Regeneration One

[grahamthomson]

I am Signatory #113.

www.PetitionOnline.com/tf81idw/petition.html

[Deleted]

I'm 116 on that petition

[Nigel]

I am 118. There are some well-known names on there.

[Andy Turnbull]

119!

Andy

[Bogatan]

91. And now its up to 330.

How high does it need to go before IDW take it seriously do you think?

[grahamthomson]

Apr 4, 2011 17:42:14 GMT Bogatan said:

How high does it need to go before IDW take it seriously do you think?

5,000 at least?

What does IDW sell of the Ongoing? 25,000 units?

[Bogatan]

I thought ongoing and AHM had only been averaging about 10000. And LSOTW got about half or a three quarters of that.

[Deleted]

i'm just glad that from what I can see, there's only one spam signature out of the almost 400 at this point

[The Doctor]

Andy Wildman wades in:

wildwords.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/will-there-be-a-transformers-81/

I signed the petition (#318). I usually consider such things a waste of time, but when a chap in the know asks I say: "why not?". Especially as there's a proposal gathering dust ready to go!

Realistically, it would need a few thousand to give IDW pause, and they would need to have a feel that people would actually buy the end product rather than shout on the internet for 5 mins before moving on to something else.

I'd like to see something happen. Either a one-shot or a mini to see if it's commercially viable.

-Ralph

[legios]

Fashionably late I have signed as signature 416. IDW definitely need to be convinced that there is a viable market for a project like that before they would even consider it, and I am not 100% certain of the best way to do that.

But I can certainly say that this is something that I would definite;y be interested in buying if it came to pass.

Karl

[Nigel]

It's over 650 now. Nick's on there so I hope he's prodding his bosses and saying, "look, look!"

[Dave]

A bit late to the signing party (I don't usually do these things) but I'm on it now.

[KoshNaranek]

Not far off from 700 now...

- Tony

[grahamthomson]

720 signatures now.

If nothing else, I hope this is a boost for Furman's esteem; he never did get to work back on IDW's flagship Transformers title after All Hail Megatron started.

[primenova]

I'm in at 44, so got on it when I first saw the email on IDW.

[grahamthomson]

Over 800 signatures now!

Plus flyers have been designed that you can print out and take to your local comic shop by the organiser of the petition. You can email him at [e-mail]

[Dave]

I hadn't posted this because I thought I'd read it somewhere already. However looking back and clicking various links I didn't see a mention.

Anyway according to Stephen Baskerville, he is potentially reuniting with Wildman on the art should this happen.

[The Doctor]

From where did you read this info?

-Ralph

[Dave]

He e-mailed me a few days ago, mentioning the petition for the Furman-penned continuation "with potentially Andrew Wildman and myself re-uniting on the art".

It was only today I realised I couldn't recall this exciting possibility being mentioned anywhere else.

[The Doctor]

Well thanks for passing it on!

-Ralph

[jameso]

It's really got to be Wildman and Baskerville on art on this magic theoretical comic, I was flicking through Best of Megatron in the library the other day which has issue US issue 78 and it and the art just stood out so much.

[grahamthomson]

Almost 900 signatures... and even Bob Budiansky has signed!

[Philip Ayres]

I'm 952

[The Doctor]

Bleeding Cool has picked up the story:

www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/08/would-idw-restart-transformers-from-marvel-continuity/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BleedingCool+%28Bleeding+Cool+Comic+News+%26+Rumors%29

Current petition count: 959.

Ideally, it would need a few thousand to get IDW's attention, considering the size of the online fanbase.

-Ralph

[Deleted]

I've signed, and we've passed 1,000.

[Dave]

Just listened to this podcast here with Chris Ryall. It's from 9 days ago actually but pretty interesting. He talks about lots of stuff (I was listening for Turtles info) but towards the end #81 gets addressed.
Here's the gist of what was said:

(reading a question) "How many fans need to sign a petition to get Simon Furman on Transformers #81?"

That's a reference to Transformers which ran for 80 issues for Marvel and similar to G.I. Joe, we picked up where G.I. Joe ended at Marvel and hired Larry Hama to take that story forward after about 20 years and so the fans have been clamouring for Simon Furman to do the same with Transformers.
Whilst we are focussed on 'Chaos' and the changes it'll bring, it's certainly a good idea and something we've talked about so I'm open to it. The Larry Hama G.I. Joe book has done really well so I don't know if Simon necessarily wants to go back and revisit what he did 20 years ago but its been an ongoing conversation here so we'll see what can possibly happen from here.



I had to get over my initial depression when I saw fans were still hungry for that G.I. Joe book and in this case Transformers too. At first I was like aw man... guys we're doing new exciting things here and its so good and I'm so happy with what we're doing so lets close the door on the past. But then there's audiences for both so I do think they can co-exist against one another similar to Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel Universe Spider-Man.
I don't want to confuse people with having too many continuities running but at the same time the fact that people want to see that storyline continue and the fact that the G.I. Joe book has performed well makes me think that... yeah, I certainly have no problem. These are nostalgic properties and I don't have any problem feeding that nostalgia because I know its something fans feel strongly about, they read it back when they were kids and it resonates the most. If Marvel announced they were going to continue Rom: Spaceknight, I'd have to get over my initial disappointment that I wasn't publishing it, but the other part of me would be "cool! I loved that back then and continue the storyline? Yeah I'm all for it". So The Transformers conversation is the thing where there's been ongoing talks here and we'll continue that until we can figure out the best way to treat that material.

[The Doctor]

Furman and Ryall chip in as Newsarama picks up on the story:

www.newsarama.com/comics/transformers-fans-petition-idw-110425.html

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

The petition seems to have petered out at c1800 signatures. Which, considering the size of The Fandom, is tiny. It was worth a try, but I do suspect for it to be a commercial concern IDW would have needed bigger numbers than that.

But just supposition on my part. It would still be nice to see. I'd be happy with just a 4 issue mini, to be honest. We shall see.

Though I can't help but feel that a 'do a continuation of the Sunbow cartoon' or 'restart Dreamwave's G1 ongoing comic' would have had much more support. Just a gut feeling.

-Ralph

[legios]

May 18, 2011 17:10:48 GMT The Doctor said:

The petition seems to have petered out at c1800 signatures. Which, considering the size of The Fandom, is tiny. It was worth a try, but I do suspect for it to be a commercial concern IDW would have needed bigger numbers than that.

But just supposition on my part. It would still be nice to see. I'd be happy with just a 4 issue mini, to be honest. We shall see.

I tend to agree that those are not really economically viable numbers. It is actually a little more than I expected to be honest so it is nevertheless nice to see that many signatures turn out.

Though I can't help but feel that a 'do a continuation of the Sunbow cartoon' or 'restart Dreamwave's G1 ongoing comic' would have had much more support. Just a gut feeling.

I tend to agree with that. The impression I get is that the Marvel comic is very much a niche of a niche.

Karl

[Bogatan]

While larger numbers would have been good I think nearly 1900 isn't bad its 19% of Ongoing readership. Around 35-40% of what LSOTW got. It really depends how much of the IDW readers are active on line types who would have discovered this and how many would only hear about it when it started being advertised in their local comic shop or the back pages of IDW comics.