Seibertron wrote:Said a bunch of "hey, I'm the owner of Seibertron.com" stuff to hopefully help keep folks in line ...
Those who know me fairly well, know that I have often not been a fan of the direction of IDWs comics, whether it be story direction, character choices, characterizations, artists, writers, writing style (** not everyone should be written as sarcastic James Roberts!!! **), etc. While I have not agreed with many of IDWs decisions with how they have handled the Transformers comics, I give them a lot of credit for doing things with this brand of comics that was forward thinking, often controversial and divisive, and definitely boundary pushing and oftentimes uncomfortable on many levels.
While I've not been a fan of how much real world social issues have been explored with the Transformers, some of those topics have turned into some amazing and beloved stories such as Chromedome and Rewind's relationship, mental health issues thanks to Megatron's story, and so on, and have helped provide a voice and a fictional character with whom some can relate to those who have felt underrepresented in mainstream media. However, I feel like some of these issues are constantly being presented while more traditional social issues are often ignored. This lack of balance is oftentimes the source of my frustration while reading these stories. I find that I'm often torn between wanting to celebrate the diversity and social issues that have been long overdue to be introduced into the world of the Transformers while at the same time would like to see some other social issues explored or just get back to the basics of Autobots versus Decepticons. The post-war exploration has been fascinating on one hand, but I certainly wouldn't mind getting back to basics on the other.
Like I said, I'm torn. I definitely understand both the basics of the debate in this topic, while disagreeing with some of the far sides of the conversation. I think, somewhere, there is a happy medium that would make most of us happy.
I am looking forward to the Unicron storyline because, fingers crossed, I think it might be IDWs answer to undo some of the storylines from the past couple of years that I have been unhappy with such as Hasbroverse and other things.
Hopefully I was able to tread carefully here so as not to upset anyone, that was definitely not my goal.