New IDW Transformers Comics Reboot Confirmed for 2019

Black Bumblebee wrote:Figured. The reboot is pretty much to get rid of all that "shared universe" stuff that completely ruined all the comic brands. Couldn't reboot one without rebooting the others... so... BOOM, grand reset button.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Black Bumblebee wrote:Figured. The reboot is pretty much to get rid of all that "shared universe" stuff that completely ruined all the comic brands. Couldn't reboot one without rebooting the others... so... BOOM, grand reset button.

Actually from what's been said it looked like it was always the plan to end things once barber and Roberts were finished, so the badly implementated hasbroverse isn't to blame for this.

I can still see it working but they need to have a better plan in place from the get go

Nexus Knight wrote:Probably an opinion that many will disagree with, but I hope they bring the shared universe back in a heater fashion. I absolutely loved the idea, because it showed there was more than my favorite franchise there. Everything they did had consequences elsewhere. And I loved those types of stories. Plus, I got introduced to some new stuff that I now enjoy (namely M.A.S.K. and Micronauts).

Randomhero wrote:A lot of people assumed it’s because the hasbro-verse tanked and this ending is because that or sales havent been stellar but that interview I mentioned last month from moonbase 2 with is very much worth a listen. John is very open about how they did it intend to end it till July or August and it was their choice. John and James made the choice, not IDW not hasbro.

Randomhero wrote: I don’t know anything about the other solo series or franchises but I really enjoyed going to the IDW wiki and learning about them.

Z3ROhour wrote:among my various concerns for the continuity reboot is this:

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and this

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and these

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Characters and personas we have grown to love!

not to mention, what happens to...

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and

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As well as dozens of other things
and personalities
and ideas
and constructs
and characters
and relationships
and so on!
Do these people go back to being who the were?
Does love exist in the new World?
Do reformed bad guys go back to their old ways?
Do bots, who didn't exist before, cease to be?



Gods i hope not!
i hope that the reboot allows for some amount of leeway,
and doesn't forget the fantasticness that got us here.

ScottyP wrote:

Randomhero wrote:A lot of people assumed it’s because the hasbro-verse tanked and this ending is because that or sales havent been stellar but that interview I mentioned last month from moonbase 2 with is very much worth a listen. John is very open about how they did it intend to end it till July or August and it was their choice. John and James made the choice, not IDW not hasbro.

This is part of it, however, the Hasbro U ending in its entirety was a business decision. That's why it went from "something else" to "Unicron". Creative teams have been finished with their contributions plenty of times (Furman, McCarthy, Costa, Scott, et al), the reset button on the whole huge thing is absolutely business driven.

It's cool with me if folks choose not to believe that. I can wait for vindication on this after some years pass and the parties involved can really say what's what, hell I'm sure I've "telephone gamed" this on accident somehow anyway Everything everyone else has mentioned is a factor too, if it helps!

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Randomhero wrote: I don’t know anything about the other solo series or franchises but I really enjoyed going to the IDW wiki and learning about them.

Pick up the Micronauts Omnibus book tomorrow. If you liked that stuff, I think you'll really enjoy what they did. It sputters a bit in the middle but on the whole it's an extremely fun series! Even brings the "toybox come to life concept" close to literally true in one issue. "A fine weapon" - Acroyear describing a... well you'll find out

Amelie wrote:As an aside - I really want IDW to stop doing the previews. Sometimes you can actually keep up with the plot developments just by putting 2+2 together from two months of previews. That really needs to stop....

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?

Amelie wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?

I think, impact-wise - its best to only provide the link, with a separate topic for previews, so the current issue has space to breathe and for those that don't want to see previews to not have it spoiled in discussion.

Burn wrote:

Amelie wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?

I think, impact-wise - its best to only provide the link, with a separate topic for previews, so the current issue has space to breathe and for those that don't want to see previews to not have it spoiled in discussion.

I'm all for a separate thread for previews, helps avoid any potential spoilers, keeps two topics of discussion going. But that's Va'al's call.

ZeroWolf wrote:Would the reviews go into a separate thread as well since they can occasionally go spoilerish?

