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News Credits: 2 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:45 am

Got this out of the little magazine they always give me when I buy a comic:

"Like crossovers? Then your going to love IDW's upcoming event involving Transformers, GI Joe, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, and C.V.O - a crossover event that will be set in continuity and will have lasting effects within each series. "The license holders have been incredibly supportive," editor Tom Waltz said. We have an opportunity to revitalize several older projects that some folks might not have seen because they came to our books later. It's going to be a really challenging project"

Never heard of C.V.O, but I would like to see Transformers get mixed in with the others.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:20 am

Sounds horrible.

Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:34 am

Random wrote:Got this out of the little magazine they always give me when I buy a comic:

"Like crossovers? Then your going to love IDW's upcoming event involving Transformers, GI Joe, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, and C.V.O - a crossover event that will be set in continuity and will have lasting effects within each series. "The license holders have been incredibly supportive," editor Tom Waltz said. We have an opportunity to revitalize several older projects that some folks might not have seen because they came to our books later. It's going to be a really challenging project"

Never heard of C.V.O, but I would like to see Transformers get mixed in with the others.

IIRC C.V.O. is a video game from Konami (the same company that makes Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania) about vampire hunters I THINK I'm not 100% sure though. IDW published (or was going to publish) a series about it around the time they got the rights to The Transformers. But I'm with Stormwolf, it sounds horrible, I think a growing majority of comic book fans are SICK of crossover events because of the sheer amount of crap Marvel and DC have put out in the past 5-7 years.

Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:17 pm

Stormwolf wrote:Sounds horrible.

Yeah, I agree. I mean want to give it chance since I like almost that entire list, but I'm kind of hoping that TF tie is just about a group of cons and bots that had a space bridge mishap.

Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:56 pm

Crossovers are, by their nature, a good idea initially and usually a bad idea...no, scratch that....a HORRIBLE idea in execution. I am sure decent ones can be done, but I haven't ever seen such a thing.

Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:06 pm

Could the upcoming "Hot Rod in space" story arc be the crossover between Transformers and Star Trek? I certainly hope IDW doesn't do this...Really? Why attempt to crossover Transformers with Star Trek or Ghostbusters? Hasn't IDW learned from the difficulties of such crossovers with Marvel's Transformers #3 and the failed attempt to integrate the robots in disguise into the same story arcs as Spiderman, etc.?

- Bob

Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:17 pm

lasting effects come on m,an even after its over were gonna hear about it

News Credits: 226 · Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:18 pm

Stormwolf wrote:Sounds horrible.

In theory it does.

And i'm sure in theory Transformers/New Avengers sounded good too.

I'm guessing IDW have reached a point where they want to push themselves "to the next level" and to do that they're going to have a big company wide cross-over event.

I can see it now ... in the future, Picard suffers a horrible accident and his consciousness is sent back in time where it merges with some Transformer that's currently being held prisoner by G.I. Joe.

The other Transformers rescue said fellow Cybertronian and discover it to be "haunted" by the "ghost" of Piccard, so who are they gonna call?

bleh ... this is why i'm not a writer!

Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:25 pm

Burn,

Based on your post I think that you should be a writer -- your story ideas sound better than whatever IDW probably will come up with for their crossover misadventures.

- Bob

News Credits: 226 · Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:55 pm

Oh hell no. I was nearly puking when I was writing that myself! :SICK:

If they wanted to do a cross-over, they should work with some of their non-licensed material. Locke & Key meet The Ghostbusters? Now THAT makes sense.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:34 pm

great, another "lets mash as much nostalgia into 1 mini-series as possible" comic.

what, couldn't get the rights to He-Man Popples, My little pony and Punky Brewster while they were at it?

Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:47 pm

Now that would definitely be a cross-over I would buy -- the Transformers meet, devastate, and destroy the horses from My Little Pony.

Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:05 pm

Star Trek... why not Star Wars? they've got a toy line already! :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 226 · Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:47 pm

Probably because Dark Horse have the Star Wars comic rights maybe?

Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:16 pm

Burn wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:Sounds horrible.

In theory it does.

And i'm sure in theory Transformers/New Avengers sounded good too.

