Friendly reminder: TF: Movie Prequel #1 in stores today!
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 10:14PM CST
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Posted by Seibertron on March 7th, 2007 @ 10:41pm CST
Posted by Liege Evilmus on March 7th, 2007 @ 11:20pm CST
Here's hoping its not some fake out like with Superman!
When heros fade away, I think they should just stay faded and become the legend thay deserve to be.
Optimus Prime, Superman, Jesus, now the good Captian...
...the return is just never the same.
Posted by AbsumZer0 on March 7th, 2007 @ 11:28pm CST
Here's my summation (SPOILERS!)
Optimus and Megatron cooperatively rule Cybertron together. Megatron betrays Optimus and makes a move to steal Castle Grayskull the Cosmic Key the Mystical Magic Cube that gave life to the Cybertronians which they all worship like the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Megatron and the Neo Arcadian soldiers from the Mega Man Zero series his drones are looking for the magic cube. Bumblebee and Arcee try to hold them off one one front while Optimus carries out his masterplan on another. Megatron ties Arcee and Bumblebee up all kinky-like and then beats the crap out of Bumblebee. Megatron sees the magic cube shot into space in the distance, points-out how retarded that was since his alt mode is a space jet, and flies off to catch it.
Bumblebee says he's mute from the beating he got and is going after Megatron in the form of a flying ball with wheels and headlights.
The end.
Posted by Fireblast on March 7th, 2007 @ 11:55pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on March 8th, 2007 @ 12:46am CST
Darth Bombshell wrote:Try telling that to the guy that owns the comic shop near where I live. I used to get all my stuff there, except during the last four months of last year, when I had to get Stormbringer #2-4, along with the Nightbeat, Hot Rod, Sixshot and Ultra Magnus Spotlights from a store in Vancouver. It was only last month that I found a shop closer to home (and is actually about twenty minutes from the college) where I'm going to be going from now on, since they have the comics there (well, except for Generations, but seeing as how I've already cut that from my budget...). Yeah, they're a bit more expensive there than at the Vancouver store, but at least I don't have to take a four hour trip both ways.
What did the guy say at the shop near where you live? Did he say "no, i won't get you any of the Transformers books"? Given how shitty the comic book industry is of late, it just seems like he would be happy to get someting in for you so that he can make some more money. Does he have a club that you can join where he'll hold your books for you that come in weekly?
Posted by Heavy B on March 8th, 2007 @ 6:46am CST
Posted by tequila stu on March 8th, 2007 @ 8:04am CST
I like the gritty feel of the comic.
oh and bumblebee is da man
Posted by MAC Prime on March 8th, 2007 @ 9:46am CST
Either way, a great read and really hands us a foundation heading into the movie premier. Oh I just can't wait!
Posted by Seibertron on March 8th, 2007 @ 12:23pm CST
MAC Prime wrote:It was the final piece of the puzzle to completely sell me on the new movie designs of original characters. Its even sold me on Megatron which was a hard sell and now if they give me Starscream in these comics, they finally sell me on him too.
Either way, a great read and really hands us a foundation heading into the movie premier. Oh I just can't wait!
I think it's really great that they're doing this. It certainly helps flesh out the overall story for people like us. The only thing I didn't really care for was the "Simfur" city, but what the hell ... Furman deserves a little nod just like some of the big sites used to get back in the day with the Dreamwave comics in some of the artwork.
Posted by Ultra Magnus on March 8th, 2007 @ 12:34pm CST
The whole "Allspark" thing is pretty reminiscent of the Underbase Saga(also written by Simon Furman), but it's still an interesting take on the Transformers Mythos. Can't wait until the next issue!
Posted by Grimshock on March 8th, 2007 @ 8:06pm CST
Pass.
Posted by Grimshock on March 8th, 2007 @ 8:19pm CST
Posted by commander shockwav on March 8th, 2007 @ 8:36pm CST
Direct from e-mail:Ryall wrote:We originally had Arcee with some pink highlights, but were told all the TFs on Cybertron needed to be monochromatic metal colors only. "Simfur" was my little nod to Simon,
We get that you'd prefer to see Furman as an egotist writing himself into the story, but sadly the facts here conflict with the petty assumption jumped to.
Yeah, but Simon must have known.
But you know what? The guy freakin deserves this kind of nod. I mean, how integral has he been for TF comics over the years?
