read the first post a couple of days ago and come back to discover a whole 12 pages of Drift love/hate. eek. Rivers of cyber ink has been spilled on this topic.

 

The Furman run after Infiltration suffered from the same problems as IDW's Beast Wars comics, although the BW titles amped it up to the max.

Basically, we have launched a new story that can be used as the groundwork for a lot of adventure stories.

Instead, the follow-up story introduces more characters and plot points and aims for an epic saga and leaves the most interesting parts of the original story far behind us.

 

You've totally hit the nail right on the head there. It's for this reason exactly that I was really excited during the early phase of INFILTRATION, but quickly started losing interest as the story passed too quickly beyond the "robots waging secret war on Earth" and right into the "colossal cosmic space epic". At least when Furman started, Infiltration and Stormbringer were relatively separate.

Okay, this I admit now has nothing to do with Drift at all.  

zmog

 

I think it's a shame that good books like Last Stand of the Wreckers written by good writers like Roche and Roberts only get half as many sales as the ongoing and All Hail Megatron.

I am confused as to how Costa can write a fairly decent book like TF: Ironhide and rather ordinary books like the ongoing. I don't understand the need for issue 8. I thought the movies were human-centric because of its target audience, but the comics don't need to be.

 

LSOTW didn't sell well? With all the buzz it got from the fans, I was sure it was a hit, but I haven't been aware of any sales figures. Damn shame if it's true.

 

Well, it sold pretty well considering
a) how little promotion it gotcompared to the other TF titles
b) it was a book starring a bunch of pretty obscure, non-A-list characters.

Because seriously, that is why the ongoing is selling so well. It is THE MAIN TRANSFORMERS ONGOING TITLE starring a lot of well-known characters.

Whereas LSOTW... well.

So I'd say it did pretty well considering the circumstances.

 

I actually don't mind Perceptor being a sniper but I totally agree the way it was presented was beyond idiotic.

 

Sure, he can be a regular sniper. Just not a super sniper  


Also, in issue 8 of the ongoing, Spike's secretary says maybe the higher-ups will like his new haircut. I know I don't!

 

Or even a guy who has a strong skill base and equipment for sniping, but who has an easily-distracted personality, talks too much and prefers, I dunno... to do science stuff instead?

zmog

 

Yeah 'super sniper' is taking things a bit far  

"I got shot in the face and chest so now I'm REALLY good at shooting things. Now where's Brawn, Im'ma git me sum nerd's revenge."

 

I'd also appreciate it if they could get some consistent character models. I'm getting a little weary of a new look for each bot, especially when one looks one way for a mini-series, and then we get back to the main story and he's back to the other way. (Jetfire, I am looking at you.)

 

The Ongoing is selling about 12,000 issues a month (AHM had similar numbers), the Bumblebee mini sold about 9-10,000, and LSotW sold in the 7-8,000 range. So LSotW's numbers weren't bad, but it was the lowest selling of the recent comic series. Of course these numbers don't include the UK sales; presumably Wreckers would have a lot of appeal among UK fans, so hopefully it sold well there.

 

So the comic we're all agreeing is pretty bad sells well, and the other comic that we're all enjoying sells the least. That's mainstream fandom for you, I guess.

 

I doubt we U.K. fans would have made much more of a contribution. I'd imagine we make up a small number of sales in comparison.

 

I read somewhere that the UK sells about 10-20% of the US total, depending on the title. So yeah, we're probably not talking about a huge number. But when a comic is only selling 7000 or so, I would imagine that even another few hundred sales are meaningful to the bottom line.

 

I love how the name Drift is now like a conversational grenade. You just toss it in and watch the mayhem.

 

Shortpacked! - Drift

 

Oh, look, it's Detour.

 

Christ. The numbers for comics are awful these days. Its a wonder the things are produced at all. I always thought it was silly to rely solely on the Direct Market and turn comics into a cottage industry.

 

Okay guys, found some old shit, mainly speculation about Drift:

From the Allspark, by Total Biscuit.


If that is true (and I bet it is), this makes Drift the biggest Mary Sue in Transformers history