And now he’s been given short shrift from IDW Publishing in the preview image for its new monthly Ghostbusters title. The others get all of the attention in the main panel, while poor old Winston is relegated to the bottom corner as a not-so-comic after-thought. Couldn’t the writers have had Slimer in that position? Would that have been so hard?
Fair enough, Egon Spengler and Ray Stanz are the brains of the operation, and Peter Venkman the frontman. And admittedly he wasn’t around for initial formation of the group, but could you imagine The Beatles without Ringo? Bad example perhaps…
Surely Winston Zeddemore deserves equal billing to the others. He’s the soul of the group, the everyman, the audience’s eyes as they view a world that includes a Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, demi-god Gozer the Gozerian and where crossing streams will either save the day or cause every molecule in your body to explode at the speed of light.
Even when the Ghostbusters video game came out in 2009, the original three ‘Busters’ had to campaign for Hudson to be given equal billing for his portrayal of Zeddemore. Should it have come to that? The man was warden of maximum security prison Oz for goodness sake.
It’s also been reported that Hudson hasn’t been offered a part in the (eventually) upcoming Ghostbusters 3. Hudson himself is playing it down and says that he isn’t too bothered by this and isn’t waiting by the phone for the call. But how can they consider making another Ghostbusters film without him?
Why is there an anti-Zeddemore/Hudson agenda and how can it be stopped? If, when the Ghostbusters third film does come out, he’s not there with the other guys, perhaps a boycott is in order? That’s how far I’m willing to take this – I will not go to the cinema in 18 months time to see a film that may not even get made, because of the gross neglect of one Winston Zeddemore.
