Very nice so far! I'm looking foward to reading the next part.

Uh oh… I don't like the sound of that title.

Ghostbusters 2021: The Eye Of Aretpo, Part One

2021–Timeline Year Thirty-Nine
A strange murder in London brings a young detective to the United States in search of answers. Three children of legends are reunited. Behind the scenes, a plot is in motion that will force all of them to embrace the legacy of the Ghostbusters.

You've seen them in stories such as “Future Shocks”, “Seperated At Rebirth”, “A Different Kind Of Hero”, and “Gemini Rising”. Now, at long last, the story that tells how the Ghostbusters of the 2020's came to be a team for the first time.

Check out the newly-expanded Ghostbusters 2023 gallery page for some new pictures, including some civilian clothes and the flight suits that the new crew wears later in the story (It's not a huge spoiler–a group shot is seen right under the story title here in part 1)

(And yeah, I hope that you'll all forgive me one more “describe the original Ghostbusters in detail” scene. I almost replaced the bit with a picture, but thought that might be worse…)

Never been a problem with me the way you describe the Ghostbusters in detail. Adds just that little extra push of imagination for anyone who stumbles in not really knowing who they look like.

Nice nod to Watchmen with Chris..

CJ
Never been a problem with me the way you describe the Ghostbusters in detail. Adds just that little extra push of imagination for anyone who stumbles in not really knowing who they look like.

There seem to be two schools of thought on this one…

Mine tends to be this: I wanted to be a comic book writer for a long time (deep down I probably still do…) So that influences my work in two ways. First, comic writers are encouraged to rememeber that “Every issue is somebody's first” And the second is to try to think visually. Well, I don't have an artist to draw what I'm thinking, so I try to “draw” that picture with words.

The counterargument is that I'm basically shouting “These are the cartoon Ghostbusters” and shoving their faces in it. That if you're reading Ghostbusters fan fiction, you already know who the canon characters are and what they look like; and worse, since there are two such drastically different concepts, I'm alienating potential fans who nevertheless prefer to think of the Ghostbusters as Four Guys In Tan Who Look Like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. If I cut out descriptions, I'm more neutral and less divisive.

I'm not going to stop it completely. But I figure that my web site is chock full of pictures that make my preferences quite plain, so I should try harder to not overdo it in the prose.

Probably because I do the same thing, it never caught my eye that you were doing it in every story.

But I can't help but wonder if the people who do read this stuff (and aren't up to speed on the GBOT) make the common idea of separating the cartoons and the movies, that when you're talking about the guys in cartoon terms, they know it's the RGB, as opposed to back when GBN's Fanfiction section was up and running they had different sections for all the movies and cartoons.

And if I didn't make an ounce of sense, I am really sorry. Been sick today and I'm pumped up with god knows what so I'm not really sure if I'm coherent :-)

Well, isn't the whole point of the timeline to say these things can all be one universe, there's no good reason to split them into “only the movies count” and “only the cartoons count”?

I was referring to somebody who has no idea of the GBOT, no idea of any timeline whatsoever.

Nice job on The Eye Of Aretpo Part One, Fritz! That looks like a great set up for a pretty amazing story. How many other parts are there gonna be?