Dan Mora's Character Designs for his Upcoming Tenure on the Transformers Comic

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Whifflefire wrote:Okay, I need this one as a poster immediately, please.

This is the one I've ordered, there are only so many times you can Optimus as the main on a cover - again, and again, month after month. At least You have Magnus, wheeljack, arcee etc as well.

Read issue 30. Initially, I was not happy. Thought it was poorly written. Some of the characters acting fairly out of character.

But having sat on it, I remember that some of these characters are not like their original versions and have changed since then. Dunno why it was initially jarring here, given I'd readily accepted this sorta thing in the IDWVerse.

Having thought it over more, I can see several possible story hooks that could be picked at going forward as a result of this issues' occurrences. Interesting times.

Post is vague as heck to prevent any spoilers

~ Grim

Issue #31 - There's a big change here! Megatron is NOT the original Decepticon leader. There were at least 3 before him. That leaves us with a LOT of questions. How did the war start? How did the Decepticon movement start? Who were the other leaders? What happened to them? How was Megatron chosen as the latest leader? Why did he accept the role? What was the situation on Cybertron at the time? And so on....

From that, I'm going to assume SkyBound is best suited to trades? Haven't picked up an issue yet. But if it is written for trade. Better to know now, before I jump in.

Since the DWJ run ended and Kirkman took over, I feel the issue is that this comic needs 2 issues per month and not 1, it makes Kirkman feel he needs to cram the issues more and jump around, where it could be streamlined with 2 per month.

I wasn't a bid fan of 25-30, but it has improved since then, again I think it was crammed/rushed due to lack of page space per month to run the stories.

Also, I saw someone mention this, but Megatron feels very different under Kirkman compared to DWJ. DWJ had a more Godfather like characterization, whereas Kirkman feels more unhinged.

I've been enjoying the TF stuff for the most part. It feels a bit slow though. Not enough substance and other parts of the "Energon Universe intrude a bit. This latest issue kinda felt this way.

Additionally, I dunno if you guys feel it appropriate to discuss other parts of the universe here, but I have been reading Void Rivals (generally excellent), G.I. Joe (middling at best), and now M.A.S.K. And issue 3 of MASK just puts me ill at ease with how much they're adding to the universe. Fine, ROM is appearing in Void Rivals, where he ought to fit well enough, but having Miles Mayhem being some kinda acolyte to Baron bloody Karza has the stink of IDW's Revolution misstep all over it. Fine, they are slowly building it up instead of throwing all the toys in together in a half-assed event and saying "this is the status quo," like IDW did, but still. They better not add another series to this universe when I am already considering dropping GI Joe.

~ Grim