Windblade #4 & Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #1 full previews

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sockie, Jul 21, 2014.

  1. TheSpartanD

    TheSpartanD Minicon Orphanage Owner

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    This art isn't bad art. This is bad art.

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    Edit: Also Transformers v G.I Joe 1 has sold out so the art isn't stopping people from buying it.
     
  2. Chris McFeely

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    And, indeed, I fear every thread about this book for a few months.
     
  3. Whovian Zorker

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    Well, that is truly a wonderful gesture.

    Of course, a wonderful gesture in and of itself does not warrant a purchase.

    And since I don't care for Kirbyesque G.I. Joe, I will pass.
     
  4. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    Geez the artwork looks like it's from an old comic that you'd get with a pack of gum back in the day.
     
  5. Chris McFeely

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    And I respect your choice. If you don't LIKE Kirbyesque, that's fine! It's okay not to!
     
  6. WilyMech

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    I don't know...I think Art should be modern though.
     
  7. Novaburnhilde

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    I'm looking forward to seeing how the Windblade mini-series ends. :D 
     
  8. optimusmegas

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    that's exactly how i see it...first time i saw the art and writing and just how it flows it reminds me of an 80s comic hell it's even artificially aged with the pages yellowed to look like an old comic. this is cleary an homage project.

    but hey haters hate right?

    have you?
     
  9. Meister5

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    Ditto :D 
     
  10. SPLIT LIP

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    Of all the comics I've seen that go for the retro 80's look, this is probably the one that most perfectly captures that. Honestly, I could've been fooled into thinking it was really old. The art is just one part, the colours and filters seal it. It's not my thing, but I can tell what it's trying to do, and it does it pretty much flawlessly. It could only be truely flawless if it matched the, I dunno what it's called, dotted printing? That old comics had.

    Windblade however just seems unengaging now. The art has lost it's novelty and now just seems, for what it's worth, entirely competent and "correct" for this very stylized look, but I feel is unremarkable. I still don't feel like the way the charatcers are drawn reflects who they are, outside of Chromia. At least to me. I know some people really dig it.
     
  11. LegendAntihero

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    I wish we got to look at more than 3 pages of the Windblade comic
     
  12. Meister5

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    I read somewhere, Twitter maybe, that we only got the 3 because any more than that would have been spoilers.

    I can't wait to see the rest on Wednesday :) 
     
  13. Seripa

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    I still prefer the GI Joe vs Transformers comic over the borting and overrated Windblade...
     
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    I'm a 90s baby and I started reading comics in the early 2000s and i'm loving G.I. Joe vs Transformers retro feel.
     
  15. Magnus' Mate

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    Please look up the word "fact" in a dictionary.

    Yeah...that's kind of the point.

    I am loving the look, but with all this attention on the artwork, not much comment on how well the dialogue and plot is also capturing the feel of those early comics.

    Not being a big GI Joe fan, I wish we were getting a solo-TF book in this style but I can live with the "Joe" influence and understand the decisions behind the team-up.
     
  16. Chris McFeely

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    I think the Joe presence in the story it's what really helping to sell the Silver Age feel of it - it's real "square-jawed military men versus invaders from space" stuff, at least initially.
     
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    Here you go:
    Fact | Define Fact at Dictionary.com

    READ IT.

    Halftone.