Optimus Prime Annual 2018 iTunes preview

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  1. Jalaguy

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    I'm very excited for this! Thundercracker in: Starscream: The Movie!

    Featuring Thundercracker's terrible adaptation of the old G.I. Joe: Cobra mini-series!
     
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    Can't wait for this! Thundercracker's writing always makes me smile.
     
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  3. CleverNamePendingatron

    CleverNamePendingatron Just an ordinary cassette. Nothing to see here.

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    CHUCKLES! Thundercracker's retelling of the events of G.I. Joe: Cobra is honestly the best thing ever. Can we get a full book out of it please?

    Anyone who hasn't read IDW's Cobra run should go check it out immediately. It's honestly one of the best comics IDW has ever put out. Even non-G.I. Joe fans will get a kick out of it. Though this does kind of spoil the ending.

    I'm curious to know if the artist intentionally used the wrong Cobra Commander there, or if it was an honest mistake from someone who knew nothing about IDW's G.I. Joe comics.
     
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    Are thundercracker and Starscream going to have a conversation! All I want is to have the seekers catch each other up on their misadventures and be (sort of) buddies again.

    I am still bummed that we haven\'t had an issue of just Thundercracker and Skywarp taking a break from their different earth duties to have \"the talk\" a lot has happened since they last saw each other, and they didn\'t part on the best of terms...
     
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    Purple Heart Some other time..

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    This is going to be the most ironically cringey Transformers story yet and I can’t wait.
     
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    Anyone else notice how the drone cam is focused on Buster? I kinda wonder what the Cybertronian populous thinks about dogs?
     
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    Seriously looking forward to this. Also, anyone notice a robot that looks like Mettaton EX on the cover?
     
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    I mean, this is John Barber. He scripts his stuff very specifically when it comes to stuff like this.

    And it actually makes sense in universe when you consider that it was only after Krake took command that Cobra went public. And his image was printed on Cobra recruitment posters. Regular people wouldn’t know what the first CC looked like.
     
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    THERES A METATON ON THE COVER!
     
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    People actually read this?
     
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    This is true.

    And speaking of Barber and Krake, when's Barber finally going to sort out what happened to Krake? He was a big deal in the comics, then seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth when a new writer came in. It's the kind of dangling plot thread Barber's made a career of tying up.

    I was hoping for it to come up in Revolutionaries, especially when they did that whole Tomax/Cobra Commander story, but nope. It's still a mystery.
     
  12. Spartan Prime

    Spartan Prime Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, eat 'em up.

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    Tons of people, yes. Get with it.
     
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    artiepants Transformers '84!!!

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    ...stories that have gone basically no where but circles for 6 years and strange 1/2 way between cartoony and anime art...
    Man, I miss Simon Furman. (and Don. Oh i miss you Don. I'll even forgive your weird movie/G1 hybrids)
    not exactly tons these days... (not sure how IDW is staying afloat, honestly, or most comic publishers for that matter)
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    Such beautiful art in this book!
     
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    Wait what?
    *looks at the cover again*
    Huh. So there is, just underneath Starscreams armpit. Hair’s over the wrong eye though.
     
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    IDW does have other comics you know. My Little Pony and TMNT, for starters.
     
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    Oh no the Annual is funny!

    This is the first time such a thing has happened in the history of comic books!

    Ruined forever!!!
     
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    I think I'll take a look when it comes out. I've only been reading Lost Light and gave up on RID and all it's later iterations a long time ago.
     
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    Why is this comic doing the same things I saw this comic doing over a year and a half ago when I dropped it?

    I\'m not weird in saying the exchange of

    Starscream: \"Look at Optimus Prime! Being liked-- I hate it! They should like me instead!\"
    Rattrap: \"You\'re sure right boss.\"

    has happened like three times already, right? I know this is set kind of in the past, since Starscream is still ruler, but do we need to tread this ground again? It feels like exposition for folks that haven\'t read this comic yet, but like, why would you try to introduce someone to a series with a joke-issue? I don\'t know, there\'s something kind of disappointing about going \"I wonder what\'s been happening in OP since I left\" only to check and see the same shit I saw when I left. At least in LL when you look at a preview or whatever you see something new. Like hey, Shockwave and Scorponok had a run in with the DJD! Red Alert and Fort Max are doing shit! The mutineers are a thing!

    Also what\'s with Thundercracker still doing bad writing and people finding it funny? Am I alone in finding this whole joke super stale and not remotely clever or funny? I mean I get why it\'s supposed to be funny: because robots don\'t understand earth so hijinks inevitably ensues when they try to adopt earth customs. Only writing, language, and dialogue aren\'t strictly earth customs, they are things that should exist throughout this universe (and if it didn\'t, that would make for a pretty stale universe) so that entire scene we saw written by Thundercracker isn\'t a result of him not understanding how human language or relationships work, it\'s just shows his writing is bad. Is bad writing funny? Well yeah, take a gander at The Room. I feel like Thundercracker\'s thing would actually be funnier if his writing and personality was as odd and surreal as Tommy Wiseaus. But when it comes to the bad writing Barber tries to pull off it just comes off as writing that is too bad to be believed, so it takes me out of the story quite a bit when it feels like I\'m being told to laugh. \"Oh hey guys, you know what\'s bad writing? Immensely exxagerrated exposition and redundancies in speech!\" Hahah.

    Seriously though, when did Thundercracker being a bad writer become this beloved staple of his character and this running joke people are somehow not bored of after nearly FOUR YEARS? I was actually expecting his writing to, like, improve with time to coincide with some kind of character development he might have had. Because woo, it\'s Thundercracker, he had been absent for all of MTMTE and RID S1 for like three years. He was a major character in the last couple of series, and had a highly anticipated return. But he has literally not changed or developed since he returned in the first issue of RID S2. Maybe I missed something recent with his character, but his development comes off as so non-existant that it makes him seem like he has some kind of learning disability. I know why he\'s not changing or developing-- because people still find this weird bad-writing thing the funniest thing in the book for some reason, so if his writing stopped being stupidly written people wouldn\'t find him funny anymore, because aside from his badly drawn dog, that\'s like his only personality trait.
     
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    Have I forgotten any others?
     
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