It’s the IDW crossover that could! Look at that picture… What do you see? I see GI Joe’s Snake Eyes, Star Trek’s Spock, Transformers’ Optimus Prime, and Ghostbusters’ Peter Venkman. That should be a victory for anyone, period. And you might be asking, “Fleet, how does that even work?” Well… To be honest, it kinda doesn’t. At least, not how you’d expect. You see, while the event includes these 4 licences, it would appear that they never meet eachother. The catylist for the story begins in what I’ll call the “Zombies Vs Robots Multiverse”. There’s this agency that monitors zombie activity throughout that multiverse… Then something happens that allows the zombie threat to extend into each of the other franchise’s universes. So each license has to deal with their own problems, independent to the others.

So far, Transformers and Star Trek have run their courses, with Ghostbusters and GI Joe having just started their fun. But the thing about this event, is that it’s not some throwaway tale, what happens in these books remain a part of their respective continuities. For example, a certain “old” Autobot becomes about of the Robot Zombie wave and is subsequently destroyed. His death kinda hurt me a little bit, because he was arguably one of the cooler of the second wave Transformers from the original cartoon series. But that guy is dead in the main series because of the direct result of zombies in the Transformers universe. There ain’t no coming back. At least, there shouldn’t be.

Anyway, my favorite tie-in has been the Ghostbusters book. For one thing, I’m certain that each Ghostbuster will be safe from death, and it also brought back the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Which, depending on which continuity you follow, that’s kind of dubious. Seeing as in the movies, Stay Puft was the living avatar of Gozer the Gozerian on our Earthly plane. As established in the recent Ghostbusters videogame, which acts as a direct sequel to the movies, Gozer can only appear as Stay Puft, but you should know, Gozer is a god, not a ghost and therefore cannot be trapped as a conventional ghost. Which is why Gozer can only be destroyed. However, in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, there is a ghost version of Stay Puft, that originally was a dream creation, then later was established as a true ghost, created from the ectoplasmic marshmallow leftovers from their battle with Gozer from the movies. But, I’m fairly certain that most casual GB fans and even some hardcore ones don’t know that… But another thing is, I have no idea what the IDW continuity is… It may be some analgam of all the previous series, but either way it goes, it’s fun to see him be a part of the story. Also, there’s polterguiests… Which also are not ghosts, and thus makes the Ghostbusters lives that much harder. So yeah.

Anyway, Infestation is still going on and looks to be concluded during the first week of April, so if you haven’t had a chance to check the series out, now’s your chance. IDW had been doing some cool things lately, and deserve a little bit of your attention. Also, it looks like they’re the first company to be able to not only get the rights to Godzilla, but the rights to all the other giant Toho monsters that Godzilla has fought with or against. So kudos to them. See ya.

-Fleet

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