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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 16, 2010 7:42:57 GMT
I was really looking forward to seeing Guido back on Transformers (as I was with E J in issue 7) and the Combaticons, too.
However: This is simply an awful comic.
Sure, it's part one of a three-parter, but this first act could have been told within a quarter of the space. Three panels per page, one page showing the transformation of Vortex from vehicle to robot? Really?
Characterisation is silicon chip thin, and the Autobots are, once again, in angry teenager mode as per the first 6 issues of the Ongoing.
It's a complete waste of Guido's talents, poor guy.
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Post by chrisl on Jul 19, 2010 8:10:52 GMT
Guido's put the pencils up on DA - quick someone do a remix of it and turn the awesome art into a 1 page mosaic with a decent story....
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 19, 2010 11:06:29 GMT
You might have to wait until issue 11's out before you can get the "story" before trying to condense it down.
As it is, issue 9 takes 22 pages to show the Combaticons up to something in a Korea and the Autobots just about to leave their base to investigate.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 19, 2010 12:58:34 GMT
I'm dropping this title with #9 and I'll only be buying a copy for the AA cover.
Truly, this has been the most boring comic series of Transformers yet published. I'm not a fan of the Dreamwave era, but at least things happened.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2010 17:05:02 GMT
well I only get the TPB's so I'll make my decisions when I get this one's TPB
(I mean I'm getting Ongoing V1 in a few days from amazon)
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 19, 2010 21:09:50 GMT
Ongoing 1-6 weren't bad, relatively speaking, and I quite enjoyed #7. However, #8 and #9 have been utterly, utterly rubbish.
I also suspect that they've changed the paper used for the covers. The cover of #9 feels like the internal pages.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 20, 2010 8:20:53 GMT
It's been a boring nine months, if I'm to be honest.
Let's review:
2005-2008: Look out! Our entire universe is being over-written by a "dead" one! AIEEEEE!
2008-2009: Oh Em Gee... the Decepticons have conquered the known universe! (Off panel.) AIEEEEE!
2010: Hot Rod stole a ship and Spike got a hair cut. AIE-- Oh, wait.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2010 9:04:17 GMT
AHAHAHA!
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 23, 2010 15:13:28 GMT
2010: Hot Rod stole a ship and Spike got a hair cut. AIE-- Oh, wait. The Transformers change designs between artists, but IDW has said Spike's hair will stay consistent. Erm. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2010 15:26:23 GMT
2010: Hot Rod stole a ship and Spike got a hair cut. AIE-- Oh, wait. The Transformers change designs between artists, but IDW has said Spike's hair will stay consistent. Erm. Good, all the robots change alt modes and robot modes every other day, but at least Spike's hair will stay the same <.< |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 23, 2010 17:30:00 GMT
The implication is that without the hair, we can't tell that it's Spike we're looking at. That's a worrying implication.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 6, 2010 14:13:55 GMT
What was up with the bit in this issue where it says about giving Springer's people a ship? Is that just a lame fisted tie in to Wreckers (and characters who have not been in the ongoing. At all.) or just a bad way of explaining where other bots like Ultra Magnus have vanished to between issues. Again.
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