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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 31, 2013 23:54:01 GMT
I think James is going to pull something out of the hat with regards to Ultra Magnus and Tailgate. It's a bit too obvious, this hail mary pass. Besides, who is to say that there isn't somebody inside Star Saber. In fact there almost has to be. Given that's he a bit of a nutjob, he's a perfect fit for the Lost Light.
Isn't it great that almost all the principle cast have had to endure some unpleasantness so far. Except Rodimus, so unless Nick has some good blackmail material preventing James for doing anything bad, I suspect something awful in his future.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 3, 2013 16:19:57 GMT
Fab fab read....... and a Smelting Pool!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 20, 2013 16:35:43 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 21, 2013 18:18:34 GMT
Mr Roberts is teasing us on Twitter counting down to 21......... Here's what he's got so far. Spoilered just in case.... (21) The last part of 'Remain In Light' is accompanied by a new four page short story. (20) The story's working title was 'Stronger Hearts Than Mine Lie Empty', after a Ballboy song: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pagRd8CTjo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3pagRd8CTjo … (19) Play before reading (thanks to Tumblr's face-of-vos for reminding me of its beauty): m.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0p5RSa3_c … (18) "I've never bought into the notion of Primal infallibility. I think that sometimes, God gets it wrong." (17) At the end of the Lost Light's journey... another Morrissey song. I make no apologies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QntmKugLGUw … (16) The prose story is called 'The Sound of Breaking Glass', and it takes place in-between the events in RiL Pt 5. (15) Another piece of music to accompany the end of 'Remain in Light': www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rfEas8T6tM … (14) "Welcome aboard." (13) Pt 5 of 'Remain in Light' was always going to be called 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'. Then everything changed. (12) Lucent en tenebris (11) "I'm sorry." "Thank you for trying." (10) Part 5 of 'Remain in Light' is subtitled 'This Calamitous Life' (9) There are spoilers on Page 1 and almost every page thereafter. I've never squeezed so many story beats into one issue. (8) The next in the MTMTE Listen Before Reading series (a classic best played on headphones): www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KR_UBWdPI … (7) 'Braindeath', 'Aequitas', 'speakeater' and 'ignite' are all words you'll find in next week's MTMTE. (6) "You wouldn't even SPEAK to him!" - a line that did not survive the final draft of issue 21's script. (5) "He must've gone through the portal..." (4) Remember: MTMTE #22 is all flashback. Chronologically, the last page of #21 is followed by Dark Cybertron. Just saying. (3) Tomorrow, two years after leaving Cybertron... contact is made. (2) MTMTE 21: Three goodbyes, one hello. (1) I've waited 2 years to play this to you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTZZ7LdDR8 … If your heart doesn't melt at 1:26, you and I are through |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 21, 2013 20:34:24 GMT
As long as that damn briefcase is finally opened I don't care!! (Have a new suspicion now of what it might be thanks to those Twitter spoilers).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2013 17:32:42 GMT
Two More
(5) "He must've gone through the portal..."
(4) Remember: MTMTE #22 is all flashback. Chronologically, the last page of #21 is followed by Dark Cybertron. Just saying.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2013 11:37:26 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2013 14:56:00 GMT
Come on Comixology, put 21 up! ahhhhhhhh and relax...... I've had my fix :-D |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2013 16:22:21 GMT
Last 3 teasers: (3) Tomorrow, two years after leaving Cybertron... contact is made. (2) MTMTE 21: Three goodbyes, one hello. (1) I've waited 2 years to play this to you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTZZ7LdDR8 … If your heart doesn't melt at 1:26, you and I are through |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 6, 2013 9:46:41 GMT
I've just read "Remain in Light" Parts 1 to 5 in a single sitting, and I have to say it's a heck of a more satisfying read like that than it is in monthly segments. The story is complex (a good thing), with lots of different things happening to different characters in different places for different reasons, but this means that with the month-long gap between issues I forget a lot of things that have happened, and it breaks up the momentum. Appreciation of the foreshadowing and interconnectedness of everything requires a clear memory of what has gone before. It's like watching a complex movie in the cinema with a month-long interval every 22 minutes. Just doesn't work. But read in a single sitting... yeah, that works very nicely, thank you.
Love the complexity, all the conspiracies and double-crosses and revelations. Great stuff. Love Tailgate, love Cyclonus. Still hate Whirl, but I've gone from wanting Cyclonus to kill him (when we first met him) to wanting Cyclonus to spare him for the sake of Cyclonus. Now please, please, please let Whirl become one of those 250+ crew members who we never see, and give someone else his place in the limelight. And Rodimus... if you want to make amends, how about starting by having the humility to resign as captain and let someone better suited take the decisions from now on? OK, I know, not likely, but I can dream...
Artwork - excellent as always from Alex Milne.
