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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2009 16:38:00 GMT
I enjoyed the sweets.
Fast losing patience with volume 2 though. The main strip seems to revolve around characters being stupid and/or acting like morons. AHM is dreadful and even the letters pages are getting a bit thin. I'll give it until issue 6, but may drop if quality does not improve.
Fans of indicia may note the sales figures are no longer printed.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 9, 2009 18:22:47 GMT
I looked them up on ABC and Titan's Transformers is no longer registered with them. Oh dear.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 9, 2009 19:52:23 GMT
It might just be because it's a new title and doesn't have enough data at the moment.
Andy
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 9, 2009 20:18:39 GMT
Possibly, but is that normal to do with new volumes?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2009 21:26:00 GMT
It might just be because it's a new title and doesn't have enough data at the moment. Andy Hmmm. Issues 1-3 carried data on the previous volume. -Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 10, 2009 8:28:10 GMT
Hmmm. Issues 1-3 carried data on the previous volume. -Ralph The Jan-June 09 sales - which we were presumably about to start seeing - would include Vol.2 #1 at the end, so it's possible the change in volume means they have to re-register. Still seems odd though.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2009 9:46:36 GMT
I wonder how the sales are. Titan's other two summer launches (Star Trek Comic and Terminator Salvation Comic) both died very quick deaths. In Star Trek's case, an astonishingly quick death!
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Sept 10, 2009 11:59:38 GMT
The covers should have been swapped from #3,4 - but with Prime removed due to not showing up so far in v2.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 12:09:31 GMT
is your cat touching mudflap in that comic?
My local Co-op hasnt got the comic yet, will look again tomorrow!!
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 10, 2009 12:22:56 GMT
I wonder how the sales are. Titan's other two summer launches (Star Trek Comic and Terminator Salvation Comic) both died very quick deaths. In Star Trek's case, an astonishingly quick death! They're both dead?! Terminator isn't surprising, it was a tie-in to a 15-rated film aimed at tykes. Star Trek is surprising though, that should've done well. I blame it being solely reprint, and reprinting the prequel mini at that - a prequel mini that, IIRC, isn't set in nor features the same cast from the film. They should really have had original strip featuring the movie crew.
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Post by jonathan85 on Sept 10, 2009 12:46:47 GMT
I thought Terminator was still going? Still see it on the shelves of Smiths in Hamilton anyway.... I wonder how long Gi Joe will last?
Jonathan
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2009 17:04:25 GMT
Star Trek Comic had 3 issues published then vanished though an issue 4 was advertised, suggesting it pretty much died on arrival, 3 months being standard lead time on these types of publications. Terminator Salvation Comic made it to issue 4, where the features were dropped and what was left of the prequel comic was expanded from its usual page count to fill up the pages so it came to a conclusion. An issue 5 was not advertised so I don't expect to see it return.
Star Trek dying a death suggests the kids didn't give a toss. Presumably the adult fans were picking up the 'Countdown' strip from IDW already. Tells you something about how much the Trek fanbase had shrunk.
Very quick deaths though. Even last years Indiana Jones Comic made it to issue 8.
GI Joe is being published by Panini, rather than Titan so has more of a chance I'd say. Their titles tend to last longer, and it has an original strip of decent length.
Oh, and Zip the cat should review more comics.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Sept 10, 2009 18:05:55 GMT
John Royle is doing art on the gijoe one - but does Nick work on it? Unless someone else inked or coloured John's cover for #1 - going by the poster in the comic.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 10, 2009 18:15:39 GMT
Star Trek Comic had 3 issues published then vanished though an issue 4 was advertised Was #4 going to have a pencil pod? I wonder why?
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 10, 2009 20:50:15 GMT
Star Trek Comic had 3 issues published then vanished though an issue 4 was advertised, suggesting it pretty much died on arrival, 3 months being standard lead time on these types of publications. It's a shame to see the ST comic go. The prequel story was rubbish in the US comic, but I was hoping the UK comic would live long enough for some original strips. There was a Star Trek edition of Comics International published a month ago (that Forbidden Planet sold for £2 over the RRP) that covered the various ST comic series in a surprising amount of detail. I've never been interested in the comics, but it sufficiently piqued my interest to pick a few copies of the IDW series. Terminator Salvation Comic made it to issue 4, where the features were dropped and what was left of the prequel comic was expanded from its usual page count to fill up the pages so it came to a conclusion. An issue 5 was not advertised so I don't expect to see it return. Yep, it's confirmed on the Titan web site that this is the final issue.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 7:10:06 GMT
Is it just me, or is the 'next issue released on...' date getting much earlier every month?
