IDW’s Got 'CHAOS' On Their Mind!

I wish that IDW would get on the ball and do an open archive online for paid subscribers. I would love to go through old issues in order. Since my local shop shut down I have not been able to find a place that carries the stories I am looking for.

No EJ Su? Oh well, Brendan Cahill's art looks very promising. I'm not caught up on the current comics as I wait for the trades, but this definitely sounds promising.

I do not worry much about the art.
Every artist does it differently and most of the time all it takes is just a little getting used to.

I am more worried about the story.
IDW has ongoing now for more than 1,5 years and have yet to come up with a decent story. Now it is going bi-weekly... *gasp*
Anyway, I must admit. I do have hope for the future. I actually like to believe that the people at IDW listed to the comments and came up with a way to make all the IDW comic stories one (!) big story and that the bots have something going today, will remember what happended with Sunstreaker and Hunter etc. etc.

Love to see it happening!
That doesn't mean I do not like to see that continuation of the Marvel series.
I would even like it more when both will be happen, rather now than later.

William *time to get back to work *

Angelus wrote:I do not worry much about the art.
Every artist does it differently and most of the time all it takes is just a little getting used to.

I am more worried about the story.
IDW has ongoing now for more than 1,5 years and have yet to come up with a decent story. Now it is going bi-weekly... *gasp*
Anyway, I must admit. I do have hope for the future. I actually like to believe that the people at IDW listed to the comments and came up with a way to make all the IDW comic stories one (!) big story and that the bots have something going today, will remember what happended with Sunstreaker and Hunter etc. etc.

Love to see it happening!
That doesn't mean I do not like to see that continuation of the Marvel series.
I would even like it more when both will be happen, rather now than later.

William *time to get back to work *

I hate it when comic book characters (and not just the Transformers) keep rehashing the past over and over again for no good reason other than to waste trees. I don't need Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and every other Autobot bitching about Sunstreaker becoming a Headmaster or whining about poor old Hunter's fate every freaking issue (I hated Sunstreaker becoming a Headmaster and never gave a rat's ass about Hunter either).

It's because of that kind of garbage is one of the many reasons why I avoid all of DC Comics like the plague and 98% of Marvel's comics as well.

gotta admit.

i LIKE this brendan cahill guys art !

ive been off the book since issue 8 and this is the first time ive actually been excited enough to put down cash for it in ages.

its a make or break deal for me, but with art like this and someone of the calibre of james co plotting and writing with costa it bodes EXTREMLY well from my POV.

Angelus wrote:

Cyberstrike wrote:I hate it when comic book characters (and not just the Transformers) keep rehashing the past over and over again for no good reason other than to waste trees. I don't need Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and every other Autobot bitching about Sunstreaker becoming a Headmaster or whining about poor old Hunter's fate every freaking issue (I hated Sunstreaker becoming a Headmaster and never gave a rat's ass about Hunter either).

It's because of that kind of garbage is one of the many reasons why I avoid all of DC Comics like the plague and 98% of Marvel's comics as well.

I meant more like they would remember something like that rather than pretending nothing ever happened like that.
No need to address an historical issue if it is not relevant, I totally agree!

I agree too.

My thoughts on this are: just because the Autobots don't talk about it doesn't mean that they have forgotten about it. It could be that they don't talk about it because it's a painful memory that many are trying to get over and maybe some of them have gotten over it.

You should check out Transformers: Ironhide Sunstreaker mentioned his mistreatment by humans and regret that he betrayed the Autobots in Transformers: Ironhide #3 and #4 and it was relevant to the events of that series.

IMHO dragging 124 issues of backstory, history, and continuty and/or reatstrting a series after 20+ years of it being canceled (the Furman writing #81 idea) isn't the best way to attract new readers.

Dr. Heavy B wrote:soooooo its one big ass bi-weekly retcon? COOL

memo to IDW: KEEP SHANE MCCARTHY FAR, FAAAAAAAAAAAAR AWAY.

IDW should bring Shane McCarthy back full time on ongoing.

Dr. Heavy B wrote:

Cyberstrike wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:soooooo its one big ass bi-weekly retcon? COOL

memo to IDW: KEEP SHANE MCCARTHY FAR, FAAAAAAAAAAAAR AWAY.

IDW should bring Shane McCarthy back full time on ongoing.

Shane ignored most of the prior story lines going into All Hail Megatron, making this bi-weekly retcon needed.

Do you know what became of Ore-13?
Do you know how hunter came into decepticon hands AFTER being rescued at the end of maximum dinobots?
Do you know how cybertron suddenly became bearable to reside on DESPITE the supposed deadly atmosphere shown in stormbringer?

these are questions that bug the hell out of me, and i place blame on shane for not reading anything put out prior. dont get me wrong, I did enjoy AHM, but those question bother me to this day.

BTW, what ever happened to jimmy?

This was explained in Ironhide: Alpha Trion was behind the scenes working to fix everything up.

I, for one, like Shane McCarthy. He can write some pretty good stuff, like Spotlight: Blurr and that much better-than-expected Drift mini. It's just a shame AHM ignored so much, though the Coda really helped tie it to the earlier comics, partially redeeming the series in my eyes, at least.

Huh. I just realized that Jazz is on a cover in spite of recent events.

Not that I expected him to die after the recent issue but I figured that something bad would happen to him. Since it's "The Last Earth Story" he is exiled from the planet?

Dr. Heavy B wrote:memo to IDW: KEEP SHANE MCCARTHY FAR, FAAAAAAAAAAAAR AWAY.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Cyberstrike wrote:IDW should bring Shane McCarthy back full time on ongoing.

Yeah, so we could get another 6-issues-of-absolutely-nothing, followed by 6-issues-of-nonsense.