IDW Transformers

WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Graphic Violence
I have been meaning to create an OP for IDW’s Transformers line for a while but never got around to it. Apologies in advance since this is my first comic OP.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/tf-headquarters.shtml

IDW (http://www.idwpublishing.com/) caters to a “wide” array of TF tastes. The main attraction is the Generation 1 (G1, GeeWun) nod, in the form of the –tion series (Infiltration, Stormbringer, Escalation, Devastation, Revelation):
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Stormbringer
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Escalation
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Devastation
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Yes I realize Stormbringer doesn’t end in –tion…the rest do (to my knowledge). Whatever.

Within that story arc are spotlights. These single issues are also available in TPB’s of which 3 are currently available. While they can (and do) affect the main story, these can be read without any prior knowledge of the main arc and manage to be entertaining in and of themselves.
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The entire story uses familiar G1 characters but the methods of the Great War are different. The history of Cybertron and its famed inhabitants is also different but not unrecognizable. Most of the characters stay within the mold of their original personalities, but gone are the super-weapon of the week contests, or Autobots and random women whether they be human or shape-shifting fish people falling in love.

IDW in my opinion has done a good job of reconciling a lot of the problems that plagued the original cartoon. Namely animation errors (although they have a few….notably Spotlight: Grimlock), and inconsistency in the storyline/”facts” regarding the TF’s.

Although energon and the war are still the focus of each faction’s attention, there are other parties that are very interested in the outcome of the war as well as the resources controlled by Autobots, Decepticons, and the other races that they have encountered.

This series is being continued in the form of: Maximum Dinobots, All Hail Megatron (in which Megatron takes over Earth)….and something else I can’t recall off-hand, I believe another –tion title.

Moving away from GeeWun is Beast Wars (The Gathering, The Ascending, Sourcebook):
The Gathering
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The Ascending
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Sourcebook
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Since there’s no such thing as too many time-traveling robots IDW has provided a parallel story to the original Beast Wars story.

Further there are other compilations of the old comics as well as a series for, TF: Animated, the movie line and one I haven’t yet been able to collect, Transformers Evolutions: Hearts of Steel:
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Yeah I don’t know anything about hearts of steel other than it’s Transformers in a more “industrial” era. Someone turns into a blimp…I don’t know who (Scourge maybe?).

Other relevant places:

transformers archive

Spoilers added to help formatting. I haven't gotten images for everything yet. I'll try to add them at some point.

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  • sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That is a pretty good OP. Some spoilers would be sweet though.

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  • EddieDeanEddieDean Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I really enjoy IDW's G1 series. In my experience and opinion, it's best to read the comics in as near to chronological order as possible, as listed on the wikipedia page.

    Infiltration I thought was quite weak, as the comic was trying to find its feet, but as soon as they'd got some fan feedback it got much much stronger.

    The art gets much better, and the series deals really well with some of the sillier or messier aspects of TF lore, such as mass shifting, pretenders, minicons, and so on, and the pure breadth of story is excellent - so many different parties, so many strong characters - it's a very well imagined universe.

    My only real gripe is Revelation arc
    That Revelation was cut short, and Expansion was cancelled to make way for the soft reboot of All Hail Megatron!. A lot of story threads were leading up to that point, and twelve issues worth of plot were condensed into four, and it ended up being quite messy and unsatisfactory. Maximum Dinobots tidied up a good few arcs, but there's still Expansion plots left to develop, which Furman has said may crop up again sometime in the future.

    Also, AHM introduced a good few continuity issues into the year gap between Maximum Dinobots and itself, but apparently an AHM:Coda is being released which'll answer some of those, and line up some new story threads (as the Spotlights do). With any luck, given a few months to smooth out the recent bumps, the story'll be back up to excellent quality and strong continuity again.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm one of those people who are desperately trying to wish away All Hail Megatron.

    The second the continuity issues started popping up I knew things were going to go downhill.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I haven't read it, but did they actually try to shoehorn it into continuity?

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm one of those people who's enjoying AHM (I also enjoyed Furman's run, McDonough's run on Dreamwave, the G1 and G2 comics)

    Thanks for making this thread btw.

    My favourite IDW comic is Spotlight: Kup.

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  • WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I'm one of those people who are desperately trying to wish away All Hail Megatron.

