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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 10, 2009 17:18:17 GMT
This is interesting, I check TF Wiki and see Defiance #4 has come up with a new origin for the Transformers (for the Movie-verse anyway). It contradicts the Fun Pub origin, so that's the multiversal singularity wank thrown in the bin! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2009 19:27:59 GMT
I am now suddenly interested in this series, so long as Milne didn't draw it.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 10, 2009 19:46:18 GMT
You're in luck, it was Dan Khanna with a Figuero fill-in.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2009 22:23:52 GMT
I've never credited the Fun Pub continuity as the official TF continuity anyway. I've got the recent Fun Pub issue Shattered Glass and I hope to read it at the weekend. I'm not holding out much hope of it being worth my while.
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Post by KoshNaranek on Apr 11, 2009 0:36:24 GMT
I haven't managed to get #4 yet, but looking forward to it big time. IDW's movie output is miles ahead of All Hail Mediocrity and is on a par with Maximum Dinobot's IMO. As for Alex Milne, believe it or not, he really has improved in leaps and bounds over on Alliance. His panels are much clearer and less cluttered than his past output.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 11, 2009 12:22:05 GMT
I'd be getting Defiance right now if I wasn't concerned Titan would then reprint it.
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 12, 2009 7:04:02 GMT
I've actually really enjoyed Defiance. If the plots carry on in to the film itself, it'll hopefully make for a much more interesting storyline than the first one.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 7:21:38 GMT
Agreed. I've enjoyed Defiance a lot more than Alliance. It feels in places like the Movie universe's War Within. I'm oddly a bit indifferent about the film, I'll see it and no doubt enjoy it but I'm in no great hurry for it to arrive.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 12, 2009 11:19:49 GMT
Agreed. I've enjoyed Defiance a lot more than Alliance. It feels in places like the Movie universe's War Within. I'm oddly a bit indifferent about the film, I'll see it and no doubt enjoy it but I'm in no great hurry for it to arrive. Yeah, same here - the IDW and Titan comics based on it interest me more than the film itself! (That happened with the last film too, which I still haven't seen...) |
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Post by blueshift on Jun 23, 2009 9:03:53 GMT
I've just read Defiance and was pretty underwhelmed to be honest. Far better than Alliance, but that isn't saying much. I imagine part of it was due to the strict limitations put on them by the film. I can also forgive the rather different origin for the Fallen, which can be reconciled with a bit of thought. I believe was probably an early plot for the film which later got scrapped.
But the whole thing is a bit ... boring and straightforward really, to be honest. There's no twists or interesting concepts, just everything happening exactly as you imagine it would.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 23, 2009 17:16:11 GMT
Much preferred it to the movie and anything IDW have done since Revelation, myself.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 23, 2009 18:42:56 GMT
More than Max Dinos? High praise indeed!
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Post by legios on Jun 23, 2009 20:15:52 GMT
I'd have to side with the camp that rather enjoyed Defiance. I liked the general tone of it - the somewhat formal dialogue gave it a bit of a gentlemanly, "classical" feel to it and I liked the way it sketched in a fairly solid back-story for the movie-verse.
I did like its version of Prime - the suggestion that he effectively went "walkabout" on Cybertron recruiting likeminded souls in a personal manner is a nice touch.
I actually thought it served as a better prequel to the first movie than the IDW's previous movie prequel as well.
Can't say yet if it is better than the Fallen Dave movie though. I shall let you know when I have seen the latter and can mount a comparison.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 20:18:53 GMT
I actually think that Defiance is the best of all of the Movie tie-in comics that IDW have done so far (barring the recent movie adaptation which I still haven't read).
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 23, 2009 20:59:39 GMT
I do think Transformers stories work best in 4-part chuncks, ala Defiance. 6 parts usually is too decompressed.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 23, 2009 21:07:26 GMT
I think the problem isn't the length of the stories as such. The problem is the writers not being able to effectively pace the stories for the six issue format. It can be done but most of the six issues haven't really done it all that well.
Andy
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 22:38:52 GMT
With a four-part story you get a nice, tightly packed story but with six issues (or in AHM's case 12+ parts) you get a four-part story but with a lot of padding to fill the gaps.
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