Well ... obviously I'm happy to say all that has changed. So here I am and salutations to everyone!
Before I begin as to why I'm creating this post ... let me say I'm not here to hate. Shane McCarthy has his merits. His execution of drawing out real human emotion and beleivable human characters is possibly some of the best I've read in some time. His dialogue between DJ and Andy Reid was stellar. Colonel Daniel Witwicky's monologue regarding his son's assumed death brought me to tears ... can you believe that ... it was the first time a comic got me that emotional.


That is where my praise ends. This afterall is a book about transformers and after following faithfully from the very beginning and enduring Dreamwave's collapse I took up the torch once again as IDW brought upon what I consider the best iteration of Transformers ever!
Why do I say that .... two words ... Furman's storytelling. Yes it was a slow start, but what ensued was a vast universe filled with mystery and mythos. He brought breadth and life into those giant robots giving them an epic existance that I haven't read since the War Within series. Sub plot and sub plot kept me salivating for more. Then came The Magnificance ... then The Reapers ... I was in awe! It seemed as though Simon Furman was chiseling out the definative Transformers universe, it was beautiful.
Then IDW decided enough was enough ... why I'll never know.
What we got was All Hail Megatron and 2 Simon series that quite frankly were sloppy in their execution ... but in all fairness Simon was forced to "tie up the loose ends".
As the thread states ... 10 issues in ... and I'm left wondering what happened to the lush beautiful universe that the Master craftsman, Simon Furman was giving us. Despite my aforementioned praise of Shane McCarthy ... All Hail Megatron just seems, 1 dimensional, fragmented, and confusing. I'm hoping for a huge payoff ... but after 10 issues of "what the f*@ks" I don't know if Shane will do it.
Now I find out that the new ongoing series in November of this year will still not feature Simon's talents. That is the biggest "What The F*#k!" moment of all.
Listen IDW ... and I hope someone is listening ... I'm 35 years old and I need mature .... mature .... as in Simon Furman kind of mature storytelling. I was a kid in the 80's. I enjoyed the Marvel and the cartoon, but please don't give me more of the 80's transformers (AHM) rehash.
With my comics, as in life, I want to move on to new and better things.