What's top of your wish list for 2012?

[Grand Moff Muffin]

My number 1 wish is that James R produces at least two more volumes of 'Transformers Classics UK'. Volume 1 was as close to perfection for the UK series as the hardback Titan books were for the US series, and I'd love to have a run of them to complement said hardbacks.

Second only to that is my wish for Transformers #81+ to do justice to the series they are continuing. I am very excited about the continuation, but don't know what to expect. I hope it will be sufficiently original to justify its place in the canon and not be just another apocalyptic cosmic threat to the universe ('Time Wars' and Unicron were quite enough in that line for one timeline, never mind the G2 Empire and Swarm, and the less said about 'Reaching the Omega Point' the better), and include the things that for me make Transformers stories Transformers stories, namely robots in disguise amongst us. Impossible to say at this stage whether I'll rate it as highly as the original conlusion ('Another Time and Place'), but I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it more than G2.

Third in the ranking is 'More Than Meets the Eye'. Following the masterpieces that were IDW's Ongoing #22-23, James is clearly the best TF writer at the present time, and to be honest I wish he were the one writing #81+. Simon may have something new and original to write in the Marvel series - James would for sure. As it is, I must buy a spin-off series to an alternate continuity I'm not at all interested in, in order to read my favourite writer, and it's set in space to boot (not my favourite setting for the franchise). But despite all that, I know it will be superb.

Apart from that... well, I may buy the Classics US books depending on what they reprint, though they're poor by Titan hardback standards. Doubt I'll be touching 'Robots in Disguise'.

What about the rest of you?

Martin

[legios]

"Oh... Peace on Earth, goodwill to all men..."

- to quote Whistler...

But in a more focused response, in terms purely of Transformers comic stuff:-

Another volume or two of "Transformers Classics UK" would be excellent. The first one was a good mix of history lesson and good representations of material from when it all began. I'd like to see more of the UK material get that kind of treatment.

In terms of periodical comics I am hoping that James Roberts will continue to bring a favourable ideas:issues ratio as he has done so far in his official Transformers work. I am also hoping that some of the sense of lively energy that Jon Barber brought to some of his movie universe work is also present in his new IDW ongoing. If there is one thing Transformers comics could do with at the moment it is an injection of a bit of pace to proceedings. Basically I am hoping that the two new ongoings will be decent comics.

Other than that I am hoping that ish 81+ represents the best of its creative team, I think that - whatever the long-term plotting of it turns out to be - an alternate continuation to the Marvel title with the benefit of considerable hindsight is unlikely to fail to be at least interesting.

Karl

[The Doctor]

RHINOX.

-Ralph

[Benn]

Dec 21, 2011 20:45:16 GMT legios said:

I think that whatever the long-term plotting of it turns out to be an alternate continuation to the Marvel title with the benefit of considerable hindsight is unlikely to fail to be at least interesting.

Maybe I'm just tired, but that took a lot of re-reading before I understood it!

[legios]

Dec 21, 2011 20:56:15 GMT Benn said:

Maybe I'm just tired, but that took a lot of re-reading before I understood it!

No, it isn't that you are tired. It is just that I was too tired to actually put commas in it where they belonged to make it a bit more reader friendly.....

The dangers of stream-of-conciousness typing

Karl