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I'm not wholly satisfied with this "ending" (I'm aware of the Annual) but it feels like the best output possible given the circumstances. The tight focus on just a few characters is preferable to giving several storylines quick, 1-2 page, probably rushed conclusions.

Also, Forged Starscream was a stunner, loved that part.

ScottyP wrote:
Also, Forged Starscream was a stunner, loved that part.

I absolutely agree, I hope we get to see more of this design in the future! Now I can't wait for someone to give me a figure of this design, whether it's Has/Tak, some type of exclusive or a 3rd Party, I'm a definite buyer!

I had my husband drive me to the book store before work, just to get the book into my hot hands... then go home and sit in my reading nook and almost be late for work...

WOW... just a very WOW book. I want to see more of the story, how does he deal with his revelation of having his spark reforged... That was what happened wasn't it? Windblade basically used hte power of a prime to reforge a cold forged spark into something pure?

Starscream of course rebels... Windblade has saved his spark twice now.

WOOT!

I haven't read issue 12 yet but I'm glad to see this series end. Number one: I have never liked Windblade. She just makes me cringe. I don't know what it is. She's like some sort of whinny little brat that everyone is like 'oh, sweetie are you okay?' and comes to her aid and hugs her. I don't know. Even her appearance in the Combiner Wars Machinima series...ugh! Number Two: Onslaught and Blast off!!!! Argh!!! Okay. I got used to Chromedome and Rewind. Maybe it's because they never meant anything to me. As a kid, they weren't my most favorite characters. Then, Cyclonus and Tailgate... Cyclonus was the third Transformer I got as a kid after Ultra Magnus. I loved they're relationship in the G1 cartoon. I thought he was so cool in the Season 3 G1 cartoon. He quickly became one of my favorites. I'm all for characterization but really??? I've dropped Lost Light because of this. Cyclonus is ruined for me. But I can separate the two. Lost Light Cyclonus is NOT G1 Cyclonus. Onslaught was also one of my all-time favorites. Altogether, the Combaticons were my favorite combiner. Seeing Onslaught and Blast off hold hands and...ugh...another ruined character for me. I've noticed...that there are NO (what you would call) male/female relationships in the Transformers series. All the females are tough as nails warriors. (Arcee, Elita-One, The Torchbearers, etc...) Why isn't there a male/female relationship like a Moonracer and Blurr romance? Or a Firestar and Inferno romance? I mean they even have a female/female relationship with Anode and Lug...Conjunx Endura...yuck. I know Arcee and Sideswipe are buds. But it's different with them. They're partners in that they are warriors not 'lovers'. Back in the days of Beast Wars with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt. I'd like to see a relationship like that again. Or why does there even have to be any romantic relationships? They're ROBOTS for crying out loud! MAybe it's just the day in age we're in. Politically correct or someone is going to get offended. I'm sorry. This has been bothering me for a while and I decided I'd rant for once. This is my opinion. I'm sorry if I did offend anyone but this is the internet and everyone speaks their minds freely. Thank you!

Yeah, sure is hard to imagine someone being so offended by a completely harmless element of a work of fiction...

Randomhero wrote:Well it's over and I honestly don't care. I nothinged it this entire arc. It wasn't bad but I honestly didn't find it appealing.

I'm sure Windblade volume 4 will be announced for next year

nah i dont think so.

she's had THREE shots at this - which is one more than Drift - and with all the other commitments IDW has now with the hasbroverse i reckon this is it for windblade.

i mean christ just LOOK at the art from revolution onwards. theyre struggling massively to just get the books out in a presentable fashion.

its starting to feel like the "eXtreme studios" days at image now.

i find myself for the first time since costas run of NOT buying any TF books as i just cant justify the expense for what i see as shoddy art and frankly subpar storys. im still in two minds as to whether thats down to the direction IDW editorial have decided to go in, or if its hasbro dictates fuking up the creative process ala marvel when they insisted on yearly "events" that derailed dozens of books from where they were going.

either way were a HELL of a long way away from the first "seasons" of RID and MTMTE which were much more polished affairs.

im sure windblade will pop up in "optimus prime" as a bit player as its the most logical place for her but i honestly cant see her as a driving force of a book again. TBH i reckon its only a matter of time till she's all but forgot about....just like Drift. its sad to say it but thats just how the comics biz works. "fan created" or not shes just not popular enough.


ive still to be arsed to actually buy any of the trades - though i do intend to. if nothing else TAAO was at least intriguing to me thanks to its setting , even if id rather what RID was doing back in the day when it essentially filled the "cyberton based book" role.

probably pick em up on sale.

crazyfist wrote: Why isn't there a male/female relationship

1- with very few/no fembots around until the recent rediscovery of Caminus, it's just statistically way less likely.
2- keep your eyes peeled, you've missed a couple Airazor and Tigatron are decidedly an item, true to their beast wars origin, and Sparkstalker has had a very-much-background but still-kinda-adorable thing with the new camien Lightbright, they made it official in the holiday annual!


