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Maybe Shockwave shows up at the end of AHM to save the day (so to speak) and de-throne Megatron, allowing the autobots to deus ex machina save the world.

I like to think that Jetfires last few panels were furmans way of getting back at this... "We see of the Machination Empire, we stop megatron (ta-da!!) AND THEN we fight the returning shockwave...." Yep, anytime jetfires in trouble between now and Galvatron reappearing wont have quite the ...

chances are it'll alienate the morons lapping up the Sunbowfest McCarthy's crapping out You have a lovely way with words :) Agree with your post though, just feel that the origin story could have been to reset the characters a bit better. It didnt need to be exactly the same as the original cartoon...

Completely agree with both your comments there starfield. Not sure if I'd see AHM as an "ultimate" in that it doesnt start anything off but it is much closer then infiltration was in terms of cartoon appeal. In a nutshell, IDW need to up the quality of the writing if they are to get non-tf...

For all that we can excuse them for having rushed the ending a re-read of the 4 parts of revelations are really shit. It feels so rushed and small scalled that I reckon it could have been covered with less (un-needed) complications in one 6 issue series rather then over the course of all those spotl...

Thats fair enough. In regards to character development, I'm not sure if mccarthy is up to it. I've enjoyed AHM for what it is, a fun, slightly cheesey continuation of the IDW universe and have no problem with it. But the character developent does seem to base itself a lot on the cartoon. Maybe with ...

I believe the all hail megatron of th title is in relation to some of megatrons more ambitious troops looking to usurp his power now that there is no war to keep them busy. Cant remember which interview mccarthy said that in but I'm sure I read words to that effect somewhere. And to raksha, in fairn...

I'll b e curious how this works out. Hopefully there is some sense in the planning of issues here as we know certain things have/ have not happened thanks to AHM. Hot Rod wont be destroyed yet Furman on his blog seemed to be hyping Him being bashed up bad. I dont see Shockwave getting m ore then a b...

I wouldnt have bought every issue if I didnt agree with you on that. I just wish they'd look at things a little more closely before they decide to do something. The bare bones of the revelations series was decent but knowing they only had 4 issues they should have (and could have) left a few things ...

Looking for logic in revalations is a pointless and depressing situation. Actually, scratch that, the whole IDW universe is filled with silly. I try not to look too much into it because I know it leads to thoughts like the one above.

In the IDW universe loseing an arm is the worst damage you can get (see wheelie, jazz, sideswpe and trailbreaker)

I'm telling you guys, hes had a taste of the matrix during maximum dinobots and is no in rodimus "ultra twerp" mode.

Stormbringer is still the best example of how that would have worked. Its a complete story but off shoots into the main plotline and a few spotlights as well. on the one hand, we're all geniuses with hindsight, but on the other it was a problem from the start. theres something to be said for the fac...

Because some of them really do expand on vital stuff to the main series True but what exactly was main series about? The decpticons infiltrating earth? Ore 13? The reapers? A major problem for IDW (and not furmans fault alone) was that the 6 parters should have been the main story with other series...

Kup in the art there is a nice example. On the one hand, Kup striding in chomping on a cigar is kind of a funny image. On the other hand, this is supposed to be the same Kup who was an insane, paranoid, broken down old man, who killed comrades, kept a corpse for company, and ended up with likely pe...

I was thinking more in terms of "ZOMG, the decepticons have beaten the autobots on nearly every front across the galaxy, in fact they're defeated and theres no pussyfooting around waiting millions (AND MILLIONS!) of years for someone to make a decisive move" kinda way, y'know? Of course, i...

All I'll say is I loved the picture of Kup (leading the wreckers I also assumed) with a cigar (or something like it).

Kup loves it when a plan comes together...

I'll happily side with Commander Shockwave on this one (altough maybe not quite an A rating) Not sure why people feel there is a lack of plot. Sure, its not complex, but its there. Sure, this really should be issue 3 and the decepticon attack should have been shown more globally, also with reports f...

Don't think I would have wanted a fourth issue of decepticons blasting human cities. True, the global victory should have been hown in issues 1-3 (lord knows, it would have justified the page count a bit better). Having said that, I lked the speech Megatron gives. Sets the scene well and really plac...

I tend not to buy the movie titles because I havent really gotten into the universe it represents. Animated looks lovely but I havent gotten any appeall for reading a comic based on it (the show itself is childishly fun enough :swirly:) As for the main book.. I think I like it because its Transforme...