Yeah, really. I don't care what anyone says, I prefer "GIVE ME YOUR FACE" Prime over Emo Prime any day of the week. He should just paint himself black already and---- Oh waaaaaaiiittt........
Funny thing is how much of his work are IDW basically re doing. Anyway done before, wont last, depending on who fills his shoes will depend on weather this story is any good, I hope we Ultra Magnus get a fair crack at it this time, the movie sold his so short, lot of interesting bots that could hadle the job well, IDW's Kup might be in line of course we could also have the "wicked cool awesomeness of rise Driftimus Prime... and here have another sword and a thing that people will call a sword but is technically a glave cos you so awsome". I think this time at least Grimlock is well out of the running, probably fort max and I'd put hot rod down as a real out sider to.
I bet they'll handle tiny parts of this plotline in clever, nuanced ways that we never would've thought of ourselves. Then I bet they'll ignore established chain-of-command and invent their own "because it just felt right." Followed by 20-30 stunningly out-of-character/continuity moments, and then everybody gets redesigned (again). Oh, and then Drift appears. Look at the bright side: If you're confused by the IDW Continuity, don't panic, cause whatever you're stuck on probably didn't happen.
What happened to spoilers? I hadn't gotten around to reading this yet and BAM there it is on the front page. Thanks for that.
blame IDW. they sent out a press release about it. the damn thing is on the usa today website's comic section front page. anywhere that has comic news, this is gonna be posted. again. blame IDW.
As much as I would love to see Rodimus Prime. I gotta second Smkspy here and say a big BOOOO-URNS!!! Hate to say this. But why not do a animated and have more than one Prime. Split the autobots X-men Gold and Blue teams style and have two different books? But that will never happen nor ever work.
It's cool that they are trying to do something different, and I really would enjoy some of Rodimus Prime's delightful uncaring leadership. (HE destroyed Paradron practically out of laziness, buy hey Cybertron's better anyway :/). Not getting the books though... I'm hoping for something that follows and streamlines the TV series story more and until that happens comics will always remind me of that ******ed pic of Ratchet and Megs fused into one body that made me sad to be looking at the comics to begin with.
Pretty much. Yup. My money's on him returning by issue 6 ... you know, for the TPB. P.S.: why the spoilers cries? We knew Ironhide was going to die for at least a week now. -airfox
Wow, that's a shocker. Makes room for Rodimus Prime to take charge. At least they didn't kill Optimus off. He can always come back someday.
I’ve been on most of the IDW ride, I stopped after Devastation. Hated the dead Universe, Maximum Dinobots art and story wise was putrid. AHM got me back and now it’s over and we have a robot calling himself Optimus Prime giving up leadership? Where is the Prime everyone looked up to? I really wish the license went to someone who cared about TFs and wrote them like that. DW did a good job of a healthy balance between the cartoon and Marvel books. Their ongoing was going somewhere and Prime wasn’t a depressing leader like how Furman and most other these days like to write him.
He Died and they brought him back...what makes anyone think him quitting won't be fixed in a couple of issues time. Now if he told the rest of the autobots to go get f**ked, killed megatron and took over as leader of the decepticons that might be a bit of a twist....or Bumblebee has been a decepticon double agent all along
...errr..what? I have no idea what Optimus is up to, and I haven't read the comic yet..but out of context, it's kind of funny, Optimus is finally realizing what 'has to be done' after years of trying to be the morally ideal leader...and instead of getting his act togehter...he quits? ... But like I said, there might be a meaning for that. I'm going to pick up this first issue anyway and determine if I will buy future ones from that on.
