primenova
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Post by primenova on May 17, 2008 15:15:37 GMT
Nice issue for the end of the first year.
I can't wait for #13 - nice front cover & the issue being bumper sized - expect it to be over 60 pages. So 5 pages of Movie #4 BW #4. Hopefully we'll have a cartoon list or the extra pages featuring the toys.
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Post by Bogatan on May 17, 2008 16:23:18 GMT
Im hoping for the first pages of an Animated comic.
12 was good, but nothing really seemed to happen all set up for next month which I cant wait for.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2008 0:26:40 GMT
I was surpised to find copies of this in FPG today. Such a novelty for a comic to be early rather than late! Lead strip was ok, if marking time a bit. Wee bit irritated by the number of times the artist just drew speed lines rather than backgrounds. Not everyone can do a Kirby. Colouring is top notch and I did enjoy the high cheese of the obvious but fun cliffhanger.
I did think only 5 pages apiece for the other strips was taking the piss though. Am intrigued that next issue will be bumper sized with an Animated pull out section and an 'exclusive announcement'. Will that be for a new Animated comic or for a relaunch of the Movie one? Start your betting now.
Next issue's free tat excites me tremendously. I look forward to shooting people down in the street with my wrist mounted disc blaster!
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on May 18, 2008 1:25:09 GMT
I can't wait for #13 - nice front cover & the issue being bumper sized - expect it to be over 60 pages. Next issue's free tat excites me tremendously. I look forward to shooting people down in the street with my wrist mounted disc blaster! I haven't got #12 yet and I'm already excited about the next issue! |
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2008 13:17:02 GMT
We should form a special Hub squad, cleansing the streets of evil as we sweep them for criminal scum, cutting them down with our tat TF wrist-mounted disc blasters.
FTOOM! FTOOM!
ARRRRRRRRRRGH!
THUD!
VICTORY!
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on May 21, 2008 10:48:30 GMT
I just picked up my copy. I've not yet read it, but a few things I noticed on a quick flick through: my name's in it, yippee! (competition winners - twice); it looks this month as if "our friends at Forbidden Planet have given" things that they can't shift; different paper.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on May 21, 2008 11:30:07 GMT
Doesn't seem like Furman's using the AU mechanism to liberally kill characters, but it's still quite satisfying to see the Autobots (and Mikaela) starting to win. And who didn't cheer when Optimus turned up!
The double-page splash in Gathering is a lot more coherent and less muddled than I remember it being - guess the extra size helps.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 21, 2008 14:09:54 GMT
Definitely got the feeling that the lead strip has lost a bit of momentum. This months installment was a bit of a holding pattern ready for the conclusion next month.
I do find myself wishing Titan would do a second TF mag and have it aimed squarely at an older audience. Hell, make it a quarterly if there are concerns about it's durability on the market.
Andy
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Post by charlesrocketboy on May 21, 2008 15:01:06 GMT
I do find myself wishing Titan would do a second TF mag and have it aimed squarely at an older audience. They could do a IDW-G1 reprint title in the same format as their DC reprints and Panini's Marvels. Also continue this title. And do an Animated monthly. And Annuals. I just went to a happy place. |
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Post by grahamthomson on May 23, 2008 11:23:43 GMT
An Annual would be nice! A proper one, though.
I enjoyed the lead strip. Even quite witty in places.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 23, 2008 11:24:22 GMT
A proper annual would be the dogs danglies.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on May 23, 2008 11:31:36 GMT
Maybe the Annual could give us a story that follows the adventures of Vendor, X-Bot and Mutant Steering Wheel after the evens of the film?
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primenova
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Post by primenova on May 23, 2008 14:19:55 GMT
I want it to be a CE format for the comic
same price but 22 extra pages.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on May 23, 2008 15:33:45 GMT
Maybe the Annual could give us a story that follows the adventures of Vendor, X-Bot and Mutant Steering Wheel after the evens of the film? You may be joking, but I would buy that and love it. |
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Post by legios on May 25, 2008 20:47:20 GMT
Well, I've had a read of this now and I would agree that the lead strip is very much in treading water mode this issue. It was more a case of putting pieces in place for the last act than actually doing anything particularly much itself.
As to the reprint strip, I did actually read the movie prequel strip but I seem to have lost track of what has happened in previous issues and I'm not sufficiently motivated to go back and re-read the previous installments. The Beast Wars strip has lost me completely at this stage I'm afraid. It just feels like a bunch of random toys fighting, and the double page spread just puts the capstone on that feeling. It still resembles a particularly militant prepacked salad to me I'm afraid.
Karl
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