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Post by primenova on Jun 4, 2010 11:34:51 GMT
I've seen some images from #2 - a black car turning up & image of someone else who is dead now. But the art does look good.
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Post by Dave on Jun 9, 2010 10:02:38 GMT
Enjoyed the two issues we've had, though I think this could probably have been a three issue series. Mysterious and creepy and it'll be interesting to see how it all fits together. I do worry the ending will be a bit crap but I'm liking things so far.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jun 9, 2010 19:29:03 GMT
I was disappointed by the second issue. You can get the best part of the story - the flashback scenes - for free in the previews. The rest of it felt like an extremely slow set-up to #3. I'm tempted to drop the monthly and wait for the paperback.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2010 18:21:01 GMT
Enjoyed the two issues we've had, though I think this could probably have been a three issue series. Mysterious and creepy and it'll be interesting to see how it all fits together. I do worry the ending will be a bit crap but I'm liking things so far. Indeed. I didn't think that was too bad. Could do with being a bit tighter though. I liked the cliffanger, though I can see many readers being nonplussed dependant on whether they've read a certain other comic. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 6, 2010 14:17:37 GMT
So... Metroplex's big secret was he is protecting Alpha Trion... who is a whizz at, like, everything... and that's like why all the glitches in AHM's version of Cybertrons environment weren't glitches... but were there all the time. Thankfully he is flown far away at the end.
And Sunstreaker? Reconstructed for what? Nothing in this mini that's for sure. My disappointment in this series after issue 2's nicely done set up cannot be greater. Or more decompressed. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2010 8:22:04 GMT
I've just this moment finished reading the last two issues of this series after putting them off for well over a month and I have to say that I'm quite disappointed. The flashback scenes in the first two issues were good but I couldn't see quite where they fitted into the story. As for the last two issues I ended up saying to myself 'what the f**k!' Ironhide is brought back to life just so that he can single handedly defeat a swarm of Insecticons on Cybertron by Alpha Trion who buggers off with Metroplex in the end. If Alpha Trion had no intention of staying on Cybertron why did he want it cleared of the rogue swarm? Sunstreaker's appearance is also one of those things that don't make any sense. He was brought back to life just to basically talk to Ironhide. The end of issue 4 also leaves the story unfinished making me worry that IDW has a sequel up it sleeve that they are going to unleash upon us at some point. The worse thing though is that this story puts IDW's comic book continuity into the Sunbow cartoon continuity where A3 became Alpha Trion and Vector Sigma created the Transformers rather than Primus. Altogether it was a disappointing series that could have been done much better.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 26, 2010 8:52:47 GMT
I actually hope that's exactly where IDW are going: we can barely get away from bloody Primus and Unicron and Big Mystical Muckity-Mucks these days, it'd be a refreshing change to see something else.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 26, 2010 9:35:24 GMT
A refreshing change would be for them to do something new. Oh wait Furman tried that and they abandoned it.
This leads me to digress a little and I apologise in advance.
Many moons ago - the good Kaptain and I were shooting ideas back and forth about Transformers, having mentioned Furman's plans with Gorlam Prime and the like.
We got to thinking about a new way to tell a Transformers story and I hope a suitably different take.
The idea is that they transform worlds into carbon copies of Cybertron following some arcane directive in their programming. How they do this is by infiltrating the technology - they become the operating systems of computers, mobile phones and so successfully integrate themselves into the day to day operations of the worlds in question that eventually technology and the native life become so interdependable that they become one and ultimate become a Cybertronian life form.
Much of the transforming robot action would be restricted at first to smaller devices, moving up to Micromaster/Micropretender level. Humanity in our case would discover this and would have to fight back, perhaps the Auto-Bots are an aberrant group whose programming has been corrupted and as a result think what is happening is wrong, and there you have a Transformers concept for a war on earth, that's just hopefully a little bit different.
Anyway, back to moaning about Ironhide.
