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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 8:45:21 GMT
there is no reason in theory that Spike's unit couldn't be a company/platoon/fireteam or whatever that is a component part of a larger battallion That'd make logical sense. Unfortunately, the Spike story does make out that his is the only unit (and if it's not, the energy weapons should really be shared out instead of kept in his). It's possible the unit did so well it was turned into a battalion, except the Bumblebee story is clearly taking place earlier (the ruins aren't being repaired like they are in Spike's story). Well if Bumblebee's story pre-dates Spike's then it's conceivable that Spike joining the Battalion, and upgrading their weapons from standard guns to lasers, both occur between the 2 tales. But that doesn't explain the large battalion being down-sized to one unit. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2009 10:09:04 GMT
I'll only be keeping #15 as well. And unfortunately, Roche's awesomeness did not lead to a sales spike for that issue: AHM 13 - 11,884 AHM 14 - 11,724 AHM 15 - 11,634 Slowly dropping down. 16 will likely be less again. Be interesting to see what the ongoing will settle out at. I imagine the idea of an 'ongoing' series is more exciting in the US. In the UK we've had an ongoing Transformers series for 2 years now, after all. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2009 11:49:53 GMT
Well if Bumblebee's story pre-dates Spike's then it's conceivable that Spike joining the Battalion, and upgrading their weapons from standard guns to lasers, both occur between the 2 tales. But that doesn't explain the large battalion being down-sized to one unit. Budget Cuts. Got to pay for the Air Force's shiny new F-35's somehow. :-) Karl |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 21, 2009 13:10:16 GMT
I'll only be keeping #15 as well. And unfortunately, Roche's awesomeness did not lead to a sales spike for that issue: AHM 13 - 11,884 AHM 14 - 11,724 AHM 15 - 11,634 Slowly dropping down. 16 will likely be less again. Be interesting to see what the ongoing will settle out at. My prediction for an ongoing is a launch starting at around 15k (unless there is a bigger last-minute push for advertising), with a steep drop-off to issue 2 (as is normal with comics nowadays) to around 13k, to slowly level off around 11-10k and hold steady there. All comics figures are pretty depressing nowadays. The future lies in the trades! |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2009 17:32:44 GMT
Not quite yet. The financial model for comics still maintains the periodicals as bringing in more revenue. Indeed, I expect periodicals to get a shot in the arm when easy to access and well-priced digital distribution co-incides with affordable and usable portable digital readers.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 26, 2009 21:24:59 GMT
Well, It looks like comic shops around me have learned and cut their orders on AHM, as this is the first issue that hasn't been sitting around on shelves for weeks on end.
I don't feel particularly hard done by at not getting a copy to be honest. Re-reading the preview pages has left me pretty underwhelmed by both stories in any event.
Between the last few issues of AHM, and the puff piece in the Prey reprint I find my interest in the ongoing series dwindling to be honest. It will be given the requisite one issue to evaluate it, but it will be treated with the same ground rules as the first issue of any new comic and judged by the standards of other first issues that I have read in the past twelve months.
By contrast I am looking forward to "Last Stand of the Wreckers" a little bit more than I was now that I have read the Kup story. It has characters that I am interested in following and what has been revealed so far about it has piqued my interest. (The fact that I much prefer the look of the preview pages to those preview images I have seen of the ongoing's opening arc helps too).
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 3, 2009 22:33:22 GMT
At last.
It is over. Finished.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Nov 4, 2009 11:32:45 GMT
I read the letters page in #16 last night. That Denton guy
"we at IDW have higher the bar"
The bar was high when Simon left it at Sideswipe & Max Dino's - you'll need your spade to dig it back up from where Shane left it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2009 13:13:58 GMT
I read the letters page in #16 last night. That Denton guy "we at IDW have higher the bar" The bar was high when Simon left it at Sideswipe & Max Dino's - you'll need your spade to dig it back up from where Shane left it. but leave shane down the hole << |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 8:52:12 GMT
"we at IDW have higher the bar" Has Denton been taking elocution lessons from Grimlock again? |
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Post by jameso on Nov 5, 2009 12:52:46 GMT
Perhaps the best thing I can say about Everything in Its Right Place is that when I skim read it didn't make any sense, but when I actually sat down and read it I thought 'hey, that was pretty good', a few minutes later, after reading the Perceptor story and the next issue of Coda and just letting it sink in, I thought it might just about be the best TF thing in _yonks_. I don't think a Transformer story, outside of the best fanfic, has given such attention, care, and, yes, love, to its characters in some time. So many TF stories these days the entire influence seems to be 'yeah, I saw an episode of the cartoon back in the 80s', but this story actually strips down and evaluates its characters making their actions fresh and consistent at the same time. And yeah, let's not beat around the bush ' BEST PROWL STORY EVER'And what's striking is that I didn't come out thinking brilliant art, or cool, snazzy dialogue or how exciting but it still really, really works. (I'm sure the art is great, I was concentrating on the many speech bubbles, I may go back and just look at the panel structure.) And it actually got me thinking, would it work best with less dialogue per page but stretched to 22 pages, or would it work with a b plot to flesh out the pages and so on... I didn't come to any conclusions but at least I was thinking about the story after reading it. It also reminds me of the classic Marvel UK 80s way in which Furman's best stuff often works around the limitations from other stories, so props to McCarthy's cartoon inspired kewl idea to have Kup walking around with a cigar and not paying any attention to previous characterisation. Also, a million karma points for the correct spelling in the title...  As for Lost & Found... wow, let's take one of most individualistic, idiosyncratic characters in TF lore and make him 'generic bad ass robot man!' SIGH Who is the writer of this, why is he writing official TF comics? (rhetorical question.) I mean it does flow and read quite well but where's the craft, the ingenuity, the characterisation? And isn't Bludgeon a Pretender, aren't they like Omega level nuclear threats in IDW lore? And could new Perceptor really take down a gestalt with nothing but new deadly accuracy? Also when is the story set? Where? What do the protagonists want? Rubbish. |
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Post by primenova on Nov 5, 2009 13:17:37 GMT
Great issue - shame it was n't the whole issue.