    The second the continuity issues started popping up I knew things were going to go downhill.

    I am the kind of person who only buys TPB's or other collection-type materials so to be completely honest I haven't read AHM yet. The concept sounds really cool but I was/am afraid going in that it will be butchered. Should be here any day now since I ordered it late last week.

    I read there was some continuity errors when linking it with earlier stuff but I am hoping the extra 4 issues they are going to release aren't a hack-job quick fix. It's all been great so far so until I see it for my own eyes I am staying optimistic.

    EDIT:

    Wildcat, to my knowledge AHM is the continuity. As in it picks up right after Revelation ends.

    Cliffjumper: Isn't your spotlight coming up soon? And I am glad there are people who enjoy AHM. Keeps the optimism going.

    And you are right about the Kup spotlight. It was awesome.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I'm one of those people who are desperately trying to wish away All Hail Megatron.

    The second the continuity issues started popping up I knew things were going to go downhill.

    I am the kind of person who only buys TPB's or other collection-type materials so to be completely honest I haven't read AHM yet. The concept sounds really cool but I was/am afraid going in that it will be butchered. Should be here any day now since I ordered it late last week.

    I read there was some continuity errors when linking it with earlier stuff but I am hoping the extra 4 issues they are going to release aren't a hack-job quick fix. It's all been great so far so until I see it for my own eyes I am staying optimistic.

    EDIT:

    Wildcat, to my knowledge AHM is the continuity. As in it picks up right after Devastation ends.

    Cliffjumper: Isn't your spotlight coming up soon? And I am glad there are people who enjoy AHM. Keeps the optimism going.

    And you are right about the Kup spotlight. It was awesome.

    It's in continuity obviously, set about a year after Revelation, but McCarthy's approach to telling the story (Bendis talk, tease and reveal things later) is particulary jarring when compared to the narrative, explain everything, style used by Furman. It's very understandable a lot of fans don't like it tbh (although it is getting good reviews all round on non-transformer sites). The meat of it doesn't start until issue 4 imo (it starts dropping ties to Furman's run around then).

    The human section in issue 9 was pretty horrible, but aside from that, I've been really enjoying AHM all round (and the fantastic characterisation it's given long neglected characters like Skywarp/Thundercracker, Cliffjumper, etc). That's McCarthy's greatest strength IMO, the way he writes each character's dialogue and makes them act like individual characters (as opposed to Furman's characters who generally tend to be interchangable in the way they talk and behave-not knocking Furman's ability to tell a good story, I love his work).

    And yeh, Cliffjumper's spotlight is up next heh, wonder what direction that's gonna go what with it's funky cover and all.

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  • WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Revelation, for some reason I wrote Devastation...brain fart.

    You said the human section was terrible...how so? As in it was poorly written or just because it wasn't really about the main attraction: Transformers?

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Revelation, for some reason I wrote Devastation...brain fart.

    You said the human section was terrible...how so? As in it was poorly written or just because it wasn't really about the main attraction: Transformers?

    I'd enjoyed the human scenes in the rest of AHM, but for some reason in 9, it was just painful cliched reading.

    And the art was horrible in the human sections, like, colouring book bad (had some random artist filling in for Guido in that section).

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've never been able to get into this. The IDW art just looks so DeviantArt to me. Same reason I can't get into the Udon Street Fighter stuff.

    However, that Hearts of Steel looks pretty sweet.

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  • In Starscream We TrustIn Starscream We Trust Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    At first I didn't really dig the art, but it's grown on me since. Stormbringer was drawn by Don so that helped a whole bunch in getting me into the IDW universe. I enjoy the new series, just waiting on the latest TPBs to come out at this point.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've never been able to get into this. The IDW art just looks so DeviantArt to me. Same reason I can't get into the Udon Street Fighter stuff.

    However, that Hearts of Steel looks pretty sweet.

    Yeah I really don't get this. The art in both this and for UDON's stuff looks fine.

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Transformers at IDW began with a slow start that didn't go over very well with many, that, the higher price tag and artwork that was not up to par with the Dreamwave artwork didn't help. Still it picked up pace once Infiltration was done with and it's almost a pity that they didn't allow it to finish properly before jumping to All Hail Megatron which has been very good.

