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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 14, 2009 19:14:23 GMT
I've just bought it. Forget continuity. It makes little grammatical sense.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 28, 2009 15:34:12 GMT
Schmidt claims it was aaaaaaaaaaall intentional.Also, there's feedback from other sites and retailers saying this was GREAT at getting "fringe" fans interested - isn't it amazing that everything crap IDW's done over a year magically gets fringe fans interested?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 17:00:32 GMT
Biggest load of bullshit I've ever read! He makes mistake after mistake after mistake when writing Continuum and then he says it was all intentional when the fans pick up on his mistakes. All Schmidt has tried to do there is to try and crawl out of the massive hole he's dug himself into.
He also says that there was only about one issue that wasn't refenced in Continuum and that was Spotlight Mirage. What about the dozen or so other stories that aren't referenced in it?
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 28, 2009 18:17:17 GMT
I like how he says he didn't change continuity and then says he did.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 28, 2009 19:40:43 GMT
I might have believed this if he had come out and explained his intentions before release.
As he couldn't even get the names right it feels like he's doing a little retconning right now.
Andy
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Post by dinogrrl on Nov 29, 2009 5:58:41 GMT
The excuse he gives for combining Skywatch and the Machination is beyond bullshit. How stupid does he think fans are that they can't handle the names of two organisations? His simplification generates a total mistake with respect to the actual books.
God, what a piss ant attempt at blowing it all off. Lost all respect for him now.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 29, 2009 9:01:31 GMT
The excuse he gives for combining Skywatch and the Machination is beyond bullshit. How stupid does he think fans are that they can't handle the names of two organisations? He claims The Kids and New Fans couldn't handle it. Cos, y'know, the concept of "these guys are two different guys", that's a terrifyingly hard concept.
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Post by jameso on Nov 29, 2009 10:06:13 GMT
So is Megatron a disgruntled slave or a disgruntled sacked employee? I don't get it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2009 11:17:57 GMT
That interview just makes me laugh out loud! He writes a comic book based on the five or six issues he has read, claims that he has read all 70+ issues hoping that nobody will notice and when it all backfires on him he says the mistakes were deliberate!
Just as Dinogrrl says, I've lost all respect for him now as well. Making a catalogue of mistakes is one thing but trying to cover them up with excuses after the event is beyond contempt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 6:23:06 GMT
I promised myself I wasn't going to skip ahead but good grief. What happened to IDW? While trying to generate new sales, IDW seems to have angered Transformer's current readership. How long will it take before issue #1's boost wears off and sales drop back to 10K or less?
Just a few questions
Was there any reason Simon Furman departed TF's main continuity book? When did Andy Schmidt and Shane McCarthy get tapped to take over writing duties? Who is the editor of IDW's Transformers comics?
I really dug the first couple of Premieres. It's a shame.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 8:46:22 GMT
Andy Schmidt is the editor of the current IDW comics and if his writing skills and the above interview is anything to go by then I think I can safely say that the franchise is doomed.
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Post by Dave on Nov 30, 2009 10:07:19 GMT
The interview worries me. #1 of the ongoing didn't do enough to make me order #2 but I thought there was potential and maybe I'd be picking up trades at some point. Now... hmmm.
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Post by blueshift on Nov 30, 2009 10:45:52 GMT
I get the feeling that Continuum was either a late-in-the-day project, or not thought as to be nearly as important as it ended up being.
General feedback for issue 1 has been pretty positive though. Again personally, the whole Disguise/RAAT style era isn't my cup of tea, but I imagine for those who DO like it, it is good (Martin I guess?)
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 30, 2009 12:15:12 GMT
I get the feeling that Continuum was either a late-in-the-day project, or not thought as to be nearly as important as it ended up being. Thats seems to be the basic issue this is nothing more than the catch up leaflet that came with issue 200 of the UK comic. If it had been free (free comic day or stuck in the back of numerous current issues) we wouldn't be discussing it. But IDW decided to charge $4 for it gave it a silly name and made it sound as though it was going to fix the previous year or twos mistakes and clarify the timeline. Andy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 20:07:29 GMT
Schmidt claims that all of the mistakes in Continuum were intentional. If that is so then why did he wait until there was a large outcry over the issues on the net before announcing it?
My theory (and this is also clearly a few other peoples theory as well) is that it was a huge cock-up on his part and just trying to brush it under the carpet now by making excuses.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 30, 2009 20:30:20 GMT
Schmidt claims it was aaaaaaaaaaall intentional.Also, there's feedback from other sites and retailers saying this was GREAT at getting "fringe" fans interested - isn't it amazing that everything crap IDW's done over a year magically gets fringe fans interested? I call bullshit on that. Andy
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Post by legios on Nov 30, 2009 21:17:27 GMT
Some of this does seem rather odd to say the least. Merging Skywatch and The Machination because it would be too confusing having two different organisations on opposite sides of the law doing things is nonsense. It is akin to saying that you couldn't explain why, say, a group of vigilantes in 30's America had to contend with both the FBI and The Syndicate so it is better to say that they fought an organisation that enforced Prohibition and bootlegged liquor. Total nonsense.
For him to then turn around and say that we haven't changed anything, we just said that Megatron was a slave because it is easier to explain than saying he was a worker who was thrown out of his job is equally absurd. No, that would be changing a fact. He has given a reason for doing so, but that does not alter the fact that he has replaced one concept with another. If Schmidt really thinks these two things are the same someone might need to provide him with better definitions of employment and slavery, for purposes of comparison.
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Post by primenova on Jan 5, 2010 12:21:44 GMT
i've not started reading this yet - but can see what people are going on about it being a mess. If you follow the time line order in the back - you notice that the events printed in the issue dont follow that. ahm #13 is the only one to happen after #12 - that #14-16 happen before [apart from the Bumblebee story]
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 26, 2010 14:03:35 GMT
You know what they say. Schmidt happens.
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Post by primenova on Mar 26, 2010 23:51:27 GMT
The only thing is the pages must have been printed in the wrong order - but IDW locked the thread on their message boards - you not allowed to say they have bad editors on there
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 11:26:11 GMT
The only thing is the pages must have been printed in the wrong order - but IDW locked the thread on their message boards - you not allowed to say they have bad editors on there So you're not allowed to speak the truth on their forum then?
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