Andy
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 26, 2010 17:38:59 GMT
I don't know about starting off at Micropretender level and moving up - it might fit the cast better if the war started there but the comic starts later*, sort of like what Infiltration tried. The idea of the Autobots being a minor group of dissidents and the Decepticons as the mainstream is bloody good though: that's never been done before. * That said, it always did seem weird to be that neither Titan nor IDW wanted to use the Real Gear Robots. |
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Post by legios on Sept 26, 2010 19:18:48 GMT
I don't know about starting off at Micropretender level and moving up - it might fit the cast better if the war started there but the comic starts later*, sort of like what Infiltration tried. The idea of the Autobots being a minor group of dissidents and the Decepticons as the mainstream is bloody good though: that's never been done before. * That said, it always did seem weird to be that neither Titan nor IDW wanted to use the Real Gear Robots.The Real Gear robots was actually something that I had in mind at the time. It set me thinking about the idea that they might be your camera or your cell-phone, and then it got me thinking about the idea that they might be in _everybodies_ cellphone. It set us thinking about the idea of technological singularity and the way technology seems to advance on a curve that seems more and more like an exponential one, and that perhaps the reason that human technology seems more and more incomprehensible to the average human might be because it doesn't entirely belong to them. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2010 12:39:52 GMT
I have donated my issues to Karl as I was never going to read them again. He did not look a happy man when reading them!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 23, 2010 21:34:22 GMT
The artwork is very nice, with a good eye for composition. The colours are genuinely top-tier, frankly some of the best colours ever done for a Transfomers comic - with an exceptional eye for light and shade.
The writing is...... less impressive.......
Karl
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Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2010 10:52:05 GMT
I lost interest after #3 and although I have #4 ready to be read, I just haven't felt like it.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 24, 2010 16:59:25 GMT
It had a solid #1, and genuinely fabulous art and colours. It's one of the nicest looking TF comics out there. Unfortunately, it became clear as it went on that the writer had literally no story to tell and what little of it that there was made little sense and actively was inconsistent with itself. A real shame.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 24, 2010 18:46:08 GMT
It had a solid #1, and genuinely fabulous art and colours. It's one of the nicest looking TF comics out there. Unfortunately, it became clear as it went on that the writer had literally no story to tell and what little of it that there was made little sense and actively was inconsistent with itself. A real shame. -Ralph It had lots of separate bits that I liked, and Alpha Trion as a crazy guy was genuinely great, but it just didn't gel together as a decent whole in any way, shape or form. Still much better than the ongoing. But if it were 3 or even 2 issues, it'd have been more focused. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 24, 2010 19:21:52 GMT
Costa is the worst writer Transformers has ever had in any medium. There. I said it.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 24, 2010 19:46:01 GMT
Costa is the worst writer Transformers has ever had in any medium. There. I said it. -Ralph What about the writer of the G2 colouring-in book Dinobots vs Constructicons, which does not feature any Dinobots fighting Constructicons?  |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 24, 2010 21:47:01 GMT
Tell me more of this amazing book. It is new to me.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 24, 2010 23:03:11 GMT
Did it feature Dinobots in non Constructicon combat? Maintaining their zen gardens ot taking driving lessons* perhaps.
Andy
*I imagine Sludge would be very good at the gardening but struggle with the driving lessons.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 25, 2010 6:52:06 GMT
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 25, 2010 9:04:27 GMT
I did read all 4 issues of Ironhide. But I didn't really "get" it.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 25, 2010 21:41:34 GMT
Costa is the worst writer Transformers has ever had in any medium. There. I said it. -Ralph What about the writer of the G2 colouring-in book Dinobots vs Constructicons, which does not feature any Dinobots fighting Constructicons? That is AMAZING. I especially enjoy the bit where the Autobots try to 'high five' while completely failing to make physical contact with each other. I think they're in denial. -Ralph |
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Post by primenova on Dec 7, 2010 9:33:27 GMT
I read #2-4 last night [still need to get #1 & ongoing #1-4]
But at least it tries to explain the whole Cybertron stuff from AHM
That Alpha got there with Metroplex & was cleaning the air up. But did he build any other bodies apart from ironhide?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2010 19:42:57 GMT
I should be getting the TPB in the mail any day now, they shipped it out like wednesday last week, but it must be caught up in the post back log or something
EDIT: Came today
I quite enjoyed it
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 17, 2011 21:48:29 GMT
Read it last night thanks to my library getting it in. A little confusing as I hadn't read ongoing so wasn't quite sure how he had died. Generally quite enjoyable, A3 was a lot of fun, but agree with the general view it ran out of steam towards the end. It was also ludicrously short, even with quite a lot of stopping and starting as I attempted to remember if I had read relevant issues elsewhere, I finished in just over 20 minutes.
But essentially it was another 4 issues retconning AHM failings. Also it massively devalued the insecticon threat then again it did devalue Drifts "awesomeness" too so not all bad.
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