Preview of IDW Beast Wars Sourcebook Issue #2

I hope they do a better job of coloring with this book than they did the first issue.

What's with Fractyl's bio being in complete opposition to his story from Botcon? He's supposed to be a maximal protoform who was turned into a Predacon by Megatron, but then he was so useless in combat he was never seen in the TV series. Now he's a Predacon from Cybertron?

Galvatron Primal wrote:

Scaleface wrote:What's with Fractyl's bio being in complete opposition to his story from Botcon? He's supposed to be a maximal protoform who was turned into a Predacon by Megatron, but then he was so useless in combat he was never seen in the TV series. Now he's a Predacon from Cybertron?

They never said they would use the BotCon stories, just the characters.

I am loving the cover with Torca. Galvatron doesn't llok that bad but the art, for the most part, is still a little disappointing. Haven't read any of the preview bios yet. I'll just wait til tomorrow and save the eye strain.

my eyes... i should have waited...

The strain was too much by the time i got through Fractyls weakness and abilities section, (i don't know why i read them from bottom to top) so i'll squint at his Bio tommorrow.

I'm wondering if fuzors will be labeled as there dominant animal doner or as a hybrid. Elephorca, the blendtron repaint of Torca, is labels and elephant but obviously lacks a trunk and looks just like the killer whale/ elephant fuzor featured in the picture above.

I'm not that excited after seeing Galvatron either...

For all the supposed time and effort Yee and Furman put into this book, they sure made alot of "mistakes" and created even more character inconsistencies.

Art looks to be better this time around, hopefully there will be very little Ruffalo art.

I might be missing something but how can BW Galvatron be named after the herald of Unicron when the IDW Galvatron is a separate entity not related to ol' horn head and Furman has said that the dead universe is something else entirely ?

Archanubis wrote:I hope they do a better job of coloring with this book than they did the first issue.

Nope. Ryall pretty much admitted himself that this issue, along with #1, fell through the cracks (though how that's possible given the year long grace period they had continues to amaze me).

i_amtrunks wrote:For all the supposed time and effort Yee and Furman put into this book, they sure made alot of "mistakes" and created even more character inconsistencies.

Indeed. And if there was any real doubt about it, Fractyl's bio pretty much killed it to the point where not even immediate CPR can bring it back.

At least they didn't resort to making BWII Galvatron G1 Galvatron, just doing what they did with Megs. But, in doing so, it's really noting more than derivative and thus a small, small postive against the dark sea of negative.

Scaleface wrote:

Tripredacus agent wrote:I might be missing something but how can BW Galvatron be named after the herald of Unicron when the IDW Galvatron is a separate entity not related to ol' horn head and Furman has said that the dead universe is something else entirely ?

Beast Wars doesn't take place in the IDW G1 - as the Ark wasn't stranded on earth 4 million years ago. It's the Marvel/Animated/Dreamwave or Devil's Due G1 - all had a crashed Ark with Optimus and Megatron on it.

I think that the Beast Wars Comics tie into the Beast Wars show, and thus the G1 Cartoon continuation. IDW G1-verse is no relation.

Yeah, these sourcebooks are kinda stupid though, since Furman can't seem to make his mind up whether he's talking about a character in the past or present tense.

Hitokiri Recca wrote:At least they made the attempt at this sourcebook. Which is more than we can say for Dreamwave as Pat Lee jipped everyone with his "use the money on me and screw the artists and comic fans" mentality

Except that it appears that IDW is using the money for them and screwing the artists and comic fans, albiet in a different way.

Leonardo wrote:Harsh!

Yes, it's harsh. But it's also true.