Drift: Empire of Stone #4 full preview

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  1. grindcore138

    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    Drift: Empire of Stone #4 preview
    It's not been the greatest of mini-series, but I'm still interested to see how this plays out, especially seeing as this apparently ties directly into MTMTE, which hopefully bodes well for Dorifuto-chan's return to the Lost Light.
     
  2. Digilaut

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    Seriously? Issue #4 and it STILL opens with 'My name is Drift...' etc.
    SHEESH.

    Drift, Windblade...guys. This needs to stop! Seek help! :p 
     
  3. Rakzo

    Rakzo Peruvian Transformers Fan

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    God, this is so predictable at this point.

    I just can't stand McCarthy's version of Drift.
     
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    that is a horrible drawing of gigatron's dragon heads, lol.
     
  5. GWolfv2

    GWolfv2 Deathsaurus - A name you can trust for peace

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    Eh. I'll read it but I have to admit issue 3 killed ALL enthusiasm, limited though it was, for this series. I'm curious as to if Shane intended more or just wanted to do some fluff or what

    I do hope IDW doesn't jump over board though and we continue to get minis. I loved Windblade. And the ongoing was accompanied by the best TF story of its day.
     
  6. Stryker055

    Stryker055 Trying my best here!

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    I can't wait for this comic to get tossed into the hole of ignored crap along with Heart of Darkness, the Avengers crossover, and the Autocracy/Monstrosity/Primacy series. Once Roberts gets Drift back and fixes everything, we can all pretend it was just an incredibly bland, pointless dream.
     
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    I'll just treat it like I treat all of the Bay movies after the first one: the events that happened were real, it's just that the narrator was unreliable and the actual events are actually more interesting and devoid of any crude humor! :lol 

    On a more serious note though: I want to see less of McCarthy doing mainline stuff, and more stuff like his Mars Attacks crossover. Same complaint I have with Barber: his approach on the regular titles is too blunt for my taste (actually, McCarthy's approach is MUCH more blunt than Barber), but works perfectly on material that's intentionally straightforward and silly (Mars Attacks, Transformers vs GI Joe).


    Or punish the guy by only letting him write movie Drift comics from now on.
     
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    Stryker055 Trying my best here!

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    It turns out both the Drift miniseries and this one were both written by some fanboy Autobot who just thinks Drift is the most badass guy ever, so he alters and interprets the "real" events to make Drift seem like a Mary Sue action hero.
     
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    Argh.
    [​IMG]
     
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    okay...i haven't looked at these yet, but i swear to god if this issue starts with "my name is drift. i used to be a decpetion then i was an autobot" i'm gonnd frikken scream




    edit: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  11. nobleboivin

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    I'll give it a read. Although the My name is Drift is getting on my nerves. If I was able to I'd shout, we know who you are idiot. That's why we're reading you
     
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    I did not know that.

    I can see it now:

    "My name is Drift. I used to be a samurai, but samurais are lame. It's way cooler to just swing a sword and be a loner badass than any kind of good character archtype like the inner-peace-seeking honour-bound ways of the samurai. I was also a perfectly reasonable Japanese character with a faithfully Japanese samurai design voiced by an actual Japanese actor famous for playing a samurai himself, but that's racist since having other ethnicities but white act anyway but white means you're stereotyping that race. Not like me, Drift, the loner-monologuing-swordsman-generic-Japanese-mecha-style-uber-badass, nobody's ever done that before!"

    That's legitimately not a bad idea.
     
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    My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, the largest and most powerful commercial entity in the world. I was head of security at a secret high-tech facility, The Hive, a giant underground laboratory developing experimental viral weaponry. But there was an incident. The virus escaped and everybody died. Trouble was... they didn't stay dead...like McCarthy's version of Drift
     
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    HELLO! MY NAME IS INIGO "Drift" MONTOYA! YOU KILLED MY FATHER! PREPARE TO DIE!

    Ah crap, now I'll hear is his voice when I read Drift dialogue.
     
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    Finally, this travesty of a miniseries that nobody cared about and everyone will have forgotten about a few months from now will finally be over
     
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    My name is Greg, I used to do customs and was a pretty dedicated radicon, now I prowl these boards looking for threads to attempt to do silly replies to and white knighting Idw comics, well maybe not these ones though as they suck a bit zzzzzz
     
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    "My name is Drift, and Man you guys that first Claremont/Miller Wolverine mini-series was the best it was at what it did, and what it did was very nice. So, to be the best there is at what I do, I'll keep doing exactly what that did without ever grasping what it was about that mini that actually made it so great."
     
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    My name is Drift, and I can't wait to get the hell done with this shit of a series and go back to a writer.
     
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    My name is [insert name of '90s female Canadian pop star that 51% of Americans spell wrong], I was unfortunate enough to find Drift #3 instead of MTMTE #37 at the closest comic book shop. I am expecting people to satirize the beginning of all four comics or try or guess my name in 3... 2... 1...