The latest issue of Titan UK’s Transformers Movie comic featured a special advert for the upcoming Transformers Animated comic, which will be hitting stores on October 23rd. The advert featured some artwork from the comic, including the first full color image of Animated Sideswipe, a character created for the comic, as well as the new human villain first seen in lineart posted by Simon Furman back in July. Click on the thumbnail to the left to check out both images.
Mechafire
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Fail.
Weekend Gamer
Derrick J. Wyatt wrote this about Sideswipe:
"I wasn't involved at all. I hadn't seen it, or even heard they were doing it until it showed up on all the fan sites in the past few days."
DominusPrime
Auuugh! My eyes are burning, my nose is bleeding, my head is shrinking! Simon Furman, if you have any love left for TF or any say, for the love of all that is decent (and TF fandom), erase this horror show from our collective minds. Pweeeezz?!!
Gingerchris
You insult Death's Head! Now I must fight you!
*slaps with fish*
Moroni Prime
wow, so nobody liked my idea back on page 11? I totally swear he looks just like death's head!
Astrotrain52
He looks like one of the Mighty Ducks (the old cartoon from way back when). It even looks like he's holding a hockey stick.
Fail, epic fail. That looks nothing like Sideswipe should. I'll gladly take the silver corvette over that piece of slag any day.
Nachtsider
I like to think that this is happening. Unfortunately, this may just be a pipe dream.
Tman978
I second this. Is this a joke?
rodster6
Do you think Titan are now re-designing Sideswipe after all the negative comments about it and thats why they have removed and requested images to be removed of the design? I havent heard many positive comments about the new comic even before this Sideswipe design. The preview that was in the current Transformers comic a few months back didnt seem very good and didnt get much positive feedback either.
Predaking
soundwavempl
With Sideswipe being my favorite Autobot, I hope that fugly design gets sucked into a black hole and never returns.
You know, I think it would be really cool to have animated Sideswipe and Sunstreaker as bodybuilder like bot modes with muscle car modes…kinda like Hanz and Franz from Saturday Night Live.
Nachtsider
Hmm.
Opticron Primal
See, now that looks way better. The thing I like about TFA is that the characters kept some similarities to their G1/BW/BM/A/E/C counterparts (Yes, even Prowl, with his head-crest). But "Sideswipe" looks NOTHING like his namesake. He looks like a combo of all the things other members said, a Mighty monkey duck Iron Man knock-off.
Torque
so theyre removing the image? does that mean i need to take it out of my sig?
Railguard
This character looks more like a deformed Cobra Viper than an Autobot.
Nevermore
So, Derrick Wyatt also states that he was not aware of the Sideswipe design before seeing it on the interwebs.
A Delightful Tedium: Hey everybody, it's Prowl!
Also:
Transformers – More Than Meets The Eye, Robots In Disguise – Transformers @ The Moon – http://www.transformertoys.co.uk
Infosaur
If the charachter is as nutty as the art? I kinda dig it.
I mean he's attacking someone with a GOLF CLUB!!!
Any word on an Alt mode though?
Fort Max
That's actually quite a vast improvement for such a little change. It just goes to prove how much animated relies on the faces to sell it's characters to the audience.
Paxtin
The artist's style kind of reminds me of Scud the disposable assassin…I'm sure I may be the only one who remembers that comic.
But yeah…I really don't think this is that great of a design. And a lot of it is because it's meant to be Sideswipe. If it was a completely new character(Although it technically is.) I probably wouldn't mind it as much.
The big problem I really have with him is his face. That just doesn't look right when you compare it to any of the other Animated designs. But all that said, it is a completely different artist.
I donno…I thought I'd do a little digital kitbash to the design here, and see what people thought:
Better? Or does it still suck?
protostar8
Now I'm kinda getting a Metallo vibe (version from the Justice League Cartoon)