Regeneration One - Geoff Senior cover!

Dragonclaw · 05-03-2012, 10:32 AM

Love it! As a retailer I MUCH prefer incentive covers like this with new (and COOL) art rather than just the B&W pencils versions.

StarFire_MK2 · 05-03-2012, 10:37 AM

Easy pass. Glad this is not the main cover, though it's a nice touch for those who liked Senior's work on G1

RubberChicken · 05-03-2012, 10:44 AM

I far preferred Geoff Senior's work over Wildman's at the end of the Marvel run. I'm a fan of Senior's Transformers, but I'm not too keen on this cover. I find the goofy pose and distorted proportions to be off-putting.

Dragonclaw · 05-03-2012, 10:46 AM

Hey Josh, is this the 1 in 10 cover? because Diamond is showing it as the 1 in 50 incentive.

SPLIT LIP · 05-03-2012, 10:47 AM

Magnificent!

dj_convoy II · 05-03-2012, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dragonclaw

Hey Josh, is this the 1 in 10 cover? because Diamond is showing it as the 1 in 50 incentive.

Oh, man, 1 in 50?

Anguirus · 05-03-2012, 10:53 AM

I just like that Bludgeon's made equivalent with Shockwave and Galvatron.

Dragonclaw · 05-03-2012, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by dj_convoy II

Oh, man, 1 in 50?

The picture on Diamond's site shows the image of this cover as the 1 in 50 incentive but the description sounds like it's a Dan Khanna sketch cover.

Grandum · 05-03-2012, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by SMOG

Except that the dark tone of this fits very much in with the current flavour of IDW comics, and Furman was the architect of IDW's G1 line. I would say that this is far from being the "polar opposite" of IDW. It's more like returning to the source of it all (being apocalyptic UK-style Transformers).

By today's standards, the art has a primitive quality to it (part of the appeal), but it's good to remember that this level of life and edge and stylistic expression was HUGE back in the day, when all we were seeing in the Marvel line was Frank Springer and Jose Delbo's mechanically cranked-out doldrums.

Geoff Senior's distinctive "ugly" style made Transformers feel like a REAL comic, not just a half-assed licensed kiddie property with bland, lifeless art.

zmog

Don't get me wrong, I love the old 1980s G1 comics -some are even amongst my absolute favorite parts of the TF universe...but those are the US comics. Where just like you say they feel like real comics.

Compared to those, the UK comics just seem ugly.

SMOG · 05-03-2012, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Grandum

Don't get me wrong, I love the old 1980s G1 comics -some are even amongst my absolute favorite parts of the TF universe...but those are the US comics. Where just like you say they feel like real comics.

Compared to those, the UK comics just seem ugly.

This confuses me... the UK team basically took over the US run. What parts of the US run are you referring to?

Also, even aside from generally having better stories (especially as Budiansky started to lose speed), the UK comics tended to look better than the US stuff on the art side, with more expressive renderings of the characters and incontrovertibly superior colours (which turned to crap in the US run, where the colours were alternately lazy or hideous). I'm just a bit uncertain what you're comparing things too here.

zmog

05-03-2012, 10:32 AM	#21
Dragonclaw Comic Ink - Dublin, CA Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,015 Location: SF Bay Area Collection Count: 1 collection :p News Credits: 5	Love it! As a retailer I MUCH prefer incentive covers like this with new (and COOL) art rather than just the B&W pencils versions. BUY YOUR DIGITAL COMICS FROM A FELLOW FAN AT COMIC INK http://www.digitalcomicsreader.com/comicink

05-03-2012, 10:37 AM	#22
StarFire_MK2 'Till All are One! Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,238 Location: BC, Canada Collection Count: Used to be 100's--now 23 (and counting!)	Easy pass. Glad this is not the main cover, though it's a nice touch for those who liked Senior's work on G1 Updated Jan 18, 2013 Making Masterpieces out of masterpieces. Looking for a junker MP Megatron and an unbroken knee joint from Black MP Rodimus Prime. Please PM me for details.

05-03-2012, 10:46 AM	#24
Dragonclaw Comic Ink - Dublin, CA Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,015 Location: SF Bay Area Collection Count: 1 collection :p News Credits: 5	Hey Josh, is this the 1 in 10 cover? because Diamond is showing it as the 1 in 50 incentive. BUY YOUR DIGITAL COMICS FROM A FELLOW FAN AT COMIC INK http://www.digitalcomicsreader.com/comicink

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05-03-2012, 10:44 AM	#23
RubberChicken Omnibot Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 229 Location: Lenexa, KS	I far preferred Geoff Senior's work over Wildman's at the end of the Marvel run. I'm a fan of Senior's Transformers, but I'm not too keen on this cover. I find the goofy pose and distorted proportions to be off-putting.