Excluding the gratuitous nastiness of the Pharma scenes and Dai-Atlas's death (what a waste - I wanted to see more of that character), all of which were more worthy of LSOTW than of MTMTE (I've seen sadism and shock horror once with Overlord, I don't need to see it again in Transformers, thanks), this is a consistently high-standard piece of work, as good as anything in this series to date. It's also a satisfying conclusion that wraps up the first two-year run of MTMTE very nicely as a self-contained package for those of us who aren't concerned with the rest of the IDW Transformerverse.
I have a pet theory about IDW Transformers - or MTMTE Transformers, at any rate. It's always been a niggle that these Transformers spend 99 percent of the time in humanoid mode (and fly around on MARBs and sky-sleds), that they have bars and movie nights and briefcases and consider a lack of humanoid face and hands and facial expressions like smiling to be abnormal, that they self-harm by damaging their skin and that they worry about the plural of "Magnus" and can mistake the word "one" for "won" - in other words, they speak English. My working theory as a reader - the only one I can see that fits the facts - is that these Transformers have human origins. They are different from Marvel's Transformers in that they have "sparks", which Marvel's TFs do not have. What are they and where did they come from? I think they are human souls. I don't know how that works - whether humans travel back in time at some point and create the first sparks and encode their minds onto them somehow, thereby changing the robotic species into a more human one... I dunno. But it will do for me as a theory, at least for the time being!
Looking forward to seeing what James does with Thunderclash next issue, then... possibly a break for the duration of "Dark Cybertron", and then back on board the Lost Light for more space adventures once the series returns to it's self-contained format.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2013 18:30:15 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 13, 2013 19:49:28 GMT
Great art by James Raiz.
Good to see him back on Transformers.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 16, 2013 18:38:26 GMT
Regarding the latest issue.
OMG Thunder Clash as Ace Rimmer. I did squee a bit!
Andy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 17, 2013 9:15:51 GMT
What a guy!!
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 17, 2013 15:52:22 GMT
Weirdest most greatest crossover homage thing ever.
Thunderclash was always cool in my mind, but neve rdid I think he would out Ace, Ace Rimmer. He makes him look like Arnold Rimmer.
Was that his first official fiction outside of toy packed material? What an introduction.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 17, 2013 16:51:37 GMT
Rodimus as Arnold... Should've seen it coming sooner! Delusions of grandeur, incompetence, lack of friends - it was all there! This is of course the moment James comes along here and says "Oh yeah... Ace. That was unintentional!"  |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 17, 2013 17:17:06 GMT
Yes, that is indeed Thunder Clash's first official appearance.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2013 21:02:00 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 18, 2013 11:00:06 GMT
I didn't occur to me that the text story at the end of last issue would be a problem to people. Maybe its growing up with the Transformers annuals, or reading novels more often than comics or just that that story as its own comic wouldn't really have been anything special, but it seemed to be a good fit how it was.
TC as presented in this is almost exactly how I imagined Hyperdrives character when I was building my custom. I was probably treating TC very much like Rodimus at the time.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 18, 2013 13:31:37 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 19, 2013 15:12:20 GMT
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Post by Death's Head on Oct 20, 2013 1:01:41 GMT
The Knights of Cybertron are perhaps in a squat near Finsbury Park? |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 20, 2013 9:42:48 GMT
Or the Wombles and the Knights are one and the same!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 23, 2013 17:07:51 GMT
Issue #22 is absolutely splendid, a fine conclusion to the 22-issue arc (plus DOOP, annual and two Spotlights).
Lots of fun, in other words, MTMTE at its best.
Martin
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 23, 2013 20:08:02 GMT
Has anyone in the London area been able to find MTMTE #22? I've checked everywhere (by which I mean Orbital and FPL), with no luck.
Also, Hello to Jim! I would have greeted you at the time, but you looked like you were rushed off your feet.
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Post by Jim on Oct 23, 2013 21:03:46 GMT
I got mine from Orbital last week; Gosh! isn't a million miles away (though by the time you've made it through Soho it feels like it), but I haven't been in in ages so don't know how they are for stocking TF comics.
-Jim (a different one)
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 23, 2013 21:54:19 GMT
Gosh! I forgot about that place. Haven't been there in years, even when it was next to the British Museum. I wonder if Paul Gambaccini still frequents the place in its new location.
I'll have another look in Orbital tomorrow. I'm clearly missing it somewhere.
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 26, 2013 9:52:38 GMT
Has anyone in the London area been able to find MTMTE #22? I've checked everywhere (by which I mean Orbital and FPL), with no luck. Also, Hello to Jim! I would have greeted you at the time, but you looked like you were rushed off your feet. I usually am! And I thought we still had copies left, I usually order enough so we don't sell out within the month. Will check on Monday. |
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Post by Marc Graham on Nov 8, 2013 9:57:40 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 9, 2013 19:01:11 GMT
I found it in a Brighton comic shop in the end. Thanks for the URL, though.
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