I would fucking love that, actually. The time for talk ended a long time ago, Megatron chose violence and now it's time he got violence!

 

See also Batman, Xmen, etc etc which *also* often open with dialog setting up future action in the issue.

Comic books are a visual medium, but they're still also reading material. If every issue was just characters shouting in the middle of giant action splash pages it'd become tiring.

IDW got caught with their pants down on this one, so everything they've had to do since finding out amounts to damage control. I can tell it's impacted BW, and it's probably impacting their others ongoings as well.

 

Deathsaurus should be able to rip that irritant apart in Dragon mode. But after trying to give that Cliffjumper mini a chance I'm not surprised that they're demoting his rank and relevance again making him villain of the week instead of a real threat. Hell, I didn't really like his portrayal in LL either. But this feels worse. So easy pass on IDW once again.

 

Stan Lee: "So one question I'm always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there's one answer to all of that. It's so simple, anyone should know this. The person who'd win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win! If I'm writing a story, about The Thing, from the Fantastic Four, and he gets into a big fight with Spider-Man, and millions of people out there say Who Would Win? Well, it depends on who I want to win if I'm writing the script. If I want Spider-Man to win, he'll win. If I want the Thing to win, he'll win. These are fictitious characters, the writer can do whatever he wants with them! So stop asking those questions, 'cause I've had it with that."

 

You know the difference between Stan Lee and Ruckley? Stan Lee knew how to grab a reader’s attention from the first page of an issue. Ruckley does not.

 

.......Wasn't calling out lackluster scriptwriting my point?

The real question is who will win... The ability to publish G1 based Transformers comic books after IDW has written their last?

 

We already know. Skybound is getting the license.

‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Transformers’ Licenses to Leave IDW at End of 2022 – The Hollywood Reporter

 

gathering/ascending sucks, you're missing nothing.

 

In terms of Hasbro being all YOINK??? with the license lmao

 

Ruckley's still alive?

Yup. It's like a show getting cancelled. They can either rework what they've got to land the plane (if the cancellation notice comes in time) or the show just goes out as is and ends with whatever loose threads were there.

 

This is the editor’s fault as well.

There was a IDW contractor that said some other publisher gave Hasbro a pitch they liked better.

Hasbro better hope national news outlets don’t find out about what IDW did in a comic about a kids toys.