IDW - Transformers vs Ghostbusters #5

Title: Ghosts of Cybertron, Part 5

Written by: Erik Burnham

Art by: Dan Schoening

Colours by: Luis Antonio Delgado

Letters by: Christa Miesner

Assistant Editor: Megan Brown

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Optimus and Megatron's ghost battle it out, the other Decepticon ghosts don't see the point in joining in with the battle, since they see the logic in taking up Optimus' offer to restore their bodies.

Starscream however, decides to try and get revenge on Venkman for capturing him earlier and attacks the Ghostbusters, the other Decepticons decide to join him, as centuries of entrapment has left them feeling blood-hungry and attack the humans as well. Soundwave is quickly defeated and captured, after deploying manifestations of his cassette minions, who explode after his capture. Shockwave is also soon captured, but Starscream, seeing that he can't win, flies away quietly.

Optimus manages to defeat Megatron's ghost, but the Decepticon winds up tumbling into Ectotron, and possesses his body. The possessed Autobot pummels into Optimus, who is unwilling to harm one of his own Autobots, and the Ghostbusters remember the mood slime they were given last issue, and remember that the mood slime can exorcise ghosts from their possessed victim. They have Optimus hold him down, and they pour it down his mouth.

Ectotron "vomits" and exorcises Megatron, who is mutated, and tries to jump into Optimus, so he can use him to control the Autobots and create a new Decepticon empire.

Ectotron however fires on the Decepticon ghost, and Megatron is captured.

Optimus decides to take the captured Decepticons with him, so they can perhaps give them new bodies eventually, but Ectotron reveals that he doesn't plan to return to the Ark yet, as he believes that there may be some more Decepticon ghosts out there, and he wants to go and capture them so they can be helped too eventually. Optimus okays the mission and wishes his soldier luck.

After fixing the things he broke, and repairing the real Ecto-1, Ectotron leaves the Earth and heads out to find more ghosts...seemingly unaware that Starscream is watching from the space around Earth....

The end?

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Ectronymous Diamatron/Ectotron - Ecto-1 Replica

Bumblebee - Winged Hovercraft (Fantasy Only)

Jazz - Hovercar (Fantasy Only)

Sunstreaker (Fantasy Only)

Decepticon

Megatron Captured by the Ghostbusters, Taken to Space with Optimus

Soundwave - Lamp Post Captured by the Ghostbusters, Taken to Space with Optimus

Shockwave - Ray Gun Captured by the Ghostbusters, Taken to Space with Optimus

Starscream - Tetra Jet

Ravage Manifestation Destroyed when Soundwave was Captured

Laserbeak Manifestation Destroyed when Soundwave was Captured

Buzzsaw Manifestation Destroyed when Soundwave was Captured

Ghostbusters

Peter Venkman

Ray Stantz

Winston Zeddemore

Egon Spengler

Janine Melnitz (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue marks the end of the Transformers/Ghostbusters crossover event for both franchise's 35th anniversaries. However the end hints that a sequel may be in the works
• Despite how it looked earlier in the series, neither Soundwave nor Shockwave turn red when they get angry or fight, but Starscream and Megatron both do.
• Winston mentions GI Joe as a franchise, meaning they don't likely exist in real life in this continuity (unlike in the 80's Transformers series...)
• The grid effect used when Megatron possesses Ectotron and when he gets captured is based on the same one used when he is converted into Galvatron in the 80's movie 
• Megatron's mutated ghost form, after in-possessing Ectotron, is based on his Aligned counterpart.
• Despite them actually appearing earlier in the series, neither Wheeljack or Grimlock are shown in Megatron's fantasy
• In Megatron's fantasy or possessing Optimus, he sees Optimus with Megatron's fusion cannon on his arm, and what appears to be Decepticon insignias on his shoulders (I could be wrong, since they are quite small though)...good disguise Megs...
• Ectotron gains his nametag here! Now he looks more like his actual toy, yay!
• Ectotron's ship, finally seen at the end of the comic, is revealed to be based on the Lifepod shuttle from the G1 cartoon (the episode Dark Awakening to be exact) 
• The ending's "Ectotron will Return..." is based on the tag made popular from the end credits of the MCU movies