Totally on the nose.
Dark Cybertron was far better integrated into the existing storylines.
Before Combiner Wars i felt interesting stuff was going on in IDW-RID, then all of a sudden it felt like everything Barber wrote was dictated by HASBRO.

 

By that logic any IDW death is ambiguous  

Good, because if that Bumblebee is not a hallucination after all, they can bloody well bring back Dreadwind and Triggerhappy.

 

Actually, I kind of preferred Combiner Wars because it left a smaller footprint, so to speak. It didn't throw the whole universe into chaos. I was just like... there are combiners now. All the regular plots could still move along. MTMTE wasn't affected much at all. It was better as far as promotional crossovers go, because it gave Hasbro a banner they could display across the covers of all the issues, but aside from a few extra Combiner fights, the content wasn't much different.

Dark Cybertron on the other hand, was a case of STOP EVERYTHING NOW! GIANT COSMIC EVENT HAPPENING! NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!!

It was much more of an "event" in the Marvel or DC mold... which is to say, also more of a self-indulgent, bloated pain in the ass that derails everything.

That's my take anyway.

zmog

 

Would be cool if that was the case. It would make for a good excuse to bring in the G1 Predacons and Dinobots even to go along with the BW cast which will help strengthen the beast theme.

 

At least it has been far less frequent with Transformers. The last time we got something akin to that might have been All Hail Megatron...which was in 2008 (over 7 seven years ago). Even the "soft reboot" with "Death of Optimus Prime" is now almost four years old.

I think the more likely trend will be something akin to "Colony Wars" where each group selects a Prime and we get a theme akin to Transformers Cybertron (which, granted, could still get a good number of characters fans want out)

 

Meh, the less they tie the games, toys, etc. to the comic the happier I will be.

 

Wow, this is going to REALLY suck.

Which is a shame because I like the direction Barber is going with his own non-Hasbro-mandated story, and the fact that he's getting dragged into this twice more is just sad.

I could actually drop IDW as a whole right now. I really could.

Oh, and that's definitely Beast Wars Megatron back there. Which I would be excited for if I wasn't less than trustworthy in some certain writing ability on the staff.

 

Sentinel Prime huh?

Well Not-RID is going to turn into shit again in a few months. :/

This better all happen.

 

doubt

wait... where did this happen? I don't recall none of this, unless you talk about the story arc when Ratchet kills the time aboard the Lost Light telling young Orion Pax adventures and especially when he stole the bomb/fake matrix from Nominus Prime's dead body...
really, I don't remember scenes with Sentinel, or was it just hinted?

 

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