I'm guessing IDW have reached a point where they want to push themselves "to the next level" and to do that they're going to have a big company wide cross-over event.

I can see it now ... in the future, Picard suffers a horrible accident and his consciousness is sent back in time where it merges with some Transformer that's currently being held prisoner by G.I. Joe.

The other Transformers rescue said fellow Cybertronian and discover it to be "haunted" by the "ghost" of Piccard, so who are they gonna call?

bleh ... this is why i'm not a writer!

Oh have Unicron team up with Gozer, Q (or the Squire of Gothos), Cobra-La, and vampires to take over all reality. The heroes at first think that everyone else is the enemy they ultimatly learn the truth and join together to stop the villains.

You could also do a "crossover" like First Comics' Crossroads 5 issue series (which is one of the best crossovers ever done) in which each issue is sort of a self contained story that teams up a group of characters in every issue like for example:
#1 G.I. Joe meets The Ghostbusters
#2 The Ghostbusters meet CVO
#3 CVO meets The Transformers
#4 The Transformers meets Star Trek.

What made Crossroads work was that every issue was a self contained story, you could read #5 and not literally have to read #1-4 to understand it, the downside is if you want the Transformers, Joes, the Ghostbusters, CVO, and Star Trek characters to interact at the same time you can't do it in this format.

Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:44 pm

Cyberstrike wrote:IIRC C.V.O. is a video game from Konami (the same company that makes Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania) about vampire hunters I THINK I'm not 100% sure though.

I've Googled CVO, and apparently it's a book about vampire secret agents protecting the free world from all manner of evil...which I suppose is better than that angsty romance crap, but not by much it sounds like.

I don't think it'll be a stretch to say that if this is a straight crossover, it's likely going to involve the supernatural (thus to get the CVO and the Ghostbusters into it) AND time-travel (since Star Trek is largely situated in the 23rd or 24th century), and Primus only knows what kind of "lasting effects" IDW has in mind...

My half-@$$ed guess: Starscream will finally get himself killed and come back as a ghost, whereupon he discovers that he can draw power from psychokinetic energy - PKE - and promptly lays siege on GBHQ and on the containment unit to feed off of it; for inadvertently contributing to Starscream's rampage, and because the Autobots are now supposed to be outlaws, the CVO tries to conscript the Ghostbusters into helping them try to stop him, which leads to Venkman being bitten in a fit of rage when he's unable to keep his smartmouth shut. However, 'Screamer's consumption of spectral entities has caused deeper damage than any of the respective parties realize: namely, a bit of a rupture in the barrier between the living and the dead which over decades crumbles gradually and gradually until in the 23rd century the galaxy suddenly becomes overrun by the spirits of the dead, prompting the Enterprise-E under Data's command to charge up another temporal vortex and go back in time and fix the problem before it starts. However, their not-as-covert-as-intended antics in the present day alert Cobra operatives to the presence of 24th-century weapons technology, and with the aid of Zartan, Cobra pulls a "Space Seed" and makes a move to hijack the Enterprise which they intend to use as a weapon of mass destruction. Hilarity ensues.

Seriously, I honestly would love to have sat in on the creative meeting that led to them coming up with the idea to cross all these properties together. It didn't work when Dark Horse did Alien vs. Predator vs. Terminator, either.

News Credits: 226 · Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:51 pm

Jaw Crusher, I mean absoloutely no offense by this, but your idea made me want to puke more than my own did! :lol:

(Like I said, nothing against you, just this entire ridiculous concept)

Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:54 pm

Burn wrote:Jaw Crusher, I mean absoloutely no offense by this, but your idea made me want to puke more than my own did!
(Like I said, nothing against you, just this entire ridiculous concept)

Well, like I said, the "mash-em-all-together" concept didn't work for Dark Horse, either. Hell, it didn't work for the Universal Monsters fifty years before THAT, except when Abbott and Costello were involved (which in its way is probably self-explanatory).

Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:57 pm

Good Lord, WHY? It does sound horrible. It's such a rediculous idea that I can't even come up with a good response....*insert puking sounds here*

Maybe I'm being too judgemental - who's to say it won't be the greatest literary work of our time! heh heh!