AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
i am pretty in love with this MTMTE cover
covers and solicits for the IDW Transformers books for May
STAND-OFF! While the crew of the Lost Light react to MEGATRON's arrival with characteristic maturity (calling him names behind his back and ignoring him when he speaks) one AUTOBOT is convinced that a more direct approach is needed. Guess what happens when a one-time tyrant is told he's not wanted? Yeah, exactly.
DETONATION BOULEVARD! Who is MARISSA FAIREBORN-and why does she want OPTIMUS PRIME dead?! And more importantly... how did she start working with on of the AUTOBOTS deadliest enemies...? Dangerous allegiences form, thanks to the terrifying shape the CYBERTRONIANS have twisted planet Earth into!
CYBERTRON UNDER FIRE! Someone is out to kill WINDBLADE-but discovering who means turning to some less-than-savory 'Bots. Can WINDBLADE trust her informants enough to stake her life on them? And who will she turn to when the events of DARK CYBERTRON come back to haunt them all?
Also I've got no problem with Marvel targeting the tumblr fangirl demographic because it's the tumblr fangirl demographic that turned a comic book starring a Muslim teenage girl into a runaway success, so clearly they've got good taste
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
A lady Transformer with a sword, a sweet paint job, and the ability to transform into a jet?
...damn it, Hasbro, I'm out of space to display toys as it is!
there are at least three female transformers coming out in the generations line
people were hoping for Nautica but it looks like there aren't any plans for this year
Windblade, Arcee, and Chromia
i am scooping up all three on principle
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I kinda wish they had found a better place for Windblade's legs, they stand out like a sore thumb in the alt mode.
UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
please god not this conversation again
If you want, I can dig up a link back to the start of the last slash fiction argument and anyone that really wants to rehash it can get their fix that way?
as someone who has read all of the guardians (including the 70's ones) and all the stuff related to them and is pretty demanding in terms of what I want from the movie I can safely say that YES YES YES YES SO MUCH YES
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Seriously as someone who is a huge fan of the existing material I think that Marvel have continued to do a great job of making a movie that is ostensibly for people that have no idea what is going on before they walk into the theatre, while also turning to me and saying "and so lets give them exactly what we loved so much about them when we first read the comics!"
The tone is exactly right. The little touches in costume and setting design and so on that really acknowledge in a loving manner the rich source material. I will be able to go and see this movie and know that it is as much made for me as it is a completely new viewer. And that's awesome. That's what it should always be.
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TrippyJingMoses supposes his toeses are roses.But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered Userregular
Unlike darkseid, who can generally be summed up with "Wants to destory the galaxy because he is evil"
While I largely prefer Thanos to Darkseid, having a totally monolithic and terrifying force of pure evil is also sometimes valuable for telling great stories as well.
I love the line "and there is nothing weak about mighty Thanos"
In a medium where you cannot get across tone through the way something is said, the injection of nuance and multiple meanings into a line is tricky
but then you read that line and given the context of the story, the context of what we have seen, it has huge amounts of nuance. That one line can generate genuine discussion about the character of the man it pertains to. Is it a line of pity? Scorn? Genuine truth?
Maybe I need to read the entirety of Thanos material but I see such a disconnect between those panels and basically every other time I've seen him that it doesn't make him feel like a complicated and nuanced character, it makes him feel like a kinda bullshit character that nobody can decide how they want to write
Maybe I need to read the entirety of Thanos material but I see such a disconnect between those panels and basically every other time I've seen him that it doesn't make him feel like a complicated and nuanced character, it makes him feel like a kinda bullshit character that nobody can decide how they want to write
you need to read the entirety of Thanos material
Starlin wrote a great Thanos
Darkseid wants to create a perfectly ordered society by stamping out any kind of free will and sentient thought to the point where it is fair to say that for everyone who lives in the Universe, the end result of Darkseid's plan is functionally identical to destruction of everything that isn't him. After all, in both cases, other than Darkseid nobody will be alive.
Other times he wants people to be sentient and have free will so he can repeatedly crush it into the dirt and feed off their suffering, fear and hatred.
Maybe I need to read the entirety of Thanos material but I see such a disconnect between those panels and basically every other time I've seen him that it doesn't make him feel like a complicated and nuanced character, it makes him feel like a kinda bullshit character that nobody can decide how they want to write
It's funny because most of Thanos's shit was written by Jim Starlin, with a lot of the non-Starlin stuff prior to 2003 being retconned as advanced clones.
So it's like one guy making most these contradictions.
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Maybe I need to read the entirety of Thanos material but I see such a disconnect between those panels and basically every other time I've seen him that it doesn't make him feel like a complicated and nuanced character, it makes him feel like a kinda bullshit character that nobody can decide how they want to write
Marvel as a whole sees Thanos as being more valuable as a villain than as the anti-hero Starlin turned him into, and they may have a point there.
Basically I see Thanos as moody. Sometimes he really really hates life. And he's willing to take everyone else with him.
I hope that the movie universe makes him complicated as well as scary, but I don't know if they have the time for that with the number of other characters in these flicks.
