It won't happen, but I want Bumblebee to stay his chubby little self and not take any Camaro Testosterone. Also, do something with the nature-loving bots. Hound and Beachcomber. Showing Earth as a place worth protecting instead of just the douchy human race would be a nice change. I don't think we've seen an effort on that front since Animated Prowl. And having seperate books for the Bots and Cons could be intriguing. Especially the Cons, who are too often shown as just various degrees of power hungry and back-stabby.
I'd love to see an anthology series unconstrained by timelines or other series that focuses on exploring the interesting characters who exist in the Transformers universe. Nick Roche had pitched this to IDW but that was a year or so before the reboot which is why it never happened. It's an idea I'd love to see explored.
Respectfully disagree with you there. There are people in the real world who don't feel sexual attraction towards anything at all, but that hasn't stopped some of them from being in romantic relationships. Asexual people have been known to fall in love, go on dates, and even get married, just like most other people. The only difference is that they don't engage in sexual activities. If humans are capable of such relationships, I don't see why a race of intelligent robots that in many ways behave similarly to humans can't do the same. We've seen Cybertronians hang out with friends, play sports, establish governments, celebrate holidays, fight in wars... the list goes on. Considering all this, is it really that hard to believe one of them could decide, "I want to spend the rest of my life with this person," and proceed to do exactly that if said person feels the same way?
What i want: .Consistency: Don't contradict stabilished facts of the story, this is specially true with characters, how many times have we seen authors distort existing chracters just because they wanted to tell a certain story ? Enough of that. It's also important to remember what a character can do or cannot do, some situations should be solved, others should not, gotta plan yourself ahead, i know that's hard in comic books but please pay attention to what the previous run stabilished before writing your story .Nuance: I think interesting characters are made of virtues and flaws, this what engages me to ponder whether they'll rise up above their shortcomings or fall to their darker impulses, AKA Character Development, characters lacking nuance are less interesting though not inherently bad, they can serve as support for the main stars. Another thing to take notice is Creator Pets, you know that one character the author refuses to portray in negative light and everything has to bend favorably to towards them ? and who other characters can't criticize either, stop that, it's annoying .Byronic Hero Starscream: My fav character in all TF is Starscream for the potential he has as character, i think the Byronic Hero trope would serve him very well, think of Oskar von Reuenthal from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, speaking of which... .Grey Perspective: TF is about the Autobots vs the Decepticons, good vs evil, but how about...good vs good ? Forgive me for defying the western point of view, but i don't see why autocracy and colonialism have to be inherently demonized, i'd like to see something like LOGH, where both sides present Pros and Cons to their systems and people .Tomboy fembots: Nuff said
Here's my pitch: similar to Marvel's current OT-era Star Wars run, tell the story of what happened between the end of the second season of the G1 cartoon and the movie. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we've ever really seen that outside of all the various Japanese continuity stuff? Concurrently perhaps, start a new series that, like Masters of the Universe Revelation and X-Men '97, takes place after the end of "The Rebirth." Anyway, the one thing I really, REALLY want is a Transformers/Godzilla crossover. I've wanted that since I was a wee tyke. Now that Hasbro and Toho have already worked together on a crossover (with the Power Rangers), I've got my fingers very crossed.
After seeing the covers to IDW's cancelled Collision Course I'm hoping for a big multiverse type story.
What title do you prefer: Transformers: Secret Wars or Transformers: Crisis on Infinite Cybertrons? Not but for real, I actually think something like this could be kinda fun. Though I feel like the TF multiverse is kinda meddled by all the FunPub stuff which is really just needlessly convoluted, but at the same time, it'd feel weird to just ignore all of that since it's definitely the furthest and most detailed look into the multiverse we've ever gotten.
Seconded. I wish they could start with Collision Course and then have a new universe, but that'd be overkill. What I actually want to see in Skybound (or whoever)'s Transformers: Humans and Autobots being genuine friends, not like what we got in IDW1's Spike Witwicky. Optimus Prime being an unflinching hero and father to his men (and women). No more being a liar or whatever Windblade called him in his funeral. Miniseries themed on other universes besides Beast Wars, like Victory, Battlestars, the Unicron Trilogy, Animated, Prime, and so on (Diaclone?) that are relatively standalone but can leave enough seeds to build up to a potential multiverse event (like Collision Course). Or miniseries set in the primary universe, but showcasing other Transformers in other countries, because I really want to see guys like Clampdown and Officer Miko Tezuka, thanks to Takara's Velocitron web comics. I really like when IDW's Transformers crossed over with other franchises. Maybe more of that? Still waiting on that Justice League/Transformers crossover we never got. And since this is the closest we have to a Skybound thread, I'm kinda surprised Hasbro didn't use PulseCon 2022 to officially reveal Skybound (or whoever) as the next TF comic licensor. Maybe we'll learn more when we're even closer to the new year?
