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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2008 21:47:41 GMT
Um.
Very, very thin story that does bugger all with the premise. Reads very much like bad fanfic. I don't think the writer is ready for prime-time yet, sorry.
It looks very nice though, especially the colouring. The cover is also very good.
But I expect a comic to last more than literally 2 minutes if I've paid £2.85 for it!
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Mar 5, 2008 22:17:35 GMT
Very much like fanfic, but lacking the setup you'd get in a longer text piece. Waste of a Spotlight to be honest.
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 6, 2008 0:11:47 GMT
The colouring was nice, though it really should have been darker in tone and appearance. The concept itself is wonderfully disturbing, but the delivery is a disappointment.
The copy I bought is labelled as Cover A, but I can't find any trace of a Cover B in the shops or on the web. Is it an incentive B&W cover or something?
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Post by Jaymz on Mar 6, 2008 0:16:19 GMT
Only other cover was a B&W version of cover A. I can't remember whether that was called cover B or R1 though.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2008 8:53:39 GMT
RI.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 6, 2008 10:51:28 GMT
Is this issue essential in anyway to the ongoing plot? If not I might give it a miss from the sounds of things!
Ralph, can you bring your copy on Saturday for me to have a read through?
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 6, 2008 17:11:24 GMT
I'll bring mine. You can keep it if you like.
-Nick
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 6, 2008 17:13:39 GMT
Splendid! In return I shall leave 1980 behind.
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Post by legios on Mar 6, 2008 19:06:19 GMT
Splendid! In return I shall leave 1980 behind. Now that is hardly a fair exchange. And besides why would Ralph want "1980" after it had been left outside in the garden all day? Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2008 22:33:32 GMT
Having re-assesed it, Spotlight: Mirage is utter shit.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 6, 2008 22:43:58 GMT
Having re-assesed it, Spotlight: Mirage is utter shit. -Ralph Hmm I was going to ask Gavin for a quick read through of what is now his copy on Saturday. Beginning to wonder whether it is actually worth bothering. (Although by the sounds of it I might be done in the time it takes to make a cup of Orange, mango and Cinnamon tea.) Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2008 22:49:12 GMT
You will be done by the time you have raised your mug to your lips!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 7, 2008 14:07:35 GMT
this is shaping up like a rerun of the reading of Beast Wars Source Book Thingy again...
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Mar 7, 2008 15:23:47 GMT
I paid for this in advance, so I'm wishing I'd not looked at this thread!
(Maybe I'll end up pleasantly surprised...)
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Post by skillex on Mar 8, 2008 12:25:09 GMT
This was like a bad piece of fan-fiction. What is its relevance to the ongoing IDW plot? What was happening in half of it? Should we care? (Answer - no).
My advice is, if you haven't yet bought this, save your money.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Mar 15, 2008 19:35:55 GMT
Just read it.
Oh dear.
The problem is it wants to deal with Mirage's issues of being in the Autobots and show he'd have them wherever he was working. That's a good idea for a story. However, it doesn't work for IDW as we haven't seen Mirage in the Autobots except in the background - nor him showing qualms about it here! And in the Spotlight, we don't see Auto-Mirage at all! Really, we should've been seeing both Bot and Con Mirage in parallel plots to emphasise the point.
Also, the set-up is confusing, annoying and pointless - why are all the Autobots dead, just because Mirage is a Con? Worse, why does Optimus surrender everyone for Jetfire? Marvel and Sunbow Optimus, fine, but IDW Optimus has been shown stoically and quietly making difficult decision for a greater good. The Autobots will all be executed (including Jetfire), Optimus knows this, I can't believe IDW Optimus is going to surrender regardless.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 15, 2008 20:14:22 GMT
Considering how easily I'm pleased, this didn't do it for me. Oh it wasn't horrible. The art was good, and I feel it was a interesting play on Mirage's name. But I think Charlesrocketboy summed it up nicely. The holes in the plot and the pointlessness of the story within the larger 'verse were too much (I couldn't believe Prime in this story!). I'm all for stand-alone Spotlights, but this was far far far far off being in the same league as Roche's excellant Spotlight: Kup.
Ian
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