I dunno, Issue #1 sounds like this is going to be Cyberverse meets Siege, and well.... we already have Cyberverse. Can we have something besides The Adventures of Bumblebee and Windblade here please? Prowl and Chromia as police officers sounds a little more interesting, though even then I'm feeling a bit meh still. Where's the Decepticons? That may be why I'm not feeling enthused yet- if this is mostly Autobots with Cons as just the villains who pop up, cause havoc so the Bots can have their hero moments, and then flee again, declaring "I'll get you next time, my prettys!" as they fly away.... then I'm going to be losing interest quickly.

 

Oof, Brian Ruckley? Since he tends to be the exact opposite of a writer like James Roberts I’m sure some of you will be happy but I don’t go for his depressing, morbid grimdark stuff at all. I’ll at least check out the first issue as I’m sure he’ll reign it in a little, bit still... 

 

That's enough to get me interested. Especially compared to the Roberts work of the past few years. :barf

 

There's grit in toy decos, there's grit in the toy packaging art, there will be grit in the comic book for this line? Maybe? Though I'm kinda interested in this Chromia/Prowl cop duo story.

 

Ooof, if this gets all grimdark I'm out.

 

I think he has an idea of the audience that's going to be reading this. I hope has both levity and 'grimdark' in equal measure.

 

Oh I'm sure it'll be a lot less depressing than his books, but I don't really expect much joyful adventure and levity from him. If anything his writing will probably just be really flat since he'll be supressing his more adult-bent superdark stylings.

I hate to take a negative stance, I just genuinely don't like the writer. I had someone suggest his books because I like Game of Thrones and...well, Game of Thrones is like a happy fun place compared to Winterbirth (The Godless World). It's well written and engaging enough, just not my thing at all.

 

Heh, and I haven't' watched Game of Thrones because of some of the violence....
I'll reserve judgement until after I actually read the comic. I'd expect some violence and grit- after all, this is a war story, or will probably be one soon enough. But I like moments of warmth and lightness, some humor to balance the dark. I like my escapism to have some glimmer of hope in it. Real life can be depressing enough.
Also, as a Con fan, how I feel about the comic will be influenced by how the Decepticons are treated, and we don't have any word on that yet.

 

Any thoughts on who the \"newly forged bot\" might be?

 

To be fair here, I could have replaced "Winterbirth" with "Eugenesis" and we could've been talking about Roberts. I would never have expected "Happy, witty, Giffen/Dematteis Justice League" from the guy who wrote that. =)

 

Yeah, however that’s one book and Ruckley has an entire career of books in the same vein. :/

Like I said though, I’ll give it a chance.

 

Honestly, the direction this reboot is going for is one that has already captured my interest. I mean, a Cybertron that is liked across the Galaxy instead o being isolated from it, which also happens to be a perfect utopia, is really something a little fresh.

Also, it makes me wonder what could possibly ignite such a devastating conflict as the Great War (I\'m pretty sure the \"utopia\" angle will not be what it seems) and how the galaxy reacts to the conflic since the Transformers are liked.

PS: That Synergy showcase cover is just beautifull... Sara has been blessed by Primus no doubt xD.
PS2: I\'m glad to confirm Hasbro does own Dawn (The female Snake-Eyes)

 

\"Bumblebee and windblade\" not again..

 

So the utopia setting gives me a good iain m banks/anne leckie vibe but ruckley does not inpsire. Still, worth a crack

 

Well, my hope was that the reboot would keep things interesting and the premise so far certainly sounds intriguing. While we haven't seen any interiors yet I am a little wary of what the aesthetic for this series is going to be though. It kinda feels like it's gonna be all dark and dingy which I'm not the biggest fan of, and you know how it be with comic book art; The story can be great but if the art's bad or just isn't your cup of tea it can turn you off the book no matter how much you want to like it.

 

Quick thoughts:

One of my biggest fears about the new continuity was that they weren't going to run with some of my favorite parts of the old one, namely that Cybertron was a part of a larger galaxy. I really liked that IDW had the Transformers interacting with other civilizations and, ultimately, their war's effect on the worlds/galaxy around them. So the idea that Cybertron, with it's assumedly high technology and being a commerce center/trade hub of the galaxy is pretty interesting to me. It really sets the tone that Cybertronians don't exist in a vacuum. Hopefully, this will give the writer a natural opening for worldbuilding as that was another thing I thought IDW/ROberts did well, showing Cybertron having an actual culture and existence beyond the war as it gives a nice set of stakes and juxtapose against the war and what they'll/they could potentially lose.

I really want to see interior art but based on the interiors artists covers I could be okay with. Neither are Milne, Roche or Kei for instance but they don't have to be.

Last, is this potentially a noir-ish story given that it's a murder mystery with Prowl and Chromia leading the search? I could *really* get behind that (tho' I would've loved Strongarm as the rookie cop in place of Chromia paired up with Prowl).

 

Brand unification. Oh boy.

 

Originality has left.

 

So this writer tends to do darker stories?

That feels appropriate for a story that is going to be chronicling the collapse of peace as it is shattered by war. That’s not SUPPOSED to be a happy story.

Like are his inclinations dark or GRIMdark? As there IS a difference. GRIMdark is darkness for darkness’ sake/rule of cool and the pitch for this series sounds like one that is going “let’s treat the emergence of this civil war like the tragedy that it is rather than the background flavor text useful for flashback stories that it usually is treated as.”