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- Fri May 28, 2021 3:45 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
- Replies: 31
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Re: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
Nice review of Spotlight Ultra Magnus. I always hated the Minimus Ambus revelations, which are clearly not at all what Furman had in mind in his issue. This is Ultra Magnus, period, not some tiny guy cosplaying in Ultra Magnus armor. And though it's not really said outright, I always had the impress...
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:21 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 50986
Re: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
Stormbringer is so beautifully drawn. Don Figeroa probably remains my favorite artist to ever work on Transformers, as much as I like E. J. Su and some of the others that IDW has employed over the years. The prose in that story is the most purple of any purple prose that Furman ever wrote. I think h...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 50986
Re: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
I still love E. J. Su's vehicles. They look actual cars in some panels, particularly Runamuck and Runabout. Mosts artists can't pull that off, but he does. Nice to find someone who I agree with about Prowl. I'm not sure why segments of the fandom love the manipulative version of Prowl we get later o...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:41 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 50986
Re: Revisitation: The IDW Original Continuity Retrospective.
Very thorough review. You've inspired me to go back and re-read these issues.
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who: Christmas 2016 and through to the End of the Moff Thread.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 60046
Think there's some of Delgado and Ainley in Gomez's performance. Didn't particularly like Simms as he was like a mirror universe Simon Pegg at times. I've been watching a start to finish Who marathon for a few years now, and I'm currently watching Tennant's second season with the three parter that ...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who: Christmas 2016 and through to the End of the Moff Thread.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 60046
So... why is it a bridge too far? We're supposed to believe that this is the same person played by different actors. I think that despite all the differences in the actors playing the Master or the Doctor, there was at least the consistency that he was a male British actor that has run through them...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who: Christmas 2016 and through to the End of the Moff Thread.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 60046
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:41 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Til All Are One Cancelled
- Replies: 35
- Views: 35274
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:57 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: [FICTION] Obsidian's Lament - a post Beast Machines story
- Replies: 142
- Views: 41077
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:09 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: [FICTION] Obsidian's Lament - a post Beast Machines story
- Replies: 142
- Views: 41077
Botanica's fault is that she's just too plain and a little obnoxious at first. Plus, she has an ugly face. The one I dislike most is Nightscream. What a timing to find this, eh? I just finished reviewing Beast Machines. And claimed Obsidian in the RPG. Just finished the second chapter, trying to do...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:47 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: [FICTION] Obsidian's Lament - a post Beast Machines story
- Replies: 142
- Views: 41077
Whoo-eee, didn't know how this one got under my radar. And I'm a big Obsidian fan, too! I've finished reading the first pdf file, and I am astoundingly impressed by the detail work here, and on the editing, characterisation and the use of toy-only characters. It's a different take than the two othe...
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:08 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers: Ironhide #1-4 / TPB
- Replies: 61
- Views: 19221
It’s interesting to look back at my review for the first issue and review my speculation about just how Ironhide had been returned to life. I’m glad to see that none of the standard sci-fi avenues for resurrection were correct, and indeed that this isn’t actually a resurrection at all in the standar...
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:26 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Where can I get Transformers: Devastation?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5224
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:47 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Last Stand of the Wreckers #1-5 / TPB
- Replies: 315
- Views: 94810
Last Stand of the Wreckers Issue 1 Not bad at all. This is clearly a setup issue, but it’s a good one. The first issue cuts back and forth between two major plot threads as characters are introduced and situations established. It begins with the fall of the Garrus-9 prison to the Decepticons, led by...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:15 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers: Bumblebee #1-4/TPB
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13088
I have to second your opinion. I didn't like this issue all that much. I’m really not very impressed with the quality of the art or the writing in this series. However, having read this issue, I’ll go ahead and put down my thoughts on it. The writing: The main problem I have with the writing is that...
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:39 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers: Bumblebee #1-4/TPB
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13088
Have I missed something? Didn't either Skywarp or Thundercracker die at the end of AHM? And haven't both now shown up (in either the on-going or this BBMS?)? Skywarp shot Thundercracker for blowing up the nuke and then flew off, but we never saw Thundercracker hit. It happened off panel. So the amo...
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers: Bumblebee #1-4/TPB
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13088
Following the very unlikely event of Bumblebee being elected leader of the Autobots after Prime leaves, we get this mini-series exploring the idea in more depth. And it gets a lot right with regard to what would happen to the little guy if he were ever placed in that situation. I’m not the world’s b...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:32 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers #1-6 (Ongoing) / Vol. 1 TPB
- Replies: 97
- Views: 33384
t's actually much kinder to McCarthy to assume that the Sunstreaker thing was a last minuet change. Because if it wasn't, if it was planned like that right from the start that's an extraordinarily inept bit of plotting. Having your traitor stand around doing nothing for six issues before ramming hi...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:04 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers #1-6 (Ongoing) / Vol. 1 TPB
- Replies: 97
- Views: 33384
And most people's complaints about AHM wasn't that it wasn't in continuity, but that it used continuity badly. Which isn't the same thing. That's fair enough. I suppose what I was thinking of when I wrote that were the people who called McCarthy a liar to his face when, just to pick one example, he...
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers #1-6 (Ongoing) / Vol. 1 TPB
- Replies: 97
- Views: 33384
Nice. A definite improvement on the already good first issue. We’re moving away from the setup/establishment phase and into different stories as various characters choose the direction they want to go. I like where Costa is taking the characters. With Prime gone, the Autobots have to choose a new le...