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IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Kyleor » Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:00 am

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Z3ROhour wrote:WTFIUWTA!?

:-x

WHAT THE FRAGGLE IS UP WITH THE ART?!

Are they insane?
Are they kidding?
Is this really what they are going with?
Is it an experiment?
Are 5 year olds all that is left for artists?
Is the world ending?
Did the Rapture take all the artists, because artist are the chosen people of the big 8-} in the sky?
Am i still here?
Is this a joke?

the art... is... is BAD!
just terrible.

the cover with Leader-1 was... ok...
but

WTFIUWTA!?
:HEADHURTS:
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There is a quality problem with many comic artists/writers, but you now get labeled a 'hater of women' or 'alt-right basement troll' by the fanboys of those artists/writers if you dare to point that out, or even suggest it.

Maybe they'll work up to a more modern or better style as the series goes on?
Don't get butthurt when you get called out for expressing closed/small/narrow minded opinions. Educate yourself and form a better opinion.


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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby X3ROhour » Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:13 am

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ZeroWolf wrote:It's basically recreating the art style of the early days, and was used to great effect in the Transformers vs GI Joe miniseries. It's not to some people's tastes but each to their own.

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:19 am

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I initially wasn't keen on it [the art style], it's hard to follow, when I first read Transformers vs. GI Joe. Although I quickly got into it through it's unique angle of visual storytelling. It looks more subdued here in this mini regardless, which will help.
Besides it is infinitely superior to the vomiting skittles across the page we had in the Primacy Trilogy.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby X3ROhour » Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:32 am

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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I initially wasn't keen on it [the art style], it's hard to follow, when I first read Transformers vs. GI Joe. Although I quickly got into it through it's unique angle of visual storytelling. It looks more subdued here in this mini regardless, which will help.
Besides it is infinitely superior to the vomiting skittles across the page we had in the Primacy Trilogy.

what?!
you dont dig chicken scratchings in heavy inks?

well, i say "good day" 2 u, sir.

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby ZeroWolf » Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:34 am

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Kyleor wrote:
Z3ROhour wrote:WTFIUWTA!?

:-x

WHAT THE FRAGGLE IS UP WITH THE ART?!

Are they insane?
Are they kidding?
Is this really what they are going with?
Is it an experiment?
Are 5 year olds all that is left for artists?
Is the world ending?
Did the Rapture take all the artists, because artist are the chosen people of the big 8-} in the sky?
Am i still here?
Is this a joke?

the art... is... is BAD!
just terrible.

the cover with Leader-1 was... ok...
but

WTFIUWTA!?
:HEADHURTS:
:DANCE:
:rodimusstar: :rodimusstarhalf:


There is a quality problem with many comic artists/writers, but you now get labeled a 'hater of women' or 'alt-right basement troll' by the fanboys of those artists/writers if you dare to point that out, or even suggest it.

Maybe they'll work up to a more modern or better style as the series goes on?

Isn't it a matter of taste though? Each artist has their fans and detractors in equal measures.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Dr. Caelus » Sat Sep 08, 2018 10:37 am

Kyleor wrote:There is a quality problem with many comic artists/writers, but you now get labeled a 'hater of women' or 'alt-right basement troll' by the fanboys of those artists/writers if you dare to point that out, or even suggest it.


Well, if you only ***** about female artists and inclusive writing, you probably deserve what you get.

ZeroWolf wrote:Isn't it a matter of taste though? Each artist has their fans and detractors in equal measures.


I wouldn't say equal measures...
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Bumblevivisector » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:31 am

Seibertron wrote:I don't even understand why Gobots is getting a comic. Can they just officially assimilate Gobots into Transformers once and for all and call it a day at long last? Is anyone truly nostalgic about Gobots over Transformers? If they are, I might have to rethink what I want to do with https://www.gobotron.com and https://www.machinerobo.com :)
Oddly enough, I do technically get more nostalgic for Gobots than Transformers in general.

