Via Previews World we have our first look at the IDW Transformers VS Visionaries #4 Retailer Incentive Cover.
The cover, courtesy of artist Brendan Cahill, got a similar style of some previous Transformers Vs Visionaries covers we have seen before featuring one of the Visionaries next to a Transformer. This time we have Galadria with Wheeljack, and we can see they are a good combination for this art.
Transformers VS Visionaries #4
(W) Magdalene Visaggio (A) Fico Ossio (CA) Brendan Cahill
Leoric and Ironhide only have hours left to save Cybertron from destruction, while Virulina tries to harness the life energy of Leoric’s captured friends to accelerate the end. Now Leoric must somehow detonate the counter-wave bomb and rescue his people. And the clock is ticking.
In Shops: Mar 14, 2018
Don’t forget to grab your copy when it’s available and while you wait, you can check out the cover after the jump and then sound off at the 2005 Boards!
pilot00
Thanks a lot.
Soundwave902
I understand, I have my own complaints about the direction it's headed now as well, and I know how sometimes arguments here can become.. heated
pilot00
Would it sound snide/offensive/rude to you if I rather not? There are many things that I dislike about the way they handed both the lore and the character development as well as the overall script, which I find heavy handed. If I start posting here every thing that bothered me, I know it will turn into a flame war sooner or latter (and I dont mean with you) and I rather avoid that. Its a rather complicated issue with where this fandom is headed in general, who develops it, how and what the general expectations are of it…which will result in a rather….volatile reaction
Soundwave902
Could you please articulate why in more detail, sorry, not trying to be antagonistic, just want to understand your point of view
pilot00
Yeah, no sorry. I stand by my previous statement. However good these might seem, they all have their inherent flaws that drawback in a category of the few I posted behind. I can understand why it might make someone joyfull, but nothing is original, its a trope that I have seen somewhere else. No wow factors at all, quite the contrary.
Soundwave902
Within the last ten years:
Stories
* Last Stand of the Wreckers: Almost every character is killed, has a message of "People die in stupid, pointless, ways", makes the war even more cutthroat, and introduces characters who haven't seen any fiction for a while
* The Shadowplay arc: Changes Shockwave's character entirely by making him a victim of the Senate who was originally altruistic with no previous foresight of a change at all
* Spotlight: Megatron: An entirely different take on the standard "Megatron beats up Starscream" by adding the psychological aspect and ramping it up
* Sins of the Wreckers: Introduces a new faction, brings a new layer to Springer's character, shows what happens to one of the "little guys" if they're ignored enough
Ideas
* Almost all of the Primes have sucked
* Cybertron was always awful, with the government forcibly rewriting memories and mutilating citizens
* Starscream is the Chosen One, but was chosen to unite Cybertron to hate him
* Prowl being an antihero willing to do whatever it takes to save people
* Thundercracker deserting and allying with the humans
* The original Thirteen are not beings of mythical power (mostly), but guys who seized power when the opportunity presented itself
pilot00
Repetition, generic plot lines, 0 unpredictability, social justice warrior tropes etc etc.
skywarp-2
The old Visionaries costumes looked much better. Just needs a good artistic slant to it. The new costumes don't have that armor feel.
Focksbot
I guess I mean: what's so bad about the last ten years of stories?
Haywired
It's amazing how even with all those talented artists drawing them, their redesigned "modernised" costumes still manage to look like generic edgy crap…
Gryph
It wasn't Hasbro that mandated they kill him. It was IDW. Editorially mandated character deaths are always a bad thing.
pluto
Booo hiss! I like the old stuff better than the new stuff &c&c&c
I may not have been super impressed w the first issue (Kup's hasbro mandated plot was some tacky garbage), but i'm keen to see where it goes. At the very least the art is p good!
pilot00
Jaded me to everything since? I dont understand the expression, please explain. Not a native english speaker.
Focksbot
Ten years?? What happened ten years ago that was so good it's jaded you to everything since?
pilot00
Your point been? We have to see a decent, let alone good story for more than 10 years…..
So this is the level of jokes and writting the fandom expects? Funny moments sadling Trypticon? Ok:
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GWolfv2
John Barber's still handling the continuity heavy stuff…the only issue there is that he's always looking for stuff we've forgotten about to bring in.
also, dino riders. Yes. Make it a comedy piece about the dino riders being really obsessed with saddling the dinobots, trypticon and overkill. To an almost Wil E Coyote degree.
pilot00
Τhis, so much this…..
pluto
While i totally understand a certain cynicism toward piggybacking all these properties on TF, what kind of hateful monster doesn't want to see the return of dino-riders?
C'mon man, thats just…mean.
BB Shockwave
That is a weird pose for flexing your muscles. Is she looking into an invisible mirror while standing on Wheeljack's shoulders, or what?
For someone who actually read real D&D novels like me, the D&D cartoon was a dumbed down ridiculous thing…
As for Visionaries, it was a cool idea. See they have space-tech-like armor because the planet was highly advanced technologically, before an event made all technology obsolete (something people were worried about in that whole pre-Y2 era). Then a wizard came along and gave magical powers to the strongest knights and warlords, regardless of whether they were good or evil, and sent them on various quests. I liked the idea that the classic mysterious old sage in this case was rather morally grey and just cared about things getting done, not by whom or how.
That said, not really interested in yet another pointless crossover. What's next, Dino Riders? Inhumanoids? Why are they just piling every 80ies era obscure comic and cartoon into the transformers continuity? They can barely keep up with the TF continuity alone… And just because one is a Transformers fan, does not make them a fan of all other eighties franchises. I have been a fan of TFs since the eighties and I never, ever cared about GI Joe -still don't, to this day.
Raiju
Powerglide and Seaspray both have had organic love interests, though in the case of Wheeljack, he is a Bot of science so I'm thinking he'd be more interested in the power of the Visionaries and how it works than anything else.