Would be nice if he had another run in the IDW-verse. A mini series or something at least. Hell it couldn't be worse than Mairghread Scott who's yet to do anything eyebrow raising anyway.
This. Its unfortunate because I've enjoyed some of Scott's stories, but I can't say I'd really want her to be in charge of an ongoing. Her stories range from "alright" to "meh." The reason I'm so skeptical of her is due to how bad her first impression was (whinging about Furman's choice with Arcee.) Even though she apologized, she's still said things that I don't agree with and believe she's wrong about, but the same can be said about Barber or Roberts too.
Wish he would be back in IDW, I really, REALLY miss his sense of worldbuilding. As an editor he could give a pretty solid direction to the whole line.
Yeah, Scott's work has been mainly mediocre but I feel like thanks to Tumblr etc she scorched the earth for Furman coming back.
For better or worse I would be oddly curious to see how Furman's writing would contrast against the current Idw writers. If he ever was to come back to IDW I would like to see him replace barber. For me barber has had years of chances to make rid/new ongoing into something more interesting and repeatedly has left me feeling disappointed after reading each and every issue. Bless him, he is likely one of life's good guys and has even put effort into switching up the settings and dropped those tedious monologues from season 1 but sadly still he can't seem to make issues or story arcs that are anything other than mediocre. His God of continuity mantle I have seen him given by members here on the comic forms confuses me as I can't think of a single story arc that he has been responsible for that has demonstrated any kind of complexity or sophistication and compared to the levels complexity shown in comics like elegant chaos arc of mtmte his work seems Un-ambitious. I probably sound like I'm being a little unfair and overly negative and maybe I will concede that there could be some slight truth in that but if you are given the brilliant and charismatic Sky Lynx to include in your comics and you still can't make a fun comic it's probably time to give someone else a go. Even though she sadly botched the ending of the Windblade mini, it had some really positive elements, the diologue was lively, she made cybertron seem an interesting setting again and wrote characters like Starscream brilliantly. I personally think if she was given a longer mini or an ongoing she could write something quite promising as it would give her writing more of a chance to breath and develop at a less forced pace. I like some things Firman has brought to the franchise like his marvel UK run and the positive world building in Idw like the infiltration protocol and verity being cool but he has sadly missed the mark as much as he has hit it things like spotlight Arcee and regeneration1 rubbing the fandom up the wrong way for very good reasons.
