New DRIFT Miniseries

[blueshift]

I will buy 100 copies of each issue and make them into a papier mache woman!

[grahamthomson]

Wow. Just, wow.

[Deleted]

Shame McCarthy makes easily one of the worst TF comics in history and what does IDW do? They give him another go at making a comic book series. The description says the TPB is 104 pages long which means it approximately a five issue run. The Bumblebee mini series has so far done nothing for me, the upcoming Ironhide one doesn't fill me with joy either so I doubt this one is going to make me want to jump in the air!

[Benn]

Much as I'd love to add my voice to the naysayers, I cannot... I live in continual hope that Drift has an interesting backstory that can be well told.
Admittedly, the Ironhide mini doesn't make me feel optimistic, and the Bumbleebee mini is inconsequntial at best, so past form isn't good.

But I am trying not to judge before I read.

You do realise this is just so Hasbro can sell more Drift toys, right?

[Deleted]

Mar 8, 2010 14:05:57 GMT Benn said:

Much as I'd love to add my voice to the naysayers, I cannot... I live in continual hope that Drift has an interesting backstory that can be well told.

Shame McCarthy hasn't got a clue how to tell an interesting backstory. It took him six full issues of AHM to tell about five pages of story.

[primenova]

How come Drift is getting a mini series when he's already had a one shot. The first character to have one shot & have mini. So could we end up with a DW style Optimus Prime mini series? Bumblebee / Ironhide one shot.

[Kingoji]

Since the character made his debut, given the hype surrounding him, I am not the least bit surprised.

He was the new guy all our old favourites had to take notice of. He had a bunch of 'moments' that were there purely for the "cool" factor. He had his own Spotlight in which the Wreckers decided he was cool, appeared in the very first issue of the ongoing, is getting a toy... This was inevitable.

As someone over at IDW said, it isn't the character himself I dislike (because really, there is nothing about him to either like or dislike, he's just... there), it's the way IDW have pushed him onto us ahead of so many more deserving traditional characters. And seemingly without any of the plot or purpose which has made similar characters like Impactor and Straxus so endearing.

But, all complaining aside, I'll be picking up the trade. And so will many of you.

*sighs in resignation over his addiction*

[Bogatan]

I wont unless I have to (because it ties tightly into something I am reading) or I hear good stuff about it.

Or its really cheap.

I'll probably read it as my local libaries are rather good at stocking comic trades.

I have nothing against Drift as a character or toy, but no interest in him either. I simply wont spend money on anything by McCarthy till I hear from multiple sources this is a better read and better value for money than AHM.

Andy

[Rich]

I still haven't read anything after the first 3 issues off AHM (at which point, so far as I can recall, I thought it was a bit meh, and then I left the continent for 6 months), so can only assume that this means that Drift and McCarthy sell quite well; no matter how obstinate Chris Ryall is, he's not going to throw away his company's money on something just to prove his point. If people here, and on the IDW boards really don't want to read it, then they'll just have to control their collecting urges or they'll get exactly what they deserve. Frankly, they shouldn't even talk about it any more because then IDW can't even claim that it caused a stir.

[Bogatan]

I still haven't read the end of AHM or the coda, so maybe I'm being a little unfair, but I have read the first 6 issues plus at least 3 more somewhere. In 6 issues McCarthy told a planetary invasion by Decepticons story. In the first 6 pages of LSOTW Nick told a better planetary invasion by Decepticon story and in the rest of the issue expanded that plot while introducing the Autobots which is what the rest of the AHM issues I read did.

In other words it would take McCarthy 45 issues to tell LSOTW.

*shudder*

Andy

[primenova]

Just say who it is

- its just Cybertron Overdrive.

white sports car with similar head.

Over Ride - the one that was feamle in japan.

[KoshNaranek]

If there's one thing I will actually thank Shane McCarthy for, it's that he was instrumental in helping me beat my urge to be a completist. So, for the first time in 25 years I can honestly say this is one Transformers series I WILL NOT be buying.

- Tony

[Fortmax2020]

Voting with my wallet based on past experience of the writers abilities and the character. Avoiding.

