Is the luddite aspect something new? Because in that intro I see a lot of vehicles and high-tech stuff being used.

 

The vehicles were the "power staffs" of Ectar, Feryl, Mortdredd and Reekon. Instead of magic staffs or shields (in the case of Galadria and Virulina in the STAR Comics series), these four had VEHICLES powered by magic, with their own special powers.

In the original Visionaries, the people of Prysmos didn't hate tech. In fact, they were regular people in the Age of Technology until it stopped because of the Age of Magic. Society became feudal and they forged medieval armor out of junk and whatever leftover tech was lying around. The vehicles were dormant until that certain Spectral Knight or Darkling Lord touched it and they activated.

 

Uuugh...these are Visionaries now?? They look awful, especially with the notion of shrinking their heraldic holograms to mere badges.

 

Why would IDW include a retro cover?  It\'s obvious that they don\'t give a flying feck about the original look, so some crudely drawn copy of the original source material is aimed at who exactly?  

It\'s obvious the writers and artists here lack Visionaries...

 

You know, far from suggesting a genocide...

But, dear Cybertronians... Did you ever consider atomic ordnance, especially so-called low-yield "dirty" atom bombs? The radiation shouldn't have a lot of impact on YOUR population but should wipe the organic pest in so-called "New Prysmos" fairly quickly.

P.S.: Where are true Decepticon patriots when they're needed?

 

does \"Editorial Mandate\" mean it was the IDW higher ups who decided Kup had to die, or Hasbro\'s?

Either way, this is not okay.

 

The writing and the artwork certainly elicited extreme reactions, which I suspect is the entire point (and I think they succeeded, in all honesty). Wouldn't do much to drum up interest in this new crossover if no emotional impact was made at all.

 

So Merklynn is sort of an inversion of BM Megatron? 

 

If some generic was killed instead of Kup, we wouldn't be talking about it right now. So IDW got what they wanted.