Transformers Autocracy - Digital Only !

[legios]

Well, I've now read all of Autocracy. My but once the wheels start coming off the series they come off at a rate of knots. Between the unexplained plot devices being used to make the plot go by magic, and a bad case of a character being treated as a "hard 'bot making hard decisions" rather than one who has committed a reprehensible act that he is going to have to live with for the rest of days the series had lost my goodwill long before it got to the lazy homage moment.

The art is very pretty, but that is not enough to justify the cost of the print version

Ah well. It saves me some money from my next pay-packet. I can use that money to buy the MTME trade instead or something.

Karl

[Jaymz]

Picked up the tpb and read though it this week. Like everyone says, starts off well, but the matrix ruins it a bit.

Lovely artwork though, and met Livio today, who's a great guy.

[Jaymz]

Recorded a chat with Livio Ramondelli for the shop podcast which is now live and can be found here:
Orbiting Pod

Livio interview starts at 01:18:36.

[andrewbcalculating]

I have a Livio signed tpb from Orbital thanks to the Hatchet Man.

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[The Doctor]

Only had a chance to briefly flick through his pencil pages at AA and they did look rather splendid.

-Ralph

[Rich]

Autocracy: I enjoyed it more as a trade than as downloads (but then, I wasn't really enjoying them much at all). Ramondelli's art is not a great fit for digital download comics IMO, at least not on phones, but given the space it needs, it glows (it's bit ironic, therefore, the amount of his art that he does digitally - his pencils are really quite ...straightforward, at least on the evidence of the page I own).

The trade really shows up the repetitive structure of the individual parts: Prime given a mission, Prime and Co drive somewhere, some stuff explodes, Prime feels a bit shit, THE END and REPEAT. And I stand by my complaint that the dialogue is rubbish. I didn't know about the end of the series before reading the trade, but have to agree that it's pretty much criminal - I know this isn't what happened and the writers probably had the best of intentions, but it felt like the Dille said, 'Chris, we needs to do what? Another issue!? Am I still doing this? Bollocks. I've got better things to do, where's that old floppy disk with the movie script?'

Maybe having lived through the DW Mick comics it's worse for us to read the same old rubbish again, but even putting that aside, it was still a terrible idea to include all that old guff.

Writing all of that makes me wonder how I set out planning to give the book a fairly cool recommendation, but the fact remains that it is an undoubted pleasure to flick through the book and look at the pictures - I don't think a TF art book could provide you much more bang for your buck. And the story, despite the flaws, is alright for a one-off read. It's not great but, for the main, it's nowhere near the lows of Costa's first mini, or many a convention comic, or DW's second mini or DW ongoing or Micromasters or most of the crossovers or Megatron Origin (God, there have been a lot of bad comics). It's fine and forgettable.

My final thought, Livio would be better suited to a different genre and a different publisher.

[The Doctor]

Your thoughts mostly echo my own!

-Ralph

[Deleted]

Got the trade yesterday so I gfinally read it all throughout, and my opinion is still the same:

Lovedthe artwork, the storyline/dialogue is just meh (especially when compared to MTMTE and RID)

[dyrl]

My two cents on this series:

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