New DRIFT Miniseries

[charlesrocketboy]

If those guys are Transformers who didn't want to fight and weren't fighting, why are they all so grand looking and heavily armed?

[legios]

Sept 21, 2010 20:13:02 GMT Bogatan said:

Yet again I'm left wondering why all the characters who meet drift seem to know on first meeting that he is cool, deep, a thinker, spiritual. I admit I haven't readthat much of his appearances but I haven't gotten anything beyond good fighter doesn't say or express much.

Maybe they are all supposed to have the insight of the enlightened and can sense the hidden potential of his robot Chi.

Or possibly it is just bad story-telling.

Karl

[blueshift]

Oh, and note Hot Shot getting killed in one of the panels of that preview. That is because Alex Milne wanted to piss off David Willis. Or rather, because his friends wanted to piss off David Willis, which is even more baffling. He posted this up on the IDW forums:

lets see, well i don't know what i'll be working on in the future, so if i get a chance to draw some characters i want to in, then i take that opportunity to draw them. yes coming up with random bots is also fun, but then i might also like the bot i'm coming up with so it's the same thing. it's hard to choose what i want to draw.
now i thought we were talking about issue one here. lets see. when i started issue 2 i had a battle scene between the autobots and decepticons and i asked a few of my friends who to draw in there. a few of them said i should draw hot shot, and i was like hot shot??? why the hell do i want to draw him??? i'm not the biggest fan of armada anyways. then one of them said it was Walky's favourite, but i still don't know if that's true or not, and i laughed, and i said, if you want me to put him in, i will. personally i don't care. so at first i asked my friends what characters to add, they gave me a few choices and when i then wanted to know the reason behind there choice they told me, and i got a laugh out of it.
so, no lie here. no favourite characters of anyone who i hardly know in issue one. in issue 2, there is. did i do it because that guy upsets me. no. i don't really care what he says. i did it because my friends thought it was be funny and it's a character not in the G1-G2 line that will be used. oh, and i'm not the biggest fan of armada, so theres that too.

forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=8525&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=288

I find reading that so sad, can't professionals at least be polite anymore?

[Bogatan]

Theres enough examples of duplicate body types theres just no need to kill any character just to fill a background especially for reasons like that. I wish the colourists would just miscolour them make back into a generic.

Its never been a funny in joke. Well maybe G1 appearing in Armada and Animated, but thats about it.

Andy

[blueshift]

He could have been baby blue

Take THAT, Battle In A Box Smokescreen!

[The Doctor]

Can someone just tell me what Alex Milne said. The lack of capital letters at the start of sentences confused me.

-Ralph

[charlesrocketboy]

He doesn't like David Willis AKA Walky (Transformers fan and It's Walky!/Shortpacked creator) so, for a laugh, he killed one of Willis' favourite characters on-panel.

[Fortmax2020]

wish I could tell you there. not so easy to figure out. worry not. fight or flee!

[andrewbcalculating]

I haven't got the source material to hand but isn't this plot of fleeing Cybertron and living in peace the same as the Marvel Headmasters series with Fort Max's crew?

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[Benn]

Closer to Series 3's 'Fight Or Flee'. Transformers abandoning Cybertron and it's many wars was mentioned quite a bit in the cartoon.

[The Doctor]

I see TF2005 have clean pages of this up. I hope someone does a spoof. I'll read the proper preview if someone nice does a spoof.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

Sept 21, 2010 22:44:19 GMT charlesrocketboy said:

He doesn't like David Willis AKA Walky (Transformers fan and It's Walky!/Shortpacked creator) so, for a laugh, he killed one of Willis' favourite characters on-panel.

Who did he kill?

And, er, did the writer not bother to specify what characters are in this comic?

-Ralph

[blueshift]

He killed Hot Shot

[charlesrocketboy]

But he lives on in our hearts!

[The Doctor]

Unless he is identified as Hot Shot, is named or has any characterisation then it is a pointless cipher which can be easily ignored.

-RALPH

[dinogrrl]

I don't think much of Walky either, the guys' arrogance knows few bounds, but Milne should know better than to stoop to silly shit like that. Oy.

[The Doctor]

You can watch him here:

www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/madmanonline-interviews-transformers-comic-book-writer-shane-mccarthy-170623/

Shockingly, swing dance is not mentioned once.

-Ralph

[Fortmax2020]

I have just purchased issue 2...

[The Doctor]

Hahahahaha! I knew my sinister needling would work.

-Ralph

[Gav]

Walky's influence on TF must stop. It bugs me.

[Fortmax2020]

Sept 24, 2010 12:34:40 GMT The Doctor said:

Hahahahaha! I knew my sinister needling would work.

-Ralph

You know why I am doing this evil deed, fool!

I haven't read it yet, but had a very quick flick at some pages. Please no...

[The Doctor]

Sept 24, 2010 13:28:17 GMT Gav said:

Walky's influence on TF must stop. It bugs me.

What influence? I thought he was just another message board punter.

-Ralph

[charlesrocketboy]

Sept 22, 2010 22:42:47 GMT dinogrrl said:

I don't think much of Walky either, the guys' arrogance knows few bounds, but Milne should know better than to stoop to silly shit like that. Oy.

Walky's response seems to be "hur hur, cool!". Followed by poking at the editor for saying Milne has no control over which character lives or dies: "maybe you should tell him not to draw characters dying. Because from where I’m looking, he sure does seem to be determining who lives and who dies".

Which is a fair point, really.

Sept 24, 2010 15:01:10 GMT The Doctor said:

What influence? I thought he was just another message board punter.

-Ralph

He knows people and people who know people involved in the franchise & has been around a long time, so he can have the usual "fan who's old and around ages" influence on other fans and has had some nods from the franchise. (One of the toy bios references "Two Megatrons!" as a nod to him, apparently)

He also is an admin and frequent contributor to the TF wiki. Though I think I've contributed 90% of everything Titan related to that wiki and I'm not sure if I have influence (though last time I was on holiday, I did meet a Transformers fan who raved up the Starscream-possessed-by-Megatron story that they only knew about via the wiki).

[The Doctor]

Is he the admin who threw a hissy fit because people dared to offer constructive criticism about the TF books and did a big "I'M LEAVING!" thing or was that someone else?

-Ralph

[Rich]

Some of this thread reads like the x-files.

[blueshift]

Sept 25, 2010 10:27:07 GMT The Doctor said:

Is he the admin who threw a hissy fit because people dared to offer constructive criticism about the TF books and did a big "I'M LEAVING!" thing or was that someone else?

-Ralph

Oh goodness no. That was DanielW on the IDW boards

I like Walky, he's a good chap with a good sense of humour, and has given a hell of a lot to the fandom. Frankly, his biggest influence to date is writing the bio for Shattered Glass Ravage!

[The Doctor]

Ah right. Got him mixed up. He was the admin who shouted at people on the Dreamwave boards for daring to criticise the product.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

M has bought issues 2 and 3. I go later to read them. I may not return.

-Ralph

[charlesrocketboy]

Ralph hasn't returned yet! OH NO!

[Fortmax2020]

I bear witness that Ralph lives. It was however a monumental feat for the man to make it through the two issues.