IDW is definitely my favorite. I was hooked from Infiltration onward. I really liked how they reinvented G1 and built a whole new universe around it. Yes, the first ongoing was very disappointing, but things have really picked up with MTMTE and RID. I can't wait to see what comes next.

 

Im put off of idw, Because of how they tried to add depth to megatron.so much so they dilute the point of the character,and cast him as too sympathetic and heroic initially. Instead of acknowledging his talk of being "oppressed" as just his twisted perception of autobot society not giving "HIM the "freedom" to conquer others and be the oppressor. Just like if a serial rapist may feel unjustly treated when the cops lock him up

 

Yeah, and thanks for helping keep it going needlessly.

 

I didn't attack him. I just brought up that if he had something he wanted to say, he could say it and didn't need to second-guess his answer.

I didn't say he shouldn't like IDW more. I just said there's nothing wrong about answering based on emotions. It's entertainment, not science. There's no right answer. Most of us pick what we like based on emotion. That's the difference between preference and affectation.

He TOOK it as an attack because we'd argued about something else earlier and he took my comment as a continuation of that rather than its own thing. Whatever.

But thanks for jumping in.

 

IDW for sure, but it's a close tie between that and the early days of Marvel UK. Dinobot Hunt, In the National Interest, and Target: 2006 are easily some of the best TF stories I've ever read.

 

No it was very mediocre. The first mini (that sold like hotcakes) was TERRIBLE, the second one was pretty good. The ongoing with Brad Mick was alright, but took too long to go anywhere. I liked the MTMTE profiles and War Within v1. The rest of it like Armada and Energon was awful and dragged the ship down (and Pat Lee's financial crimes sank it).

 

Dreamwave's early success at the time was the same as Devil's Due Press' success with their GI Joe comic: 100% to do with the fact there were people starved for new material who would buy anything. The early issues of both featured the most laughable, amateur hour, non-writing ever seen in comics. But... what else was there? If you wanted TF or Joe comics, your choices were that or nothing.

However, horrible Pat Lee aside, Dreamwave's art (and especially coloring) was a huge step up from the Marvel comic, in that it was much more animation inspired-looking. And anything would beat Wildman's spittle-spouting people-bots or Delbo's "Hey, let's all just stand around in boring poses" robots that were inked like coloring book illustrations.

War Within was good though, and I did not hate the Armada/Energon book. No, it doesn't hold a candle to what IDW is doing now, but at the time, it was nearly the cream of the crop as far as what you could hope for from a TF comic.

 

I think taking the comics at face value, as they are presented in the actual books themselves, IDW is my favorite overall story now. Its not perfect. There are genuinely bad issues and story arcs but most of it is pretty awesome.

My second favorite is the Marvel comics, including the UK issues. The Budiansky issues don't hold up anymore but I still think the Furman issues are pretty decent. I'll include Regeneration One in with the Marvel comics since its a direct continuation / alternate timeline, but I wasn't a huge fan of them. Furman's old Marvel comics are better to me.

And I liked Dreamwave G1 too. Again, it wasn't perfect, but when it was good, it was good. And before Dreamwave's closure, the story and artwork were only getting better.

 

I have love-and-hate attitude to Lee's art, because it's obvious that he knew and could draw. It's when his art became rushed and half-***'ed when it went downhill, and then started his questionable practices with outsorcing everything what he could.
But he did not became popular for nothing.


As for Dreamwave, I really liked them having uniform house style.
This may not be the best idea for artistic diversity, but when a comic line tries to be a successor to a cartoon, it works.

Can't vote in this pool because I'd need three votes. To me Marvel, Dreamwave and IDW are equally favorite. Each one has different flavor and strengths.

 

IDW for the win.

 

IDW all the way. Even it's most 'meh' issues can still be the best over Marvel's put out over the years since the focus on the films.

It's funny that Transformers used to be part of Marvel. Imagine if they stayed and Hasbro still kept making the toys that everyone loved?

 

Scioli's Transformers vs. G.I. Joe.

 

I voted IDW, but it'd be IDW right up until AHM. I'm still waiting to find out what REALLY happend after Revelations.

 

IDW-Verse. All the way.

I have a lot of nostalgia for Marvel, but its over - finished. Some would call it a Dead Universe.

For me its all about the characters... not the war. And to me they've never felt more 'alive' than in IDW. Simple as that.

 

IDW. No contest.

IDW Fuck The What! \o/

 

IDW, I guess mainly because it's the most expanded universe we have so far. I'm reading the Marvel US and UK comics and I am loving them, but I can't give a proper opinion on that until I've read it's best stories.

The IDW comics have had their ups and downs, stories I love like Infiltration, Stormbringer, Escalation, a lot of the Spotlights, Last Stand of the Wreckers, Chaos Theory, Autocracy, MTMTE, most of RID/exRID but there have been plenty of comics I'm not fond of, Megatron Origins, Maximum Dinobots, All Hail Megatron, most of Costa's Ongoing series no offence to him, I wasn't too keen on Dark Cybertron until the last few issues, Punishment, and Combiner Wars was pretty bleh.

But still I love what they're doing with the IDW universe, I love the renewed sense of strong continuity, I love seeing non-G1 characters appear in this universe, MTMTE is such a pleasure to read and I cannot wait to see what they are planning with the upcoming exRID story, All Hail Optimus. The wait for issue 50 of MTMTE is killing me, and I know it will tear my heart out when more of these beloved characters meet their deaths.  

I wish IDW reprinted Dreamwave's comic digitally, just because I really want to read The War Within and Energon.

I started reading it, and I am loving it so far, it is such an awesome throwback to old comic books that it cannot be more perfect. (Some of you may disagree XD )

 

Make mine Marvel.

 

I will say Marvel, especially since that was the run I collected most consistently. As a kid I think I got as far as #32, all while collecting the Headmasters mini series. I went back and bought all the collection trades. I think there is alot of things established in that continuity that remain tethered to this day, such as Shockwaves conflict with the Dinobots for example. The original 4 issue arc, the long tenure of Shockwave's position as Decepticon leader, Return to Cybertron are all strong storylines that made the book a strong read. I also liked the amnisiac (sp!) Megatron segment.

IDW would be a close 2nd, but I think the main turn-off for me was the drastically different art-styles, character models and time skips. I just want a linear, consistent timeline. Sometimes the daring character behaviors work and sometimes they don't. I guess I have a hard time breaking the wall as to what was established for so many years and seeing it turned on it's head.

 

You don't get that with Marvel, and I'm including Marvel UK here too.

The Marvel timeline can lead into the 1986 movie, Generation 2, Regeneration One, Classics, Rhythms of Darkness or the repaired future timeline seen after Time Wars.