Tommy T. wrote:Mabey TMNT reached 100 because they dont have a bunch of there characters running around hugging and holding hands being in love with each other. Just saying

Burn wrote:

Amelie wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?

I think, impact-wise - its best to only provide the link, with a separate topic for previews, so the current issue has space to breathe and for those that don't want to see previews to not have it spoiled in discussion.

I'm all for a separate thread for previews, helps avoid any potential spoilers, keeps two topics of discussion going. But that's Va'al's call.

Va'al wrote:Any good solutions overall, not just for comics, are welcome!

Va'al wrote:We were, this was me derailing the conversation, sorry! I'll open a thread as soon as get to it about new ways of organizing the forums, and see where we go from there.

As for the new IDW, I repeat what I said elsewhere: bring back something like the Spotlights!

Va'al wrote:As for the new IDW, I repeat what I said elsewhere: bring back something like the Spotlights!

o.supreme wrote:

Va'al wrote:As for the new IDW, I repeat what I said elsewhere: bring back something like the Spotlights!

Yes! also... while were on the subject, how about profile books? I mean IDW reprinted DW MTMTE, DW did an Armada MTMTE, and IDW did one for BW... I still think it would have been great to get one for Japanese only characters, as well as profile books for other incarnations (RiD, TFA, Movieverse etc...)

Also, although it's come to an end, I'm sure some folks would like profile books for the characters as they were portrayed throughout IDW's 13 year run, since many of them deviate form their classic Original Series personality. I'm not sure how you could do it...

I mean if we gat a Star Saber entry, I'd want it to be all about the one form Victory NOT the crazy IDW zealot. Perhaps they could do both to make everyone happy??

Swerving a little here, but a thought I had finally coalesced into something coherent last night, and I needed to write it down.

Plenty of people have been saying this in the past years too, but what I'd also really like to see in a new fictional universe is something similar to the initial Spotlights that the -ation era brought in - not only focusing on new characters, and giving them a personal story that can then be woven into the wider narrative, but also to ..well, spotlight new creative teams. And I mean NEW creative teams.

I want to see the fan artists who made variant covers get to do some interior work, but I also want to see entirely new writers pitch a story and get to write it themselves, pairing up with artists and colours under editorial guidance from IDW (be it Barber or Mariotte, and Long on production, for example). Think of the Mosaics project, think of the Seeds of Deception et al. on deviantArt (that we keep seeing in the creative round-ups).

You could call it Siege: War Stories, if the new narratives have to do with War for Cybertron. Get fans - all fans - to pitch the plots, the team, the one character story, have OCs show up alongside the core cast from Siege, have stories that could be in the background (NAILs, grunts, Badgeless, whoever) take front and centre for one issue, and then be forgotten if needed, but give them and the fandom a chance to actually suggest what we could want to see. It's less feasible the more I get excited about it, but holy shirt it would be amazing and a way to get really new, fresh material show up from the already extremely prolific creative side of the fandom.

Va'al wrote:

Burn wrote:See, this would work!

There's characters out there that have only appeared in a handful of panels. Predators, Turbomasters, Obliterators, Cyberjets, Axelerators ... the list goes on! All these little teams that could be highlighted. It's something I've wanted to see for years.

And you could work it in with the Micro and Battle Masters for more Brand Synergy if you wanted to, or use it as a gauging platform for redecos or remolds or even exclusives. You want to make comics that sell the toys? Give us characters we really connect with, and then release the actual toy!

ZeroWolf wrote:

Burn wrote:Something completely random, something that would make IDW stand out to other publishers.
Short three panel strip in each issue (bottom of letters page), similar in vein to the old "Robo-Capers" that appeared in the Marvel UK TF comics.

Completely separate and not aligned with the rest of the book. Just a short little funny comic.

yes, I would like this as well, or alternatively have funny little outtakes of how key scenes might be messed up as if it was a shoot for a movie or tv show. Something light though wouldn't go amiss

ScottyP wrote:They made profile books last year, y'all just ignored them because Hasbroverse.