Love the cover. Wanted to add in that I checked Comixology and found out that it now takes them two issues later to discount them. So I'm now two issues behind the current one. Just read the issue of MTMtE featuring Ratchet saving the day. That was one messed up issue, and I didn't even think of the reason some bots got infected and others didn't till they pointed it out. Also read the intro of Orion Pax in RiD which was... interesting. I completely forgot about Wheelie and Grunk (was that his name? I forgot...).
My bad didn't know that wasn't Nick Roche talking. I hope they get the chance to finish MTMtE as well as RiD, especially MTMtE since it seems to have given hints to the outcome in the early issues.
Dangit, I knew I should have resisted clicking on your spoiler Antimatter. But I couldn't remember if I read 6 yet or not, but after reading it I realized that I didn't read it yet.
I always hated how Bluestreak was always mistaken for Prowl.
My bad didn't know that wasn't Nick Roche talking. I hope they get the chance to finish MTMtE as well as RiD, especially MTMtE since it seems to have given hints to the outcome in the early issues.
Dangit, I knew I should have resisted clicking on your spoiler Antimatter. But I couldn't remember if I read 6 yet or not, but after reading it I realized that I didn't read it yet.
I always hated how Bluestreak was always mistaken for Prowl.
I'm sorry that I spoiled you indirectly! re: your spoiler
Should be easier for people to tell the difference now, Bluestreak is actually blue, while Prowl is white. Smokescreen, who's blue-ish, is on the Lost Light.
RUNG LIVES! He isn't greyed out, his brain module is intact, he has a pulse on the life support system he's on, and someone put one of his model ships next to him!
GAH I so hope they put MTMtE 6 on sale so I can read it!!!
On the other note, when did they start doing this "Regeneration" line?!?!?!??! I just saw it the other day and went, "WTH!? They're continuing the original story!!!!" I haven't read any of it yet, but downloaded the free intro 80 1/2 issue to check it out. I loved the original comics even if it mostly advertising. At least it had more story arcs that made sense compared to the TV show.
Edit: Sweet it was on sale. Picked it up and just finished it. Oh man... Now I see what you meant by your spoiler.
I don't think Bluestreak would have been out there though. I am so glad Rung is still alive he really is growing on me.
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I think the first five pages were written only for decepticon stuff because Roberts knew the preview was going to be five pages long and wanted the focus entirely on them
at least, I'd guess so, because despite it being Decepticon Month there's still Autobot stuff to deal with, at least from what I remember from the solicit.
I totally knew they weren't going to kill off Rung. Okay, 59% sure they weren't going to. A bot with a microphone for a thumb? That's too awesome to throw away like that!
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I totally knew they weren't going to kill off Rung. Okay, 59% sure they weren't going to. A bot with a microphone for a thumb? That's too awesome to throw away like that!
Impactor also follows on from Hook Jaw, but only because he’s got a hook in his anatomy which he stabs into things. Impactor is a supporting character created by Simon Furman as part of the British-originated Transformer Comics. And – no, shut up. You have no idea how important the Brit TF comics were to a generation. Impactor debuted in TARGET 2006, which was where Furman’s Transformer’s saga – er – transformed. It had been good before – TARGET 2006 was immediately preceded by IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST, which married government-agency paranoia to enormous saurian robots – but this new storyline was something else entirely. The game was raised, the toys played with so hard they broke. In a periodic comic, the sudden sense of freedom in the rush from week to week was overwhelming. We revelled in it. The next issue panel that only displayed the head of the insectoid bad-guy Shrapnel being shot clear through by some manner of brutal harpoon MUCH LIKE THE ONE HOOK-JAW MAY HAVE USED seemed like a call to arms, a statement that anything goes. Seven days from first seeing it, you couldn’t have kept me away from the newsagents with riot police.
Impactor went on to sacrifice himself to save everyone at the end of the story. Then a few years later, he returned in an ahead-of-its-time zombie story as a zombie-robot, and was the one character to overcome his re-animation, before swiftly proceeding to sacrifice himself to save everyone again. What a bot! For the rest of the run, Springer keeps on worrying about not being good enough to replace Impactor as the leader of his squad of robo-commandos. And rightly so, Springer. Compared to Impactor, you’re shit.
In short: Impactor is basically who Brit-kids got sniffly over instead of Jean Grey. Jean Grey didn’t even have a harpoon for a hand.
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Not that surprising.
He used Impactor as an avatar for his entire tenure with Rock Paper Shotgun.
2.5 issues into regeneration 1 and i still don't quite know how i feel about it. wildman's art and all the character designs are basically unchanged from 20 years ago. compared to modern IDW it looks straight up archaic. the plotting is kinda 90s too and the references to things that happened way back in transformers #45 are far from new reader friendly.
despite all that its pretty much seemlessly picked up exactly where i left off when i was a kid, so for its core audience of aging british comic fans it is something of a guilty pleasure.
