My take on IDW

Kickback · 07-24-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Boo

Umm, Kicky... I think that comment about not getting people excited because we don't care is quite a bit off. A great number of us dislike/hate the mistakes IDW has made and the direction they're going but it's exactly because we are so passionate that these threads keep popping up and these discussions get so heated!

I meant to say that we care about Transformers as a whole, not necessarily the IDW Comicverse Transformers. At least, I don't. The reason these threads pop up are because people are sick of IDW and the treatment they give to this property.

Why did we need All Hail Megatron? What was the point? To tell a story about how Megatron is a badass for, as far as we know, conquering one city on Earth and failing to hold it from the Autobots?

We needed a whole freaking year to tell that story?

And another 4 issues to fix the mistakes they did by trying to retcon and then changing their mind halfway through?

To build up a mini-Universe that had promise only to throw it all away for a story about Megatron talking to Starscream for 6 issues in All Hail Megatron?

I dunno. I don't understand exactly what IDW was trying to do with All Hail Megatron, and I still don't. I don't understand (other than $$$) why they canned Furman's storylines. I don't understand why they can't get an artist, stick with an artist, and be done with it, instead of changing them in a hot-potato fashion.

I re-read some Dreamwave stuff last night. Their Volume 2 of the G1. In one issue, I felt more had happened than in 6 issues of IDW's stuff. Even though I knew the stories, I kept reading because I was excited to re-read it.

Nothing IDW has put out gets me excited to see what happens next. If anything, it's that morbid curiousity ... like staring at a car-wreck. You don't want to, but you do it anyways, and then you cringe as expected.

Smasher · 07-24-2009, 04:55 PM

I know that I am stating something that has already been said (and mostly by me) but I actually think that All Hail Megatron would have been a fun romp if it had been left as it was conceived; an alternate reality tale.

I don't think IDW did Furman, McCarthy, or their readership any favors by forcing it on us the way they did.
If we were actually treated to the Dead Universe saga as it was intended, then AHM might have been a nice component title.

There are many, many inconsistencies between the framework of Furman and McCarthy, but Furman's Megatron would not defeat the Autobots and then just blow crap up in New York because he could.
Furman's war seemed so much different than that -a battle of resources with protocols for engagement.
Not only were there robots in disguise, but fake humans as well.
It was so interesting -but ultimately unexplored.

Boo · 07-24-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Smasher

I know that I am stating something that has already been said (and mostly by me) but I actually think that All Hail Megatron would have been a fun romp if it had been left as it was conceived; an alternate reality tale.

I don't think IDW did Furman, McCarthy, or their readership any favors by forcing it on us the way they did.
If we were actually treated to the Dead Universe saga as it was intended, then AHM might have been a nice component title.

There are many, many inconsistencies between the framework of Furman and McCarthy, but Furman's Megatron would not defeat the Autobots and then just blow crap up in New York because he could.
Furman's war seemed so much different than that -a battle of resources with protocols for engagement.
Not only were there robots in disguise, but fake humans as well.
It was so interesting -but ultimately unexplored.

I pretty much agree. AHM could have been very fun to see it develop on its own as the alternate tale it was planned as. But more so than anything, I just wanted to see the world Furman set up fully realised... even if it was by somebody else's pen. But no, they just completely dropped it. And in the process, they dropped the ball. The new ongoing isn't exactly instilling me with any confidence, either.

Kickback · 07-25-2009, 02:22 AM

And now we discover that after All Hail Megatron, we'll get another reboot, with a new writer (who shows promise) and Don Figueroa returning (albeit with his new art style).

It's going to take a lot of effort for me to show interest, though I have some ... a new take on Transformers would be nice. Furman hasn't had it in years, and McCarthy wrote himself out of the franchise in my opinion.

Superquad7 · 07-25-2009, 05:22 AM

Visually speaking, I'd like to see IDW return to the original intent of housing multiple different styles all across the spectrum. We don't need ten different covers of the same book for that either. Ten different covers for ten different comics would be more like it

Mechafire · 07-25-2009, 05:52 AM

I agree that "The Ascending" and some parts of the source books were utter shit, but other than that, I rather enjoy the IDW comics.

Johnator · 07-25-2009, 06:59 AM

I enjoy the IDW comics for what they are. Not too shabby in my opinion.

LigerPrime · 07-25-2009, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Kickback

And now we discover that after All Hail Megatron, we'll get another reboot, with a new writer (who shows promise) and Don Figueroa returning (albeit with his new art style).

It's going to take a lot of effort for me to show interest, though I have some ... a new take on Transformers would be nice. Furman hasn't had it in years, and McCarthy wrote himself out of the franchise in my opinion.

I agree with ya, it is going to take alot of effort fro me too. I have lost interested in the TF comics of the last few story arcs but I'm curious how did McCarthy strike himself out?

Scrapper6 · 07-25-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LigerPrime

I agree with ya, it is going to take alot of effort fro me too. I have lost interested in the TF comics of the last few story arcs but I'm curious how did McCarthy strike himself out?

I believe the same way Furman did in the eyes of IDW, the Sales just weren't there. Of course that could be misconstrued on my part.

hellrasinbrasin · 07-25-2009, 04:25 PM

TRANSFORMERS

(Universe A)

[01] Marvel Comics
- Transformers: Generation 1
- Transformers: Generation 2

(Universe B)

[02] Dream Wave Publishing
- Transformers: The War Within
- Transformers: The War Within - The Dark Ages
- Transformers: The War Within - The Age of Wrath
- Transformers: Prime Directive
- Transformers: War & Peace
- Transformers: Generation 1
- Transformers: Armada
- Transformers: Energon
- Transformers: Beast Wars - The Gathering
- Transformers: Beast Wars - The Ascending

(Universe C)

[03] IDW Publishing

[Series 1]

- Transformers Megatron: Origin
- Transformers: Stormbringer
- Transformers: Infiltration
- Transformers: Escalation
- Transformers: Devestation
- Transformers: Revelation
- Transformers: Maximum Dinobots
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron
-------------------------------

[Series 2]

- The Transformers: The Wreckers
- The Transformers: Bumblebee
- The Transformers