They probably need to wait until the IDW contract is over before they starting talking about the new guys. Though it's entirely possibly the talks with Skybound fell through and Hasbro is looking at another publisher instead. I'm not really sure what I want, honestly. I really feels like if I wait long enough, some show or comic eventually gives me what I want. Things I like to see with Transformers -The characters interacting, especially across faction lines. For as trash as the Prime Wars cartoon was, curmudgeonly Megatron interacting with Prime and Windblade was easily the best part. It's been some of my favorite elements of Cyberverse and IDW as well. -Playing around with the fact that the transformers are both aliens and robots. Pre-beast wars was the wild west for the stuff and I'd like to see a return to that. -When Earth is in the picture, I really like it when they stick to the "robots in disguise" thing for a bit before Transformers on Earth become common knowledge. -Going for a wide selection of eras to pull source material from so it's not just a rehash of the 1984 cast. Stuff like Demolishor or Barricade or Tarantulas or Strika on the Decepticons. For the Autobots, characters like Windblade or Rattrap or Bulkhead or Strongarm. Ultimately though, what I really want is something that feels fresh and not like a rehash. More Earthspark or Animated than Dreamwave or early IDW (or god forbid, All Hail Megatron).
It's tricky with Transformers. You can't go too far afield or hardcores will be mad. On the other hand, you shouldn't be pounding the established Transformers characters into scenarios in which they don't belong. People get sick of MORE G1, but the G1 characters remain the ones against all others are measured. If you try something new, it may not be received well. Hopefully, whatever the new take is, we get characters that we recognize placed into new and exciting situations. I'd rather a recognizable Optimus Prime fighting some new threat than some character walking around in Optimus drag because someone only has a perfunctory understanding of the character and his various incarnations.
Collision Course had me sad only because it deprived us the chance to see characters like the Animated, High Moon, and TFP characters again, not necessarily because I wanted a multiverse story. I’d certainly be open to one, but it takes work and years to build up to it. No Way Home made it work somehow because even though it went big, it still kept a solid arc for Peter-One and also had two other franchises that had years of history and a need for closure/resolution. Even if Collision Course materialized, it could’ve easily flopped. You can’t have your Endgame if you don’t work up to it. With that all said, I truly hope the new license holder is willing to delve back into the past universes. Do an Animated four part arc, a Prime four part arc, Lost Light, etc. Have a main ongoing that can still correlate with the current toyline, but also have a side ongoing that delves into the multiverse just to give us stories with old characters. And I know you always want new talent and people, but I would be lying if I didn’t want them to still bring in greats to help or cover stuff like Milne, Barber, Roberts, Scott, Catt, Isenberg, etc. Barber at the least is a god of continuity and should at least work on maintaining it, or helping find a disciple for it. Also hopefully with the adaptation of Invincible, and arguably also with the Walking Dead, if Skybound gets it, maybe we can get animated adaptations of comics or even new original animated Transformers stories.
I don't know if Skybound has that kind of power. Pretty sure that's in Hasbro's power, but hey, never say never.
I did hear that an animated IDW movie did get floated around at one point from Roberts himself on Twitter, so it probably is more Hasbro than anything who are choosing not to go that route. The stories they could tell with direct to video standalone animated films, man.
Robots in Friggin' Disguise. I never saw anything of IDW past the first two or three years so I don't know if they ever addressed this issue. But I tired quickly of robots walking around and acting like moody teenagers. Center the stories on Earth where they have a reason to actually transform. I don't care what Rodimus's politics are or what the consensus of the citizens are towards the government of Cybertron.
That's actually how the first IDW universe starts, with a team of six bots and a team of six cons fighting a shadow war on a (mostly) unaware Earth. However, things quickly escalate to the point where the Transformers become wider knowledge, and then All Hail Megatron just has Megatron out and out conquer Earth, so everyone knows about them.
I know this post is two months old, but nobody really has a problem with TFs finding love. What they do have a problem (me included) with is it being shoved in our faces every single issue and having to read all of their relationship problems (cough, cough, MTMTE).
I was at a Halloween party in Chicago that Daniel Warren Johnson was at. He was bragging about being the writer and artist for the first six issues of the Transformers Relaunch.
