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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 10, 2012 13:10:09 GMT
I have made the switch to digital and there are no ads there which pleases me greatly.
Enjoyed this issue and have a sneaky suspicion who/what is behind all the badlands stuff. The fate of the Aeialbots is rather too specific for it to be a random natural phenomena for my liking.. :-)
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2012 19:24:42 GMT
I have no idea who it is!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 10, 2012 19:59:47 GMT
I have stopped theorising about whom/what might be out in the wastelands - I think on that element I am just going to sit back and enjoy the ride.
The Ironhide/Dinobots storyline is fun, but I think all the political stuff remains my favourite part of this comic. I come into each issue looking forward to whatever this months Starscream scene is going to be, and what not-entirely well-founded policy decision is going to issue from Bumblebee this time. (I actually feel sorry for 'Bee - just like Rodimus over in MTME he is clearly out of his depth, the difference is that Bumblebee realizes it and worries about it. A level of self-awareness that Rodimus seems to lack).
There are also a few really good character-rooted moments of humor in this issue. You can just hear the patience in Starscream and Metalhawk's voices when they are broaching with Bumblebee the question of Ironhide's rationality. (Speaking of voices, my brain has decided to recast Prowl over the last couple of issues - the more "I'll do whatever has to be done" he becomes the more I hear his dialogue in the voice of Eugene Robert Glazier).
Liked the ominousness of the speculation about the planet wanting to keep everyone together almost foreshadowing the fate of the Aerialbots too......
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2012 19:54:42 GMT
I have no idea who it is! -Ralph If I am proven correct I'll let you know..! |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 26, 2012 18:58:25 GMT
Like the MTMTE Annual, I picked up the physical copy rather than the digital edition due to the price-point and the lovely squareboundness of it. It channels Marvel TF #1 so hard in the opening pages that my tiny mind shattered.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Sept 27, 2012 0:03:47 GMT
The bit where they introduce themselves is amazing!
And the speech bubbles in the flashback pages, brilliant little detail.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 27, 2012 6:50:16 GMT
The whole thing is one big love letter to that first Marvel issue and tells a good solid story too. And again, Starscream is the star!
I thought it was wonderful, even better than the MTMTE Annual.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 27, 2012 10:42:31 GMT
Print copy ordered from Mr Bax.
Look forward to it.
Andy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 27, 2012 15:36:56 GMT
I enjoyed this very much - enough to stay up another hour after getting in from work at 2am to devour it. One thing really concerned me though:
Metrotitan's glowing eyes. City sized glowing eyes. I was very worried Ralph's head might have popped from the overload!
I loved the old style art, but also the story telling. Regeneration 1 has a thing or two to learn! Great story and characters. Interesting to see Nova Prime before his corruption... or was it all just an act from the start? Did seem a slight lurch to evilness otherwise... |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2012 19:50:07 GMT
Reading it again. This is my favourite single issue of The Transformers that IDW have produced. I just think it's perfect.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2012 21:11:18 GMT
And the encounter between the Titan and Starscream! I haven't had shivers up my spine like that since Babylon 5 at its finest! Superb storytelling.
I have no idea where this series is going, and that's brilliant.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Sept 29, 2012 18:10:29 GMT
Got my first 2 issues of RID today. 50p each from comic mart. #4b,5c. Someone else got to the other RID issue i needed - but the dealer said he had lots of RI covers that he hadn't brought out So hope he does for the next one. Hopefully get all the other issues at Leeds TB too.
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Post by Rich on Sept 30, 2012 16:45:57 GMT
Fantastic comic. Ideas simply pouring off it. Might not be content waiting for the trade for RiD after all.
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Post by Jim on Sept 30, 2012 16:56:25 GMT
Beautiful comic, the retro-styled artwork, as in the other annual, is absolutely fantastic, and I was also happy to see the return of Brendan Cahill for the modern day stuff.
As Ralph says, I haven't the faintest idea where RID is going but I get the impression it really is going somewhere and I'm very much enjoying the ride. Focussing on the two stand-out characters of this series doesn't hurt.
I love how both annuals interlock without it being remotely necessary to read both - I have no idea who would just read one, but in principle it's something that's not done often enough in comics. I do prefer this marginally to the MTMTE annual, largely due to the art.
Every time we get more focus on him, my theory that Metalhawk = Megatron slips a bit but I still haven't completely abandoned it. He did seem a bit dismayed at Starscream's disinterest in poetry, after all.
-Jim
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Post by Marc Graham on Oct 4, 2012 6:55:08 GMT
Got it and MTMTE Annual yesterday - loved them both (even if I read them in the wrong order!)
AWESOME!
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Post by legios on Oct 4, 2012 18:56:20 GMT
My copy of this showed up on Monday evening, in a big pile of TF Comicy-goodness that I have been working my way through whilst laid-up. Absolutely wonderful stuff - the flashback pages being done with that old Marvel feel made them feel like a literal flashback to the Transformers past. If I had been able to I would have let out a whoop of delight (talking made me hack, cough and splutter so I refrained).
