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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 19, 2008 9:01:28 GMT
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 19, 2008 11:37:18 GMT
Art looks good - and the preview shows stuff happening in three pages, which means the rest of AHM might be different to #1! Hurrah!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2008 16:23:13 GMT
I see they're still churning out the 1986 movie characters for the Spotlights. I think we only have Springer, Wreck-Gar and Unicron left now.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2008 22:00:01 GMT
Never liked Blurr much in time gone by. Be interesting to see what this Blurr is like. Art looks awesome.
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Post by karla on Jul 20, 2008 19:02:29 GMT
ah no, not blurr! he's as fragile as a Ming vase
but they have a woman involved now woooo! i'll get it
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 19:23:30 GMT
Will he be talking fast like he did in the Marvel comics?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2008 19:46:39 GMT
This is a bit of a hard sell for me, as I've never found any previous incarnation of Blurr to be even remotely interesting. He can go very fast. So can lots of other robots.
I'll wait for the reviews on this one.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 20, 2008 21:57:10 GMT
I read somewhere (probably on The Hub) that Simon Furman disliked Blurr and tried to avoid using him as a character. He appears in several stories, but doesn't seem to do much alone. The only memorable thing I recall about the Marvel Blurr is that he thought Scattershot was pigheaded.
On the other hand, the TMUK short story on Blurr's speed obsession was brilliant.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 21, 2008 8:18:47 GMT
To me, Blurr was another in a long line of dull characters who was only separated from others by the way he spoke. Much like Wheelie, Kup, Arcee, and so on. Still. Like a lot of Transformers characters, there is a lot of potential to be explored. On the other hand, the TMUK short story on Blurr's speed obsession was brilliant. I wrote one about Blurr called "Monologues from the Interplanetary Origami Champion". Do you mean that one? |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 21, 2008 11:43:31 GMT
To me, Blurr was another in a long line of dull characters who was only separated from others by the way he spoke. Much like Wheelie, Kup, Arcee, and so on. And now the last two are seperated from others by being mental. Progress! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2008 9:29:34 GMT
Well if McCarthy continues the trend and makes Blurr a nutjob, then it seems the IDW stock answer to "interestifying" the Movie Autobots is to unhinge them, while making the Movie 'Cons focused and driven pseudo-zombies.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2008 8:21:26 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2008 13:48:49 GMT
It now exists. Will McCarthy prove more adept at writing 1-shots?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2008 13:52:02 GMT
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 5, 2008 14:01:32 GMT
*judges 22-page comic by its 5-page preview*
*shudders*
It's like a cross between Disney's Cars and Dreamwave's Micromasters.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2008 14:10:13 GMT
Why does Blurr race by running very fast in robot mode?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 5, 2008 14:38:52 GMT
Bad writing?
Andy
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Post by Rich on Nov 5, 2008 17:35:31 GMT
I've been trying to judge 'All Hail' on its own terms, but I have to say I didn't care at all for that preview. Nice comic viewer though!
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Post by Nigel on Nov 5, 2008 17:39:51 GMT
Spotlight Blurr? Should be a quick read.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 5, 2008 18:20:09 GMT
Quite liked the script here. I like Blurr's casual and unintentional patronisation - it clearly hasn't occured to him that his pit crew can't go to the same bars he can. Only problem is the art doesn't give much of a sense of speed. Which is a problem cos this is about a pro-racer! Why does Blurr race by running very fast in robot mode? More of a challenge then doing it in car mode? |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2008 19:35:28 GMT
Read it. Didn't do much for me. Blurr mostly races in robot mode. It's nonsensical. He can turn into a vehicle. The bar scenes were ludicrous. Blurr was a complete prick I didn't give a toss about.
It's a very nice looking comic though: decent art and colours. Not so keen on the design for Blurr though. Nothing wrong with it, just not to my taste.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 7, 2008 13:53:35 GMT
Glad I'm skipping this one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2008 22:59:35 GMT
Glad I *didn't* skip this one... it's ace. Blurr is a prick at the start, but it's great fun. His quote to the robo reporter trying to engage his view about the civil unrest: "Hey pal I don't *watch* the news, I *am* the news", sums him up. He's your classic up-his-own-arse spoiled celebrity, but then the arrival of the war forces him to do some soul searching.
Really liked the Starscream bit. Given Blurr's attitude at the start I thought he would've been better suited to the Decepticon cause but more happens... well I don't want to spoil it. This is well worth a read. Don't ignore it just because it doesn't work for somebody else - see what you think.
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Post by legios on Nov 9, 2008 21:43:44 GMT
Hmmm. Well, I've read this now. Didn't think it was very good to be honest. The story was painfully hackneyed, and all the plot-beats could be seen coming a long way off. The scene with Starscream made me wonder whether Screamer had that speech all memorised with an "insert notable skill of target sap" section, it felt so "from stock". Everyone's character was reduced to a simple stereotype (even the supposed lead whose character was supposed to be being spotlighted). I also didn't build up any empathy towards Blurr over the course of the story, so I felt like I had nothing vested in the ending - making it fall rather flat. I also can't get my head around a robot that can turn into a vehicle is involved in a foot-race. If it had been played for laughs I could see it working, but played straight it felt rather nonsensical. (My brain kept going into Tin Dog mode and wanting to tell Blurr - You Become A Car.)
The art from Casey Coller was decent I thought, and the colouring was generally pretty good. I just couldn't engage with the story at all.
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Nov 9, 2008 22:44:33 GMT
I think the idea of the race was that it was a triathlon, with different sections to be run in different modes. In fact, I'd imagine transformation would be a part of a lot of Cybertronian sports. It seemed obvious to me, but there you go.
However, I will agree that in terms of plotting, characterisation and dialogue, Shane McCarthy needs to be led by the hand outside the box and left to sit there for a while before they let him write comics again.
-Nick
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Nov 10, 2008 22:54:00 GMT
This felt oddly like a fanfic to me, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.
Decent art, and a nice glimpse bit of back story for a character that didn't offend the senses too much. The dialogue was OK but flat. However the scenes of war felt more like a rough Friday in Redditch than an ongoing apocalypse, and the 'young Optimus' did my face in completely - mind you, I thought it was Perceptor for some reason until he got an introduction.
And am I the only one that thinks Blurr indulged in a bit of happy-slapping on the last two pages?
Mx
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Post by Dave on Nov 11, 2008 14:14:24 GMT
^My first thought was 'Hmm Perceptor's been drawn a bit Optimus-ish'
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 14, 2008 10:05:42 GMT
Young Optimus looks very similiar to the original optimus mouth design. Remember when we used to laugh at this image as an oddity? |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2008 10:44:19 GMT
That will haunt my dreams.
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Nov 14, 2008 11:33:16 GMT
whats happened to Optimus' nose?
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