Not just the chance to work on another TV show, but signing on as a full-time crew member. All I remember about that interview is that it got me hired. In short order, my agent called me up and said a formal interview had been arranged at Sony. My ears certainly perked up when he gave it a name: Extreme Ghostbusters (herafter, XGB). His current show was something called Project Geeker, but he would soon be hiring for his next one. I brought some portfolio pieces with me (which included Grease Monkey comics) and we synced immediately. He was a producer at Sony Animation (which I’d never heard of), and we met for breakfast at a restaurant outside of LA.
But now I had an agent looking for opportunities, and a few months later, he found one.Īt some point in November ’96, my agent set up what we call a “meet and greet” with a guy named Audu Paden. When that show wrapped in the summer, I went back to comic book and illustration projects with no idea where I’d go next. As recounted in another article, my entry into the world of TV animation storyboarding began in 1996 with Wing Commander Academy. It went out of production in 1991, and gears slowly started turning for a followup. (I also didn’t rack up student loans, which was a pretty good tradeoff.) You can’t miss what you never had, but when I learned what kinds of experiences others had in college, I did feel like I missed out on something.Īs it turned out, that something was waiting for me in a different kind of school: Extreme Ghostbusters Academy.Įxtreme Ghostbusters was a direct sequel to The Real Ghostbusters, which was a big deal among some of my friends in the late 80s. I didn’t live in a dorm, didn’t hook up with a peer group, didn’t develop relationships with mentors. Thus, I didn’t have the collegiate experience that I later heard about from others. I went directly from high school into my field (at the time, commercial art). Egon persuades Janine to fight back against Cohila's control, to which she does by secretly taking possession of a Ghost Trap and using it to trap Cohila and his swarm for good.Other people went to college. Settling down at his new hive beneath the sewers, Cohila uses his bug swarm to transform Janine into an insectoid version of herself, much to the arriving Ghostbusters' shock. Engaging in a relationship with "Gregor", Janine attempts to use this to make Egon jealous, though it wasn't the case when Cohila revealed his true form and intentions to Janine before kidnapping her. He eventually settled for Janine Melnitz, who had a benevolent care to insects and bugs in general. To that end, he took human form and referred to himself as Gregor Samsa as he searched throughout New York.
Cohila then sought to rebuild his hive and take over the world by finding a mate as soon as possible. A pair of thieves broke into the museum in an attempt to steal the talisman, but this only inadvertently awakened Cohila, who spitted several bug spores into the thieves' mouths and allowed them to flee the scene to serve as incubators. However, in 1997, Cohila's tomb was discovered in the jungles of modern-day Latin America and acquired by the Museum of History in New York. Also referred to as the Incan lord of evil, Cohila was buried with a magic talisman to make sure he stays dormant to prevent his swarm of bugs from invading the Earth. He is an ancient South American insect demon.Īccording to legend, Cohilia is the king of a breed of devil bugs, with the intention of seeking a mate to become his queen. Cohila is an antagonist of Extreme Ghostbusters.