bookofjunon wrote:Ultra Magnus wrote:WaitWaitWait!!! You're saying that there's no Combiners at all in the IDW continuity?
Because IDW sucks that's why.
Actually, if you think about it if combining technology were widespread then every transformer would do it. If it's fairly easy to do then why wouldn't every bot do it. The only reason these bots combined was because the toys did. What IDW has said is that there must be a reason for these things. They've tried to rationalise these things. Otherwise in a battle any given transformer would merge with the next biggest transformer and kick the crap out of each other. And if they don't, you'd end up asking why only a few are combining... The only way to rationalise it is to suggest that the process is not a good one and that the reasons for it must be pretty severe, and the consequences of such an act would outweigh the positive aspects...
The same goes for Headmasters. Why would a robot give up it's own control and its own head voluntarily? It wouldn't and it makes no sense, unless it's forced on them, and it's a loss of control. IDW has also made sense of the Pretender technology (finally).
I've got no problems with the IDW continuity so far, they're not resting on "the established" way things are. I'm not interested in another retelling of events I've already seen. I'm enjoying the twists and the unexpected turns.
As for War Journal, you'll find that the same rationalising of certain aspects occurs, although at it's heart it's a war story. And we've tried to take a snapshot of the decisions that have to get made in war. It's only 22 pages, but we're trying to show how hard a war would really be on these guys.
