Transformers Vs G.I. Joe, the retro styled crossover of the two classic Hasbro series which has divided fans with its unique and vivid pulp style, is concluding with issue 13. With the stakes continuously escalating through the series, it’s no surprise that the final issue needs to be double-sized to contain the conclusion! Check out a three page preview via Apple’s iBooks of the finale, and check out the full issue when it arrives on June 29th.
HARD RAINBOW
Goodbye you glorious sumbitch
RIP in peace
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;_;7
Abrogate
Cool! Good for those fans, maybe IDW can hire them
Digilaut
If I sleep with Chris Ryall, do we get more of this? Because I'm willing to take one for the team here. Not just for Hungary, but the entire globe.
SouthtownKid
And, you're wrong.
Scioli is a professional illustrator, illustrating professionally. He's done a bunch of comics prior to this and has a large following. His and Casey's G0dland was a critical success and one of my favorite American comics of the past decade.
There are a ton of non-traditonal approaches and styles to comic illustration that are hard for the people used to only one thing to understand or appreciate, but that expand and enrich the artform as a whole. I can't imagine what you would think about great, widely-respected but very non-traditional artists like Sala or Ware. And I will take Scioli's work over that of any of the other people doing TF work for IDW, most of whom are mediocre at best and without much imagination.
You couldn't enjoy this; that's too bad. Not everything is for everyone. But it's kind of like those color-blindness tests with the dots. Just because your eyes aren't able to see the pattern in the dots doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means you're unlucky and are missing out. You and the entire country of Hungary, apparently. You all have my sympathy.
tunaflash
It wasn't drawn well. I hate to be a hater, but this wasn't at a professional level of illustration, regardless of the retro style it was going for. A lot of those retro illustrators had real chops with essential drafting.
Haywired
But their salt is part of the fun. XD
Can't wait for this final issue.
Optimus8404
Agreed, this is SHIT
QLRformer
Well, that's on Marvel/DC to re-release Kirby's work so that new generations can see and appreciate it. I've seen enough of Kirby's Marvel work to appreciate its awesomeness, but I'd love to see more.
You call
going nowhere?
edgs2099
Well your majesty, I had no idea we were in the presence of an TF/GIJ Hungarian ambassador! DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!
Goldimus Prime
So hyped. One week! I hope that once this issue is released they'll print up the whole series in one volume. I've bought about half the issues digitally, and would gladly pay again to have it all in one place.
BB Shockwave
Someone on the art or writing staff must be:
A/ having Chris Ryall in their pockets
B/ are related to Chris Ryall
C/ are sleeping with Chris Ryall
in order to get this thing STILL going despite it flying HIGH over the heads of BOTH target audiences. I can speak for both the Hungarian Transformers AND GI Joe fans when I say, no-one from those communities is reading this weird mess or is remotely interested. The target audience would be, IMHO, the devoted fans of Jack Kirby, given how the comic apes his style and writing, but those people never condescend enough to actually read anything that isn't DC or Marvel.
It has been going on for almost two years (maybe one, but it feels longer) and it is going nowhere. It's just one drug-induced nightmare after another with random toys thrown in.
Pray, enlighten us then? WHAT is this and what was it about? I doubt even the writers would be able to tell, other than "lining our pockets".
SouthtownKid
Yeah, if he did something with Micronauts, MASK, and ROM, there is zero doubt it would become my next favorite comic.
On the other hand, he's done this corporate stuff long enough now and I'm ready to see his next personal project. That said, I would have read this TF vs Joe series until the end of time, if possible.
Bring on the oversized hardcover collection!!!
Dramatic Spoon
I'm slightly terrified and interested in what he would do with MLP and Jem.
Digilaut
Tom Scioli should get his own IDW Revolution series. Imagine the insanity once he's allowed to blend in all the other properties! <3
Megastar
People like you just don't get what this comic is going for. This comic has more creativity and writing than half the normal TF comics.
Large
Well, Scioli, that was great. Really great.
All these toys properties merging in september, and i will think about how you perfectly get this concept.
During two years, each time an issue was out, i was playing in my old room.
SouthtownKid
The idea of going back to only normal Transformers comics is depressing to me. I don't know if I can do it.
Fallout
yessss
Chris McFeely
They give me sustenance at this point.
SouthtownKid
The best Transformers comic (by far) of the past 25 years comes to an end…
I'm really going to miss this book. Although I won't miss the monthly comments from the haters unable to wrap their heads around what this comic was and what it was doing.