william-james88 wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:and from passionate creators too.
That however, remains to be seen. As I'm pretty sure those behind IDW 2.0 said similar.
this first Beast Wars issue is better than any issue from 2.0
Can now confirm.
Years ago, there was a film called Batman Forever. As I loved the first two Batman films, Being around 11yo, I was a little obsessed with finding out every single fact I could about the third one. The problem with that? By the time the film came out, there were no surprises. Same thing with issue one. While the reviews over these pages were not very spoiler heavy. Simply by going over the broad strokes there really isn't anything more to it. I would have put this as a zero issue or FCBD giveaway. Not due to the quality of the book, but what its saying.
The art... Is the wrong fit for Beast Wars. The Beast Modes (Nyx and Megatron, in particular) are atrocious and hammer that home. By the same token, at the back of the book is some scale and reference guides to the Maximal and Predacon Cybertronian modes. Their feet of all things, really look bad.
Lastly, I'm gonna pull two lines from the interviews at the back, not focused on yet:
RE: Nyx and Skold
Burnham: We didn't want to wait until whenever Blackarachnia shows up to have female characters in the book.
Why? There doesn't seem an earnest reason for that. The two female leads of Beast Wars are two of the strongest in characterisation in Transformers. I doubt it was a mandate either.
However, a little further on, is likely the answer:
RE: Upcoming Issues
Burnham: ...or, no, maybe the first conversation between Dinobot and Nyx.
So, shipping then? That has ominous connotations on how Dinobot's story will be altered.
RE: Skold
she starts off as strong, but otherwise shy and looking for acceptance. Eventually, she's going to come out of her shell (pun intended) and I think, at that point, if we've done everything right, fans will cheer.
That sounds like latter IDWverse over humanising nonsense creeping in. Which makes me highly sceptical about where this book will go.
Ultimately, it was ok. Nothing amazing. It didn't give me the same vibe as the show still does. I can think of better ways the 25th anniversary could have been represented. But again, this is off to a better start than IDWverse 2.0. So I'll give the next issue a go, at least. 5/10