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Post by legios on Jul 19, 2008 15:38:17 GMT
Finally managed to find a copy this morning. As ever, very few places seem to be carrying it. The lead strip was excellent - sketched in a new status-quo very effectively, set up plot-threads for succeeding issues and still had time for some Decepticon property damage. All this in eleven pages, not bad going.
Shame about the backup strips though. "Beast Wars: The Ascending" I have no interest in reading - I didn't like the first "Beast Wars" mini, so I see no reason to anticipate I will like the second. "Megatron: Origin", well... it is certainly easier to make out what is going on in the panels with them printed at the larger size. Unfortunately the story still doesn't interest me enough for me to care. I only read the first issue when the series originally came out, and I can't see this changing now.
I'm swithering about whether or not to continue buying this to be honest. I am really enjoying the lead strip, but I don't have that much interest in most of the remaining content. Given that I am paying £2.60 for, basically, eleven pages of reading it is getting to be prohibitively expensive. Whether it will survive the upcoming reshuffle of my comics budget is currently undecided.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2008 16:21:26 GMT
The competitions look good in it. A Thundercats DVD boxset (which I already have), a Classics Cliffjumper and an Encore Jazz. It seems like they're starting to cater for the older reader at last.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 19, 2008 17:27:24 GMT
I'm swithering about whether or not to continue buying this to be honest. I am really enjoying the lead strip, but I don't have that much interest in most of the remaining content. Given that I am paying £2.60 for, basically, eleven pages of reading it is getting to be prohibitively expensive. Whether it will survive the upcoming reshuffle of my comics budget is currently undecided. Karl You might prefer the digests Titan are putting out then. Volume 1 had the first six issues worth of strips and was a fiver. IIRC there's a volume 2 out in August, so presumably these reprints are an ongoing concern. -Ralph |
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 20, 2008 13:01:11 GMT
An excellent lead strip, though I am not too enamoured by the artwork. Mainly, I think, because the poses of most of the robots seem traced from publicity shots from the film and then repeated several times throughout the strip.
Also, I think this issue marks the first ever use of "bitch" in a Transformers comic strip!
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 20, 2008 13:24:07 GMT
Elita-One always seems to do something wrong inadvertently, such as summoning Starscream with her "I'm bored!" line, encouraging everyone to go to Earth like Starscream wants, or here not noticing an incoming Decepticon attack force because she was facing towards the shelter always.
IDW Arcee she's not.
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Post by Rich on Jul 21, 2008 12:33:20 GMT
Great lead story - the best 2007 movie story I've read. I'm a fan of Erskine and I thought that his widescreen Hitchesque art was really suited to the cinematic tone of this story. It's a shame, really, that I had already decided that this was to be my last issue and that I'll wait for the trade, as, not liking the sound of the digest, I'm probably going to have a long wait for IDW's trade.
The colouring (which seemed to be a theme of the TF comics I read this week) was really good.
MO - the writing was even worse than I remembered and the art wasn't saved by the larger format: this is a poor story.
BW, well I've had all the US issues since I got back from travelling in March and I still haven't read them so decided to leave this - might get around to reading it this week.
The letters are fun, but Dreadwind is still my favourite letters bot.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 23, 2008 10:52:54 GMT
Furman says in his blog we'll be getting more Beast Wars profiles - hurrah!
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Post by primenova on Jul 23, 2008 11:25:35 GMT
Do you think it could start getting confusing for new fans who are only aware of Transformers from the toys out in the shops since May2007 [movie, G1 reissues, Cybertron], the Movie & this comic from July 2007.
With from the start we have had the Movie tie in comics set in that time line & Beast Wars - which is not set in the same universe due to the BW series starting from BW series 3 with the ark on earth - meaning that this does not fit into IDW series [Prime never crashed on Earth in ARK while BW is tied into Marvel G1]
No w we have Megatron Origin which is the start of IDW universe - but the first time Prime was on earth was in IDW series 3 [could confuse people with seeing Prime in BW looking like G1 form while in IDW he doesnt get that mode until series 1#6 end of] - with having the WW form in series 2 stormbringer.
Then we have animated & Titan running ads for the Marvel trades - so we have 4 time lines that could confuse new readers. They should have stuck with this title running Movie + BW/G1, then the animated title & leave all the IDW stuff to new title like a CE comic.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 23, 2008 12:26:12 GMT
Beast Wars got aired on a loop on Channel 5 not that long before the comic started, didn't it? I'd expect it was familiar through that.
Enough of the kids seem to know about G1 too, based on the letters and art, and the comic's been mentioning G1 exists for a while (plus there's all the trades and DVDs).
They're probably used to the concept of Transformers having different continuities with similar characters by now.
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 23, 2008 13:19:32 GMT
Well its not long since I saw Energon on TV I think. RID, Cybertron and Animated are all currently showing as is G1 or the Japanses somewhere I think and of course the movie was another unique timeline.
Honestly I think it us old timers that are more likely to struggle and even we had Marvel uk. us and the cartoon.
Andy
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Post by Rich on Jul 23, 2008 19:10:37 GMT
I think that when you're 9 - 12 if you find that lots of stuff has gone before what you know it is quite exciting. Younger than that I doubt that you really care as long as you enjoy it.
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