The Energon Pub

Yup, that's it. Don has a real talent for character design and Transformer art, but Su is a gifted comics artist; he really knows how to tell a story. Fans seem to drool over the showboatiest artwork and forget that sometimes.

Glyph wrote:However, I don't think this is entirely Milne's fault - a lot of it seems to be down to Perez' somewhat over-rendered colouring. I find that he puts in too much contrast between his highlights and shadows without keeping clean lines between them, and so ends up confusing rather than clarifying the art.

Acording to Ryall M:O 1 came back from the printers around 30% darker than intended. This should be fixed for the TPB, but the colouring errors in Escalation were supposed to be fixed before that saw book form as well and apparently the wrong plates ended up getting used. I'm asured that the right plates will be used for the forthcoming hardback collecting I,St,E&Sp1.

Glyph wrote:However, I don't think this is entirely Milne's fault - a lot of it seems to be down to Perez' somewhat over-rendered colouring. I find that he puts in too much contrast between his highlights and shadows without keeping clean lines between them, and so ends up confusing rather than clarifying the art. (This was also very evident on the Milne/Perez Spotlight: Galvatron cover.)

I have a feeling that Milne's art for the series would seem much clearer in a manga format than with the published colours.

Good, so it was not just me that had a hard time with Perez's colours and shading (more shading). I must admit that I think Josh does a much better job, his work on Stormbringer is some of the best colouring I have seen.
(In saying that though, I do not have alot of experience in comics, more animation and whatnot.)

Glyph wrote:Josh is teh boss of colouring.

As long as Josh doesn't color my boy UMagnus, I'm all happy. That guy kept on giving Magnus that red spandex leg color like the G1 86 toy!

I'm glad the UMagnus Spotlight was colored correctly just like the cartoon.

i'm apparently in the minority but i still love my marvel G1 comics. they're what got me into collecting comics in the first place and that last couple of years was frickin' awesome.

I am really enjoying the IDW take on the Transformers more thought out and more realistic plots.

inazuma1977 wrote:i'm apparently in the minority but i still love my marvel G1 comics. they're what got me into collecting comics in the first place and that last couple of years was frickin' awesome.

You should check out IDW's retake of the '86 movie. A lot of people didn't like the style because Budianski wrote it.. And it's a little bit weird reading 80's style comic writing with Don's art, but if you read some old stuff first you can slip into it very well. I was reading some of the Marvel 20's issues before reading it the other day, and I found it very enjoyable and a blast from the past. But reading it right after something like Infiltration makes for a jarring experience.

Yeah, the remake 86 TFTM was great. I just wish they would've added the delete scene more.

I bought a special Stormbringer that came with Infiltration #0, with the Decepticon cover. After I read it, I just had to order the TPB. It should be here this week. I'm so excited!

I accidentally ordered a bunch of UK Marvel reprints, in TPB form. I'm enjoying the stories all right, but since my first taste of TF comics was the newer stuff, it is jarring, as someone said. The art is definitely subpar compared to today's work (and I know, they didn't have the digital stuff back then).

YEAH! My Infiltration and Escalation came today!!!

The Marvel G1 and G2 comics will always be my canon.

I know I'm in the minority but IDW's G1 is my least favourite version. I actually loved Dreamwave's take. The MTMTE books really showed they knew the characters. Micromasters was the only disappointment. Dreamwave actually made Armada and Energon likeable.

Not liking the new takes on characters given to us by IDW like Stormbringer which I found empty and felt flew in the face of Marvel's excellent interpretation of Thunderwing and his affinity for the Matrix.

Nor am I liking the idea of Ramjet as a schemer. Much prefer Dreamwave's interpretation of him from his MTMTE profile and his opening page in Issue 2 of War and Peace.

Nor the whole Springer wasting his time and Autobot lives on rescuing Kup.

While I am warming to IDW, despite my comments, I find I don't look forward to the next issue the way I did with Marvel and Dreamwave.

Got issue 2 of Timelines and am thrilled to finally see someone continuing from the old Marvel G1 comics.

i agree that IDW is producing some brilliant stuff, i really got into stormbringer and the like. but i do prefer DW G1 vol2:war and peace and the War Within