    One of the big changes for IDW had to be Arcee who was not as you remember her.
    Yeah, she was a he in fact until another bot named Jhiaxus turned her into an early experiment to introduce gender to Transformers until he decided she was failure and abandoned her. Goes without saying this whole "I'm a what?!" really knocked Arcee off her rocker some and she began to track down Jhiaxus taking down anyone that got in her way. Torture Decepticons to get information? Hey no problem. The Autobots even had to have her locked up since she was so much a threat and a relentless killer in her hunt for her target. When she finally did catch him, she found out no matter how many times she killed him he kept coming back, she then realized that was alright with her, it meant she could kill him for all eternity. All in all it wasn't so bad at all although some TF fans are kinda freaked at her being a gender bender more or less.

    A good way to read up on all things Transformers be it the Marvel comic of old, the cartoon of any year, the toys, whatever you name it TF wise is go to the Transformers wiki which is out standing, you can lose hours reading about various things there and the captions for pictures tend to be priceless.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The Beast Wars minis were all pretty disappointing. Too much exposition and cramming of robots into panels, too much time-travel alternate universe mumbo-jumbo, not enough meaningful plot or fleshed-out characters.


    The main G1 books have been pretty good. Spotlight Kup was my favorite single issue of that year, of any comic.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The Beast Wars minis were all pretty disappointing. Too much exposition and cramming of robots into panels, too much time-travel alternate universe mumbo-jumbo, not enough meaningful plot or fleshed-out characters.


    Yeah, I agree. Although I did like the Big Convoy, cybertronian parts.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    All three pages of it.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yurp.

    Ideally the next mini will be based entirely on Maximal politics, and stuff actually going on around Cybertron.

    Won't happen obviously.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ideally someone who isn't Furman will write something BW-related.

    I'd like to take the BW Neo cast and make my own crazy mini-series with the characters, but they were already given personalities in the BW Sourcebooks so noooooooooooooooooooo

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ugh, the sourcebooks.

    So much suck, and even after all the awesome provided by McDonough and Patyk with the DW G1 versions.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The sourcebooks were a comedy of errors and "emo warrior with a goofy exterior".

    It's like no one is allowed to actually enjoy themselves in the grim dark future of Transformers.

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  • EddieDeanEddieDean Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cade wrote:
    A good way to read up on all things Transformers be it the Marvel comic of old, the cartoon of any year, the toys, whatever you name it TF wise is go to the Transformers wiki which is out standing, you can lose hours reading about various things there and the captions for pictures tend to be priceless.

    Actually I'd recommend The other Transformers wiki. As far as I can tell, it recently usurped Teletraan-1, and is being updated more and faster than the old one. I'm not sure entirely if that's the case, but it seems that way.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yeah, Tfwiki is the way to go.

    David Willis runs it, it's ugly-ad free and it's the one that main contributers to the wiki use.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The biggest tragedy of the IDW comics is that, for the first time, they set out to design a story that was first and foremost a story. Not a toy ad, not at tie in, and not an attempt to tap into nostalgia. No longer were they bound to whatever toys were on shelves at the time: characters could stay or die as the story required. No longer were stories bound to the ideas and concepts that came before: stuff like ark crash could be replaced with new ideas, and characters could be reinvented in new and interesting ways. And the entire story could be crafted from the ground up.

    Because of this, IMO, they had created the most interesting take on Transformers in it's entire history. The entirety of the Decepticon infiltration tactics with the facsimilies was a breath of fresh air, and incredibly ciik. Here we had Decepticons who were actually deceptive, and quite cunning at that. They had a reason to stay disguised, and a reason to actually stick around and subvert things on Earth.

    Unfortunately, I felt the infiltration idea wasn't given it's proper dues, and was quickly strangled by Furmans inability to NOT bring in grand cosmic threats, and later practically retconned out of existence due to IDW's failed attempt to reinvent the series to appeal to the nostalgia crowd.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The sourcebooks were a comedy of errors and "emo warrior with a goofy exterior".

    It's like no one is allowed to actually enjoy themselves in the grim dark future of Transformers.