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Post by jameso on Nov 5, 2009 13:18:08 GMT
The Man of Steel I really like Guido Guidi but I really don't like his humans. As for the story, really band fanwank. I hope Witwicky is telling porkies about taking down Ravage on his own, with one shot, and with injuries neccessitating a full body cast, because otherwise, no. Human character from the cartoon becomes super important to main storyline YAWN. Also, I'm not sure this is relevant, but it does really stand out for me, all but one background character in this story is white. Just makes it feel unrealistic. Also, Thrust wasn't even in AHM!
Hidden not bad, just very uninspired. And like Charles says, doesn't really feel like it follows on from AHM
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Post by jameso on Nov 5, 2009 13:25:58 GMT
Replay pointless. Seriously, why does this exist? And, after checking on the internet, very inconsistent with previously established stories.
Rebirth this was pretty pointless too. A continuity error so glaring I didn't even need to check on the internet, lots of purple prose, lots of backtracking to the 80s cartoon. Ridiculous sound effects!
What's worst though is at the end the characters ask Galvatron what their mission is and he babbles something, Scourge turns to Cyclonus and says what does that mean and Cyclonus says I have no idea. He literally says I have no idea!
Readers, why should you buy the next issue? I have no idea!
Piss off!
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Post by jameso on Nov 5, 2009 13:27:36 GMT
At last. It is over. Finished. -Ralph There's still two trades to go... |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 5, 2009 15:14:11 GMT
It follows on from the version of AHM that existed in Shane's head.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2009 18:54:01 GMT
Ah yes, the trades. Volume 3 is out, so just volume 4 to come out then.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2009 18:55:19 GMT
Different writers though.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 12:19:09 GMT
I read the letters page of issue 16 and found it quite amusing. Here are some excerpts:
'Well, I got mine today, and well ... it didn't the way I expected, but that's a good thing.'
'Kup at the end beating that 'Con up then using him for a bench and sitting with Daniel Witwicky ... cool.'
'Well, y'know, color me impressed. That was well-paced, well characterized for the most part, and had some suitably dramatic moments.'
'AHM #12 was a good ending to a good story, but also clearly now the beginning to what will hopefully be a much greater one.'
'I just wanted to let you all know how much I have enjoyed the new series of ALL HAIL MEGATRON. As a loyal fan of the TRANSFORMERS movement, I have read Marvel's, Dreamwave's and IDW's offerings. I have found the stories in this series to be a breath of fresh air. No longer do I have to take notes while reading to try and understand the plot.'
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Post by Dave on Nov 7, 2009 15:42:19 GMT
I have found the stories in this series to be a breath of fresh air. No longer do I have to take notes while reading to try and understand the plot.' That one gave me a chuckle ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 18:09:01 GMT
I found it amusing as well. All of the letters were from the IDW forum so I assume there are more gems waiting to be unearthed over there!
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Post by dinogrrl on Nov 8, 2009 0:50:52 GMT
I have found the stories in this series to be a breath of fresh air. No longer do I have to take notes while reading to try and understand the plot.' That one gave me a chuckle ;D It's Transformers for Idiots! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2009 12:57:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2009 10:24:31 GMT
Nice.
What I like even more is that at the bottom of each series summary page they have links to the previous and next series in the IDW continuity, and the upcoming Bumblebee mini is between "An Ongoing Series" and "Hopefully more Nick Roche".
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Post by dinogrrl on Nov 11, 2009 23:58:48 GMT
Wow, I'd never read TFArchive's reviews, although I have used them for solicit info in the past. Thanks for pointing these out, I'm going to have a good giggle tonight!
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Post by KoshNaranek on Nov 12, 2009 1:42:21 GMT
Just finished reading all those reviews, and I only thought I hated the story before. Now, I thouraghly despise it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2009 14:34:15 GMT
Same here!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2009 17:17:07 GMT
The reviews at tfarchive are generally a good read. As is the board.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 12, 2009 21:08:51 GMT
Inflatable Dalek is a genious! Sums up the series for me.
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Post by dinogrrl on Nov 13, 2009 0:38:13 GMT
He needs to get through the rest of Coda, I'd love to read his take down of the Spike story.
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