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Post by grahamthomson on Jan 20, 2011 15:14:00 GMT
(Assuming that you aren't reading them regularly right now.)
What would get you back into IDW comics?
What characters would you like to see? What kinds of stories/scenarios? And who would be your dream creative team?
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Post by Kingoji on Jan 20, 2011 16:40:05 GMT
It's pretty much as simple as a new writer to get me to try it out again. But to guarantee that I stick around, then Roche, Roberts and Furman on writing would guarantee my spent cash. Stop using Don's designs and get EJ back would also be a massive leap forward.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 20, 2011 17:53:29 GMT
Issues written by Nick and/or James, and/or stories set in either the Marvel or the Masterforce continuity.
Nothing else really.
Martin
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Post by Dave on Jan 20, 2011 18:23:37 GMT
Pretty much what Martin said. The IDW-verse is so different to what it was I really can't see me purchasing it regularly. I'll keep an eye out for interesting stories (and R&R will always peek my interest) but I suspect most of my future IDW purchases will be stories not in their main line.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 20, 2011 18:38:12 GMT
A comic with Furman/Roche/Roberts on writing duties would get me interested again. Or a brand new writer, just to see what their take is like.
Or Abnett & Lanning on a series. Hurray, it's happening.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 20, 2011 18:51:11 GMT
Well I read at least in trades everything up until AHM and then I tried ongoing, but that wasn't for me. And then there was LSOTW which was for me.
So pretty much the same as everyone else Furman Roche Roberts. Even if Furman was just brought back to plot the story arcs and or edit.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 20, 2011 18:57:08 GMT
Furman is one of those creators who, yes, will sometimes drop a story that isn't the best but a lot of his stuff has given me such reading pleasure from a young age that he always gets an automatic free pass from me.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jan 20, 2011 19:12:09 GMT
At this point, I would either want a hard reboot, or a massaging of continuity back to the Earth stories + space adventures of early IDW / late Marvel style, and a much much bigger cast.
And definately Furman involved, either as sole writer/editor, or in a tag team with another writer.
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Post by Rich on Jan 20, 2011 20:20:43 GMT
I don't read enough comics anymore to have any real clue as to who would be a dream writer, but really, I'd give any a writer who hasn't already burned their Transformers bridges with me ('Brad Mick' and and Costa, essentially) a chance. Making the Transformers look less like the movie designs and more like the robots I remember would help too.
I think IDW could really publish a few more comics too. And stupid crossovers - good creative team or not - really don't cut it. I wonder why they don't just try a follow up to the Marvel continuity? I know it's always been felt that it would flop, but they only sell 10,000 copies, and I bet most of the people buying those bought issues of the original. The reprint trades keep selling too; somebody must be interested.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 20, 2011 20:24:51 GMT
I echo alot of what other have said, Roche/Furman/Robots/Su/Roche. Yes I know I said Roche twice, but I like him as an artist and writer.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jan 20, 2011 20:30:49 GMT
I too am part of the Rocherts hive mind!
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Post by legios on Jan 20, 2011 20:58:53 GMT
Kazutaka Miyatake as writer/artist on a "Diaclone versus Transformers" miniseries.
Yeah, lets talk about things that might actually happen instead.....
For me, like everyone else it boils down to creative team. It'd need to be someone who I have some expectation could produce good work. Simon Furman - drops the occassional clunker but his batting average is really good. Nick Roche and/or James Roberts - proven they good stories that are about Transformers. Abnett and Lanning - who have actually managed to make me interested in picking up an IDW TF comic again. Mark Waid - a very solid writer who knows how to do periodical comics.
Basically they don't have to have an established presence in Transformers, indeed coming from outside the Transformers comics would might even make me more interested. All they need to have is a track record sufficient to work against the current pattern of IDW Transformers comics being poorly written more often than not.
As to characters, I really don't mind as long as the writer makes them interesting.
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 21, 2011 5:07:52 GMT
I echo alot of what other have said, Roche/Furman/Robots/Su/Roche. Yes I know I said Roche twice, but I like him as an artist and writer. You also said Robots. Would that be James 'Robots' Roberts?  Martin |
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Post by grahamthomson on Jan 21, 2011 10:44:06 GMT
I would naively like to see a return to shorter stories, reserving 6-parters for truly epic plots. The 15 issues so far of the Ongoing could really have been told in 4 or 5.
As weird as this sounds, I would welcome a storyline that deals with the fall out of the Decepticon's annihilation of ALL Autobot outposts everywhere that was described in passing during All Hail Megatron. Who survived? Which Decepticons and Autobots are now in power elsewhere? Which groups have formed? Where are the Phase Sixers (apart from Overlord)?
There is so much potential out there already. Spending over a year on the same story of Humans Punishing Disarrayed Transformers is too long already.
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Post by Benn on Jan 21, 2011 11:41:17 GMT
Much as I hate sounding like a distressed fanboy, I would settle right now for having Mike Costa off the book. That would at least make me try the book again.
I've read every page of TF work he's had published and I find it slow, pointless and insulting. And it retreads a lot of old ground, whilst being trumpeted as a fresh new take on Transformers.
So having read all his work, I can quite safely say his writing "style" is not for me. There are people who like his TF stuff, and fair play to them, but as long as Costa is on writing duties, I won't be picking it up.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2011 14:45:05 GMT
I'll never read another Costa-written book after the borderline racism in the Korean 'story'.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 21, 2011 17:51:57 GMT
Having not read the Korean stuf all I can say about Costa is that I probably wouldn't have minded the first 6 issues if he'd had an editor look at his plot for them said, "It's alright but don't you think theres only 3 issues worth of material here."
