Va'al wrote:Hey! Welcome back.
Devastation and War Within are very different stories, with the latter being part of the Dreamwave production and the former a part of the IDW reboot. If you want catch up with everything that has happened since, and I'd recommend doing so personally, keep on going from Devastation! The Spotlight collections, ending with Revelation, try tying up the story of the -ation series, and a coda of sorts is Maximum Dinobots.
You then have All Hail Megatron, which some readers dislike for its pace, but I quite enjoy, and the mini-series Last Stand of the Wreckers, definitely recommended for a taster of the new direction IDW is currently on.
After that you have the Costa run (from For All Mankind up to Chaos) which I personally am not a fan of, but Revenge of the Decepticons, Chaos Theory, and Chaos are pretty much essential reads to understand some of the stories later on. And it looks like Heart of Darkness is also quite important to an extent, though the artwork is a bit dodgy.
Finished those, you're on the current run of More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise, which run parallel to each other.
The IDW universe is about to have its first crossover event, which appear to take from a lot of old continuity, so now is the time to catch up before delving into Dark Cybertron!
I hope that helps in some way.
Va'al wrote:Ah, on another note: if you were into the old Marvel US and UK runs of comics, Furman has been able to get onto a limited series which will finish off the Generation 1 comics, titled ReGeneration One! There's some really interesting stuff in there, and the artistic team is particularly skilled.
JohnHope wrote:Is the comic art as good as before? - as much as I have fond memories of the art in the 80's comics, when you re-visit them you realise just how much talent there is now out there.
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.'
Well, since it takes place in the far past, this order shifts it out of the way so as to not interrupt the main plot of the present day issues. And, it is not placed first on the list because it isn't meant to be the beginning proper of the series. Infiltration is. Granted, there really isn't any good place to put it among the first phase issues, but it still counts as part of the first phase since that's when it was published, so it has to go somewhere in there. Thus, it's put off the side of the main story as a sort of "And now, with all that said and done, here's what happened long ago..." case.Va'al wrote:Why is Megatron Origin in such a weird placement?
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:Well, since it takes place in the far past, this order shifts it out of the way so as to not interrupt the main plot of the present day issues. And, it is not placed first on the list because it isn't meant to be the beginning proper of the series. Infiltration is. Granted, there really isn't any good place to put it among the first phase issues, but it still counts as part of the first phase since that's when it was published, so it has to go somewhere in there. Thus, it's put off the side of the main story as a sort of "And now, with all that said and done, here's what happened long ago..." case.Va'al wrote:Why is Megatron Origin in such a weird placement?
Yeah, when I started reading all of IDW's stuff, I wanted to read it all in an order closest to the original publication order, but modified to make the story flow better, but not with too much modification (meaning "Megatron Origin" gets to stay with the era of comics it came out with).Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Well, since it takes place in the far past, this order shifts it out of the way so as to not interrupt the main plot of the present day issues. And, it is not placed first on the list because it isn't meant to be the beginning proper of the series. Infiltration is. Granted, there really isn't any good place to put it among the first phase issues, but it still counts as part of the first phase since that's when it was published, so it has to go somewhere in there. Thus, it's put off the side of the main story as a sort of "And now, with all that said and done, here's what happened long ago..." case.Va'al wrote:Why is Megatron Origin in such a weird placement?
Fair enough. I tend to put it somewhere with Autocracy, Monstrosity, Chaos Theory, but after War Within. Not necessarily in that order, and not necessarily on the shelf.
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.'
I'm aware. I own volumes 1-7 (still need to pick up Volume 8 ), but "Megatron Origin" coming first from the viewpoint of a new reader doesn't feel appropriate since it doesn't work as a beginning story. "Infiltration", however, was written in a way that formally introduces us to the IDW continuity as a whole.Henry921 wrote:IDW's big hard-backed books have a "suggested reading order" from their publication start in 2009. And in that compilation, Megatron: Origin was first.
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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