Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Ghostbusters
by Erik Burnham & Tom Waltz; ill. Dan Schoening (IDW, 2015)
Ho-hum. There’s nothing wrong with this multiverse crossover, as such, but neither set of protagonists benefits greatly from the interaction. The Turtles do ninja things. The ghostly menace is a bog-standard Class 7, contained as per usual. Murky art, underlit action scenes.
Ghostbusters 101: Everyone Answers the Call
by Erik Burnham; ill. Dan Schoening (IDW, 2017)
101 brings two dimensions together and so therefore the male and female Ghostbusters. The idea is neat but the story is plodding, weighed down by superfluous minor characters and half-funny, cutting-room-floor dialogue. The likenesses, off-puttingly, convey almost nothing of the original actors.