EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Revolutionaries #5

We see a bit more of Tomax and the Axalon.

 

Guido Guidi is a master craftsman. I am tempted to pick this up to see all of his pages.
I suppose I'll wait to hear whether we've already seen the entire flashback or not... I hope not!

 

It specifically lists him doing roughly half the pages on the credits page.

 

It baffles me why they don\'t have him drawing whole comics anymore. He clearly has a big following with this style of art. 

 

Did anyone else get the vibe that Shockwave was channeling the charisma of his previous life as a senator?

 

Probably because they want to keep the art consistent at each time period. I like the idea of Guido only doing the Hearts of Steel flashback scenes while Fico does the present-day stuff.

 

Oooookay. I don't think you're following me. They have a lot of various titles. Guido's style is popular with the people paying them money. Why isn't he drawing ANY of their comics? Not just this every page of this issue...why isn't he working of any of their Tf comics? He's consistent and works fast. He's popular. He can handle a series.

 

No, he's pretty much still a evil bastard.

 

Sorry, I read your first post as "why don't they have him drawing THE whole comic." My bad.

 

I still can\'t quite figure out what\'s going on. I suppose it makes sense that there would be Optimus/Bumblebee/Prowl/etc. lookalikes around but all of them together? That\'s some coincidence. And why was Prime\'s transmission aimed at their ship? I really need to get my hands on this comic! 

 

so domitius major is big convoy then?

 

Nope. Domitus Major transforms into a Brachiosaurus. His design just mimics the placement of the tusks with the placement of his dino mode head.

 

that and his entire robot body looks just like big convoy....

 

Huh. Yeah, looking back, it is weird how many little details Hearts of Steel Optimus's design swipes from Big Convoy when they turn into different things. Guess that must've been intentional on Guidi's part.

 

So the Hearts of Steel Autobots are just Eukarian lookalikes of Optimus, Bumblebee, and the rest? Gotta be honest, not sure how I feel about that... I really did like Hearts of Steel being its own universe. That said, I suppose I am interested in why Shockwave would want to fool them into thinking they're the classic Autobot characters.

 

well Shockwave is a bastard. nuff said.

 

Oh you're kidding. Are you telling me the Hearts of Steel Universe is the regular IDW universe, except all the Autobots and Decepticons were just tricked into thinking they were the incarnations of the IDW bots and cons, all because Shockwave said, 'Eh, why not'?

Nope, sorry, this doesn't work at all. There's no way Shockwave wouldn't have told somebody about the colonies had he already known about them, and there's no way Hearts of Steel can fit into IDW's main universe. Does this mean Cthulu also exists in the main IDW comics as well? Jeez.

 

HA. Shockwave doesn't tell anyone shit. It's how he got away with the whole ore thing in the first place. Hell, Shockwave also happened to know about locations primes had formerly visited. Shockwave knows too much and says too little.

 

Shockwave never told anybody about the energon seeds he planted across the universe and it's not like he wasn't keeping secrets before going crazy. How doe HoS not fit in IDW main universe? it wasn't like there was much evidence of TF being on Earth in those comics and anything that was probably covered up or just forgotten over time. Actually yes Cthulu also exists in the main IDW comics, becusce those Infestation comics are canon; how Kup ended up in the dead universe and fake Bots and Cons fighting the Old Ones and since the Revolution event we know the G.I. Joe Infestation comics also took place in the main TF universe just at different time periods.

 

I think of all the possible ideas to make it 'work', having the bots be completely different people and brainwashing them is probably one of the worst. Noooot feeling it at all :-/

Guido's retro art is glorious though!