Yes, trying to make something creative out of Go-Bots is respect. What's not respect is how everyone else treats the franchise: a dead franchise that's been retroactively written off as nothing more than a Transformers rip-off and a complete joke. So would prefer "non-existent", you know, like the rest of the Go-Bots franchise?
Things are getting weird. And that's okay, I think. In a way, it does make it more interesting and unpredictable (even if this is borrowing heavily from Planet of the Apes). The style of dialogue delivery is still awkward and almost childish, and not necessarily in a good way... but it does produce an oddly disturbing discord with the darkness of the content. Hmm. z
This makes me think of Incredible Change Bots, only I am pretty sure that was intentionally made that way as a parody.
it's good. It's less batshit crazy than TF vs GI JOE, which --- love or hate --- was a crazy beautiful fever dream. Go-Bots has been solid. Certainly among the better takes on it.
Everytime I read these previews, the worse the writing, pacing and drawing seems to be. Hopefully, one day, a decent Gobots comic will get made, but not today.
I'm thinking Scioli has some compromising photos/documents on IDW's higher-ups. "Let me make my comics or I release the dirt I have on you..."
Nah, outside of a few key people, IDW has gone down the crapper art wise for a while now. This is how they draw Rose from Star Wars:
Oh my, what a twist! Guess I won't be reading this anymore...oh well. It was interesting for the first couple of issues. Not only was the "(insert alien planet) is Earth" plot line old by the time TLK did it, but a ham-handed attempt at saying technology has devolved humans? No thanks. Time to read Robo Machines...anything else to recommend to a newbie at Go-Bots?
I really adore this series. The first issue was a weird read, especially seeing the art after enjoying Godland's art years ago, but at some point in #2 something clicked and now I can't wait for each one. It reads like a kid playing with all his Go-bot toys, swooshing them around in the air and speaking all the dialogue, but with backgrounds added and the hands removed. The stories drawing from whatever he saw on tv that week.
I'm wondering if there'd be parallels easily spotted if we compared people defending this book and the people who defended the Combiner Wars cartoon...
When you're passionate about a subject/franchise/whatever, it is universal. Passionate is love as well as hate. Both sides of the same coin.
