pferreira1983 wrote:Now Comics stories hardly had the team battling ghosts
Out of curiosity, I had a quick look through the issues of the comic.
Issues 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 25, 27 appeared to feature ghosts in one form or another.
Issues 9, 10, 11 dealt with a demon.
Issues 17 and 26 dealt specifically with ghosts previously seen in the show, Samhain and the Boogieman.
While that isn't the majority of the series, I feel that's a bit more than them "hardly" battling ghosts, or other traditional paranormal staples.
pferreira1983 wrote:instead they battled interdimensional teens
Which is not out the sphere of what we've seen in the show (admittedly when it was getting poorer):
Mean Green Teen Machine.
pferreira1983 wrote:toxic waste monsters and dinosaurs.
Follow That Hearse and
Moaning Stones, respectively.
Are those elements you associate with Ghostbusters?
It depends on the circumstances, and the writing. The show gave us
Egon's Dragon and
Troll Bridge,
No One Comes to Lupusville and
Poultrygeist, so there's an established history of not just dealing with ghosts.
pferreira1983 wrote:While I agree the Marvel comic was full of jokes at times it was much closer to the cartoon series both in spirit, art and mythology.
The art was okay, though nothing to particularly write home about - likely limited by the format of cheap comic printing that was a staple of the UK comic market compared to the American one, the Now
Ghostbusters II adaptation is miles better than anything the Marvel comics produced, and the greater mythology of the UK series is dubious, as the Marvel series didn't feature any of the familiar villains that the show had, as noted above, Now featured two of them, and also had a brief reappearance of the Peoplebusters.