It’s always fun finding new webcomics that don’t suck. And it’s even better if they’re Ghostbusters fans (as pretty much everyone is, really.) Check out the latest comic of Spooky Doofus, which is set in a sort of Beetlejuice-esque, Halloween-is-everyday kind of world, and follows a young Werewolf, Landon (haha – Teen Werewolf references!)
Thanks to Ed for the heads up!
We Are (still) Legion: Wil Wheaton
I was watching the Birdman’s video from PaxEast – you’ll remember Mike’s This Week In Geek Ghostbusters episode, with some guy as a guest – and spotted known felon ghosthead Wil Wheaton wearing a telling shirt.
Wheaton is well established as a Ghostbusters fan, but it’s always worth repeating.
Wil Wheaton is a well established Ghostbusters fan.
Limited edition art print by Tim Doyle
If you don’t know the name, you might know some of his work – particularly, you might recall his spoof of the Obama Change campaign poster, featuring Optimus Prime (“Change… into a truck”), or his Bill Murray profile piece, if not his other pop culture tinged prints. Oh, and you should TOTALLY remember his Crazy 4 Cult poster, which was featured here at PC.
Well, Tim’s got a corker this time and it’s being offered in limited quantities to readers of Nakatomi Inc.
The design is a tall, screen printed rendering of the Ghostbusters firehall, with the Ecto-1 about to emerge. And if that wasn’t cool enough, a limited amount of the limited amount will glow-in-the-dark.
Thanks to Chogrin for the heads up!
“Ready to Believe You”
12×24, 4 color silkscreen. (5th glow layer on the glow edition.)
Hand pulled, and signed and numbered by the artist, Tim Doyle.
$30 reg, $50 glow.
Our remaining copies of the LAST PRINT that finally did make it to the site vanished instantly, so do yourself a favor, and get on the mailing list, eh?
Ectoplasmic Residue: The Art of Ghostbusters show, April 15th, Athens, Ga
It will be a familiar concept to anybody that attended – or even just followed online – pop culture group art shows of recent years, that Ghostbusters is a popular subject.
It should be no surprise then that eventually a whole show would be devoted to the film.
Artist Scott Blair Twittered a piece (see below) he did for the show as well as providing dates and times – which is handy, as it was the first I’d heard of it.
Thursday, April 15th, in Athens, Georgia – Ectoplasmic Residue: The Art of Ghostbusters – will be held at the BarCafeCinema. No word yet on exact time or ticket price, or other artists. Stay tuned!
From the fringes… Aykroyd tells Murray to stop being a jerk.
So, the pedigree on this item is somewhere above Internet rumour and speculation, but only by the barest of margins. Mike Walker, gossip columnist for the National Enquirer, holds a weekly game in which readers of the Enquirer, listeners of the Howard Stern Show, and the Stern crew themselves, guess which of four gossip items is false.
This week, one of the “true” items was that Dan Aykroyd has called Bill Murray to stop being a jerk and holding up production;
WHO YA GONNA CALL DEPT.: DAN AYKROYD called old pal/“Ghostbusters” co-star BILL MURRAY and snarled: “Stop acting like a jerk!” It’s getting spooky-ugly as Aykroyd, Murray, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, HAROLD RAMIS and ERNIE HUDSON struggle to birth their proposed “Ghostbusters 3” sequel because Murray – despite agreeing to do the film – has suddenly turned so cranky and mean, he even refuses to answer phone calls. “Producers, who’ve given Bill script approval, need his cooperation, but they can’t seem to get him on the phone to talk about the script,” said a source. “He’s even told them his character should be killed off in the first couple of minutes of the movie! Bill’s famously hard to handle, but he’s really gone off the deep end since the breakup of his marriage. That’s why Dan, who knows him best, phoned to read him the riot act, but…!” Stay tuned.
The question is, how much value to put on a “True” gossip item. It’s like calling something a “real” rumour – awesome, it’s real… but it’s still a rumour. Right? Well, these days, it turns out the Enquirer is about as good a source as any other media outlet, particularly when it comes to celebrity and political scandal. Not that Aykroyd chewing out Murray is a scandal – that’s more like a good guess that nobody will follow up on. But like I said, it does rank somewhere above Internet hearsay in the veracity department. And hey – who doesn’t want to yell “Hurry up!” at anybody involved in a third movie these days?
Thanks to Steven Hough for the tip.
[VIA Bloody Disgusting]