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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 7, 2018 14:49:06 GMT -5
So, it's been almost a month since the three series of IDW's Transformers has ended (More Than Meets the Eye/Lost Light, the Unicron event, and Optimus Prime). Thoughts on it? Spoilers ahead, obviously.
Honestly, while MTMTE has become a bit weaker when it got rebranded into Lost Light, I reckon that it remained relatively good for most part. Felt a bit rushed at the end, but overall the entire series was satisfying to me. Out of the three, the ending felt the most... maybe poignant is the world? Definitely bittersweet. The series also provided us with Autobot Megatron, which was an interesting take on the character.
In comparison, I didn't feel as much with the endings to Unicron and Optimus Prime. Hah, maybe it was due to humans being included in the cast.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 7, 2018 14:52:56 GMT -5
IDW's Transformers is a bit like their TMNT. It's really good, but I fell off of it eventually. Not through any fault of the comics, it's just, there's always more stuff to read and watch.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 8, 2018 10:37:29 GMT -5
Does this mean that the whole Hasbro-verse thing is ending?
I mean, now IDW has some sort of deal with Marvel for youth comics...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 12:15:51 GMT -5
Does this mean that the whole Hasbro-verse thing is ending? I mean, now IDW has some sort of deal with Marvel for youth comics... It's ending for now. They already plan to reboot Transformers (even though there was no need to) and they haven't said one way or the other if the Hasbro shared universe will return. Not sure what you think the Marvel deal has to do with this... |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 8, 2018 14:53:45 GMT -5
^ I was thinking that having a licensing deal with Disney may be putting the Hasbro properties in jeopardy. I see now that there's a plan about rebooting the Hasbro-verse coming up, so that's not a concern.
It's the conspiracy-part of my brain. I left my tinfoil hat at home today...
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 8, 2018 16:39:40 GMT -5
I love the idw series.
Been getting the printed collections rather then individual issues, but they became too hard and expensive to buy do I had to switch to electronic versions via the kindle store. I love the art style, the mix of action, drama and humour.. and that they make every character like seem important. I never thought I would care about characters such as Swerve, Wheelie, and Tailgate.
I do like it’s given pacing by not cramming every single Transformer ever created. But that does mean there will be long periods we’re major characters are absent... and Cliffjumper barely appears at all. He get’s his own spotlight issue. But I have only really seen him as a background character.. and possibly he does not appear at all during phase II.
The other complaint is consistent character arcs. Like Prowl .. sometimes he is a authoritarian dick, sometimes he is a supportive leader. I mean one issue it looks like he has lightened up.. a few issues later, he is an asshole again (excluding when he was mind controlled by Bombshell).
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Post by Clint Bobski on Dec 8, 2018 19:32:05 GMT -5
I really want to get the collected editions - are they in chronological order? I hate reading stuff out of order when there's so much continuity.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 8, 2018 19:52:55 GMT -5
I won't miss the Hasbroverse stuff, I feel nothing for most of the lines they tried to revive and actively dislike GI-Joe. I hope that in the reboot to come, IDW have more sense than to try and make them the default human faction, the Joe fanbase have shown they no desire to support any fiction not written by Larry Hama and as a Transformers fan, I resent being asked to support a brand they won't.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 8, 2018 22:30:56 GMT -5
I really want to get the collected editions - are they in chronological order? I hate reading stuff out of order when there's so much continuity. Yep, they are all in order of release. The timeline goes back and forth though. You can get a compendium for the first two collections. And there alternative to Collection 5 called “All Hail Megatron” just note that comes with a bunch of spotlight issues that previously appeared in earlier collections. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 13:36:16 GMT -5
I won't miss the Hasbroverse stuff, I feel nothing for most of the lines they tried to revive and actively dislike GI-Joe. I hope that in the reboot to come, IDW have more sense than to try and make them the default human faction, the Joe fanbase have shown they no desire to support any fiction not written by Larry Hama and as a Transformers fan, I resent being asked to support a brand they won't. That's a very good way of putting it. I'm a fan of both Joe and Transformers but you are right. I wasn't reading the IDW Joe comics until they became part of a shared universe with Transformers. As a Transformers completist, I felt I had to read the current Joe series, especially since Skywarp was in it. They were making Transformers fans buy G.I. Joe comics because the Joe fans wouldn't. It also ran a bunch of the TF fans off. There was a steady decline in sales once the Hasbro shared universe started. |