I remember the comics going up lie in the 20th's or around then every month, but the next one is on the 8th October
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 11, 2009 13:53:11 GMT
They realised the quicker they reach #12, the sooner they can stop publishing AHM?
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Post by blueshift on Sept 11, 2009 13:55:44 GMT
Is there a different editorial team on this volume or something?
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 11, 2009 14:27:20 GMT
Not according to the credits.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 14:27:43 GMT
They realised the quicker they reach #12, the sooner they can stop publishing AHM? Oh I hope so, I mean I'm getting the TPB soon (hopefully) for issues 7-12 of AHM, so I wont need the reprints here for that Damn MacCarthy Is he doing any new comics or are they just letting Furman and Nick do them all now?
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 11, 2009 16:51:15 GMT
He doesn't seem to be doing any more.
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Post by primenova on Sept 13, 2009 14:49:40 GMT
Maybe IDW have decide they don't want the sales to decrease anymore by giving him another series.
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Post by legios on Sept 13, 2009 18:36:19 GMT
Hmmm. Welll. I picked up the current issue. Have put the sweets in the kitchen, but they will likely be thrown out in due course - given that they are Haribo and therefore not really my thing.
As to the actual content I have passed beyond the point where the lead strip interests me. It is powered by characters making incredibly stupid decisions for no apparent reason other than the fact that they themselves are stupid. The lead strip was the principle reason that I liked Vol1, whereas here it has seemed very lacklustre so far.
The back-up strip of course is 'All Hail Megatron' which is one of the most excruciatingly dull things I have read in a while. Very little happens, and what does happen does so incredibly slowly. The basic idea of "in the absence of the Autobots the Decepticons win and conquer the Earth" would be a starting point for a good story. Unfortunately that isn't the story we are getting. Instead we get a story where a handful of Decepticons fiddle-faddle about exploding tourist landmarks in America, whilst the story seems to want us to believe that this is an all-out assault on the Earth. The dialogue is also painfully creaky and robs proceedings of much sense of character.
It looks pretty enough, but sadly the art can't hide that fact that there is no story of any substance here at all.
It will trouble me no longer however. This will be my last issue - I am not getting any enjoyment out of either strip, and the assorted other features I don't read at all so I see no reason to purchase further issues.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2009 18:46:46 GMT
Don't throw out the Haribo! I will eat them!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 13, 2009 18:50:23 GMT
If I can work out where I have put them then they are yours.
Karl
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Post by primenova on Sept 14, 2009 12:50:04 GMT
Whoever the line editor is for Transformers [mainly all Titan mags - Steve White is just credited as editor for Transformers - but he would have ok'd the incorrect feature in #4] must seem to think that the kids find Skids & Mudflap "wicked cool" [get your armada kids dolls out & stab them a few times]
So Simon is having to do the first story arc just featuring them - & no Optimus Prime at all.
So once we get to #7 we should be hitting a story. Bu tmost of us might want to be seeing the duo killed of in the first issue.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 14, 2009 13:11:00 GMT
Whoever the line editor is for Transformers [mainly all Titan mags - Steve White is just credited as editor for Transformers - but he would have ok'd the incorrect feature in #4] must seem to think that the kids find Skids & Mudflap "wicked cool" The characters were meant to be the new kid-friendly guys, so they're just going off the film's promo material. And as far as I know, kids do like them. So we're stuck!
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Post by primenova on Sept 14, 2009 14:22:29 GMT
Could we be seeing someone jumping on Skids & Mud flat next AA?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2009 14:42:55 GMT
Could we be seeing someone jumping on Skids & Mud flat next AA? They only did that to Treadbolt/Scavenger (cant remember which it was) cos the toy was ugly and horrible, the Skids and Mudflap figures so far have been quite nice really, so doubt it
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