By which I mean, I don't get nostalgic for TF because it's the one thing I never gave up being a fan of, so it's never really been in the past for me. I get an occasional feeling of nostalgia for specific stretches of the franchise like the early '90s when I was collecting all the Marvel U.S. books I'd foolishly ignored, and the late '90s when Beast Wars was miraculously saving the whole TF franchise, because it gave me this feeling of hope against all odds when it seemed like I was the last fan who still cared, difficult to explain now to fans too young to remember when TF wasn't a permanent fixture of pop culture, and Hasbro could have just allowed it to drop dead at any moment. This feeling's at it's strongest when I make the mistake of talking to some geewunner my own age who apparently wishes the franchise had died during that era despite knowing nothing about it, because that makes me wish I still was the last Transformers fan.

Gobots, on the other hand, was strictly a mid-to-late '80s franchise that doesn't have much existence anymore. Sure, I recently bought that Bike-Robo with the extra CyKill-esque faces, but since those MP-quality toys are Machine-Robo, any of us who enjoy them as GoBots are technically just repurposing them, right? And that can only be nostalgia because of the legal roadblocks keeping it from its former glory.

To our fandom, Gobots has been first and foremost the butt of jokes about it being the lame wannabe competition to Transformers. And frankly, the stupid, stupid names of so many of its characters, and the entire franchise, were genuinely asking for it. But considering it nothing but lame non-Transformers is really just an archaic holdover from a time when they were on equal footing as direct competition for TF. And it wasn't just Gobots: perhaps even most fans old enough to remember the dawn of TF have forgotten, but those were just two of dozens of toy robot lines competing for space in every toy section, adding to what made the mid '80s the golden age of toys by virtue of the sheer number of franchises in the game, whether or not they had corresponding cartoons to tell their story. Most of these had no mythos beyond a little text on the back of their packaging, but nearly all had that air of mysterious origins across the Pacific that imbued them with alien-ness, something Transformers balanced perfectly with the relatability of its characters. Of course, we knew TF was easily the best, and deserved to win any competition, so most of us just dismissed them. Gobots alone posed too serious competition to just dismiss, so we s#at all over it instead. I was no exception, but sometime in the last few decades, I realized that in doing so, I'd failed to fully appreciated those toylines for what they were; I'd forgotten how much I loved that childhood forest for love of just my favorite tree.

THAT's what I get nostalgic for. And Gobots is my most reliable link to that era.

So no, Gobots should absolutely NOT be completely assimilated into TF, and Gobotron should not be just another version of Cybertron somewhere in the multiverse. This new comic, however, doesn't look or sound that interesting. Sure, it'll get people talking about Gobots in the present tense again, but I foresee yet another restart becoming necessary not too long afterward.

And when that happens, can't we have one damn TF universe where the Gobots, Zybots, Convertors, Robotrons, Bug Bots, Parasites etc. also exist, but on different planets with no direct evidence of being created by Primus or the Quintessons? Both Sunbow and Marvel's post-Movie eras showed that Transformers were just one of many disparate races of sentient robots, all alien to each other, so it's hardly unprecedented, but not really explored at all. The mission of that universe's Lost Light could be to investigate whether there is some forgotten connection to TF: Flip-Trons, Four Star, and other lines that had literal KOs of Diaclone molds would surely turn out to have some actual heritage, like botched Quint experiments using computers other than Vector Sigma, while others would turn out to have no connection at all. Since most of those franchises are dead and forgotten, would anyone sue or demand that much in royalties?

Or maybe that just makes sense to me because I didn't understand which cartoons shared continuity when I was 5. I always thought Dr. Archeville was just Dr. Braxis disguising himself so he could sneak into the superior giant robot cartoon, just like Cobra Commander donned that trenchcoat and fedora to sneak into Season 3 as Old Snake. Add in what I assumed were the Rock Lords showing up on He-Man and She-Ra, and all the action cartoons I grew up on are forever tangled up in my mind. That's the book I want to see. I'm so far behind on IDW that I won't get to Revolution for a while, but no matter how bad it sucked (seriously, was any of it as bad as the Jem movie?), I don't ever want Hasbro to give up on making that idea work. And Gobots should always be a part of that whole, distinct from Transformers.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby X3ROhour » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:52 am

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Bumblevivisector wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I don't even understand why Gobots is getting a comic. Can they just officially assimilate Gobots into Transformers once and for all and call it a day at long last? Is anyone truly nostalgic about Gobots over Transformers? If they are, I might have to rethink what I want to do with https://www.gobotron.com and https://www.machinerobo.com :)
Oddly enough, I do technically get more nostalgic for Gobots than Transformers in general.

