IDW’s Transformers: Shattered Glass, Pitre-Durocher Issue #5 Retailer Incentive Cover Art

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  1. AzT

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    Love textless covers.
     
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    Jezzus that is a boring cover.

    There\'s precisely NOTHING going on in it.

    How TF does IDW stay in business?
     
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    with cool stories and cool art inside of the comic book itself lol.
     
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    That is debatable.
     
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    why are you on this thread if you dislike it? let people have nice things.
     
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    Simple. I'm an avid and loyal Transformers fan, and I'm using my voice.

    I actively want to spend my hard earned money on nice things.

    That cover is not nice things. It's trash.

    I'm providing free consumer insights to IDW.
     
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  8. Moonminer

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    I mean, I get it. you dont have to like everything, but this really isn't insight since nobody gained any deeper understanding or new information out of this opinion. there is clearly a reason why IDW stays in business and that is because many people enjoy the comics and stories and art inside them.
     
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    Debt is the reason IDW stays in business.

    Not sales.
     
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    You do raise a good point tho. I shall explain my opinion on why that is a very poor cover.

    You would likely agree that comics are a visual medium. You would also likely agree that a comic book cover is meant to grab a viewers attention from a veritable sea of of competing covers on comic stands.

    Perhaps a cover could propose a scenario (Batman being eaten by sharks?! Wolverine stabbed Xavier?! Speedy is junkie?! Optimus surrendering?!)

    Perhaps you could agree that a comic cover is meant to entice people into purchasing a book.

    Okay.

    What does this close-up, side profile of Jetfire do? It takes up the entire page. The drawing is pure tumbler - journeyman level at best. It doesn’t tell a story. Speaks nothing to what’s inside the book...

    And yet, even if it was poorly drawn - that’s fine (Liefeld)... This cover has committed the cardinal sin of all comics: it’s boring.

    Why would I pay $$$ for such meh?
     
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    Now i can get behind this opinion. Im just used to people on this website just saying something sucks and leaving it at that. I agree, I do like those old marvel comic covers, and the Optimus Prime comic covers were always amazing
     
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    All the headshot covers are amazing!
     
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    Like "Optimus Prime - Autobot Killer!" I mean... come. On. How could a kid in 80's not pick that up to see what the hell was going on?

    I'm dating myself here, but... meh.
     
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    I've enjoyed my fair share of earlier IDW Transformers comics (Last Stand of the Wreckers) but it has been years since I felt persuaded to read the material.

    Your criticism isn't off base at all. I don't see how this cover composition, or the variations of head shots by the same artist, is compelling.

    A bigger question I have is how the editorial team thinks this cover should be greenlit for publication.
     
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    That's fine and I'm not opposed to anyone liking the cover and I'm not talking about action or lack thereof.

    I'm simply in agreement with @Dire 51 that the composition of the cover is lackluster. I'm looking at it from a graphic design perspective.
     
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    So you are advocating that close up profile images are good or competent compositions for comic book covers? That this Jetfire cover is "good" from a graphic design perspective?
     
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    That's pure opinion and subjective, which isn't what is being questioned. I'll leave it at that.
     
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    Maybe so. Almost all old TF is riddled with tiny flaws. I'm personally quite forgiving of such things as the art must be taken as a whole, you know?

    But where I believe that cover succeeds (as with #5 "are all dead") is in creating an exciting image which compells a passer-by to pick up the book and investigate.