ZeroWolf wrote:Actually I would say the central premise of transformers are toy robots that turn into other things. The war was a backstop you created so they had a villain to fight and more toys to tell. Here's the thing though, now the comics aren't really there to sell the toys (well they shouldn't but some questionable choices of characters appearing when they had a thrilling 30 toy out was clear that hasbro thought there was a connection. I don't think the evidence bore that out)
Also those examples? Not really applicable really since both started out solely as comics and a few decades before diaclone and microman were a thing but let's just focus on tfs. Not to mention xmen and batman have a large cast of rotating villains and interactions with the world around them. More and more I'm hearing people who just want the sunbrow cartoon as a comic, we can have so much more than that, we don't need these stories to do something that already exists (you still have the g1 toon, the takara series, the marvel comics original series, every new cartoon continuity that comes out) I don't see why comics should do what all if them are already doing.
Now as for idw having lost the licence...where's the evidence? I mean I want evidence that hasbro is separating the licence from the rest of their comics, evidence they are having companies bid for it? All I see is evidence of a reboot (soft or hard remains to be seen, event hyperbole makes it harder to see the real picture). All you have is conjecture, I think that idw will be keeping the licence , after all they have a close bond with hasbro now. In fact I tend to think the opposite, I think that hasbro will eventually buy idw so they have a in-house publisher...right before Disney buy them
As for sales numbers of issues, does that include online reading through apps like comixology and the like? I know there's a few on here who read only digital. Also there's plenty of other ongoings from publishers that aren't DC, Image or Marvel that hit similar figures or less. Sometimes I think people are expecting tf comics to fly off the shelves the way batman or spiderman does.
Just because you don't agree with his other examples doesn't mean they don't apply, they do. The story of the Transformers is war between 2 factions of robots in disguise.
Their sales speak volumes about what they've done to the comics and how crappy they've become. They dropped like 90% in sales, what does that tell you? I know what it tells me, it tells me people aren't buying them. Generally when people stop buying a comic it's because it's garbage. Not everyone who hates a comic keeps buying it in hopes it will get better (like I do).
As for them losing the license or not, who knows but a flat out complete reboot is what they need.
Touché