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Comic Series ‘Ghostbusters: Crossing Over’ Will Feature Every Team and Every Ghost!
Extreme Ghostbusters. Real Ghostbusters. New Ghostbusters. ALL of them.
If you thought IDW’s recent comic book cross-over between the original Ghostbusters and the all-female remake Ghostbusters was cool, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
As revealed by io9 today, next year’s Ghostbusters: Crossing Over will unite every single ghost-busting team we’ve seen to date, and unleash every single ghost!
“Written by Erik Burnham and with art by Dan Schoening, Crossing Over will be set in the wake of previous team-ups between the original Ghostbuster team of the first two movies and the all-female team of the 2016 reboot. Those team-ups were facilitated by the original team accidentally creating their own interdimensional portal (as they’re wont to do)… technology the team has yet to share with other members of the ghostbusting multiverse.
Naturally, this makes Jillian Holtzmann and Ron Alexander (of the Chicago branch of the Ghostbusters introduced in IDW’s second volume of comics) jealous, so they build a portal of their own—one that inadvertently unleashes every ghost ever contained in their containment units, so it’s a good thing they now have two portals with which to connect every Ghostbuster team ever, from the comics to the video games to the cartoon series, to help collect the ghostly threats.”
The first issue of Crossing Over will arrive on March 28.
The supernatural world of Korean folk horror movie Exhuma grows larger with the arrival of prequel spinoff webtoon Maengjong this weekend, Variety reports today.
Naver Webtoon debuts Maengjong on May 30.
The series hails from Haemuri (Olgami) and will trace the high school origins of how shaman duo Hwarim and Bonggil, played by Kim Go-eun and Lee Do-hyun in the 2024 film, came together to face occultish threats.
The story is set to begin when “Hwarim, who has been concealing her identity following a childhood encounter with a snake spirit called Jin, crosses paths with Bonggil at their school.”
Variety notes that Exhuma director Jang Jae-hyun participated in the project’s early concept stage.
“We are presenting ‘Maengjong,’ a new series capturing the appeal of the horror-occult genre, ahead of the full summer season,” said Lee Jeong-geun, Naver Webtoon’s Korea webtoon content leader. “With the high school story of Hwarim and Bonggil, who left a strong impression in the film ‘Exhuma,’ enhanced by Haemuri’s characteristic tense direction, we expect it will be a welcome work for genre fans.”
“It is meaningful that the spin-off story of ‘Exhuma,’ loved by many audiences, expands by meeting the new grammar of webtoon,” said Lee Hyeon-jeong, managing director of the film business division at Showbox, which distributed the film. “We hope it will be a fresh experience for both film fans and webtoon readers.”
Exhuma was a breakout hit in 2024, becoming the first Korean occult film to surpass 10 million ticket buyers and the country’s highest-grossing film of the year. I wrote in my review that “the intricately woven Exhuma delivers one of the year’s biggest surprises in horror so far.”
The bond between Hwarim and Bonggil was one of the film’s highlights, making this prequel webtoon a must for fans.
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