partholon wrote:well its all over.
thank god.
13yrs to come up with a unicron story and THAT was it. i cant believe this is the same writer that did the first 12 issues of "robots in disguise" way back when. his effort doenst even stack up as a coherent story in comparison to previous unicron stories- and im including the armada animated show here.
I can agree with you here, compared to past work, it feels like the end really didn't fit the beginning. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't his best.
utter utter meandering trash that oddly acts as a nice exemplar to where these books have gone sooooo wrong the last 2 yrs or so (but to be honest prob has its origins way back to when furman got in that fight with scott)
What?
characters NO one likes or cares about to the fore- who oftimes bring the action SCREAMING to a stop (Slide im looking at you) , an overt political agenda the audience likes even LESS, and an almost full on attack on the heroic journey and mythos the fecking IDW tranformers universe ITSELF was based on.
It's not really about characters no one likes and cares about, Lost Light proved you can use C-list characters and make a really good book, but this side of the IDW-verse made me like several C-list characters less than LL.
Seriously just look at the sandbox IDW was left with post furman and look at what theyve done with it.
so many story possibilies have been shut down by the deconstructive nature of
recent tales. in fact IDW seemed to be going out of their WAY to destroy stuff.
I still argue that they ended up with mostly good stories. There were many ways they could have gone, but I was mostly satisfied with the routes they took
not to mention the absolute vandalism thats gone on with Megs and Op. just look at the former in the first story arc of inflitration and try not to cringe at how he's played out in Lost Lights conclusion, and the less said about stalin prime the better.
I personally think that while this is probably one of if not the best Megatron we have gotten, I did not like what they did with Optimus too much. Did not like that path they took.
in fact thats a word that can be applied alot here. CRINGE. How we went from a story about a galaxy wide imperium covertly conquering worlds with characters that could literally kill entire planets , to one about fat lesbian chicks getting off with trans robots is beyond me but here we are.
Now see, I was OK with talking with you until this point, because there was some legitimate and good conversation happening. But this is uncalled for. there were better ways to state your dislike, such as simply naming a character, instead of resorting to this sort of language.
im not surprised theres no word on a new book yet.
i dont think IDW have the culture to produce one that the broad readership want to read anymore.[/quote]
They still have the rights, and they are still giving us some decent material for different things, but for a new "G1" based universe, there may be a simple wait involved.
the only one in this whole affair i feel sorry for is alex milne.
that lad gave his bloody ALL on the art front.
I agree, Milne has proven himself to be spectacular time and again.
such a sad end to what was the best conceived iteration of this franchise.
I will also agree that the ending didn't really fit into what the 14 year universe deserved. But I will talk about that more once OP25 comes out this week.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:46 pm
