For all the success IDW has with the Idulnas story, please, for grife's sake, stay the sprock away from the Gozerian mythos for a while. One of the things GB2, for all of it's flaws, did right is have an enemy that didn't have a blessed thing to do with Gozer (Assinine Video Game retcon attempt ignored). It was a directive from J. Micheal Stracynski to the writers of
The Real Ghostbusters to "forget about Gozer. He's history". But in recent years, suddenly everything has to somehow go back to Gozer: their enemies are Gozer's father, or his concubine, or Gozer worshippers. With all the mythology that the property can, and has, drawn upon even before making stuff up (Gozer, after all, does not appear in any real summations of Sumerian mythology) the constant dipping into this till feels uncreative and overdone. Quit now before IDW ends up like the Marvel UK comics and suddenly Gozer has a lumberjack relative named Horg. (Yeah, I
wish I was
kidding about that...) I realize Idulnas's return is practically inevitable, but hold off on it for a while, please.
I will also register a note of dissent to the prevailing opinion of "Whoa! You're gonna put in the Rookies from both version of the Video Game! Cool!" I won't say it's a bad idea; I'm going to wait and see what happens, but on the whole, stories that start with "Ray, Egon, Peter, Winston, and some character you've never heard of before get out of the ECTO-1" is the start of very many of the worst fan fictions.
Now, I will say I'll give IDW some rope on this one. I liked
Extreme Ghostbusters, after all, and want to see if IDW can take these three ciphers and actually make them worth the affection they get despite not having any discernable personalities or even a word of dialog. But one word of warning: I enjoyed EGB because it really was about the new characters; the old guard guest starred to various extents, but it was the new guys' show. (The fact that RGB had been off the air for six years helped too). Throwing in a bunch of new faces into a currently running project when you already feature a perfect mix of four main characters and two strong supporting characters poses its own dangers. If I read a story with them in it and my new nicknames for the Rookies are "Jason", "Catharine", and "Donald", you'll know exactly what that means.
But IDW hasn't let me down in awhile, so I'm hopeful.