Ugh. Who cares? This is the billionth fucking soft reboot IDW has done. We got a title to 30 finally, only for them to soft reboot it YET AGAIN.

It's just that they act like this is the jumping on point that everyone was waiting for! But we did that with AHM. Then this ongoing. Not to mention the billion miniseries before that.

I know IDW isn't the only comic book company in the industry that refuses to have a title go into double digits if they can keep from it, preferring to do nothing but countless #1's, but damn, it's irritating. Hopefully the stories will at least be interesting.

 

Sounds like someone needs to update their sig to reflect this opinion  

Totally get where you're coming from, mind. Though isn't Hasbro doing some toys under a "Robots in Disguise" subline next year, going off their NYCC slides?

 

I have been carefully optimistic about these two books since they were announced, but initially discouraged that it was going to take killing Prime AGAIN, to get there. Luckily, this actually sounds like a broad step forward. I really feel like G1 is finally progressing past what we have seen time and again, to maybe some truly unique territory.

I will certainly be picking up both books come January, and hopefully continue to do so afterward. Finally some redemption after All Hail Megatron! Sign me up.

 

Yeah; it is annoying, I will agree there. But conversely, this new direction does sound interesting - and it would be odd to have an ongoing interleave with two separate stories.

...except I just remembered that they're doing that with Archie: The Married Life. Which is EVEN TRICKIER because that book has two separate branching continuities with the same cast interleaving.

 

This sounds terrible. IDW totally lost their way with AHM and every new direction they've tried since has been even worse. I wish I could just stop caring but I own the entire IDW run up until 15 or 16 of the ongoing (can't remember at the moment) so I keep poking my head back in with news like this to see if they're finally doing something I can support. Seeing this only makes me feel even more justified in my decision to drop the book, though.

 

I hear what you're saying. I'll probably check out these books, but I'm amazed they (including Dreamwave prior to IDW) can't make a continuous ongoing series. They've done this (used the term ongoing series) several times before, only to kill it off or lead into some other title. It gets confusing after a while, especially for people who are scanning over all of the titles and trying to get a feel for what goes where. Just stick with one title for crying out loud. If they want to do spin-offs, etc., that's fine. However, like you, I'm starting to get tired of this.

 

when did Hot Rod become Wolverine?

 

January? I'm subscribing to RID (can you do that? I'm new to comics) with Christmas money.

 

In IDW's case it's because the reboot rubs its nose in the face of what came before it.
There were about ten plot points from Furman's run that were completely ignored when All Hail Megatron came around.

Then the ongoing ignored several items from the All Hail Megatron arc.

The reboots have robbed readers of their investments in the original stories -to a certain extent.

 

The 5 variant issues is kind of ridiculous ... and I'm probably going to be ridiculous and buy them all. WTF?

 

There's a difference between rebooting and having several different titles of the same product. I don't mind rebooting, but IDW likes to take story arcs (Infiltration, Devastation, All Hail Megatron, etc.) and make them into series. Normal comics have story arcs within an ongoing title (continuity), which makes it a lot easier to follow. That's my gripe.

 

All I can say is two things; it looks to hold promise, but more importantly.....FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP DRAWING THEM IN F...ING MOVIE STYLES! No one likes the movie design crap, it's why I quit reading them after AHM.

 

Some things were yes -not to my satisfaction though.
Other things like Ore-13, the Transformers holomatter avatars, and all the various 'pop-out gadgets' they had available to them in vehicle mode just vanished.

Maybe I spoke in haste, but several things bugged me.
Starscream saves Megatron at the end of AHM and then in the first issue of CODA he's plotting how to kill him or at least let him die.

The Autobots completely ignore the chain of command and have a popularity contest to vote Bumblebee the new leader.

Prowl basically infiltrated Kup's mind so that he had a popular figure to support his agenda. What agenda? What did Kup actually do because of Prowl?

I never even thought that for a second, but thanks for stating it.
I don't require people to agree with me in order to have a discussion.  

I should qualify my claims though by stating that I have been reading IDW in TPB form and I am a little behind.

Some of what I have mentioned may indeed have been resolved and I just haven't read that far yet.

 

A relaunch is not the same thing as a reboot. And relaunches are just a fact of life in modern comics. Sales numbers are never going to allow a TF comic series to reach #80 again in the current market. There just aren't enough readers to keep an ongoing running that long anymore. So every time sales start to dip now, you can expect another relaunch from a new #1. It's a cheap pop that temporarily boosts sales until the next dip. Marvel and DC do the same thing with their comics, as well.

For my part, I enjoyed the slight re-purposing in AHM... maybe because it was the first time I could get into the IDW TF comics at all... and then again for the ongoing.

 

......Okay so like is he Bumblebus Prime now or is he more like Tatto from Fantasy Island?