John Barber: No Longer EiC at IDW

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  1. Rodimus Prime

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    You guys realize that this isn't a Sonic website, right?
     
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    Finally.
     
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    Prowl was originally portrayed in the tech specs as logical, quiet and very patient. Not amoral and whiney like Barber and Furman before him wrote him.

    Nick Roche wrote a much better Prowl. Barber tried to follow it but was lacking.

    Fans bemoan Costa but he gave us the noble warrior Thundercracker everybody liked. Then Barber watered him down trying to be funny with the screen writing and dog and made him goofy. Sorry but I don't like dogs.
     
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    Sorry but I always found Optimus to be annoyingly perfect, Wheeljack and Perceptor as annoying know all scientists, Kup as the annoying know it all and G1 Bumblebee as the annoying sidekick. I actually like RID and Bay Bumblebee.

    Rattrap just annoys me on every level and Alpha Trion was the first cosplay Transformer and I detest facial hair on robots. Along with Kup, Wreck-Gar and Orion Pax, I find them to be ugliest G1 designs.

    If you like them, good for you but I don't.
     
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    We sure we read the same IDW Optimus?

    Prime Optimus is the closest to an Optimus that is "perfect", and IDW Prime is definitely not that.
     
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    I get what you mean, I suppose over 3 decades of bias against him, it's just a reflex to automatically dislike him.

    The funny thing is as soon as I hear Peter Cullen’s performance, I do like him. One thing I liked in the Baymovies was the retractable face plate because I generally don't like them on Transformers.

    You'll probably think I've a screw loose but I really like Prime in the Netflix trilogy. I liked that he was unsure of himself.

    As for John Barber, I did like his early work on Robots in Disguise but I felt it went downhill when he relocated them to Earth.

    I did like his movie tie-in comic books.
     
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    I echo that I loved his movie-verse work, but his later IDW stuff really lost me to the point where this doesn't sudden me at all
     
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    The IDW comics haven’t been good in a long time. A good change of pace is needed at this point.
     
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    Going out of business is definitely a change.
     
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    What’s with the blue text?
     
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    Welcome to TFW2005, around these parts blue text is often used to denote sarcasm.
     
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    I see. Thanks for the tip.
     
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    End of an era it seems likd