Because publishers want you to buy their product every month, comics are typically serial in nature. However, occasionally (and more often nowadays than ever before) publishers launch a comic title that is only meant to last for one issue. While ongoing series often have multiple chances to hook in new readers, the comics highlighted in this ongoing investigations only had One-Shot At Greatness!
Publisher: IDW
Cover Date: February 2010
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Dara Naraghi
Artist: Salgood Sam
When the Ghostbusters capture spirits that are terrorizing the scene of an upcoming Valentine’s Day school dance, Winston meets a pretty substitute teacher named Tiyah Clarke, who thinks she has ghost problems of her own. Smitten with the young woman, Winston decides to loan her his ghostbusting services, free of charge. But, can he get rid of the ghost, who seems to be smitten with her, without using his proton pack? And, more importantly, will all this derring-do lead to a date?
Dara’s plot makes for a nice Valentine’s Day one-shot read however, the lettering is a bit distracting. It almost seems like it was lifted from an underground comic with its inconsistent look and wobbly word-balloons. That and the sub-par artwork detracted from the book. However, the artist does have a pretty decent handle on portraying Egon and Peter so that they’re at least recognizable (his Ray and Winston, on the other hand, still need a lot of work). I really wish IDW would give their Ghostbusters series some better talent since none of their offerings have yet to stand out from the crowd.
On Ebay: Ghostbusters