Simfur it is, damn it.
Posted by ralphatron on March 8th, 2007 @ 10:18pm CST
Posted by j-man on March 9th, 2007 @ 3:14am CST
Posted by Denyer on March 9th, 2007 @ 6:44am CST
Grimshock wrote:Oh, and I still think Denyer's argument of me believing Ryall and Furman are the same person was completely moronic.
Rub some of this into your hands and it'll take off the worst of the warty green texture; if you don't get when you're being played by this point, you never will.
Watching someone argue that one of two co-writers definitely wrote something to buff his own ego when you've been told otherwise by the main writer, a subsequent interview and basic common sense is hilarious.
Posted by Leonardo on March 9th, 2007 @ 6:50am CST
Posted by Burn on March 10th, 2007 @ 1:20am CST
Comics are suppose to have different characters aren't they? Aside from Megatron it was hard to identify any of them because they all looked virtually the same!
Cybertron is now populated by generic looking robots and only the big wigs look different?
1 issue down ... 3 to go. It had want to get better.
Posted by Leonardo on March 10th, 2007 @ 8:18am CST
It was an okay issue. It wasn't as bad as anything DW did, praise be. The movie designs do lack a cedrtain charm, though, and Arcee reminded me of BM Rattrap.
Whiskey!
Posted by Grimshock on March 10th, 2007 @ 8:39am CST
Posted by Grimshock on March 10th, 2007 @ 9:08am CST
Posted by Josh on March 10th, 2007 @ 2:42pm CST
we were just workin with what hasbro tells us and as far as pre-earth/protoforms go, all the Transformers look relatively alike. but not without subtle differences of course
Its just like us humans. We're all the same yet different in subtle ways.
Personally i dont mind so much i guess for that reason.
i've never complained to God "man...whyd you make everybody look the same? thats stupid. i cant tell who anybody is"
but anyways
stick around for issue 2. thats where it gets really good xD
Posted by Anonymous on March 10th, 2007 @ 3:08pm CST
Josh wrote:stick around for issue 2. thats where it gets really good xD
No thanks. I actually threw up my lunch when I saw what Arcee became and I don't want any more suprises.
Posted by Burn on March 10th, 2007 @ 3:27pm CST
Josh wrote:Its just like us humans. We're all the same yet different in subtle ways.
Maybe so but you can definitely tell the difference between males and females.
And as far as TF history goes, Arcee has always been "female", assuming Arcee is suppose to be "female" in this book she barely looks any different to any of the other bots.
It was an individual bots look that made them the characters who they were, even on Cybertron they were different, but this ... this just seems like a lumping together of generic looking bots.
And if you say it's what Hasbro said they wanted ... that sounds like a serious cop out on Hasbro's part.
Posted by Josh on March 11th, 2007 @ 1:19am CST
but yeah. Keeping a similar aesthetic for pre-earth robots was something we had to do. Hasbro seems pretty bent on keeping a kind of visual continuity [which is quite understandable]
to prove it the whole first issue actually had bumblebee drawn in a VERY different way than what you guys see
We were told to change that to keep in accordance with the aesthetic established in the movie
[bumblebee was once yellow and arcee had a bit of pink in her as well. but we had to change that too]
but things really do get better in issue 2
personally i dont much care for how the first issue came out. a bit dark and very monochrome. plus i may be a little bitter because of all the hassle we had to go through
but yeah. do give it a chance. the other 3 issues almost feel like a completely different series
Posted by Burn on March 11th, 2007 @ 6:21am CDT
I'll give the next three issues a go, but as someone who's been a pro-movie supporter from the beginning, this first issue came close to swaying me to the other side.
Oh and thanks for popping in like you do Josh. Much appreciated!
Posted by Denyer on March 11th, 2007 @ 6:35pm CDT
Leonardo wrote:sit back and chuckle to yourself
I'm just amazed we haven't heard anything about women crawling behind the wallpaper yet.
Josh wrote:who's to say theres anything remotely close to "genders" as far as the TF race goes? especially in this universe anyways
Yeah, the lack of pronouns for Arcee is interesting and possibly significant -- although if these aren't just placeholders for the eventual names to be used on toys, it isn't because Hasbro are trying to avoid bringing robot gender into the movie universe.
Care to take a guess at whether that was Ryall or Furman, Grimmers?