Oh, ew. Well, looks like the back half of Galaxies is just going to be a total shitshow. And it started off so mediocre, too.
I never liked the this last 3 issues at all unlike the constructions and cliffjumper which worked so well unlike Arcee Greenlight and gauge like seriously what’s the story and agenda to it before the real action happens after ultra Magnus
Yeah, this was just a really poorly executed arc. The idea was alright but the combination of poor pacing, poor setups, poor logic and poor resolution just really left me cold. Which is especially sad since I really, REALLY enjoyed the first two arcs.
Based on what I’m reading here, not picking up this arc was the right decision. Transformers 84’ Secrets and Lies is the gold standard for current Transformers comics!
I think it was a bad idea shoving a writer-OC like Gauge into our faces to bring in more girl power. Seriously, does anybody in this world consume TF of all franchises in the hopes of getting girl power? The Nautica/Road Rage issue on the other side worked well for me, but here it's just some character I have no connection to and who doesn't seem to have any personality aside from being the innocent kid (that is able to beat grown-ups regardless). If it was written decently it might have worked regardless maybe, but the endless back and forth switching between live dialogue and Gauge summarizing events (mostly without showing them because the artist was probably forced to show Gauge instead) made immersion impossible. Every time I was about to get into what happens right now the story went back to inner monologues that can all be summarized as Gauge wondering about everythings and Heretech being mean. The last issue was a bit better because I at least liked the conclusion which is about Gauge staying neutral, though I don't get why Accelerator is forgiven while Heretech was constantly painted as the big bad. Anyway, I hope he wasn't wasted on this series and is actually still alive. The "death" was very weird and the body seems fine aside from a bunch of cracks and didn't turn grey either. I hope it's another coma case like Deathsaurus and that he will return later, maybe as desillusioned ex-believer that eventually ends up getting a similar job as in IDW1, this time not written by Maggs but Ruckley again, hopefully.
yeah this story was trash, they escape Cybertron and end up......back on Cybertron? my LCS owner says the new TF books have been selling like shit
I really can’t believe they haven’t ordered another reboot yet. There’s nothing to push this series. It’s not comic book writing, the are used cheap, there’s no movie coming out. With sales that low....I mean they’ve orders reboots (even soft ones) for less than that.
IDW is on its way out. Marvel and DC are hurting bad, and other comic book companies critically so. I guess they can’t afford to enforce rewrites and fine-tuning that editors are supposed to do.
The people on this thread saying that the comic is failing don't seem to understand how comic sales work. Other IDW series like TMNT and MLP see similar figures as Transformers 2019 and they've both been around for almost a decade so the comic is almost certainly meeting whatever quota it needs to keep itself afloat. As for the this arc's lackluster quality, its not because IDW can't afford to hire good writers or editors, it's because they're hiring writers for their clout. Sam Maggs, the writer of Galaxies 7-9, is a very popular writer and IDW probably hired her to try and attract her fans to the book. It's likely that she was given a lot of free rein by the editors to make whatever story she wanted, regardless on how well it fit into the ongoing plot.
The whole Gauge/Heretech arc was unen-gauge-ing. I've genuinely been enjoying this rebooted continuity but i gotta say Arcee/Greenlight/Gauge is not that interesting of a character dynamic.
Didn't like this story arc, which is a shame because I've enjoyed everything else in this reboot so far. Oh well, Guess I just have to wait to see how the Magnus story dose. People have been saying "IDW is in on it's way out" for years whenever there's a book going on that they don't enjoy, even if there are other books doing well Transformers or otherwise. I'll believe when I actually see it.
I genuinely feel like Maggs isn't a TF fan at all, which is most likely true, since I agree to what others have said here that they probably casted her because she is popular. But I consider this a bad idea because maybe I am imagining things, but to me her arc felt very much like a story written by someone that doesn't know anything about Transformers. Nothing aside from Gauge played any relevant role other than her parents maybe, and even they had nothing to tell about themselves, their past in the war or anything connected to Cybertronian history or how they even met. They were just there to be the loving parents and nothing else. And instead of somehow giving the religion any kind of context it just served as backdrop for a hostile evironment. shadow panther complained about how they escaped from the planet only go back there right afterwards, which seems to confirm my suspicion that Meggs just did what she want and Ruckley's/IDW's will was just that the characters end up in the same position as before. I feel like they only ever left to begin with because she wanted this for her arc, and now they came back to be used the way they were meant to from the very start. Which is on Cybertron. And this also explains Heretech's non-death. He is probably meant to be here too and get a role again later. I wish they had asked literally anybody else, especially with how many good past writers these comics had. Hell even Ramondelli is a writer now and I enjoyed his Kill Lock. And Cyberverse was written by newer generations of fans too and at least for me the series worked well.
