I think Boom is capable of that if they're given space to do so by Hasbro.

 

Marvel , Boom or Dark Horse. Marvel cause they have the money to make it a powerhouse. Dark horse or Boom cause they'd tell compelling stories.

 

My concern with a Marvel or DC is their standards for publication might be much higher than a DH or Boom. For instance, Marvel cancelled TF in 1991 when it sold 70,000 copies. Now the series sells less than 10,000.
Granted, digital sales didn’t exist and I don’t want to claim Marvel operates under the same numbers it did 30 years ago, but even if those standards are dramatically less it may still be too high at a power house compared to an indie.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care where it goes. As long as it leaves IDW. I’ve enjoyed some of their stuff over the past 15 years, but it’s time. IMO.

 

Those numbers don't hold at all anymore. There's too many other books to compete with than in 1991. It's just like TV. The series finale of M*A*S*H did numbers no modern show will ever touch in part because M*A*S*H was beloved, but mostly because there were only three stations to pick from. A modern show would be out-of-this-world ecstatic to hit numbers matching M*A*S*H's lowest rated episode. Not because less people are watching TV, but because there are literally dozens of outlets and thousands of on-demand options and the competition to be the show that any individual watches is insane.

70,000 would put you in the Top 20 books of the month in 2021.

 

Right. I thought I explained above that I don’t hold it to the same business model as 1991. However the theory still holds. Even if X-Men is ok selling (just picking a random number) 20,000, an 8,000 TF might not make the cut.

 

Sure, but the danger of it not making the cut exists at any publisher.

 

Of course. But the point is Marvels standards may be higher than an independent.

 

Yeah, I get that people are concerned because it's upheaval, it's change, it's different... but IDW has had the property for 15 years; that's longer than Marvel (who created almost everything we like about the damn thing) and like 5 times as long as Dreamwave. That's a really long time! I think this could be potentially a good thing if only to get some fresh blood or a new approach.

You are absolutely right that at Marvel, a Transformers book would have to preform much better than it would at Dark Horse or BOOM. That being said, again, I think the who and why are WAY more important than the where.

 

Emphasis on *may* lol

 

After some thought, I'm gonna agree with those saying Boom.

 

Right. I never said “Definitely”.

 

I want them to hire some ex=IDW and freelance staff and produce it in house and publish it digitally through the Pulse App. It should be digital only. It's almost 2022 for God's sake. Transformers has no future in the dead tree industry.

Giving it to Boom and putting it in a Local Comic Shop will find us back exactly where we are now in 5 years with Transformers selling 6k-8k a copy and people wondering why folks aren't going down to their comic shop to buy one.

Put Hasbro franchises - comics, cartoons, older content - on the Pulse app and expand the audience.

 

Marvel. Or scrap the comics for a bit and good full -Disney+. If you’re gonna sell out, sell out.

 

Let The Transformers comics rest for awhile. Hasbro should hold off on licensing for a few years to let things settle down. There seems to be several comic companies going through changes. Dark Horse and Boom are being shopped around and DC and Marvel have been cutting staff. Who knows what comics will look like in 5 years?

One thing is for sure. They shouldn't be exclusively digital. Screw that. There's no fun in digital comics. I'd rather watch Tiktoks.

 

Staying at IDW.

 

Anywhere but Marvel and DC. Marvel would oversaturate things and try to get too much going all at once, plus they can barely handle their own characters at this point. At DC I could see them trying something way out there that falls flat. I'd rather see it go to Boom or Dark Horse. Either of those could really give the licenses some attention. I'd especially love to see what Dark horse could do with GI Joe, given Hasbro didn't enforce the Classified take on them.

 

Surprised there's so much hate for Marvel as an option. You would almost certainly get pretty good talent on the book at Marvel, and as an additional upside, you wouldn't have to deal with the rights issues that currently surround some of the G1 comic material and characters. We could in theory get definitive reprints of the G1 stuff complete with, say, Spider-Man's appearance in issue #3, or have characters like Circuit Breaker show up in new stories.

 

Marvel. I really want to see Transformers introduced to the Marvel cinematic universe since they respect the source material.

I'm glad IDW have lost the licence. While I always enjoyed James Roberts and Nick Roche's books, I really didn't like John Barber's work.

IDW gave us some atrocious Transformers content over the years:

The Sciolli TF/Gi Joe crossover. While I liked some of the robot designs, the dialogue was torture.
Livio's artwork.
The Bumblebee mini series.
The Terminator crossover.
The Avengers crossover.
Stormbringer. As soulless as Thunderwing himself.
They made the Visionaries unrecognisable.
The Angry Birds crossover.
While I liked the portrayal of Rodimus Prime and Blurr, Regeneration was a disappointment.

 

No. no no no no no no no no.

Do not want.

I like my fanfiction, fan art, and third-party figures.

I do not like Marvel superheroes.

I enjoy the MCU sometimes, but I do not want the Transformers interacting with it.

I do not want the people who sue Etsy sellers that are Heathen and make religious articles for worship of the actual Norse God Loki to be suing people who make plush Seeker dolls.

I disliked the IDW crossovers too for the most part, though i did kind of like the MLP and Ghostbusters ones because, well... they were silly and did not affect the main plotline.

 

Literally anyone but not Marvel. In no way or shape anything even remotely OK would come out of franchise ending with Disney.