FCBD '18 Interview: Transformers Creators Discuss Comics, Unicron, and the End of a Universe?!

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  1. AzT

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    Well ... looks like that's that, then!
     
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  3. Agamus

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    "The IDW Transformers comics are the longest-lasting iteration Transformers characters ever—there’s more fiction in this universe than anywhere else in the history of the brand—and it all comes crashing down with Transformers: Unicron."

    I ... I mean, it could also be a metaphorical crashing down, right?
     
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    If they use this as an excuse to reboot IDW I'm gonna eat my hat
     
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    the whole Shared Universe can burn as long as Thundercracker and Buster survive
     
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    slag. that definitely reads as \"we\'re 100% rebooting after unicron. everything before will be erased.\"
     
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  7. GoLion

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    Interesting.

    They killed it with Shining Knight, so I can't wait for this story.
     
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    \"This is the end of the story we’ve been telling for over a decade.\"

    Wow. To hear it put so bluntly really makes it hit home. Pardon me if this has already been stated, but is the entire Unicron story going to be covered in just this one shot, or will it have a whole miniseries to itself? 
     
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    :( 
     
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    Should be a miniseries, this is #0.

    Transformers: Unicron: The Darkest Hour - Transformers Wiki
     
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    i don't see this as a hard reboot more like a new starting point. they aren't erasing everything...they can't not after touting how long running it is. the idwverse is going to dramatically change i mean this is a universe ending event. i think they're changing the landscape but not killing everything outright.
     
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  12. YakMaster003

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    I’m not sure what to think. Indications from the various stories and rumors point to Darkest Hour kicking off a reboot of the TF universe. However, I can’t tell if it’s a clean-slate reboot or soft reboot. My gut tells me this is going to be a hard stop, end of continuity style event. A shame, because, as the interview stated, this is the longest continuous, most detailed TF continuity we’ve ever had. It was hard enough getting into Furman’s “ation” books after Dreamwave closed shop and IDW picked up the reigns. At this point, I’m invested in these characters and stories. Part of this could be me being a cranky old man disliking change, but I can’t get into a new comics the way I can a tv show.

    The fact IDW is (seemingly) killing off characters left and right recently (Skids, Mirage, and Defensor in LL. Kup in Visionaries) and winding up story/character arcs (Megatron? Scavengers? Cyberutopia) tells me the end is near.

    Or this could be another “All Hail Megatron” where there’s a time jump and we get dropped straight into G2. One can dream, eh?
     
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  13. YakMaster003

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    Or this could be like Marvel’s Secret Wars or DC’s various Crisis events...
     
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    I think it will be...

    .. Just like Crisis on Infinite Earths. The end. And a new beginning.

     
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    Welp. I've already made a list of what trades I want to buy for a "complete" (to me) IDW run. Suppose this means I don't have to worry about adding anything else... lol.
     
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    I hope this is a soft reboot. I'm invested in these characters and will really be unhappy if they're all gone/restarted. No TC and Buster, no Scavengers, no chance at getting a resolved Combaticon story, all the development for the MTMTE/LL crew..... there's a lot of things I'd miss.
     
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  18. CleverNamePendingatron

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    Well this is basically confirmation that we're getting a reboot. I'm going to go stand near a table and prepare to go full on Prowl mode.

    Then again, writers will say anything to hype up a comic. "The biggest storyline in comic book history. Everything changes. Don't miss the beginning of the end. 40 years in the making."
     
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    Now obviously we\'re getting a reboot, there\'s no way we\'re not. I\'m just worried about the story tripping over itself like all the other crossover events.
     
  20. Danforth

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    Even a hard reboot doesn't mean The End for characters we know and love. They could just cherry-pick some and use them in a new series without there being an in-universe link.

    I know it's not the same as continuing the universe but I'd prefer it to a clean-slate reboot, in that I'd carry on buying the former but possibly not the latter...