Oh man, I found some other stuff I will post below and its amazing to read this in retrospect. It is ironic that the last line of that quote above ends with James Roberts stepping in, which has now changed the TF comics books into something Costas could have never dreamt. Here is what I was thinking when I was reading what I found
here:
Having written a total of 35 issues of Transformers, Mike Costa, interviewing with the The Underbase Podcast, proudly stated how honored and how “really cool” it is to know that only Transformers legends Simon Furman and Bob Budiansky have written more issues of this timeless comic than he has.
Wow, times have changes, 35 issues doesnt sound like all that much anymore.
– “Transformers are toys. They are toys. That’s why they’re giant robots that turn in to cars. They’re toys. There’s no reason a robot would turn in to a car, they’re toys. I guess you could come up with reasons for it – a lot of writers have – it’s just so strange.”
Grant Morrison has come up with far far stranger things in comics (which are all about strange things). Plus when playing War for Cybertron, it was pretty clear how being able to turn into your own transportation vehicle would come in quite handy.
– “Cars and trucks in a comic book aren’t expressive – there’s no character to a car.”
And yet this movie exists:
Plus how is this an issue when the car can turn into an expressive robot?!
– “My job as a writer is to understand why characters are doing certain things – beyond why they are doing things in a certain moment – to who they are as people, but that’s where questions start getting really confusing, because these ‘things’ aren’t people.”
That sounded very descriminatory
It also sounded lame. Gandalf is super ancient too, and not a human, but you didnt see JRR Tolkien bitch about it. Instead he made him awesome! But thats beyond the point, I cant believe a professional writer actually wrote this. You can write them as people if you want to, you are the goddam writer!!!!
“They don’t get hungry, they don’t get tired, they don’t have women, they don’t have relationships that they value, because they don’t have females that they can love, maybe brotherly love but how, they don’t have parents?”
Friends who have fought side by side endlessly, having eachother's back, would not care about eachother? I guess there is nothing in our reality that could inspire him about people building bonds through war. Oh wait
– “Transformers fans read Transformers comics, and only Transformers comics. They are isolated from the rest of the comic book world.”
That is clearly no longer the case (if it ever was, which I doubt).
– In the comic book community, Transformers are not looked upon favorably. They are looked upon as being silly and “not-serious” comics. GI Joe is taken seriously. “GI Joe still has respectability, while Transformers does not.”
Wasnt MTMTE awarded best ongoing comic in 2015 from comics alliance? Why yes, it was
http://comicsalliance.com/comics-allian ... al-comics/– “I don’t think these books will be number 1 again. They target their market, and their market is shrinking, and there’s a lot of people in that market that are unpleasant.”
See above.