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Post by jonathan85 on Feb 13, 2021 22:43:53 GMT
Is anyone else still reading this? It's not the flashiest book but I have warmed to it a lot as it has gone along. Having more reliable artists has helped too, and I'm enjoying some of the random characters who pop up.
Jonathan
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2021 10:44:35 GMT
Straxus redesign is awful!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 14, 2021 11:28:37 GMT
Reading it via HC as it wasn't a satisfying monthly read - feels like a massive story that's been chopped up and as serialised storytelling it fell flat.
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Post by Benn on Feb 14, 2021 13:42:26 GMT
I'm always a month behind because I wait for the price drop on Comixology, but even then, I'm reading this more becuase it's there than because it feels like a must read. It's got a lot of good ideas, but somewhere along the way it's not landing with me.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 15, 2021 8:51:13 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Jul 5, 2022 15:46:26 GMT
I read Fate of Cybertron yesterday. I've never before been glad to finish the final page of a Transformers series. How did this boring thing get to, what, 70-80 issues including the various side series and specials? Well, okay, it obviously got there because people just carried on buying, regardless of tedium. Admittedly, that included me (sorry) but at least I stopped buying the alternate covers, except for Ed Pirrie's.
I had two subscribers in my shop for this run. One was like me, not really sure why he continued to buy it. The other actually, genuinely, really enjoyed it and hopes that it continues with whoever picks up the licence.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 6, 2022 0:33:40 GMT
I quite like the IDW2 continuity, even though it was ridiculously padded during the first 12 issues. (Why did we need an issue every 2 weeks anyway?). It was great to have a mainstream Transformers series that incorporated characters from different toylines into a single continuity from the outset, rather than use them as 'easter eggs' or multiverse travellers. The introduction of the pre-war Cybertron through the eyes of a new never-seen-before character, as opposed to an established G1 toy, was an excellent choice that allowed us to explore aspects of the world that we never get to experience before - the wonder of a Cybertronian sunrise, the behaviour of Cybertronian animals in their native environment, etc. The use of a physical tether to link Cybertron to its moon was also a neat planetary feature, which I hope will be used in a future series. It would have benefitted from a tighter story arc and better artwork, but it remains an interesting experiment in how to develop a modern TF comic series that draws upon and brings together characters, storylines, and designs from the past four decades.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 6, 2022 7:46:21 GMT
I read the first 12 issues of the main series. It had a certain background weirdness to it, which I liked it, but the pace was so slow that I lost patience and dropped the title. I did read the first issue of Galaxies in which I was not able to detect the premise of the series.
I haven't being paying attention to anything else that followed on though plan to read Last Bot Standing when it is finished.
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Jul 6, 2022 9:00:50 GMT
A big problem for me from the start was that for a "bold new era", there was too much that had been done before; rehashes rather than originality. A bigger problem was that it was slow - tediously so, rather than feeling like a slow burn heading towards something - and the dialogue was clunky, sometimes unreadable, and often coming across as a failed attempt by a British writer to write American. One idea I did quite like was that of aliens being on Cybertron.
I actually did generally enjoy the side stories, the stories away from the main plot and the focus in particular on Optimus and Megatron, which is where I often found Ruckley's dialogue to be at its worst. Galaxies felt somewhat like Spotlights. The Valentine Special, I think it was, gave quite an interesting take on a relationship between Blast-Off and Cosmos. Tread and Circuits was quite fun.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 12, 2022 19:01:17 GMT
A while ago I succumbed to getting the hardbacks as I liked the idea of reading a full TF run from start to finish in 6 books. Have been putting them to one side until book 6 is out and I will read the full run then.
Last Bot Standing trade and Beast Wars Bk 3 on pre-order. Is that it for the 2019-2022 IDW TF era?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2022 12:05:50 GMT
Book 6 is here. I can now start reading the full run. Will they stay or be charity shopped? We shall see!
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Dec 3, 2022 13:08:19 GMT
Hopefully they will stay!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2022 17:54:12 GMT
So do I!
I am completely ignorant of most of the contents so it will be mostly fresh for me.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 29, 2022 21:57:49 GMT
HC Book 1 read, which covers the issues I read as they came out and dropped the title as it was too bitty.
Reads much, much better as a collected edition. You can tell the writer is used to novels rather than serial fiction.
I quite enjoyed it this time round. The slow burn works in this format.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2023 17:59:48 GMT
Read Volume 2. That was good!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2023 21:08:40 GMT
Volume 3 read. This is great! Really enjoying it.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Jan 8, 2023 9:46:17 GMT
It was a great run. And a shame that he didn't get to complete it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2023 10:33:40 GMT
Oh no, does it just stop rather then end?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2023 16:16:23 GMT
No, it get's an ending, but it's still clear this was not the ending he had planned.
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Post by Llama God on Jan 9, 2023 8:40:30 GMT
Aye, as the story goes, it feels like the end of one installment, but not the whole thing.
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Post by Benn on Jan 9, 2023 8:55:08 GMT
At least it didn't feel rushed, like a lot of truncated stories have done in the past.
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Post by Nigel on Jan 9, 2023 10:39:40 GMT
Reads much, much better as a collected edition. You can tell the writer is used to novels rather than serial fiction. I quite enjoyed it this time round. The slow burn works in this format. -Ralph I struggled to read two issues back to back if I got behind. I don't know if I could manage a book. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 9, 2023 21:13:52 GMT
I thought that, but it does read better as chunks, and in the 2nd year of the book, the pacing does get better as Ruckley strikes a better balance between giving a satisfying monthly installment and a longform story.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2023 22:45:42 GMT
Volume 4 read. Still enjoying though I doubt all the subplots can be tied up in the two remaining volumes. We shall see.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 12, 2023 19:08:06 GMT
I shall hold my peace for now...
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 20, 2023 22:59:30 GMT
Volume 5. Still enjoying it but, no, I can't see this all wrapping up in Volume 6.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Jan 21, 2023 9:07:42 GMT
Do those volumes also contain the secondary series, like Galaxies and War's End?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2023 10:01:09 GMT
Yup. Everything.
I was displeased to find a badly torn page in my Volume 5. I may have screamed. Luckily, it wasn't a story page.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2023 19:47:56 GMT
Volume 6 read. I quite liked the way it ended. I could see how another publisher could follow on from that but still have a fresh start. It'll never happen of course.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 3, 2023 23:30:50 GMT
Yes, it's got an ending that worked. but you can tell this is pretty much Act 1 of Ruckley's grand tale.
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