By which I mean, I don't get nostalgic for TF because it's the one thing I never gave up being a fan of, so it's never really been in the past for me. I get an occasional feeling of nostalgia for specific stretches of the franchise like the early '90s when I was collecting all the Marvel U.S. books I'd foolishly ignored, and the late '90s when Beast Wars was miraculously saving the whole TF franchise, because it gave me this feeling of hope against all odds when it seemed like I was the last fan who still cared, difficult to explain now to fans too young to remember when TF wasn't a permanent fixture of pop culture, and Hasbro could have just allowed it to drop dead at any moment. This feeling's at it's strongest when I make the mistake of talking to some geewunner my own age who apparently wishes the franchise had died during that era despite knowing nothing about it, because that makes me wish I still was the last Transformers fan.

Gobots, on the other hand, was strictly a mid-to-late '80s franchise that doesn't have much existence anymore. Sure, I recently bought that Bike-Robo with the extra CyKill-esque faces, but since those MP-quality toys are Machine-Robo, any of us who enjoy them as GoBots are technically just repurposing them, right? And that can only be nostalgia because of the legal roadblocks keeping it from its former glory.

To our fandom, Gobots has been first and foremost the butt of jokes about it being the lame wannabe competition to Transformers. And frankly, the stupid, stupid names of so many of its characters, and the entire franchise, were genuinely asking for it. But considering it nothing but lame non-Transformers is really just an archaic holdover from a time when they were on equal footing as direct competition for TF. And it wasn't just Gobots: perhaps even most fans old enough to remember the dawn of TF have forgotten, but those were just two of dozens of toy robot lines competing for space in every toy section, adding to what made the mid '80s the golden age of toys by virtue of the sheer number of franchises in the game, whether or not they had corresponding cartoons to tell their story. Most of these had no mythos beyond a little text on the back of their packaging, but nearly all had that air of mysterious origins across the Pacific that imbued them with alien-ness, something Transformers balanced perfectly with the relatability of its characters. Of course, we knew TF was easily the best, and deserved to win any competition, so most of us just dismissed them. Gobots alone posed too serious competition to just dismiss, so we s#at all over it instead. I was no exception, but sometime in the last few decades, I realized that in doing so, I'd failed to fully appreciated those toylines for what they were; I'd forgotten how much I loved that childhood forest for love of just my favorite tree.

THAT's what I get nostalgic for. And Gobots is my most reliable link to that era.

So no, Gobots should absolutely NOT be completely assimilated into TF, and Gobotron should not be just another version of Cybertron somewhere in the multiverse. This new comic, however, doesn't look or sound that interesting. Sure, it'll get people talking about Gobots in the present tense again, but I foresee yet another restart becoming necessary not too long afterward.

And when that happens, can't we have one damn TF universe where the Gobots, Zybots, Convertors, Robotrons, Bug Bots, Parasites etc. also exist, but on different planets with no direct evidence of being created by Primus or the Quintessons? Both Sunbow and Marvel's post-Movie eras showed that Transformers were just one of many disparate races of sentient robots, all alien to each other, so it's hardly unprecedented, but not really explored at all. The mission of that universe's Lost Light could be to investigate whether there is some forgotten connection to TF: Flip-Trons, Four Star, and other lines that had literal KOs of Diaclone molds would surely turn out to have some actual heritage, like botched Quint experiments using computers other than Vector Sigma, while others would turn out to have no connection at all. Since most of those franchises are dead and forgotten, would anyone sue or demand that much in royalties?

Or maybe that just makes sense to me because I didn't understand which cartoons shared continuity when I was 5. I always thought Dr. Archeville was just Dr. Braxis disguising himself so he could sneak into the superior giant robot cartoon, just like Cobra Commander donned that trenchcoat and fedora to sneak into Season 3 as Old Snake. Add in what I assumed were the Rock Lords showing up on He-Man and She-Ra, and all the action cartoons I grew up on are forever tangled up in my mind. That's the book I want to see. I'm so far behind on IDW that I won't get to Revolution for a while, but no matter how bad it sucked (seriously, was any of it as bad as the Jem movie?), I don't ever want Hasbro to give up on making that idea work. And Gobots should always be a part of that whole, distinct from Transformers.