Villains with pathos and heroes with flaws are Marvel's hallmark, yes
I meant big, unknowable, evil cosmic villains
Thanos is a good reprieve
Thing is they don't, not really
The closest Marvel has to a Darkseid style irredeemably evil villain is the Red Skull
even Galactus is often portrayed sympathetically
And Darkseid isn't really unknowable at all, he's actually not that big and cosmic. It's all false grandeur. Jack Kirby believed that evil wasn't big and cosmic and awesome, he thought it was petty and pathetic.
Darkseid's majesty is a false cover for the fact that he is an empty shell of a being, a characterless entity driven solely to rule with no redeeming features. Kirby's Darkseid is entirely knowable. For all his great speeches, he's just the embodiment of all the petty evils that are done every day. We all know him and once you get past the illusion, we all can see Darkseid for the pathetic inanity of his beliefs and aims.
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covers and solicits for the IDW Transformers books for May
Milne variant: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attach/7/0/1/2/3/STK637389_1392789949.jpg
there are at least three female transformers coming out in the generations line
people were hoping for Nautica but it looks like there aren't any plans for this year
Windblade, Arcee, and Chromia
i am scooping up all three on principle
Steam
I just read the issue, and it's pretty neat!
This is what I get for not knowing anything about guardians
I thought Gamora was from a klingonish war race
Depends on context, but mostly what's wrong with it is it usually forces sexuality on a character that is not that characters preference
Hilariously, she comes from a race that is known for being the exact opposite of warlike.
It's just that Thanos trained her from a young age to be a killing machine.
Do you think that the
Will stick for an appreciable amount of time?
Cause it does sound interesting
If you want, I can dig up a link back to the start of the last slash fiction argument and anyone that really wants to rehash it can get their fix that way?
Oh
That's way more interesting
I have had enough of savage war races
Except for Warbird, I like that lady
as someone who has read all of the guardians (including the 70's ones) and all the stuff related to them and is pretty demanding in terms of what I want from the movie I can safely say that YES YES YES YES SO MUCH YES
yes
because let's face it
the great war is boring, especially because Mike Costa decided to establish it lasted millions of years
Dangit
I have so much marvel unlimited to read
The tone is exactly right. The little touches in costume and setting design and so on that really acknowledge in a loving manner the rich source material. I will be able to go and see this movie and know that it is as much made for me as it is a completely new viewer. And that's awesome. That's what it should always be.
I...uh...I found my dad's cassette.
maybe there shouldn't be so many straight characters then
we just did this last thread
http://www.comixology.com/Transformers-Last-Stand-of-the-Wreckers/comics-series/3786
http://www.comixology.com/Transformers-More-Than-Meets-the-Eye-Vol-1/digital-comic/27393
http://www.comixology.com/Transformers-Robots-In-Disguise-Vol-1/digital-comic/29681
some good starting points
Unlike darkseid, who can generally be summed up with "Wants to destory the galaxy because he is evil"
While I largely prefer Thanos to Darkseid, having a totally monolithic and terrifying force of pure evil is also sometimes valuable for telling great stories as well.
Can I borrow a feelin'?
Could you lend me a jar of love?
Hurtin' hearts need some healin',
Take my hand with your glove of love.
In a medium where you cannot get across tone through the way something is said, the injection of nuance and multiple meanings into a line is tricky
but then you read that line and given the context of the story, the context of what we have seen, it has huge amounts of nuance. That one line can generate genuine discussion about the character of the man it pertains to. Is it a line of pity? Scorn? Genuine truth?
Quality writing
Villains with pathos and heroes with flaws are Marvel's hallmark, yes
Darkseid doesn't want to destroy the galaxy. He wants to create a perfect orderly universe free of entropy and chaos.
you need to read the entirety of Thanos material
Starlin wrote a great Thanos
I meant big, unknowable, evil cosmic villains
Thanos is a good reprieve
Other times he wants people to be sentient and have free will so he can repeatedly crush it into the dirt and feed off their suffering, fear and hatred.
Depends who is writing him
point is
he's evil as fuck
It's funny because most of Thanos's shit was written by Jim Starlin, with a lot of the non-Starlin stuff prior to 2003 being retconned as advanced clones.
So it's like one guy making most these contradictions.
Marvel as a whole sees Thanos as being more valuable as a villain than as the anti-hero Starlin turned him into, and they may have a point there.
Basically I see Thanos as moody. Sometimes he really really hates life. And he's willing to take everyone else with him.
I hope that the movie universe makes him complicated as well as scary, but I don't know if they have the time for that with the number of other characters in these flicks.
Thing is they don't, not really
The closest Marvel has to a Darkseid style irredeemably evil villain is the Red Skull
even Galactus is often portrayed sympathetically
And Darkseid isn't really unknowable at all, he's actually not that big and cosmic. It's all false grandeur. Jack Kirby believed that evil wasn't big and cosmic and awesome, he thought it was petty and pathetic.
Darkseid's majesty is a false cover for the fact that he is an empty shell of a being, a characterless entity driven solely to rule with no redeeming features. Kirby's Darkseid is entirely knowable. For all his great speeches, he's just the embodiment of all the petty evils that are done every day. We all know him and once you get past the illusion, we all can see Darkseid for the pathetic inanity of his beliefs and aims.
But really
the best place for him in a story is getting his head kicked in by Orion