    SILVERBOLT-1.jpg

    The biggest tragedy of the IDW comics is that, for the first time, they set out to design a story that was first and foremost a story. Not a toy ad, not at tie in, and not an attempt to tap into nostalgia. No longer were they bound to whatever toys were on shelves at the time: characters could stay or die as the story required. No longer were stories bound to the ideas and concepts that came before: stuff like ark crash could be replaced with new ideas, and characters could be reinvented in new and interesting ways. And the entire story could be crafted from the ground up.

    Because of this, IMO, they had created the most interesting take on Transformers in it's entire history. The entirety of the Decepticon infiltration tactics with the facsimilies was a breath of fresh air, and incredibly ciik. Here we had Decepticons who were actually deceptive, and quite cunning at that. They had a reason to stay disguised, and a reason to actually stick around and subvert things on Earth.

    Unfortunately, I felt the infiltration idea wasn't given it's proper dues, and was quickly strangled by Furmans inability to NOT bring in grand cosmic threats, and later practically retconned out of existence due to IDW's failed attempt to reinvent the series to appeal to the nostalgia crowd.


    I agree entirely, the Infiltration approach was fresh and exciting. Unfortunately there were many impatient individuals within the fandom who criticised and condemned the slow-burn approach to the story Furman was going for (ironically in a very similar way many of the same people are doing so with AHM now).

    I wish they would've stuck with it for longer as opposed to crumbling to fan demand and going with Stormbringer ("GUARANTEED NO HUMANS OLOL").

    Thundercracker flying over Ratchet and Hunter in issue 0 meant something. It was larger than life. Same with Runamuck and Runabout
    tearing Jimmy's garage apart.

    By the time Devastation rolled around that magic was lost.

    I've always found it funny that the majority of Transformer fans within the fandom hate change.

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    EddieDean wrote: »
    Cade wrote:
    A good way to read up on all things Transformers be it the Marvel comic of old, the cartoon of any year, the toys, whatever you name it TF wise is go to the Transformers wiki which is out standing, you can lose hours reading about various things there and the captions for pictures tend to be priceless.

    Actually I'd recommend The other Transformers wiki. As far as I can tell, it recently usurped Teletraan-1, and is being updated more and faster than the old one. I'm not sure entirely if that's the case, but it seems that way.

    Ha, that's the wiki I was going to before and lost the URL, when I found the other was wondering what was up with the different look, didn't realize there were two of them.

    Cade on
  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cade wrote: »
    EddieDean wrote: »
    Cade wrote:
    A good way to read up on all things Transformers be it the Marvel comic of old, the cartoon of any year, the toys, whatever you name it TF wise is go to the Transformers wiki which is out standing, you can lose hours reading about various things there and the captions for pictures tend to be priceless.

    Actually I'd recommend The other Transformers wiki. As far as I can tell, it recently usurped Teletraan-1, and is being updated more and faster than the old one. I'm not sure entirely if that's the case, but it seems that way.

    Ha, that's the wiki I was going to before and lost the URL, when I found the other was wondering what was up with the different look, didn't realize there were two of them.

    The Wikia one came first and everyone worked on it, but then the Wikia guys decide to shit a bunch of crappy ads on it, so most of the contributors left and made an independent Wiki.

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cade wrote: »
    EddieDean wrote: »
    Cade wrote:
    A good way to read up on all things Transformers be it the Marvel comic of old, the cartoon of any year, the toys, whatever you name it TF wise is go to the Transformers wiki which is out standing, you can lose hours reading about various things there and the captions for pictures tend to be priceless.

    Actually I'd recommend The other Transformers wiki. As far as I can tell, it recently usurped Teletraan-1, and is being updated more and faster than the old one. I'm not sure entirely if that's the case, but it seems that way.

    Ha, that's the wiki I was going to before and lost the URL, when I found the other was wondering what was up with the different look, didn't realize there were two of them.

    The Wikia one came first and everyone worked on it, but then the Wikia guys decide to shit a bunch of crappy ads on it, so most of the contributors left and made an independent Wiki.

    No wonder they are so identical.

    Good contributors though to do so, the site looks much better.

    Cade on
  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I've never been able to get into this. The IDW art just looks so DeviantArt to me. Same reason I can't get into the Udon Street Fighter stuff.

    However, that Hearts of Steel looks pretty sweet.