The Titan's hints about Starscream felt at the same moment surprising and yet somehow in keeping with what has gone before - we knew that he sees himself as having a manifest destiny and here is an artefact of the distant past confirming that for him... The story of Robots in Disguise keeps twisting and turning in directions I wasn't expecting. Are we building to a unified Cybertron under Starscream leading them to the stars for Lebensraum? Who knows, and that is the best part.
I love the way that this annual weaves in some many things from the past of the IDW TF universe as well - combiner technology, Dai Atlas, Nova Prime and his Ark mission. It feels like a wonderfully broad tapestry.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 4, 2012 19:42:01 GMT
Got my copy today.
Read it and thoroughly loved it.
Andy
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Post by Jim on Oct 18, 2012 15:26:00 GMT
Didn't completely feel the latest issue; even if I quite enjoyed the last Orion Pax digression, I do miss Starscream, Prowl, et al. This book is at its best on Cybertron.
I'm not keen on portentous world-threatening foreshadowing, I think we've had enough of that over the years (YMMV). Barber has been doing such good work I'm inclined to give him the benefit if the doubt for now, though.
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 20, 2012 0:47:05 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2012 9:25:32 GMT
Caught up on #10. That was very strange and weird. I think I will have to read it another couple of times to quite 'get' it!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 8, 2012 15:27:27 GMT
Took me 2-3 reads to quite get it all but suspect it has been deliberately written that way. Rather clever and it is an engaging story once the pieces fall into place.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2012 7:41:14 GMT
I read #11 as like MTMTE the internet threatened to spoil the big reveal at the end. I have to admit the big reveal made me slap my forehead and I wanted to throw the Ipad across the room. Yawn. Him again. Meh.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 23, 2012 14:33:49 GMT
It did feel like #11 was killing time for the final page, which did get a small sigh from me. I'd rather they had continued on with the elections/assassination/wild planet angle set up in previous issues. But you never know, they may yet to something interesting with the reveal.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2012 17:53:16 GMT
I hope so. I don't give a flying fuck about SPOILER at the end. There are hundreds of comics about SPOILER doing their usual thing already. I was enjoying all the political stuff!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 24, 2012 8:29:56 GMT
Indeed, I was hoping we would make it to a full twelve issues without seeing SPOILER again. I'm slightly disappointed that we didn't quite make it to the book's second year without seeing him again. The various other shenanigans and shifting alliances of this issue felt like where the previous issues plots had been pointing and then SPOILER's arrival felt a little out of nowhere.
Karl
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Post by Jim on Nov 28, 2012 17:14:13 GMT
My #11s finally arrived. I was enjoying this until the last page, but am willing to give the benefit of the doubt given how strong the writing has been so far. I doubt Barber would have set so much up to just throw it away.
-Jim
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Post by legios on Dec 13, 2012 21:13:24 GMT
I have sat and read #12 now. Ah, the wonders of digital comics - take up less room and arrive more promptly. I will say that if you had asked me to predict what the immediate developments from the last page of the previous issue would be I'm not sure how close I would be to what happened. I'm still not sure what to make of the development overall but I am prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt. I did love Starscream's big speech, and the reaction to it. And the thing that makes it better is the fact that as comic character speeches go it isn't actually too bad. It most TF Media when Starscream speaks I have a tendency to do pretty much what the Decepticons do here - go "yeah, yeah" and stop listening to his nonsense. So there is a certain irony that I quite appreciate to the fact that Screamer delivers a decent speech and.. gets nowhere at all.
Also, does anyone else think that this particular powder-keg explosion potentially plays rather nicely into Prowl's hands - if he can restore order he is the 'bot who preserved the peace of Cybertron, stood between the nails and a resurgent Decepticon movement (who would probably lose any hope of an electoral franchise). He could make a lot of mileage out of this.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 14, 2012 0:22:27 GMT
Probably why he has a spanking brand new body around to help him 'recover' from his noble injuries. Swine. |
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Post by Jim on Dec 15, 2012 22:37:51 GMT
Thoroughly enjoyed this issue, glad to have given Barber the benefit of the doubt as he looks to be doing something interesting with the previous issue's cliffhanger which could so easily have derailed a fascinating book - I'm so happy to have had a whole year of a post-war status-quo, it's a breath of fresh air and I hope they can maintain it for a while yet. Again, it's Prowl and Starscream who shine, with some nice characterisation for Wheeljack. I like the subversion of the damaged-hero-gets-upgraded-body trope with Prowl. That last page made me cheer and roll my eyes at the same time. |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 15, 2012 22:42:32 GMT
I got very much a Megatron Origin Sentinel Prime vibe from Prowl. As in big pseudo-hero here to save the day.. |
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