TBH, RG1 at least managed to make me angry. The new ongoing gets absolutely no emotional response from me and that's probably not a good thing with any piece of fiction.
It's Furman defecating on his own G1 character development for Scorponok, for an example. It's also ugly. Modern coloring style absolutely wasted lineart coming from classic G1 comic book artists. Finally, it's also redundant. Continuation to G1 TF books already existed in G2 comic series.
I'd quite like a redo of the Marvel comics. When they first started everything was still finding its feet. I'd like basically a retelling of crashing on Earth and then take it from there, hitting certain classic points while also doing its own thing within that universe.
I agree. I have long wanted a series like that. As much as fans don’t seem to care for Hasbro having too much influence, I think that’s what helped TF and G.I.Joe strive for so long. Not only did you have to intro new characters every so often but also new technologies and new destinations which helped drive the story. (ARAH just feels so lost without that direction.) Imagine having the ability to not only do this, but to do it with enough forethought that yes, eventually we lead to this and that and therefore seeds will be planted earlier on. I’d dig it.
PISS OFF ON THIS! No, seriously F**K this! We could continue ANY bit of TF Media, ANYTHING. Finish the energon comic series that was actually pretty good. Or maybe Transformers Animated getting a comic continuation. How about doing something with the original concept for Beast Machines and/or Beast Wars Season 4. There's soooo many possibilities! But noooooooooo we gotta stick to the 80's we gotta put out MORE GEE WUN even though GEE WUN IS LITERALLY EVERYWHERE! I'm not even buying TF figures anymore because of all the G1 ness and releasing new toys of characters who literally just got toys or still have actually pretty good toys that still hold up. You can't just keep giving G1 stuff knees and the 80's will only get you so far before it dies out. The 90's Nostalgia Boom is on its way and if they don't get with the program they are gonna lose out big time
I grew up on Marvel UK and loved it but after Regeneration, I'm sceptical. Regeneration ignored the far superior G2 comics. Megatron was reduced to a one dimensional villain. G2 Megatron however was more likeable and looking back reminds me of Machinima Megatron who was one of the few things most fans liked about the show. Regeneration also made the mistake of trying to replicate the G1 comic art using Wildman's terrible style and the limited Marvel US comic colour palette. It also focussed on the same boring G1 Autobots such as Optimus, Kup and the Wreckers. The Neo Cybertronians looked terrible too. They could have used neo G1 characters such as Acid Storm and Off Road or developed obscure G1 characters like Kick Off and Gripper. In addition, they could have followed the old school trend if using the latest toys of the characters. It would have more sense to see Soundwave on Cybertron in his more practical War For Cybertron alt mode. Hopefully TF84 will avoid these mistakes. At least Barber's not writing it.
Create the work you want to see! I'm serious, and not being a dck (for once). Share your passion, and show the world what's awesome - and what you see in, say, Beast Machines.
Well the orginal concept of the Maximals having to chase Megatron to the stars whilst he took over the Nemesis to raise a PRedacon army was pretty awesome
Speaking of Beast Wars I'd still like to see a series that takes place between G1 and BW where it explores the end of the Great War and the Great Upgrade that shows the transition of the Autobots and Decepticons to Maximals and Predacons.
I'm going to have to side with Haywired here. The problem was that it wasn't coloured in traditional flats and was way too busy with gradients and feathering effects which effectively robbed the line work of any impact. It ended out a washed out mess. No diss on the colourist, it just wasn't the appropriate style for the book and unsuited to the ink work. Yeah, welcome to the era of Detective Pikachu and mini 16bit retro gaming systems. I don't question the commitment and love that '90s individuals have for the property, but there was a massive shift away from toys and accessible comics in that decade.
The fun part is, if you take those pages into Photoshop and remove the colors from them... Then it shows that Wildman and Senior art in RG1 isn't worse than in G1 books, it's just obstructed and clashing with the coloring style. It's a very weird editorial choice for this book. Modern style of coloring is fine. When paired with a modern style for the lineart.
That's a good starting point! I would really encourage you to write something or draw something, and share it. If it's cool to you, it's bound to be cool to someone else. Maybe you see something in the content that others are missing. Do it nAu!!
Everyone talking about this like it is, or could become, an ongoing series, you realise this was explicitly announced as a single, one-shot prequel issue for the original Marvel series, right? They actively clarified the fact that it's just a one-shot during the panel.
Not explicit enough. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/03/31/idw-publish-transformers-1984-0-july/ You could read this article as just a one-shot, but also IDW are rebooting their series in July and Simon Furman is influencing it from the beginning this time. I would've gotten the wrong idea if this had introduced me to the news rather than TFWs reporting of the panel.
I'm a big G1 fan, and yeah after RG1, kinda apprehensive of Furman's take on yet another G1 book. That said, I would totally be in if they did a TF Animated book that followed Season 3.