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby ZeroWolf » Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:11 pm

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Bumblevivisector wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I don't even understand why Gobots is getting a comic. Can they just officially assimilate Gobots into Transformers once and for all and call it a day at long last? Is anyone truly nostalgic about Gobots over Transformers? If they are, I might have to rethink what I want to do with https://www.gobotron.com and https://www.machinerobo.com :)
Oddly enough, I do technically get more nostalgic for Gobots than Transformers in general.

By which I mean, I don't get nostalgic for TF because it's the one thing I never gave up being a fan of, so it's never really been in the past for me. I get an occasional feeling of nostalgia for specific stretches of the franchise like the early '90s when I was collecting all the Marvel U.S. books I'd foolishly ignored, and the late '90s when Beast Wars was miraculously saving the whole TF franchise, because it gave me this feeling of hope against all odds when it seemed like I was the last fan who still cared, difficult to explain now to fans too young to remember when TF wasn't a permanent fixture of pop culture, and Hasbro could have just allowed it to drop dead at any moment. This feeling's at it's strongest when I make the mistake of talking to some geewunner my own age who apparently wishes the franchise had died during that era despite knowing nothing about it, because that makes me wish I still was the last Transformers fan.

Gobots, on the other hand, was strictly a mid-to-late '80s franchise that doesn't have much existence anymore. Sure, I recently bought that Bike-Robo with the extra CyKill-esque faces, but since those MP-quality toys are Machine-Robo, any of us who enjoy them as GoBots are technically just repurposing them, right? And that can only be nostalgia because of the legal roadblocks keeping it from its former glory.

To our fandom, Gobots has been first and foremost the butt of jokes about it being the lame wannabe competition to Transformers. And frankly, the stupid, stupid names of so many of its characters, and the entire franchise, were genuinely asking for it. But considering it nothing but lame non-Transformers is really just an archaic holdover from a time when they were on equal footing as direct competition for TF. And it wasn't just Gobots: perhaps even most fans old enough to remember the dawn of TF have forgotten, but those were just two of dozens of toy robot lines competing for space in every toy section, adding to what made the mid '80s the golden age of toys by virtue of the sheer number of franchises in the game, whether or not they had corresponding cartoons to tell their story. Most of these had no mythos beyond a little text on the back of their packaging, but nearly all had that air of mysterious origins across the Pacific that imbued them with alien-ness, something Transformers balanced perfectly with the relatability of its characters. Of course, we knew TF was easily the best, and deserved to win any competition, so most of us just dismissed them. Gobots alone posed too serious competition to just dismiss, so we s#at all over it instead. I was no exception, but sometime in the last few decades, I realized that in doing so, I'd failed to fully appreciated those toylines for what they were; I'd forgotten how much I loved that childhood forest for love of just my favorite tree.

THAT's what I get nostalgic for. And Gobots is my most reliable link to that era.

So no, Gobots should absolutely NOT be completely assimilated into TF, and Gobotron should not be just another version of Cybertron somewhere in the multiverse. This new comic, however, doesn't look or sound that interesting. Sure, it'll get people talking about Gobots in the present tense again, but I foresee yet another restart becoming necessary not too long afterward.

And when that happens, can't we have one damn TF universe where the Gobots, Zybots, Convertors, Robotrons, Bug Bots, Parasites etc. also exist, but on different planets with no direct evidence of being created by Primus or the Quintessons? Both Sunbow and Marvel's post-Movie eras showed that Transformers were just one of many disparate races of sentient robots, all alien to each other, so it's hardly unprecedented, but not really explored at all. The mission of that universe's Lost Light could be to investigate whether there is some forgotten connection to TF: Flip-Trons, Four Star, and other lines that had literal KOs of Diaclone molds would surely turn out to have some actual heritage, like botched Quint experiments using computers other than Vector Sigma, while others would turn out to have no connection at all. Since most of those franchises are dead and forgotten, would anyone sue or demand that much in royalties?

