Crossover and Non-Canon Day!

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It's the 28th of the month, and that means it's officially time to talk about all those non-Eerie fandoms that, despite taking place outside of Eerie city limits, still remind you of the centre of weirdness for the entire planet.

Tell us about the latest episode of Welcome to Nightvale, your ideas for a Gravity Falls crossover, or what Twin Peaks's Andy Brennan would think of Eerie's Officer Knight. Caught up on Lumberjanes or Paper Girls? Tell us about it. Still not caught up on Eureka, Haven or Sleepy Hollow? Ask us about it. Wondering how Mister Radford and Skip from the 'Burbs would get along if they met in ice-cream making school? Me too!crossover potential

Eerie, Indiana Scariest Home Movies picspam

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Loving the use of green and purple filters.

IrishTimes: I like to imagine a reunion where the Stranger Things kids are disappointed 40somethings

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Sci-fi romp Stranger Things is back on Netflix and the only thing stopping me seething with envy over the exciting high-concept adventures of its plucky young protagonists (why can’t I have high-concept adventures?) is the fact it’s set in the early 1980s so they’re probably all dead now or, at least, disappointed fortysomethings.

I like to imagine the reunion.

“Hey, remember when we used to fight evil and communicate with our minds and get possessed by shadow creatures and stuff?”

“Yeah, that was great fun. What do you do now?”

“I market and design patio furniture.”

“That’s interesting . . . I’ve written a motivational manual for career women. It’s called Blowing Things Up At Work (With My Mind).”

For the record, I reckon in 2017 Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) manages a comic-book shop somewhere. Mike (Finn Wolfhard) is a stay-at-home father and men’s rights blogger married to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who works for Google. And that weird shadow creature who opens up its face and eats cats is, of course, a respected member of the Trump administration. He’s also working on a novel.

Anyway, that’s enough about my blandly realistic Stranger Things fan fiction. Where are the gang at the start of Stranger Things 2?

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Okay, that isn’t the ending. This is a spoiler-free review. And the Duffer Brothers (the directors) probably wouldn’t have got away with such audacious sci-fi hokum if not for the help of those pesky kids. They somehow make it all seem a bit more real.

Women Write About Comics on Coady and the Creepies

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Coady and the Creepies stars horror pop punk band The Creepies made up of triplet siblings Coady, Cory, and Criss. The band and their roadie are traveling the country playing kick ass punk shows and getting mixed up in some hair-raising hijinks. This series is SO MUCH SPOOKY FUN, and there’s a great ghostly twist to this story! It’s full of spectres, meddlesome demons, fashionably dressed skeletons, and the scariest thing of them all: entitled-sexist-douche-bros!

The artwork and colour pallet is very reminiscent of ’90s Nickelodeon cartoons, so each page is full of character and colour which really pops, and the covers from Kat Leyh are glorious. If you like the idea of a Lumberjanes meets Jem & the Holograms by way of Eerie Indiana you will enjoy this series.

HollywoodPoint: Extreme Ghostbusters Is a Lot Better Than You Remember

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There was a time when no one cared about Ghostbusters. It was the late ‘90s – the pre-Pokemon, post-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers days to be exact. Nobody’s kid was exactly clamoring for a sequel, reboot, or a Ghostbusters continuation of any kind – except for Dan Akroyd, who was practically lobbying for a third installment while sitting front row at the Ghostbusters II premiere. Which is why we have this: an awkwardly timed, tonally disruptive Ghostbusters animated series.

Enter a brand new cartoon that picked up the sticky, ectoplasm-covered mantle of The Real Ghostbusters and wore it slightly askew to evoke that wholesome sense of 1990s irreverence: Extreme Ghostbusters.

Living up to its name, XGB was extreme indeed. One glance at its radically-inclusive team lineup is all you need to notice that. The XGB are made up of people who weren’t usually portrayed as heroes on cartoons (and still aren’t, if we’re being honest). Also, the writing team was well aware of how its predecessor was both intentionally and unintentionally disturbing – because several of them had worked on it. That’s why the horror elements of XGB were dialed way the fuck up, becoming much darker than the Real Ghostbusters was during its heyday.

Extreme Ghostbusters had the balls to tackle heavy subject matter and broader social themes when we weren’t expecting it. It invited us into the psyches of its main characters, chronicling the struggles of their personal lives which usually intertwined with the ghost-of-the-week plots. To refer to XGB as a serialized story is stretching it, but there was a loose sense of long term continuity being played with, which more often than not took the form of throwbacks to The Real Ghostbusters.

(Oh, and yes that was a redesigned version of classic RGB villain Samhain in the intro. But no, he never appears in the actual show. So why was there was an action figure released as part of the corresponding toyline? The fuck if I know.)

With this dimension added to its storytelling, XGB was often thoughtful in ways that its parent series couldn’t be. RGB‘s optimistic cheese was swapped for melancholic decay simply because the climate of chidren’s television at the time could allow it. Thanks to programs like Batman: The Animated Series, which had aired in the interim between Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters, cartoons for kids could speak to all ages and be adult without being rated R. The writing staff, guided by the likes of Richard Raynis, Jeff Kline, and Dan Akroyd, would take advantage of this pre-millennial moodiness to usher the franchise into more dramatic territory.

Extreme Ghostbusters was produced by Adelaide Productions, the same animation house that gave us other animated TV adaptations of movie franchises that didn’t necessarily need it during the mid-’90s, like Jumanji, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, and Matthew Broderick…whoops… Godzilla.

So why haven’t you heard about XGB before? Or if you have, how come you haven’t seen or heard much of it since? (Sheesh, it’s on Hulu now you guys. Catch up.) I’m sure the reasons I just outlined above played a role in its limited presence. It was bad enough Extreme Ghostbusters was written for an older audience. That it wound up lost in syndication and aired at ungodly hours of the morning didn’t help much either.

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Stranger Things 2 reaction post

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Right, I just finished Stranger Things 2 so here's your reaction post. Please note there will be spoilers for the whole second series in the comments, so venture there at your own risk!

Halloween burgers!

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Fic or Treat?

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Leave a comment with what you're dressed as or doing for the holiday and I will either give you a fic based off of what you tell me OR give you a 3 song mix/graphics/picspam or something else that jumps to mind.