Andy
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Post by Hero on Jan 21, 2011 18:59:03 GMT
Anything from Roacherts would do me fine (like the Wreckers trade). I never got into the IDW-verse and don't even understand it.
Stuff like Ironhide being bumped off and Sunstreaker being a headmaster I found hard to swallow. That Verity kid seems like a cool human character tho.
I just like stuff that's easy to take in. Maybe that's just me.
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Post by mabus1984 on Jan 22, 2011 12:35:37 GMT
I didn't really like the IDW-verse. I seen so many things that could of been better, or felt were rushed like. I even felt i could do a better job and i can't even right an essay. Personally though Furman isn't my favourite writer either, in fact seeing his name on something makes me want to pass.... maybe i'm just odd lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 9:10:13 GMT
It'd take a load of positive (or at least intriguing) comments from the Hubbers to get me reading IDW comics again.
And it has to be a consistent improvement, not just a one-off issue. Having switched to trades when McCarthy replaced Furman (Dinobots and Wreckers aside), I'm not going to shell out £10 for a book where 1 out of 6 parts is worth reading (e.g. All Hail Megatron's Coda).
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Post by grahamthomson on Jan 24, 2011 10:54:22 GMT
It'd take a load of positive (or at least intriguing) comments from the Hubbers to get me reading IDW comics again. I used to be quite on the ball with reviewing the IDW comics. But, recently, they've become so tedious I haven't been inspired to comment to the same extent. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 24, 2011 13:46:52 GMT
I'd welcome a change of editorial and creative teams to spice things up. Sadly, they have ruined their own universe with AHM and the Costaverse. Another reboot would kill things, so I think whoever they get would have to do something very inventive to try and shake off the stink of the last few years.
I'd have Furman on editorial duties, and hand things off to James, Nick and EJ and Guido if you were looking for hands who have already been in there and shown they can do good work.
Shorter stories definitely, this we must write for the trade has worn out it's welcome with me.
Andy
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2011 22:41:30 GMT
I humbly echo all the above. To misquote Bill Clinton 'there is nothing wrong with Transformers that cannot be solved by what is right with Transformers' namely Furman, Roche and Roberts.
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Post by Death's Head on Apr 5, 2011 0:43:08 GMT
Simon's 'Infilitration', 'Escalation' etc series had me genuinely hooked. I thought it was a great direction for Transformers. I really don't know what to think any more. Save, as above, Furman, Roche and Roberts. I'd buy every issue.
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Post by Death's Head on Apr 5, 2011 0:52:30 GMT
Apologies for making another comment, but: I think what destroys a lot of modern Transfomers fiction is a slavish adhernece to what came before, rather than forging something new. I remember as a kid reading the old comic thinking that anything could happen. Now everything has its echoes in old Transformers fiction; Megatron will always become Galvatron, Hot Rod, Kupp and Blurr will always be a team, etc. It'd be really nice if a writer could take things in a direction we've never seen.
With this new Transformers Prime even Hasbro seem to be getting in on the nostalgia game, when it was the (at the time) brand new Beast Wars (with its very loose connection to the old stuff) that saw the greatest push towards original fiction.
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Post by blueshift on Apr 5, 2011 8:22:30 GMT
Apologies for making another comment, but: I think what destroys a lot of modern Transfomers fiction is a slavish adhernece to what came before, rather than forging something new. I remember as a kid reading the old comic thinking that anything could happen. Now everything has its echoes in old Transformers fiction; Megatron will always become Galvatron, Hot Rod, Kupp and Blurr will always be a team, etc. It'd be really nice if a writer could take things in a direction we've never seen. This. This times a million. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 5, 2011 15:43:21 GMT
Apologies for making another comment, but: I think what destroys a lot of modern Transfomers fiction is a slavish adhernece to what came before, rather than forging something new. I remember as a kid reading the old comic thinking that anything could happen. Now everything has its echoes in old Transformers fiction; Megatron will always become Galvatron, Hot Rod, Kupp and Blurr will always be a team, etc. It'd be really nice if a writer could take things in a direction we've never seen. With this new Transformers Prime even Hasbro seem to be getting in on the nostalgia game, when it was the (at the time) brand new Beast Wars (with its very loose connection to the old stuff) that saw the greatest push towards original fiction. I maintain that the best way to go in an original direction is to follow on from what came before and have events change the status quo, rather than do a re-boot (which leads to the easy option of doing a variation on the original theme). The greatest departures from the established pattern (animated movie/time-travel, Masterforce, G2, Beast Wars) have all been follow-ons from the basic set-up. Re-boots lead to superficially different stuff that's been seen before. Martin |
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 6, 2011 20:08:12 GMT
I though of something else that may well get me back into IDW, although I'm not sure it would be done to my liking: Unicron. I know it's very fanboy of me, but I'd love to see Unicron again.
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 7, 2011 8:04:44 GMT
There have been mentionings of a "Chaos" storyline coming up... could it involve the Chaos-Bringer?
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Post by blueshift on Apr 7, 2011 8:07:45 GMT
There have been mentionings of a "Chaos" storyline coming up... could it involve the Chaos-Bringer? That seems to be the fan-consensus. It'd have to be bloody good to make Unicron exciting again! |
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