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Post by horsemen4ever on Dec 18, 2018 9:29:50 GMT -5
All I know this is why the Jem and the Holograms comic ended just when it was getting good and doing stuff the 80's cartoon would never do. I know a reboot is probably but still, we got to start over again. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}The Misifts find out Jem's identity, and they promised to keep that secret So thanks a lot Transformers, bad enough because the 86 movie lost money at the box office, you got the animated Jem movie canceled, you screw us again. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 10:14:53 GMT -5
The TF stuff was very good but became VERY dense. I bailed with the Lost Light/Prime split, but I've hung around a bit to keep my toes in the water, and decided to just support the line and grab what I could in its final months. Even more dense, especially when you step away & back again, but at its core was something interesting. The MTMTE/Lost Light books themselves were fascinating and were looking at the Transformers in all new ways which I appreciate regardless of the continuity; if there's any modern essential TF comics, it is those. Does this mean that the whole Hasbro-verse thing is ending? It sure seems like they're abandoning quite a lot of it. ROM, MASK and Micronauts seemed to turn into projects that just added a bit into what the TF books were doing (Visionaries appears to have been nothing more than a TF crossover miniseries), and there certainly doesn't look like anything's ahead on any of those horizons. The GI JOE focus seems to have shifted to Hama's classic continuity book (yay), with that whole Scarlett's Strike Force failure probably killing the Joe-IDWverse. Hama got's a spinoff miniseries at the moment, which is setting up Agent Helix, one of IDW's bigger Joe creations, in that world; and there's some sort of retro "special project" (read: its own thing) mini by Michael Fiffe coming sometime next year. My local store owner seems to think that something's up with IDW as a whole; I guess they're not doing as well as the casual observer might expect. They just brought back Chris Ryall (who left early this year for Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment) as President/Publisher/CCO, so either they're righting a lot of issues or....not... |
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Post by Clint Bobski on Dec 18, 2018 19:38:11 GMT -5
I've picked up the first collected edition and really enjoyed it. Although if IDW are in trouble the Transformers franchise seems like the kiss of death after Devils Due, Dreamwave and now this?
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Post by Convoy on Dec 18, 2018 22:01:57 GMT -5
The TF stuff was very good but became VERY dense. I bailed with the Lost Light/Prime split, but I've hung around a bit to keep my toes in the water, and decided to just support the line and grab what I could in its final months. Even more dense, especially when you step away & back again, but at its core was something interesting. The MTMTE/Lost Light books themselves were fascinating and were looking at the Transformers in all new ways which I appreciate regardless of the continuity; if there's any modern essential TF comics, it is those. Does this mean that the whole Hasbro-verse thing is ending? It sure seems like they're abandoning quite a lot of it. ROM, MASK and Micronauts seemed to turn into projects that just added a bit into what the TF books were doing (Visionaries appears to have been nothing more than a TF crossover miniseries), and there certainly doesn't look like anything's ahead on any of those horizons. The GI JOE focus seems to have shifted to Hama's classic continuity book (yay), with that whole Scarlett's Strike Force failure probably killing the Joe-IDWverse. Hama got's a spinoff miniseries at the moment, which is setting up Agent Helix, one of IDW's bigger Joe creations, in that world; and there's some sort of retro "special project" (read: its own thing) mini by Michael Fiffe coming sometime next year. My local store owner seems to think that something's up with IDW as a whole; I guess they're not doing as well as the casual observer might expect. They just brought back Chris Ryall (who left early this year for Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment) as President/Publisher/CCO, so either they're righting a lot of issues or....not...Yeah, I've heard a lot of stuff about them since May from industry people and book publishing people. There was a lawsuit with their former President; a poor relationship with SEGA from the the very beginning including some contractual fine print and editorial issues; an Amazon-like mindset with cash flow being the focal point over actual profit; a delay/lack of payment for freelancers. Sounds like a mess over there. |
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