Or maybe that just makes sense to me because I didn't understand which cartoons shared continuity when I was 5. I always thought Dr. Archeville was just Dr. Braxis disguising himself so he could sneak into the superior giant robot cartoon, just like Cobra Commander donned that trenchcoat and fedora to sneak into Season 3 as Old Snake. Add in what I assumed were the Rock Lords showing up on He-Man and She-Ra, and all the action cartoons I grew up on are forever tangled up in my mind. That's the book I want to see. I'm so far behind on IDW that I won't get to Revolution for a while, but no matter how bad it sucked (seriously, was any of it as bad as the Jem movie?), I don't ever want Hasbro to give up on making that idea work. And Gobots should always be a part of that whole, distinct from Transformers.

This is a really good post, so thank you for sharing :)

I just want to add that I think you're right about this continuity being a one off asi do believe there will be a cross over at some point in the future with the new tf continuity.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Amelie » Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:34 pm

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I actually think this art has a lot going for it.

- The way depth and perspective is used is solid and dynamic, something that I've been finding lacking in some of the other artists work (which sometimes is far too "from the side" far too often for my tastes). I'll state this more boldly - its not an easy skill and often overlooked when I see critique of comic art, especially when I often see some really weird decisions and mistakes made in other works.

- Panels have a great sense of movement with Scioli and for me thats a big part of story telling in an action comic. You can have all the detailing in the world you like, but your art can still look dead on a page. A reason Senior's work was so excellent in the 80s was the way you could 'feel' the movement in panels (Target:2006's Highway Surfing issue is an excellent example)

- Its bold and daring. Scioli knows this art isn't for everyone. Art rarely is 'for everyone', but he's made the conscious decision to go down a a route less mainstream. The style suits the more bonkers plot that is likely to follow (as was in GI Joe Vs Transformers).

Nostalgia aside - it strikes all the right cords with me. Perhaps, even, the art could be future-proofing itself with its silver-age looks. If I pick this up in 18 years time like a Dreamwave comic, I suspect I won't be saying "this art has aged horribly" like I do with DW (DW was often awful to begin with, don't get me started).

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:08 pm

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On a related note, did anyone here (besides me) ever read the story "Echoes and Fragments"? It was written by Jim Sorenson during the Transformers Collectors Club's final year, and told an alternate version of the events of Transformers: The Movie, in which the Transformer Sideways and the Renegade GoBot Gong messed around with space-time to mix and match Transformers and GoBots in various roles during the events of movie, with Vector Prime setting out to stop their shenanigans and set things right with reality to get everyone back to their proper places for the movie's events to end correctly.

This was its title art:

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:06 pm

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Daniel Adkins » Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:34 pm

Seibertron wrote:I don't even understand why Gobots is getting a comic.

Because Tom Scioli said to IDW "Hey, I want to make a GoBots comic." Believe it or not, sometimes comics (even licensed ones) are made because artists want to make them.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Silverwing » Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:47 pm

I quite like the art style. The retro aesthetic works for a franchise entirely based in the 80s, not to mention that it sets the brand apart from TF in a clear way. In my opinion, GoBots shouldn't try to be the "cool" shape-shifting robots, TF already has that covered. The direction IDW is going in allows for the more wacky, creative elements shine to through, which makes the comic far more interesting. Heck, I'm not even a GoBots fan and I'm just as interested in this project as I am in the Unicron finale!
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Kyleor » Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:13 am

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Well, if you intentionally focus only on any criticism at all of one group as a power-shield against any criticism of any comics at all, you probably deserve what lower art quality, poorly written, and quickly canceled comics you get...
Don't get butthurt when you get called out for expressing closed/small/narrow minded opinions. Educate yourself and form a better opinion.


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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby dragons » Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:16 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:It's basically recreating the art style of the early days, and was used to great effect in the Transformers vs GI Joe miniseries. It's not to some people's tastes but each to their own.


i dont know what early days your talking about i saw comics in news papers are style didnt look like this, i saw archie comics, and batman, they didnt look this xmen issue 12 first apperacne of juggernaught comc art doesnt look like this for humans and machines.

im no xmen fan but comic art of professor x looks better this comic page art was from years ago

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for those who like this art style let them buy it but for me comic art is what make me buy books not story if wanted good story i buy william shakespear, edger allen poe, jules vern, if i want comic book i look art first then everything else
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:36 pm

