Columbia Pictures’ Ghostbusters: Afterlife went nuclear with the nostalgia and yet somehow left Slimer out of the reunion. Thankfully, he’ll be returning in next year’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the studio revealed today on socials.

The official Ghostbusters socials shared a massive lenticular theater display that announced the return of Slimer and “a new empire of spirits.” While Slimer didn’t appear in Afterlife, the ghost did appear with a female companion in Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters remake.

Last April, Jason Reitman explained to The A.V. Club that Slimer didn’t appear in Afterlife because of the Oklahoma setting: “…every culture has their own ghost stories, and we want to see all of them.“

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take...