolved quicker than I'd have expected it to. I do wonder if maybe we were meant to get 12 issues instead of 11 in total, because then the last two issues which are the big fight/conclusion might have had some more time to breathe.

The fact that Rachael Stott shows up for some fill-in art really hammers home just how embedded Dan Schoening is into the DNA of the IDW Ghostbusters, because nothing else looks quite right after him. Stott's contributions are fine and dandy, but...they're not Schoening.

International may not have always used its International-ness to its advantage, but the far-reaching storyline moves along swiftly, and comes to a satisfying, if a little truncated, conclusion.

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid but mildly disappointing finale. The conspiracy plot was wrapped up adequately, but it needed more layers to really satisfy, seemed too straightforward at the end. (Frankly, it felt hurried.) Still, there were a number of good moments in here, particularly the Ireland story, and an unexpectedly significant and long-lasting callback to Ghostbusters: Get Real. (B+)

[Matthew Fleming · Rating 4 out of 5]

A better follow-up. Pretty much adored it, but what's with the section where they start to draw Kylie's face differently?

[Juan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I admit that sometimes I sort of feel a little out of place collecting each Ghostbuster series when in comparison to my traditional pull-list. When I sit down to read each arc, I am rarely disappointed. If anything, with the constant references to magick, traditional ghost stories and theories of haunting, and sometimes even the history based on murderers or serial killers, it kind of makes me wish I could study the paranormal as well. Also, of course, but the characters are usually as comedic as the iconic characters from the film franchise. I feel this story was well written and I always favor story arcs that exceed a single volume. Over all this story was 11 issues long, broken down into two volumes. This story kept on getting better. One final note I will say as a positive mark on the series is I commend the fact that the writers always find a way to create new characters we can grow to love while also referencing back to old story arcs, events, and bringing back old characters introduced in the old cartoons series, video games, and story arcs.

[Sam Nicholson · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book once again proves why IDW's Ghostbusters run is my favorite in all of comics right now. Such a fun, well written book.

[Laura Lawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liking seeing more - but want to see the females, can they meet them in an alternative universe?

[Jason Stokes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series really captures the essence of what the Ghostbusters are. The writing, humor and the evolution of the team are right on track. Fun,light hearted, entertaining read.