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i'm glad i didn't invest in regeneration 1, seeing as I haven't read any of the old marvel run.
the first 35 issues of marvel transformers were neat
and I love how marvel made a joke about it only starting off as a four issue mini with the last issue
big ol' banner that read ISSUE 80 IN A 4 ISSUE MINISERIES
on the cover
the US got a raw deal here, marvel UK put out well over 300 issues. it got a lot better once toy sales dropped off and furman was basically allowed to write what he wanted too. all the time wars stuff with deaths head, culminating in everyone vs galvatron was amazing.
i used to think wildman was the best marvel transformers artist, but looking back i now see that honour goes to geoff senior.
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Weren't a lot of the uk comics split up versions of the 80 marvel issues though? I know there was a lot of original stuff, admittedly.
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so that explains it
ugh
also, MTMTE vol 2 has been announced, along with a cover reveal. it contains issues 4-8, which promises to have the best issues so far.
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-more-than-meets-the-eye-volume-2-cover-and-preorder/25279/
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and YES that MTMTE issue was SO GOOD.
EVERYBODY READ THIS PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE
NICK ROCHE IS WRITING AND DRAWING A PROJECT COMING OUT NEXT YEAR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Spoilers for MTMTE 6
Dangit, I knew I should have resisted clicking on your spoiler Antimatter. But I couldn't remember if I read 6 yet or not, but after reading it I realized that I didn't read it yet.
Steam: betsuni7
That's good to hear regarding my spoiler.
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"Oh, and there’s the MTMTE animated series, debuting Fall 2013.
I made that up. But just for a second—just for a second—it felt like it was true."
That would be the greatest thing ever in the history of Transformer cartoons!
Roberts gave me the most beautiful vision and killed it in a sentence
bastard
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS FOR MTMTE 7
On the other note, when did they start doing this "Regeneration" line?!?!?!??! I just saw it the other day and went, "WTH!? They're continuing the original story!!!!" I haven't read any of it yet, but downloaded the free intro 80 1/2 issue to check it out. I loved the original comics even if it mostly advertising. At least it had more story arcs that made sense compared to the TV show.
Edit: Sweet it was on sale. Picked it up and just finished it. Oh man... Now I see what you meant by your spoiler.
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PREVIEW FOR MTMTE 7
http://io9.com/5927854/friday-comic-book-preview-transformers-and-cowboys
Guessing they're taking a break from the Autobots in this issue?
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at least, I'd guess so, because despite it being Decepticon Month there's still Autobot stuff to deal with, at least from what I remember from the solicit.
Didn't do HIM much good.
Why I fear the ocean.
let's hear about it, chumpos!
also, have some issue commentary from Roberts
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-more-than-meets-the-eye-ongoing-7-creator-commentary/25452/
an interview with Roberts
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/tfw2005-interviews-james-roberts-175563/
and a surprising statement by Kieron Gillen!
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/07/26/top-five-british-comic-characters-off-the-top-of-my-head/
He used Impactor as an avatar for his entire tenure with Rock Paper Shotgun.
Why I fear the ocean.
i'm more familiar with the work of Quinns, really.
He used to write for Rock Paper Shotgun.
It was his big break.
Why I fear the ocean.
I can tell you, my brother got a kick out of the article, and he's super hyped for this issue of MTMTE.
This is the first time I've seen him excited about a comic and it makes me so happy.
I meant Quinns wrote for RPS.
He was Gillen's replacement.
Then he quit to work for Paradox interactive. Which he apparently quit too.
He's one of those international men of mystery.
Why I fear the ocean.
yes yes
god, I love Quinns. and Paul. Paul and Quinns both.
Quinns. Paul. Quinns. Paul. Pins. Quall.
despite all that its pretty much seemlessly picked up exactly where i left off when i was a kid, so for its core audience of aging british comic fans it is something of a guilty pleasure.
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and I love how marvel made a joke about it only starting off as a four issue mini with the last issue
big ol' banner that read ISSUE 80 IN A 4 ISSUE MINISERIES
on the cover
and i did like nick roche's homage of a certain marvel uk comic cover with his death of optimus prime cover
the US got a raw deal here, marvel UK put out well over 300 issues. it got a lot better once toy sales dropped off and furman was basically allowed to write what he wanted too. all the time wars stuff with deaths head, culminating in everyone vs galvatron was amazing.
i used to think wildman was the best marvel transformers artist, but looking back i now see that honour goes to geoff senior.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transformers_(Marvel_Comics)>
an extra 160 stories (mostly furman goodness), plus emirate xaaron who was boss!
RID 8 preview!