Ghostbusters: Back in Town 3 is the third of a four part canon mini-series by Dark Horse Comics that bridges the gap between the Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movies.
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As tensions rise in the city and in the Spengler family, Phoebe discovers the entity targeting the Ghostbusters: the malevolent Madam Malvaeux! On her own and outmatched, Phoebe escapes through the sewers, and stumbles into... supernatural standup?[1]
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On May 23, 2024, a five page preview was posted.[2]
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- The Diamond Order Codes are FEB240962 and FEB240963.
- Page 2
- Madame Malveaux mentions when the Ghostbusters defeated Vigo in Ghostbusters II.
- Page 3
- Phoebe mentions Mood Slime.
- Phoebe calls Madame Malveaux "Maleficient", the villain of "Sleeping Beauty" (1959).
- Phoebe alludes to Egon Spengler.
- Page 6
- Trevor alludes to encountering the siren ghost in Ghostbusters: Back in Town Issue #2.
- Page 9
- Phoebe jokes about Zombies.
- Page 11
- Phoebe jokes about the Knights of the Round Table.
- Page 12
- Callie's "Ghostbusting is easy, comedy is hard" is a play on a quote of the late American director/writer Peter Bogdanovich, "Drama is easy, comedy's hard."
- Page 13
- Ray mentions Gary and Callie's battle with the bird ghost and Trevor's first encounter with the siren ghost in Ghostbusters: Back in Town Issue #2.
- Ray is wearing the outfit he wore in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Chapter 11, when he talked to Phoebe on the phone.
- Page 15
- Phoebe alludes to Egon and mentions Winston Zeddemore and Peter Venkman.
- Ray mentions defeating Vigo by using the Psychomagnotheric Slime against him in Ghostbusters II.
- Phoebe mentions the Ghostbusters' use of the Statue of Liberty in Ghostbusters II and uses the movie monster term "kaiju."
- Page 17
- Callie alludes the the battle with the ghost in Ghostbusters: Back in Town Issue #1.
- Phoebe jokes about Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity in which time is relative and the rate at which time passes depends on one's frame of reference.
- On page 7 of Ghostbusters: Back in Town Issue #4, Gary refers to Malveaux as "Maleficient".
- On page 12 of Back in Town Issue #4, Gary alludes to the entranced Trevor shooting at him.
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