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dragons wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:It's basically recreating the art style of the early days, and was used to great effect in the Transformers vs GI Joe miniseries. It's not to some people's tastes but each to their own.


i dont know what early days your talking about i saw comics in news papers are style didnt look like this, i saw archie comics, and batman, they didnt look this xmen issue 12 first apperacne of juggernaught comc art doesnt look like this for humans and machines.

im no xmen fan but comic art of professor x looks better this comic page art was from years ago

Image.

for those who like this art style let them buy it but for me comic art is what make me buy books not story if wanted good story i buy william shakespear, edger allen poe, jules vern, if i want comic book i look art first then everything else
More correctly, it's based on the style of Jack Kirby's more surreal art.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby WreckerJack » Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:53 pm

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Can't see this doing well. It's gonna wind up like that micronaut comic that ended.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby ThunderThruster » Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:24 pm

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Bad Wolf wrote:Art quality aside.. I don't remember Turbo ever being able to have a driver when in car mode, as being cyborgs they were not that much bigger than average humans.. when did go-bots get mass shifting abilities?


If you go to time index 8:20 you'll see Turbo shove both Nick and A.J. into the car seat area in his chest https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tyiy1
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:06 pm

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ThunderThruster wrote:
Bad Wolf wrote:Art quality aside.. I don't remember Turbo ever being able to have a driver when in car mode, as being cyborgs they were not that much bigger than average humans.. when did go-bots get mass shifting abilities?


If you go to time index 8:20 you'll see Turbo shove both Nick and A.J. into the car seat area in his chest https://www.dailymotion.com/015adf09-f5 ... a1fd647d64
Dead link.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Coptur » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:08 am

Gobots size Comparsion between 1984 to the episode Time Wars 1985
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as you can see even hannah barbara changed their minds from episode to episode.

This is a new continuity so it doesn't matter what size(s) they used to be.

I'm a big Gobots fan and want to read this even though i hate the art style. I have all the original Eagle Comics with the original Machine Robo/Gobots comic strips.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby ThunderThruster » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:38 pm

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Sabrblade wrote:
ThunderThruster wrote:
Bad Wolf wrote:Art quality aside.. I don't remember Turbo ever being able to have a driver when in car mode, as being cyborgs they were not that much bigger than average humans.. when did go-bots get mass shifting abilities?


If you go to time index 8:20 you'll see Turbo shove both Nick and A.J. into the car seat area in his chest https://www.dailymotion.com/015adf09-f59a-4499-94fe-a7a1fd647d64
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Apparently so. Fixed.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:28 pm

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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:44 am

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Sabrblade wrote:On a related note, did anyone here (besides me) ever read the story "Echoes and Fragments"? It was written by Jim Sorenson during the Transformers Collectors Club's final year, and told an alternate version of the events of Transformers: The Movie, in which the Transformer Sideways and the Renegade GoBot Gong messed around with space-time to mix and match Transformers and GoBots in various roles during the events of movie, with Vector Prime setting out to stop their shenanigans and set things right with reality to get everyone back to their proper places for the movie's events to end correctly.

This was its title art:

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While that does sound interesting, after the insulting FanFic trash that was Deviations, I wouldn't go near any "alternate" take on The Movie ever again.
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Re: IDW Go-Bots Ongoing Series Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:16 am

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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:While that does sound interesting, after the insulting FanFic trash that was Deviations, I wouldn't go near any "alternate" take on The Movie ever again.
Don't worry, all of the events were left intact (or given GoBots-based equivalents that were both appropriate matches and clever tributes to both series) and everyone left in-character. It was done in faithful respect to both properties, as opposed to Deviations's disgraceful disrespect.

About the only notable change to the story I can recall was the very minor change of Cy-Kill sparing Ironhide's life rather than murdering him outright like Megatron did, opting to instead have him locked up in the ship's hold, thinking that he may yet have some use for Ironhide that would warrant the Autobot kept alive rather than killed off.

...Buuuuuuuut, he never got the chance to do whatever he had planned for Ironhide because A) he eventually switched places back with Megatron, and B) the events of the movie as they played out would have halted said plans anyway since we know just how well things ended up turning out for Megatron in the Battle of Autobot City ;)
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