by Powerdasher » Thu May 01, 2008 6:32 am
Furman is a great writer, and (most of) the stories on Marvel and IDW are great and a nice read. Compare that with the Avengers/Transformers crossover, or the bloddy Dreamwave G1 Miniseries. I mean, look at G1 volume 2 - there's easily a quarter of the storylines of Marvel US, UK and the Animated G1 Series, cramped into six issues!
At least IDW has discipline, allowing decent character development. I haven't seen Sixshot, the Battlechargers, Sunstreaker, Ramjet, Dogfight or Hardhead (to name a few) so well-developed before. While still trying to juggle two hundred or so TFs at the same time, Furman did a great job, putting in G2 and Action Master cameos in the stories without making a distasting feeling.
Another thing to comment on: already popular characters such as Ratchet, Prowl or Jazz are further characterized. At least Starscream isn't his bloody Dreamwave two-dimensional double crosser. Megatron is (compared to Marvel) finally the top dog of the Decepticons, instead of being downtrodden by Straxus, Ratbat, Shockwave, Bludgeon and everyone else. Characters generally used as 'filler soldiers', such as Sunstreaker, Skywarp, Igunaus, Sixshot, Ramjet et cetera finally get limelights.