Great interview! So many revealing details. The Pat Lee issue is a very bad chapter on everybody's life.
I wish I can be as open minded as he is accepting new things because I will never accept the (live)
movie's design 100%, despite the fact I don't mind the changes made in
Armada,
Cybertron and
Energon. I guess its just a matter of taste actually and not of nostalgia.
The comic industry can certainly be a mean one as I as a fan/customer has experienced lately. That was an experience that had made me "mature" and changed the way I view the world.
A curious detail is that I studied technical drawing as well (actually, Architecture w/ Auto CAD). In my case because it was drawing related. Guess it is in my veins to draw technical stuff because I love mecha so much!