Are you excited for this July’s return to the original Marvel Transformers Generation 1 continuity, with the original scribe Simon Furman at the helm? If you are then this Free Comic Book Day is bringing you a little advance taster with issue 80.5 of the revived Generation 1 comic continuity – and to whet your appetite for that, there is a preview preview of the first few pages of the issue! Witness! The preview over at Newsarama!
Gingerchris
While you are right and I already knew it to be a somewhat uneven comparison when I made that post, it was more of the fact that any suggestion to revist or continue anything to do with the old G1 shows, films or comics seems to attract an immediate swell of disregard, usually with comments of 'G1 is dead' or 'It's too cheesy to appeal to a modern audience' or baseless claims that 'It just won't work'. I'm sure if someone here had suggested a G1 Marvel comic story continuation a couple of years ago it would've been instantly shot down as a dumb idea. 'That title finished years ago. It's dead. No-one would buy it now'.
Poor old G1 more and more just seems to instantly get regarded these days as some crappy dead thing that should be forgotten.
tigerhawk16
the cover art is great but then they do crappy internals.
Shepard Prime
Don't forget, Ratchet actually conned, bluffed and talked his way out of being atomized by Megatron before he sent him off that cliff as well, showing some real nerve and quick-thinking.
What I would love to see is an expansion on that Megatron/Galvatron teaming up that was proposed just before Ratchet sent them to their fate.
stormbringer251
Looking forward to it.
Thundershot
Prime and Megatron battled first in #2 where they threw junk at each other, but it ended with Megatron escaping with Sparkplug.
They battled again in #4, with the Decepticons falling to the poison fuel, but Shockwave turned the tide, and Prime didn't actually defeat Megatron.
They didn't really battle again until #24, when Optimus Prime sacrificed himself in the video game…
After that… nothing.
Ratchet on the other hand…
Defeats Megatron in issue #8 by knocking him off a cliff (though the Dinobots softened him up).
Defeats Megatron in issue #59 by teleporting the bomb to his location and they were fused together in between dimensions.
Defeats Megatron again (along with Starscream, Shockwave, and Galvatron) in #78 by crashing the Ark into the Earth.
I'll be disappointed if the rivalry isn't continued…
Foster
Haha, the same reason I was.
Kaijumaster
why do you think I was so stoked for Shattered Glass Megatron?!
Atlas42
Anguirus
Probably because a cartoon is a massive, expensive undertaking that could only pay for itself by being a dominant force in Transformers merchandising for a year or more. It's totally pie-in-the-sky. But IF it COULD happen, it WOULD require so much effort and money, that it would bleed from other sectors of the franchise and alienate other fans.
Regen1 doesn't replace anything and it's an eminently manageable project. Comics are just cheaper to produce and don't have to satisfy as many profit-crazed executives.
I understand what you are saying but it is really apples and oranges for this reason.
dj_convoy II
I completely agree with the poster earlier- Perlin, Delbo and particularly Springer were all great artists dealing with a book that none of them were particularly suited for. Transformers is/was a hard book to draw, you guys! This was not a book Marvel was going to devote a ton of time/attention to… they lined up professional, workman-like artists to churn out a solid book every month.
danprime47
This left such a hole when it ended. While I enjoyed G2, it wasn't really this group. Glad they're coming back! Thank you, Simon, Andy, and Stephen!!!!!!
Shepard Prime
This. Maybe we can at least get GS on covers or whaddayacallit, special covers…variant. Or maybe a sequence or two depending on the scene.
Obsidian X
Witness! Me fapping hard!
Ok, you don't have to witness that but I can't wait! I usually wait for trades but am getting these single issues (and then TPBs) to relive the glory days of when I bought Marvels Transformers comics single issues at the grocery store in the late eighties and early ninthies.
The only thing better (for me) would have been Geoff Senior as the artist but Wildman would be my second choice.
Shepard Prime
I was cool with almost all of the art on the original Marvel series except for the insipid 50s/way late 40s. 51 forward until Andrew got on the book was this close to Disney Adventures/Archie style.
I forget who was on art duties for #16 but really liked that issue. Nice blend of movement, action, chromework, robotics and expressions. That was when Bumblebee thought he wasn't needed anymore.
The thing I liked overall about the Marvel run is that they weren't quite as posey as the Dreamwave stuff (don't get me wrong, I loved how the Dreamwave emulated the cartoons) was. That's partly why I like Milne so much (least I think it's Milne… I mix up a lot of the newer IDW artists) because he can draw the Transformers past the typical heroic pose, standard shooting shot, etc. They actually sit and talk, walk hand gestures etc to help sell the story.
Gingerchris
That's a great way to think of it. Same writers, voice actors and artists and animators. It's something that often gets brought up here as a subject in regards to the cartoon. But for the comics it's actually happening.
Although sadly these days any mention of reviving the old cartoon in the same style gets quickly shat upon. I suppose it was inevitable that something similar with the old comics series would garner the same kind of detractors.
taterx
I'm so fired up for this thing to start back up! Like a dream come true. Furman & Wildman will shine bright on this run. Should cement their place in Transformers comics history as the best writer/artist duo to ever work on the property. God bless IDW for making this happen for us.
gothsaurus
I'm stoked! it's a nice evolution of the old 80s style. Kinda retro, but stepped up to date a bit. Coloring helps with that.