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Post by grahamthomson on Dec 10, 2009 14:59:27 GMT
Apparently no one dies, and no one quits the Autobots this issue.
Aw.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2009 18:55:18 GMT
I am liking that Wildman cover though.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Dec 12, 2009 15:30:44 GMT
Anyone else bought the issue yet?
I'm relieved to see that they corrected the Hot Rod/Rodimus name mix-up on the cover.
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Post by Kingoji on Dec 12, 2009 16:54:44 GMT
I've mail ordered this issue with the Wildman cover. I reckon I'll pick up this book until his covers end, and then drop it. If I find I'm enjoying it by then, I'll revert to the trades.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 12, 2009 23:45:32 GMT
They still seem undecided on Hot/Rodimus in the issue itself.
This felt very much like the first issue for me, not AHM terrible but not that good either. Folks will be pleased to know Spike gets a chewing over for being a dick (which he attempts to get over by being an idiot). Omega Supreme and Ultra Magnus seem to have arrived from an earlier IDW era where it is not just about Sunbow life but actually there are larger more important things to be considered.
Wheeljack is volunteered to make a device to take a ballot on the leadership thing. I kid you not. This is clearly so we know he is still the crazy mad inventor he always has been since '84. They all have hands they could raise already!! Sheesh.
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Post by dinogrrl on Dec 14, 2009 1:55:11 GMT
Oh God, seriously, the voting thing. I would have let it pass as a momentary silly if it'd merely been an idea tossed out and then rightly dissed as it was by Hot Rod and abandoned, but they've made it into a central story line element.
Apparently Prowl sides with Hot Rod? I can understand him not agreeing with Prime's decision to surrender, but I find it a little hard to believe that he'd want to just walk away. Unless he thinks that Hot Rod can be manipulated to help his plans, but that would rely too much on Roche!Prowl, which is clearly not what Costa is writing.
Wheeljack building a voting machine is straight up out of a cheesy 80's episode of Sunbow - if they're going for gritty shocking reality that sort of goofiness is totally out of place.
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Post by grahamthomson on Dec 14, 2009 9:15:15 GMT
Issue 3 - The hidden Autobots pass the time playing Bingo. Wheeljack builds the Thing What Mixes The Balls.
Issue 4 - Wheeljack invents a pen lid with holes in to stop Omega Supreme choking as he writes in his diary.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 11:24:30 GMT
Issue 5 - Wheeljack creates a special 'brain helmet' that when put onto the head of Shame McCarthy allows him to write a decent story. It also allows Andy Scmidt to stop making excuses about how bad Continuum was!
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Post by grahamthomson on Dec 14, 2009 21:53:16 GMT
{Arrived today via http://www.oneshallstand.com}
I appreciate the interplay between the characters, if I'm honest. There's a fair amount of drama and tension, though the dialogue does dip a little into Teenage Angst territory.
Perhaps not as intriguing as the first of the issue as it's more of the same. I have warmed to the new direction certainly, but it's still just lukewarm at best.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2009 13:39:46 GMT
I've just got around to reading both of the first two issues together and I have to say it is readable at best. Neither issue is particularly gripping as very little happens at all. I did feel a little insulted though that captions naming every transformer as soon as they made their debut in any one issue kept on springing up. Exactly what audience are they aiming this at? I can only assume its an audience that doesn't know anything about Transformers and doesn't want anything too complicated in a comic book.
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Post by blueshift on Dec 31, 2009 13:51:25 GMT
I've just got around to reading both of the first two issues together and I have to say it is readable at best. Neither issue is particularly gripping as very little happens at all. I did feel a little insulted though that captions naming every transformer as soon as they made their debut in any one issue kept on springing up. Exactly what audience are they aiming this at? I can only assume its an audience that doesn't know anything about Transformers and doesn't want anything too complicated in a comic book. Personally I don't mind the captions. I can name every Transformer on site, but I doubt most people can, though it is a very clumsy way of doing it. Though Marvel have been using that technique a lot recently.
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Post by Kingoji on Dec 31, 2009 14:37:33 GMT
I don't mind the name captions for the very first time a bot appears, but I can see it becoming damned annoying when collecting the trades if every speaking bot is named as soon as they appear in each chapter. They should do it for the first appearance of each bot, but never again.
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Post by dinogrrl on Jan 1, 2010 3:03:15 GMT
It's godawfully old school, the caption thing. Why can't they just place the names of the characters who need to be known in that particular issue into actual dialogue?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2010 10:36:27 GMT
It's obvious they've written the comic for the newbies and not the loyal readers who have been there since the very first issue of Infiltration.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jan 1, 2010 16:44:47 GMT
It's godawfully old school, the caption thing. Why can't they just place the names of the characters who need to be known in that particular issue into actual dialogue? That's even older school.
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Post by dinogrrl on Jan 5, 2010 4:42:39 GMT
Yes, but if they do it with naturalistic dialogue (which is a big ask I know) it won't jump out and slap you in the face like nametags. Yeah, they're obviously there for newbies who may remember some of the TF's from way back when but wouldn't be able to recognise Arthur from Martha with Don's art style.
Hell, even I can't recognise half of them. Maybe *I* need the nametags after all!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2010 10:57:41 GMT
I noticed yesterday when I saw the latest issue on the shelves of my local shop that the comic is now just called Transformers. The 'the Revenge of the Fallen' sub-title has been dropped it appears. Is this a sign of future stories?
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