[Deleted]

I think the only comic that Shame McCarthy has written that I actually liked was the Cliffjumper Spotlight. I know some people didn't think much of it but I did and it remains the highlight of his TF writing career for me anyway.

[KoshNaranek]

I agree with you to a certain extent. As a standalone issue, Spotlight Cliffjumper works by telling a self contained story. But when you place his take on Cliffjumper alongside his interpretations of other characters he's "reimagined", a bad pattern emerges. Perceptor = badass, Jazz = badass ninja type, Drift/Poochie = badass ninja type and Cliffjumper is just the latest in a line. Actually, when you look at what he did with Jazz, his excuse that he needed to create Drift because there was no other character that fit what he needed is a load of bollocks.

Just like most of what he's written.

- Tony

[Mark_Stevenson]

Did we, THE FANS, demand this?

Mx

[Benn]

Don't we always?

[blueshift]

I demanded a bucket of ladies

[Deleted]

'IDW are proud to present another comic series written by Shane McCarthy that is likely to last for about twenty-plus issues with a few other issues stapled onto the end of the run due to the author arsing around far too much because you - the fans demand it!'

[Nigel]

At least Drift will be an appropriate name - because that's what people's attention will probably do whilst they're reading it.

[Benn]

Drum roll please!

I still have no problem with Drift, as a character per se, just the elevated fanfiction that spawned him.

As a side note, anyone else think SL:Cliffjumper would have been much more awsome as a Bumblebee one shot? Just change the ending so he keeps using his brain to win as opposed to shoot the snot outta them and that would have been so much better...

[blueshift]

Same. I don't particularly hate him, but I don't like him either. He's pretty much just 'there' which makes the amount of pagespace he gets baffling.

What I hate is the manufactured 'hype' created around him, it just seems so cynical to me. Characters should be allowed to develop, and people should be allowed to choose what characters they like and want to see more of, rather than those decisions being made for them.

Heck, take Ironfist in LSOFW for example! Who'd a thunk it!

[Nigel]

Drift could have been a good character. As it turned out, in AHM he was pretty pointless.

A Drift origin series needs someone who can write good character pieces.

[Bogatan]

Did the character come first? I seem to remember right from the atart the idea being the toy would be made. Then it getting shelved. Or was it an experimental joint venture?

As said it just has a unpleasant manufactured element going on.

Andy

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Mar 10, 2010 12:43:52 GMT Nigel said:

A Drift origin series needs someone who can write good character pieces.

That counts out Shame McCarthy then!

[The Doctor]

If it really upsets anyone that Drift is getting his own comic, then don't buy it! Or get the trade from a library! Vote with your wallet!

-Ralph

[legios]

Mar 10, 2010 18:28:38 GMT The Doctor said:

If it really upsets anyone that Drift is getting his own comic, then don't buy it! Or get the trade from a library! Vote with your wallet!

-Ralph

That was pretty much going to be my strategy. I've got no real interest in Drift as a character so I just wasn't going to bother buying the series.

Karl

[dinogrrl]

You guys should see the 11 page thread of hilarity on this over at the AllSpark. Man. I won't be buying this, not just because I have little patience for McCarthy's writing style, but also because it's being illustrated by Milne. Guy does nice cover/poster shots, but I tend to find his sequential work a little dense and hard to follow. Of course that's based off Megatron Origins, so maybe he'll change it up a little.

I will make sure to read this as it goes along though. I am quite anticipating an amusing trainwreck, much like what kept me reading the second half of AHM.

And you bet your booty that this will tie into the ongoing - in fact, I bet IDW will ensure that it ties into it the tightest of the lot, the cheeky buggers.

[Benn]

Milne I'm undecideed about. His Origin stuff was horribly cluttered, but I did like SL: Arcee. So I'll give him a go. It's the writer we're all worried about isn't it?

[Deleted]

I hope it doesn't tie into the ongoing. The Bumblebee mini is tying into the tightest of spots in the ongoing and no doubt so will the Ironhide mini. If this one ties into the Ongoing as well the story is going to be one hell of a confused mess!