    Yeah I really don't get this. The art in both this and for UDON's stuff looks fine.

    meh. I'm fairly particular about the art. I don't like most of the IDW stuff, Udon's stuff, or the old DreamWave stuff, which according to FinalFantasyDarkChyldexoxoxox over in the other thread, is related. same artists or something.

    It just all looks like heavily polished amateur work.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I've never been able to get into this. The IDW art just looks so DeviantArt to me. Same reason I can't get into the Udon Street Fighter stuff.

    However, that Hearts of Steel looks pretty sweet.

    Yeah I really don't get this. The art in both this and for UDON's stuff looks fine.

    meh. I'm fairly particular about the art. I don't like most of the IDW stuff, Udon's stuff, or the old DreamWave stuff, which according to FinalFantasyDarkChyldexoxoxox over in the other thread, is related. same artists or something.

    It just all looks like heavily polished amateur work.

    ...

    ANd what is the difference between heavily polished amateur work and professional work? I would imagine the polish is what normally separates amateur and professional.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    i used the word polish to call back to the old saying "you can't polish a turd and call it gold" quote, actually.

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    For those who are enjoying Transformers Animated which has actually turned out to be pretty damn good in it's own way it's best you enjoy the next two episodes, it looks like it's the last two of that series.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cade wrote: »
    For those who are enjoying Transformers Animated which has actually turned out to be pretty damn good in it's own way it's best you enjoy the next two episodes, it looks like it's the last two of that series.

    D:

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    As I said when I first heard that:

    Goddamnit

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I really dug the visual style of the latest transformers animated series, but only saw one episode, and was not fond of the writing. Unlike Spectacular, I didn't really find it appealing on an 'adult-as-well-child' level. I should probably watch more of the series.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I really dug the visual style of the latest transformers animated series, but only saw one episode, and was not fond of the writing. Unlike Spectacular, I didn't really find it appealing on an 'adult-as-well-child' level. I should probably watch more of the series.

    It very much is like Spectacular.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I really dug the visual style of the latest transformers animated series, but only saw one episode, and was not fond of the writing. Unlike Spectacular, I didn't really find it appealing on an 'adult-as-well-child' level. I should probably watch more of the series.

    It very much is like Spectacular.

    Still, at first glance the inclusion of a young girl as a main character gives the opposite impression.

    If you can look past, though, I think there's a fair amount of all-ages appeal.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    the episode I saw revolved around the transformers partaking in some alien-based wrestling match or something? it's been a while, and I didn't watch the full thing. The show seemed to take place in the future, I don't really recall them using their vehicular forms much for anything, and I recall it having a heavy Teen Titans/Digimon-esque anime feel to it. It just seemed like a generic kids action cartoon that happened to have transformers-looking characters in it. Also, I really dug the robot designs, especially the early prototypes of the action figures, and I was expecting something as good as spectacular when I went in, so I was fairly disappointed.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Furu wrote: »
    I really dug the visual style of the latest transformers animated series, but only saw one episode, and was not fond of the writing. Unlike Spectacular, I didn't really find it appealing on an 'adult-as-well-child' level. I should probably watch more of the series.

    It very much is like Spectacular.

    Still, at first glance the inclusion of a young girl as a main character gives the opposite impression.

    If you can look past, though, I think there's a fair amount of all-ages appeal.

    I will not hear bad talk about Sari.

    She and Captain Fanzone are the best human characters the franchise has ever had

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    the episode I saw revolved around the transformers partaking in some alien-based wrestling match or something? it's been a while, and I didn't watch the full thing. The show seemed to take place in the future, I don't really recall them using their vehicular forms much for anything, and I recall it having a heavy Teen Titans/Digimon-esque anime feel to it. It just seemed like a generic kids action cartoon that happened to have transformers-looking characters in it. Also, I really dug the robot designs, especially the early prototypes of the action figures, and I was expecting something as good as spectacular when I went in, so I was fairly disappointed.

    You really should not base your opinion of a show off a half of an episode that it seems like you either don't remember or weren't paying that much attention to.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    shit dude. it was a long time ago.

    looking it to it, the episode was season 1, episode 5. Total Meltdown.

    watching some of it again. I still see nothing of merit. It reminds me a lot of the later seasons of the 2003 TMNT series, which were really weak.

    ManonvonSuperock on
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