Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Print up Va'al's list and keep it handy... trying to read those comics in order is difficult on a good day.
Dead Metal wrote:For the current stuff:
The Death of Optimus Prime, included in MTMTE vol 1, is the starting off point for both MTMTE and RID.
MTMTE and RID take place at the same time, but in different places, RID is set on Cybertron, while MTMTE is set on the Lost Light. There are some rare instances during their runs that things one title does affects the other title directly, but the main plots of both bring major plot events for the whole idw verse into motion that affect both titles during their huge Dark Cybertron crossover event.
The Spottlights were originally meant to tell stories that center around one character, while also introducing plot threads that lead into the main series.
Autocracy and Monstrocity are kinda the start of it all, but it's not required to read them first.
My tip, start with MTMTE and RID, read those volume wise at the same time (MTMTE vol 1, then RID vol 1, then MTMTE vol 2 then RID vol 2, rinse and repeat). Then when you get to the point of Dark Cybertron vol 1 and vol 2, wait and read "Dark Prelude", that contains a couple of kinda bad Spotlights that are kinda important to the Dark Cybertron event. Windblade and volumes 6 of both RID and MTMTE take place after Dark Cybertron.
You don't really need to go back and read all the old material, the important stuff is mentioned and expanded upon in the current books, so if you come across that stuff and don't understand everything or are interested in those events, you can go and check them out.
IF you want a full reading list of everything that's part of the idw verse and in which order to get them:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/IDW_Publishing#G1_rebooted
Again, it's not required since for a while idw had no interest in keeping their continuity straight and created lots of continuity errors that did not gel with previous material.
The current output is trying to correct that, by slightly retconing and rebooting a few things here and there that no-longer add up.
ctrlFrequency wrote:Print up Va'al's list and keep it handy... trying to read those comics in order is difficult on a good day. I understand WHY they did it the way they did, but it makes it difficult to read since it jumps around so much. it's a time investment, it's nearly a maze... but it is worth it!
Totally with you on Whirl, I fell in love with him when he first shows up. He just keeps getting better too! I had to get his toy when I saw it in the store and fight my kids for him. But Whirl does sometimes get photographed have adventures around my house (he conquered the remote for the TV)
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
SlyTF1 wrote:Dead Metal wrote:
Also, when is Whirl's first appearance in the comics? I want them to do a Spotlight on him at some point.
Burn wrote:P.S.
**** you CF.
Dead Metal wrote:Yes they released those already, but not in TPB form yet.
I think it's a huge mistake to read them the way you did, you basically just ruined half the fun and mystery of MTMTE by reading the end before the rest.
Hell, I have a TMNT tpb here I can't read yet, because somehow I managed to miss 3 previous ones, so I'm waiting till those arive before reading it.
Sabrblade wrote:The following IDW Hardcover collections are your best friend:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1600106676/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1600107516/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1600108563/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1600109381/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1613770529/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1613771835/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1613774060/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1613776276/
I'll later post the reading order that I used to read the stories within them, since I chose to go with an order that's closer to their original publication order rather than chronological order, which helped some things flow better.
True, but they're also the fastest, easiest, and most affordable way to get physical copies of the entire 2005-2011 portion of the IDW G1 comics.SlyTF1 wrote:They're so expensive...
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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