I wish it was tomorrow morning already!

 

That was one issue, and the GI Joe crossover 4 more and a few G2 issues... from the HUNDREDS of Marvel stories.
It wasn't like IDW where the transformers get lost in the crowd of Joes, Action Man, Visionaries, Micronauts, MASK agents, space knights and assorted humans and aliens I honestly don't give a fig about.
Marvel - especially after Furman came along - wisely kept the human characters to a minimum. I'd be OK with a group like the Neo-Knights being a factor, but not whole planets of aliens and armies of Joes.

I never read much of Marvel outside of the X-men who seemed largely unaffected by reboots, so honestly, I never kept as much track as with DC.

 

But that never happens in IDW. Revolution and First Strike are events croossovers and if you count the appearance amount the Transformers has the longest screen time. Visionaries is also a crossover so both have equal screen time. And in Optimus Prime humans are just supporting characters, the GI Joe members are practically extras, they barely have speeches and appearances, plus most of the human characters that appear are Transfomers characters and Transformers has always had human characters in the cast.

 

I doubt that highly, look at several of the co stars of Optimus Prime and I think the entire cast of Lost Light do not have toys of their stories.
I do agree that they made a mistake with the crossovers, It works in DC and Marvel because they are already a shared universe, they shouldn't try and force a shared universe, fanfic authors get away with it because lets face it, however much there are more good ones now, most people expect little, commercially crossovers can cause lockout when people just don't want to.
What I am wondering is this: While plenty of characters don't get toys there does tend to be a correlation between the Generations line and the Comics. The post POTP line is called "War for Cybertron" is anyone else thinking/ hoping that instead of what current IDW did, starting on earth and using prequels to show parts of the war, the post reboot comics will START with the War.

 

While they can make mistakes with their reboots, New 52 being a good example the longer a continuous story stands the more certain issues will be kept, for example Hank Pym, he struck Wasp (in what was actually an artistic error, it was meant to be accidental) and it's permanently tainted his character in a way reboots could erase.
Transformers IDW has a similar incident - All Hail Megatron. Before I get flamed to death I've read AHM and enjoyed it, but, while the Autobots made other mistakes to make it worse, earth's relationship with the Transformers was irreversibly damaged. A reboot could allow for a different take, when they reach earth.

 

People, what did I JUST say?

Cut it out. Now.

 

Would be nice, for them not to be hated every time they show up on Earth...

 

Exactly!

Autobots being constantly bashed while they save ungrateful human idiots is so tiresome. Heck, I hate X-men stories that revolve around this narrative.

"I've got super unimaginable powers but I'm not going to use them on this one dumb, evil, bigoted, human who slaughtered my friends and/or family, because I'm the good guy!" Vol. 2