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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Besides the fact it doesn't matter if they all die in this story. We all know it's being Rebooted. So their ultimate fate is superfluous at this stage.

Flashwave wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Besides the fact it doesn't matter if they all die in this story. We all know it's being Rebooted. So their ultimate fate is superfluous at this stage.

Only in that it doesnt inform future stories. I still want a good ending. I want to know who lives, who dies. Who, if Unicron is destroyed, who gets their Happy Ending.

ZeroWolf wrote:I don't think so, of anything he'll probably turn on the other beings after destroying all the colonies and absorbing all the ores. Unless they make it that unicron him self creates the next reboot...sort of how Dr Manhattan (from Watchmen) created the new 52 at DC

ZeroWolf wrote:I haven't read requiem yet but how far back did springer go? Did he go further back than shockwave? I too hope for a peaceful end, even to the point where they end it on a furmanism. Sadly I don't know how much of that we'll get.

With you planning so far ahead, did any of your long-term planning change along the way?

You know, I was all ready to say that the basic mytharc — that is, the overall shape of the story I set out to tell back in 2011 — has remained broadly the same, but now that I’m an issue away from the end, I don’t think that’s true. Megatron’s defection to the Autobots, which was something no one predicted back in the beginning, did change the course of the story in more ways than I imagined at the time. And I think he changed it for the better; it made for a richer, deeper story, and one that better explores the key themes of More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light: guilt, family, and forgiveness.

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Are there any teases you can draw towards mysteries fans may not be keeping their eye on?

Well, I kind of refer you to my previous answer. The readers are so attentive, and they’re so used by now to my style of storytelling, that very few clues go unnoticed. In fact, what tends to happen is that non-clues get seized upon as evidence of an imaginary plot line that’s always, frustratingly, better than the one I’ve got planned.

I will say, however, that the finale is designed to answer all the questions that have been building up over the last seven years, including some that may have been forgotten about, or to which it appeared that the answers had already been given.

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Is there anything you would like to add about the book?

Oh god, where to start? With regards to the last few issues specifically, I’ve really tried to deliver the finale that long-time readers deserve. It’s like our earlier season finales rolled into one and amplified. It’s huge, and it needs to be because this is where all those years of readers’ investment pay off. Characters get their moment to shine, or meet their end, and mysteries are finally, properly solved. The cast is absolutely huge, as is the scale – it really is like our version of Infinity War. And I’ll make no apologies – there’s a lot going on.

More generally, I’d like to say that for me, there will never be another book – or another creative journey – quite like More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light. As a Transformers fan back in the 80s/90s, this is the One Big Story that I always wanted to tell, and everything just fell into place at the right time. Best of all, it turns out there was a market for whatever it was MTMTE turned out to be: a silly, serious, funny-sad space opera sitcom about very ordinary, very extraordinary people.

misfire19d wrote:“very extraordinary people”
If I want stories about extraordinary people I’ll read The X-Men or watch The CW. If I want to read stories about Transformers I’ll, well, wait till next year.

mel2112 wrote:Dear Mr. Roberts,

Please don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!

Rodimus Prime wrote:

mel2112 wrote:Dear Mr. Roberts,

Please don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!

No, let it hit him. Maybe it'll drive home the point that he should never come back.

Ironhidensh wrote:Roberts, in my opinion, is the best transformers writer in the history of the franchise.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Roberts, in my opinion, is the best transformers writer in the history of the franchise.

Debatable, if Simon Furman didn't exist.

ZeroWolf wrote:I know you don't like him buy is that really necessary? Other people are sad to see him go after all. Also be careful what you say as I think he could easily return to tf after a couple years break, he did win some awards after all.

ausbot wrote:I'm looking forward to what do they with Transformers comics next, I stopped reading over the last few years,

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Roberts, in my opinion, is the best transformers writer in the history of the franchise.

Debatable, if Simon Furman didn't exist.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

ausbot wrote:I'm looking forward to what do they with Transformers comics next, I stopped reading over the last few years,

Same. I tapped out with Death of Optimus Prime, as I didn't like the overly humanising direction the series was going in (anti-Transformers, as a friend said to me). I'm hopeful the new series can recapture my imagination in the same way Origin and the -Ations did.

Ironhidensh wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Roberts, in my opinion, is the best transformers writer in the history of the franchise.

Debatable, if Simon Furman didn't exist.

Maybe this is the differnce. I find Furman's work to be, well, I don't want to offend people, but I don't like his pre IDW work.

ZeroWolf wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

ausbot wrote:I'm looking forward to what do they with Transformers comics next, I stopped reading over the last few years,

Same. I tapped out with Death of Optimus Prime, as I didn't like the overly humanising direction the series was going in (anti-Transformers, as a friend said to me). I'm hopeful the new series can recapture my imagination in the same way Origin and the -Ations did.

I still don't understand this sentiment, I don't see how they are humanising them any more than the comics did previous (including marvel, dw and early idw), or even more then any animation or the live action films.

ZeroWolf wrote:When you say guffaws do you mean jokes or something else?