IDW September Solicitations

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Predakwon, Jun 14, 2013.

  1. ZacWilliam

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    Boo to that. We've had 30 years of that and will get 30 years more. Lets have some variety. No reason two rivals can't fight it out. Seeing Soundwave and his forces be the heroes and save the day from Shocker's dark scheme sounds awesome.

    -ZacWilliam, one nice thing about Megatron out of the way is it lets the guys too often in his shadow have a chance to shine.
     
  2. Yggdrasil

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    Posts like these are what drags this franchise down and keeps us from having any ingenuity and inovation.

    (plus it's not the first time we have a Decepticons against Decepticons. Marvel's Civil War anyone? Ratbat VS Scorponok? Scorponok VS Shockwave? Scorponok VS Megatron VS Shockwave? Megatron VS Shockwave?)
     
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    That would make sense, and I'd like to see finally the real Rodimus Prime character replacing Op as he is supposed to do (but does this mean we'll have a return of Optimus Prime?).

    I wish that the restored Nebulos could be the basis for a miniseries featuring the missing Fortress Maximus! The one who "died" on Earth was the Headmaster, meaning that his head should be somewhere on Nebulos (maybe Scorponok knows where).

    Agreed!
     
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    Loving the Samurai Jack cover!
     
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    These synopses fill me with anticipation and approval.
     
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    Somehow, I don't think Shockwave's going to be the one to lose this issue--especially if issues 18-21 all take place at the same time.

    But yes, Soundwave vs. Shockwave does sound awesome.
     
  7. Yggdrasil

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    Yeah RID is doing the whole "meanwhile on" thing right now.

    #18 was what the Autobots were doing. #19 is what's happening on Gorlam Prime/what Prime and his gang are doing. #20 is what Starscream and his NAILS are doing and #21 will be what Soundwave and the cons are doing.

    I'm guessing that #21 will show us what the heck what that thing at the end of #18.
     
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    DON'T DIE, WHIRL!!!

    So, in other words... fulfilling an arbitrary narrative cliche, following the easy, heavily foreshadowed story path? My main hope for his survival all this time is simply that Roberts is usually good at throwing us twists, and Whirl's death would be so.... predictable.

    It doesn't matter. He's unvincible. His despicable presence is more powerful than any mere writer.

    If you blink, you'll miss it. Shockwave in almost any continuity would stomp Soundwave and his CD collection into the firmament, and then use his corpse as a streetlight, because it would be "logical". I mean, seriously... this is a guy who routinely takes on the whole Dinobot team. Soundwave would be an idiot to challenge him (which, might I add, is not Soundwave's style).

    zmog
     
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    I'm really hoping that tyrant isn't Star Saber...
     
  10. Anguirus

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    ^ Yeah you'll feel a bit silly won't you? :p 
     
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    More annoyed :p 

    His first real introduction to Western audiences and he turns out to be a galactic despot.

    At least that's how he was portrayed in Roberts' training ground in the UK fanfiction community. Hopefully he keeps him heroic.
     
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    I don't think that the guys in the shadows should have a chance to shine. Many of the characters from the late days of G1 were poorly designed toys that looked horrible in the pages of Marvel comics and most of their personalities were just copies of characters from '84-'85. I would rather IDW concentrate on the original concepts and characters that made Transformers awesome in the first place. Everything just seems a little messy right now.
     
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    ... 1984? Is that you?
     
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    1984forever lives again! Run for your lives!
     
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    "Nineteen-Eighty-Four"
     
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    Soundwave vs Shockwave sounds fun. That Whirl cover looks great too.

    Heheheh. The same thing occurred to me as soon as I saw his earlier post.
     
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    If Whirl dies, it'll be Cyclonus shooting him in the back after he's just done something uncharacteristically unselfish.

    Because let's face it - if anything's clear it's that only one of them is coming back alive from the next situation of certain peril where the two are paired up.
     
  18. Anguirus

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    ...he's talking about Soundwave and Shockwave.

    Oh, and it's worth pointing out that nearly every character who's big in IDW right now are from 1987 or earlier. The exceptions are a few guys who really took off like Bludgeon. The derivative characters you describe are background or redshirts for the most part.
     
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    The art in the Marvel comics was almost never good... IMHO. But with regard to the other stuff, I think I'd like to hear that supported with some examples. I'm not a big fan of the later G1 characters (and of course, maybe my definition of "later" might be different than others'), but I don't think that they were just "copies" of earlier characters. And we've certainly gotten a lot of interesting characters out of the more obscure bots in MTMTE.

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    LOL. I can't possibly be him, because that would mean that I'm James Roberts pretending to be 1984forever pretending to be Phantom84, like some sort of...Pretender.