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All Hail Megatron - Humans Be A Dying In Here
KVW
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All Hail Megatron!
What is it?
All Hail Megatron is a 12 issue series by Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi in which the Decepticons win. They conquer Earth, kill humans, do a little dance. Yes, there's killing. No more missing or running away from fights screaming they'll be back. A very much "grown up" Transformers story, or as agrown up as giant talking robots from the 80's can be.
Here's the press release for a more thorough description.
When is it?
Starts July '08 from IDW.
Is this part of some other story? What do I need in order to understand this story?
Nothing! While set in the IDW continuity, there is no need to have read any other story and only basic knowledge of the property or characters should suffice to understand the story. It's basically Transformers if the Decepticons won and conquered Earth. No hidden subplots or random backstories needed to be known.
More information?
Here's an interview with the writer, Shane McCarthy on All Hail Megatron.
Prologue / Previews!
I grew up in the '80s. As such, I was raised on Transformers, from toys to cartoons to crying like a baby over Optimus Prime dying (zomg spoilers!) in the movie. However, the comics never really held any weight for me. I bought the Dreamwave ones on nostolgia and they were pretty decent and looked great, but the story didn't really evolve with the times. It was still very much a Saturday morning cartoon, even with new publishers, style book that no one died in, giant robots fought, retreated, fought again, over and over.
With that in mind, All Hail Megatron really caught my eye, as the Decepticons win. And I don't mean Megatron gloating over captive Autobots or not doing anything with Earth. This time, they come in and conquer the planet, killing and destroying as they see fit. The previews above really got me excited for a Transformers comic for the first time in a long time.
I don't think it'll be good just because there's killing, but it's about time they stopped holding hands and skirting the issue. It's like most GI Joe comics with terrorists and military people not killing anyone. Ever. It's hard to take serious after a while.
I'll be grabbing the first issue, guaranteed. We'll see if the series is worth it after that. Looks great so far, though. What say you all?
What is it?
All Hail Megatron is a 12 issue series by Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi in which the Decepticons win. They conquer Earth, kill humans, do a little dance. Yes, there's killing. No more missing or running away from fights screaming they'll be back. A very much "grown up" Transformers story, or as agrown up as giant talking robots from the 80's can be.
Here's the press release for a more thorough description.
When is it?
Starts July '08 from IDW.
Is this part of some other story? What do I need in order to understand this story?
Nothing! While set in the IDW continuity, there is no need to have read any other story and only basic knowledge of the property or characters should suffice to understand the story. It's basically Transformers if the Decepticons won and conquered Earth. No hidden subplots or random backstories needed to be known.
More information?
Here's an interview with the writer, Shane McCarthy on All Hail Megatron.
Prologue / Previews!
I grew up in the '80s. As such, I was raised on Transformers, from toys to cartoons to crying like a baby over Optimus Prime dying (zomg spoilers!) in the movie. However, the comics never really held any weight for me. I bought the Dreamwave ones on nostolgia and they were pretty decent and looked great, but the story didn't really evolve with the times. It was still very much a Saturday morning cartoon, even with new publishers, style book that no one died in, giant robots fought, retreated, fought again, over and over.
With that in mind, All Hail Megatron really caught my eye, as the Decepticons win. And I don't mean Megatron gloating over captive Autobots or not doing anything with Earth. This time, they come in and conquer the planet, killing and destroying as they see fit. The previews above really got me excited for a Transformers comic for the first time in a long time.
I don't think it'll be good just because there's killing, but it's about time they stopped holding hands and skirting the issue. It's like most GI Joe comics with terrorists and military people not killing anyone. Ever. It's hard to take serious after a while.
I'll be grabbing the first issue, guaranteed. We'll see if the series is worth it after that. Looks great so far, though. What say you all?
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I won't buy it but I'll probably flip through it at the store.
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"All Hail Megatron" should be boss hog, but everything put out by IDW has been anyway(except the Beast Wars series and" Hearts of steel") .
I've gotten a few of my friends with a casual interest in Transformers hooked by lending them the trades of Infiltration, Stormbringer and Escalation.
And the Spotlights! Spotlight Kup isn't just one of my favorite transformer comics, it's one of my favorite comics, full stop.
The Transformers Fandom: Consistantly bitching about something or another since 1984.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
EDIT: Incidentally, I'm sort of surprised to see the Constructicons in there, since the Gestalt mojo isn't in general circulation in IDW continuity. Odd.
