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BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts

Posted by Mindmaster Apr 4, 2014 at 2:07pm CDT 37,098 views

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Building up on yesterday's big, exciting reveal of Pirates vs. Knights Scorponok, BotCon revealed on their Twitter that famed Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye writer James Roberts will be joining David Kaye, Susan Blu, Jack Angel, and others at BotCon 2014!

Joining us at BotCon 2014 is the writer behind what has quickly become one of the most celebrated ongoing Transformers comic series of all-time, IDW Publishing’s Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. With that, we are thrilled to announce that British writer James Roberts will be our guest this year in Pasadena. He will be on hand all weekend for autographs, panels and hanging with fans from around the world! You won’t want to miss this rare opporutunity to meet James and to discuss his amazing work which has brought a new level of excitement to Transformers comic fiction!

Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

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Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by synapse Apr 4, 2014

All Hail Megatron was NOT written by Roberts or Roche.

(And it's no surprise)

Please fix that

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by Mindmaster Apr 4, 2014

synapse wrote:All Hail Megatron was NOT written by Roberts or Roche.

(And it's no surprise)

Please fix that

Gah, my bad. That's what happens when you go to TFWiki for additional information on an individual you don't know much of. :oops:

:oops:

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Comment by Bumblevivisector Apr 4, 2014

Sabrblade wrote:Yeah, the Cybertron Menasor mold has had the unfortunate honor of being officially disliked by the company who made it (Hasbro) and is likely to never see the light of day again.

I'd never heard of this. Is it deemed too expensive to produce profitably, like Prime Breakdown?

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Comment by Rodimus Prime Apr 4, 2014

Mindmaster wrote:Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

But LSoTW sucked... :-(

:-(

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Comment by Flux Convoy Apr 4, 2014

I was already happy with the figures we were getting. I mean Devcon? That's cool stuff! Scorponok? With an actual, honest to Primus, Headmaster?! That is possibly the best figure they've come up with in their ten years. I say that as a huge fan of what they do. I am anxious to see what else we've got coming.

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Comment by TFStopMotions123 Apr 4, 2014

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

But LSoTW sucked...

...... thats sarcasm right....?

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by No One Apr 4, 2014

I kind of wish Transformers stories today were actually about them TRANSFORMING. I am not a fan of going through three issues not seeing Transformers TRANSFORM.

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Comment by Nemesis Maximo Apr 4, 2014

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

But LSoTW sucked...

Why do you say that?!

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by 1984forever Apr 5, 2014

BOTCON HAS REACHED A NEW LOW

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by Henry921 Apr 5, 2014

Nemesis Maximo wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

But LSoTW sucked...

Why do you say that?!

Not everyone loved LSoTW. Not everyone cares for Roberts' writing styles.

The majority opinion is not the same as truth.

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by Banjo-Tron Apr 5, 2014

OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD! I need this. Buying this on eBay is gonna murder my bank account though...

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by Rodimus Prime Apr 5, 2014

Henry921 wrote:
Nemesis Maximo wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Mr. Roberts is also known for helping Nick Rouche cowrite popular comic series Last Stand of the Wreckers.

But LSoTW sucked...

Why do you say that?!

Not everyone loved LSoTW. Not everyone cares for Roberts' writing styles.

It's not even Roberts himself. I haven't read enough of his stuff to make a judgment on him. I just didn't like Last Stand of the Wreckers. The story didn't have enough going on. Other than Overlord getting FUBARed, I don't even remember anything else about it. Though it's been a while. I just know I saw the TPB at a book store for $14.99 and passed on it. It wasn't worth that.

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Comment by 1984forever Apr 5, 2014

I'll be in Pasadena with a bag full of tomatoes and a good throwing arm. IDW has destroyed Transformers and turned their comic into a toy store circular full of rejects that REAL Transformers fans let SHELFWARM back in the '80s! Bring back Dreamwave! Free Pat Lee and lock up Michael Bay! Put iconic characters back on the shelves so the G1 fans who made your products great can buy them for their children! Put remakes of real cartoon shows like Sunbow Transformers and G.I.Joe on the air! And stop catering to the fringe element of the fandom who have MTMTE on their coffee tables!