I adored this issue, that's all I can say.
...no it isn't y'all arent that lucky
The end of the issue was beautifully crafted and felt very poetic. It was fantastically crafted and whilst I'm not a big fan of the kinda-still-open-ish endings always, this one worked. Especially knowing there's the annual in the pipeline- I did feel this could have done with a "post-credits scene" both to tie off loose ends and to give us a picture of the status quo going forward, if that makes any sense.

The sequence with Starscream's body-changes being called out and ripped apart was fan-flipping-tastic, partly just to see those designs again but also because Vigilem's words were so cutting, you could tell that screamer believed them 100%. Reminded me somewhat of the scene from last issue where Windblade's design got more elaborate as her psyche got stronger, which was possibly one of my personal favourite sequences I've seen in a TF comic to date.
As for the forged Starscream design, w o w. Absolutely nailing the "recent IDW comics" aesthetic in a way that I find hard to describe, utterly gorgeous, and a total surprise. Like, I stopped reading and just took a minute to process it. I particularly love how shape-wise, it hits a lot of Scream's iconic features (shoulder stacks, arm guns, etc) but in a totally unique and almost refined way? Which I guess makes perfect sense, thinking about the context...
I do hope we see more of it but I also hope it doesn't become the primary design going forward. Not quite sure why, but I think it's a better fit for it to remain largely a hidden, private thing.
I might have to have a think to myself as to what this, and what Windblade's words in particular, say politically/ethically about forged and cold-constructed bots, but I'll spare you that ramble (at least for now!)

Also, can I just say I love the idea that the Seeker body-type is a Cold Construction mass-production line? It's a brilliant in-universe explanation and is a fun little jab at how HasTak churn seeker redecoes and retools out every two seconds.

crazyfist wrote:I haven't read issue 12 yet

Obviously

So uh...I really need a toy of Forged Starscream. I don't care if it takes five years, as long as a third-party company or something confirms "Oh frag yeah, we're makin' that", I'll be happy.

crazyfist wrote:I haven't read issue 12 yet but I'm glad to see this series end. Number one: I have never liked Windblade. She just makes me cringe. I don't know what it is. She's like some sort of whinny little brat that everyone is like 'oh, sweetie are you okay?' and comes to her aid and hugs her. I don't know. Even her appearance in the Combiner Wars Machinima series...ugh! Number Two: Onslaught and Blast off!!!! Argh!!! Okay. I got used to Chromedome and Rewind. Maybe it's because they never meant anything to me. As a kid, they weren't my most favorite characters. Then, Cyclonus and Tailgate... Cyclonus was the third Transformer I got as a kid after Ultra Magnus. I loved they're relationship in the G1 cartoon. I thought he was so cool in the Season 3 G1 cartoon. He quickly became one of my favorites. I'm all for characterization but really??? I've dropped Lost Light because of this. Cyclonus is ruined for me. But I can separate the two. Lost Light Cyclonus is NOT G1 Cyclonus. Onslaught was also one of my all-time favorites. Altogether, the Combaticons were my favorite combiner. Seeing Onslaught and Blast off hold hands and...ugh...another ruined character for me. I've noticed...that there are NO (what you would call) male/female relationships in the Transformers series. All the females are tough as nails warriors. (Arcee, Elita-One, The Torchbearers, etc...) Why isn't there a male/female relationship like a Moonracer and Blurr romance? Or a Firestar and Inferno romance? I mean they even have a female/female relationship with Anode and Lug...Conjunx Endura...yuck. I know Arcee and Sideswipe are buds. But it's different with them. They're partners in that they are warriors not 'lovers'. Back in the days of Beast Wars with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt. I'd like to see a relationship like that again. Or why does there even have to be any romantic relationships? They're ROBOTS for crying out loud! MAybe it's just the day in age we're in. Politically correct or someone is going to get offended. I'm sorry. This has been bothering me for a while and I decided I'd rant for once. This is my opinion. I'm sorry if I did offend anyone but this is the internet and everyone speaks their minds freely. Thank you!

So you're biggest problems with the book have been a female main character and gay characters.