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I secretly hope Shockwave will try to overthrow him at the very least. That would be a neat throwback to the original comic.
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Being able to draw robots in anime poses and with weird proportions does not a good artist make.
Earth is supposedly resource rich. I think.
It's sort of like that episode of JLU where Flash and Lex Luthor switch minds, and Flash-Lex is in the bathroom, and Dr. Polaris is all "You didn't wash your hands!", and Flash-Lex says "Duh, I'm evil!".
It's like that.
I don't really know what special resources we could offer to robots who live on a planet made of robot parts.
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Yes! Spotlight Kup was one of the best single issues that came out last year. Of anything.
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Euh.... wait what.... o_O
On topic:" the deceptions win" theme sounds awesome, and the previews look great. Altough still wtf on why they need earth. I mean oil is great and all but I think giant intelligent robots would have figured out some great solar panel tech by now,
Blame this guy for those dark days.
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Pat_Lee
[Thank you "Shortpacked!"]
Thanfully he's no longer running the show, and IDW is in the hands of incredible artists like E.J. Su and Guido Guidi.
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Well they are decepticons, they are evil, do they really need a reason to take over Earth and killing its inhabitants?
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It's ripe for harvesting now.
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http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
Earth being rich in resources (whereas Cyberton having been bled dry) was the focal point of several story arcs and outright seasons. I was like 6 years old at the time and this came through crystal clear.
Shit To Blow Up is a highly wanted resource.
I guess your clean energy technology slows downs when you spend all your time devising new and exciting ways to shoot each other with giant lasers,
The comment about experimental energon last page is why the Decepticons want Earth in the IDW continuity.
For what price IDW's charging for each comic this shit better be good. I still can't get over how Stormbringer's ending was so anticlimactic.
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Other than that though everything has been amazing - I wasn't sure at first if I was going to enjoy the Spotlights, but they've all been good (obviously some more than others) and they all tie in to the over-arcing storyline that Furman has going (again, some more than others).
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I think Stormbringer was a knee-jerk reaction to most of the fandoms cries of "NEED'S MOAH ROBOTSS!1".
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http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
I mean when he lays it on thick, he lays it on thick. Try reading some of the stuff in Stormbringer out loud with a straight face, much less reading it dramatically.
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You can get a taste of it if you have the Transformers: The Beginning DVD, which comes with the added bonus of Frank Welker delivering such gems as "Terra Firma... it seems anything but!".
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And yeah, Prime's internal monologue or whatever it was in issue 4 of Stormbringer was painful.
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Can I do any less?
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But then again I looked forward to Megatron: Origins and just about everything after the first issue was terrible.
Without conflict, without Prime specifically, I don't know how driven Megs would really be. His time as a ruler begins to fall apart, maybe Starscream launches his successful coup.
You know, that makes the whole thing make a lot more sense than what I know about TF and energon.
The question I had was, there are 9 planets in the solar system. That means there are 8 uninhabited planets with raw materials on them, not counting all the moons and asteroids. Hell I heard one of Jupiter’s moons has a methane atmosphere.
It seems like it would have been a lot easier to go to could an uninhabited planet and start harvesting. Could you imagine the exchange between Optimus Prime and Megatron in a situation like that?
MEGATRON: The Decepticons have claimed Jupiter and all its Moons for ourselves. Soon we will start converting its resources to enegon, and there’s nothing you or your pathetic Autobots can do about it. {Maniacal Laughter}
PRIME; Fine. We don’t care. It’s all yours.
MEGATRON: WHAT?!
PRIME: The planet is completely uninhabited and unclaimed. We don’t care what you do with it.
MEGATRON: ………..
PRIME: In fact, we could use some energon. Could we buy some from you?
MEGATRON: Uh, sure…I guess.
PRIME: Do you take checks?
MEGATRON: Cash or charge only, stupid Autobot.
Of course, there are still ways this could turn into a conflict, but it would take out the human element. However, the whole Shockwave thing, though contrived, really explains why earth is important.
It's not overly contrived, really. Shockwave saw pretty early on in the war (Like, before it left Cybertron IIRC) that it'd end up turning into a war of attrition, so he set up his secret plan to ensure he would be in control of his own supply of energon.
Then the Dinobots happened to him. Whooooops.
I haven't been keeping up with IDW's books. Is this all stuff that's happened since they got the license? What happened to Shockwave? He's always been one of my favourites. Dinobots didn't destroy him did they?