IDW Soliciations for May reveal Requiem of the Wreckers

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by GWolfv2, Feb 21, 2018.

  1. fishpop

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    I\'ve got the Last Stand series as a Hardback.
    I\'m glad this\'ll be a trilogy! ^_^
     
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    Pretty sure it's just symbolic of the characters dealing with Kup's death.
     
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    Yeah, considering the title, that is probably the case. Requiem means an act or token of remembrance.
     
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    It should be Vengeance of the Wreckers: Transformers vs. Visionaries II.
     
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    I would've waited an eternity for this!
     
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    A reboot may be the way to go, all of these other crossovers are soling the good stuff.
     
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    Honestly why did they have to kill kup... IDW gave him so much character depth, from spending decades/centuries in the dead universe ---> PTSD, his bond with verity etc etc. just to get killed...in a crossover? Like would it not have been more significant if he died in an TF event rather than have him die by a character that doesn't exist in the "tf universe".

    (Apparently a "crazy witch thingy" killed him? I didn't read the crossover comic so if someone would be kind enough to fill me in on what happened and if the other tfs (optimus etc) had any reactions at all? Thanks in advance!)

    sigh I guess the statement "All good things must eventually come to an end" still rings true.
     
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    I need to read Wreckers 2.
     
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    The Visionaries accidentally blew up their own homeworld. Their prince tried to use magic to bring it back on Cybertron. It wasn't super-effective, but a big chunk of Cybertron's underground was somehow turned into the city of New Prysmos. It's full of refugees from the destroyed world. So now the Transformers are like, what should we do with all these assholes? Kill them, kick them out, help them?

    One faction of the Visionaries's leaders, the Spectral Knights, wants to negotiate peaceful co-existence with the Transformers. The other faction, the Darkling Lords, wants to conquer the rest of the planet. Virulina, the leader of the Darkling Lords, killed Kup with magic during negotiations as a show of force and to make peace impossible. She then had his severed head paraded around the city to show her people that it would be easy to win a war.

    Kup's death hasn't been mentioned in the other books. The only other TF characters in the mini-series are, I think, Ironhide, Wheeljack, and Breakdown. Ironhide is mad.
     
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    Ok this is freaking amazing ><! I always wanted to see Verity come back, after Sari she's among the best human characters in Transformers.
    I was initially surprised in seeing Kup there given he was killed by Virulina (and for that guy asking how he died, magic is poison to Transformers apparently, or at least Visionary magic) but I agree it surely is symbolic.

    Now to both of you, I must say that I don't currently wish for a reboot but I wouldn't be entirely opposed either. To be clear, I LOVE the concept of a Hasbro universe, to me the only con with the IDW Hasbroverse is that it was rushed, but I do like it. So I just wanted to say I understand both your points, but I will enjoy this while it last
    (And if Hasbro/IDW does reboot, I will move heaven and earth so that my idea for a TF/universe gets done, hey a guy can dream xD)
     
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    Thank you. You just reassured my suspicions that kup's death is just a "plot-pusher", which makes his death really insignificant in my eyes. At least his death wasn't 100% pointless
     
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    It may not have been 100% pointless, but it was definitely 110% dumb and cold-hearted. Even moreso when you take into account that Kup's death was forced upon by an (ex-)editor at IDW.
     
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    Jeez. Yep, definitely feels like the IDW-verse is heading towards a finale/reboot, doesn't it?

    I just hope they give the current titles enough time to wrap up. I don't want a rushed conclusion to MTMTE/LL after 70+ issues.
     
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    Aha! There's the pixie cut that Roche envisioned for Verity in Sins. After reading his Spiderman issues I'm confident in Nick's ability to draw human hair. :D 

    Well that's the theme he's been pushing ever since Last Stand. It's gonna come to a head here maybe, after the sequel hook left behind in the last book when Impactor joined Mayhem.
     
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    Kup\'s kinda... dead.

    A midquel maybe?
     
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    I'm wondering if the "reboot" will be everyone goes to the Functionist universe. Anyone who died in the normal universe COULD be alive there.
     
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    Well, everyone who was constructed cold was deported so, only about half of the characters could appear
     
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    I'm pleasantly surprised and glad this is happening before it's all over. IDW was well worth reading if only for this Wreckers trilogy.
     
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    And mtmte
     
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    I see this as I'm coming out of work, get home and my hardcover Last Stand has finally arrived. I think the universe is telling me it's time to re-read some Wreckers.