Sigma Magnus wrote:So uh...I really need a toy of Forged Starscream. I don't care if it takes five years, as long as a third-party company or something confirms "Oh frag yeah, we're makin' that", I'll be happy.

I agree, he was beautiful, and it was interesting to see what happens when someone constructed cold is reforged

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:So uh...I really need a toy of Forged Starscream. I don't care if it takes five years, as long as a third-party company or something confirms "Oh frag yeah, we're makin' that", I'll be happy.

I agree, he was beautiful, and it was interesting to see what happens when someone constructed cold is reforged

Was he actually reforged? that was what I am unsure of... I love the idea of it being true though. HIs reforged body was gorgeous.

He was reforged in his mind, at least. Windblade just rough out the "true" Starscream. The being he's always seen himself as (either consciously or subconsciously). But he'd still have to undergo reforging in the real world. Whether or not he does at some point after First Strike/the Annual, we'll see.

Daniel Adkins wrote:He was reforged in his mind, at least. Windblade just rough out the "true" Starscream. The being he's always seen himself as (either consciously or subconsciously). But he'd still have to undergo reforging in the real world. Whether or not he does at some point after First Strike/the Annual, we'll see.

that makes sense.

I doubt Starscream would be reforged in the real world. He just got a glimpse of what he would have been

its cool though. I could imagine that would be his "Prime" version if he ever (fat chance) became a Prime (outside fanfic... tempting concept.)

What is the most cost efficient way of buying this series to read? Will it be getting volumes?

WreckerJack wrote:What is the most cost efficient way of buying this series to read? Will it be getting volumes?

Essentially, yeah. Windblade Vol. 1, Combiner Wars, Distant Stars, Titans Return, TAAO Vol. 1-3, First Strike, TAAO annual.

Finally managed to pick up and read this book. After the slight dissapointment of the Blast Off love story (I've said my piece on that, not bringing it up again), I felt this story was a good end without ending for this book. It finally engaged back in the story I was interested in and honestly, I love how Scott writes Windblade. Always have. And her interactions with Starscream. I really liked that although she is wary of Screamer, she also shows she cares about him, she wants to help him help their race. There is a friendship there between the two, and I'm dissapointed we won't see any more (other than the annual).


I'm gonna miss the Cybertron adventures.

Insurgent wrote:Finally managed to pick up and read this book. After the slight dissapointment of the Blast Off love story (I've said my piece on that, not bringing it up again), I felt this story was a good end without ending for this book. It finally engaged back in the story I was interested in and honestly, I love how Scott writes Windblade. Always have. And her interactions with Starscream. I really liked that although she is wary of Screamer, she also shows she cares about him, she wants to help him help their race. There is a friendship there between the two, and I'm dissapointed we won't see any more (other than the annual).


I'm gonna miss the Cybertron adventures.

I have to say the way she handled the spark, so lovingly and caring, it was almost affectionate. And yes, there is a friendship, she's helped him, he's helped her - and even though this book came to an end, I don't feel its the last.

Sara Pitre-Durocher has posted two Starscream sketches on her Twitter page. It's pretty cool to see what could have been. The artist explains in her tweet that the colors did end up changing after this first draft. Have a look of the sketches below and tell us what you think!

Sadly Til All Are One is over but comic fans will be exited to know that Alex Milne is returning to work on Lost Light, check out the details in this article!

I saw this when it was posted on twitter, but what I would love to see from her is how she imagines this as his alt-mode.

I am still disappointed the series ended

Sunstar wrote:I saw this when it was posted on twitter, but what I would love to see from her is how she imagines this as his alt-mode.

I am still disappointed the series ended

Given the chest design and general aesthetic, I would imagine it wouldn't be too terribly distant from the WfC/FoC jet -- but in a different direction and, of course, with a lot more wings.

... I never knew until now I wanted an X-wing version of a Seeker. Hasbro, please, god, do that.

Kurona wrote:

Sunstar wrote:I saw this when it was posted on twitter, but what I would love to see from her is how she imagines this as his alt-mode.

I am still disappointed the series ended

Given the chest design and general aesthetic, I would imagine it wouldn't be too terribly distant from the WfC/FoC jet -- but in a different direction and, of course, with a lot more wings.

... I never knew until now I wanted an X-wing version of a Seeker. Hasbro, please, god, do that.

I'm actually kind of disappointed his "true" body turned out to also be a jet. I think it would've been more interesting and fit the theme a bit better if he was originally meant to be a car or something. Although, it's a really good in universe explanation for the seeker body type.