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Comment by Nemesis Maximo Apr 5, 2014

84forever wrote:BOTCON HAS REACHED A NEW LOW

I'll be in Pasadena with tomatoes and a good throwing arm.

So...they actually give you something like a G1 COLORED SCORPONOK, who happens to have a G1 CARTOON ACCURATE HEADMASTER HEAD, from G1, and you hate it? Jesus H. Mary and Joseph born in a manger read the Bible Christ, dude. Get a life.

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Comment by Sabrblade Apr 5, 2014

Nemesis Maximo wrote:
84forever wrote:BOTCON HAS REACHED A NEW LOW

I'll be in Pasadena with tomatoes and a good throwing arm.

So...they actually give you something like a G1 COLORED SCORPONOK, who happens to have a G1 CARTOON ACCURATE HEADMASTER HEAD, from G1, and you hate it? Jesus H. Mary and Joseph born in a manger read the Bible Christ, dude. Get a life.

It's not the Scorponok announcement he hates. It's the James Roberts announcement, as he sees Roberts has having childed his rapehood worse than movies have.

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Comment by Mindmaster Apr 5, 2014

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Jesus H. Mary and Joseph born in a manger read the Bible Christ, dude.

I admit, that got me rolling. The crap you come up with, man... :lol:

:lol:

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Comment by shajaki Apr 5, 2014

84forever wrote:I'll be in Pasadena with a bag full of tomatoes and a good throwing arm. IDW has destroyed Transformers and turned their comic into a toy store circular full of rejects that REAL Transformers fans let SHELFWARM back in the '80s! Bring back Dreamwave! Free Pat Lee and lock up Michael Bay! Put iconic characters back on the shelves so the G1 fans who made your products great can buy them for their children! Put remakes of real cartoon shows like Sunbow Transformers and G.I.Joe on the air! And stop catering to the fringe element of the fandom who have MTMTE on their coffee tables!

destroyed? just dont read them then. go back to your time capsule/bubble and ignore new things.

btw, whats your deffinition of a REAL transformers fan? collecting only primes megatrons and bumblebees? that gets old pretty fast.

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Comment by Sabrblade Apr 5, 2014

shajaki wrote:btw, whats your deffinition of a REAL transformers fan? collecting only primes megatrons and bumblebees? that gets old pretty fast.

It's in his name. Fans of 1984 stuff and nothing else. The ultimate, orthodox Geenwunners.

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by 1984forever Apr 5, 2014

Nemesis Maximo wrote:
84forever wrote:BOTCON HAS REACHED A NEW LOW

I'll be in Pasadena with tomatoes and a good throwing arm.

So...they actually give you something like a G1 COLORED SCORPONOK, who happens to have a G1 CARTOON ACCURATE HEADMASTER HEAD, from G1, and you hate it? Jesus H. Mary and Joseph born in a manger read the Bible Christ, dude. Get a life.

WOW. A Botcon offering only Satan can love. If this squat, gimmicky, pre-school piece of plastic scrap was in the original 1984 line up there would be no Transformers today!

BRING BACK REAL TFs NOW!

Re: BotCon 2014 Special Guest Revealed: James Roberts (view post)

Comment by Mindmaster Apr 5, 2014

84forever wrote:
Nemesis Maximo wrote:
84forever wrote:BOTCON HAS REACHED A NEW LOW

I'll be in Pasadena with tomatoes and a good throwing arm.

So...they actually give you something like a G1 COLORED SCORPONOK, who happens to have a G1 CARTOON ACCURATE HEADMASTER HEAD, from G1, and you hate it? Jesus H. Mary and Joseph born in a manger read the Bible Christ, dude. Get a life.

WOW. A Botcon offering only Satan can love. If this squat, gimmicky, pre-school piece of plastic scrap was in the original 1984 line up there would be no Transformers today!

BRING BACK REAL TFs NOW!

Could you not? :roll:

:roll:

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