TFW2005’s early Transformers comic reviews continue! Today, we review Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #4! Beast Hunters #4 is out tomorrow – Wednesday, August 28th – from IDW Publishing. Check out the review and a seven-page preview on our Beast Hunters #4 page of our Comics Resource Section!
Autovolt 127
Wow so much for Beast Hunters the comic.
Cha Chi
OK, I'm not the most versed in comics but three is and four seems a real let down. OK finding and scrapping with organics, but does it have to take two comics and endless scenes of stuff that's quite hard to understand… I really like the art, the covers are the best looking IMO, of all the comics out. But to me these last fight scenes are busy, tight angled, with little variety in wide angle or tight etcetc. Like I say hard to read what's mean't to be happening other than a big scrap so I don't see the point in having four straight pages…
yakko
I hadn't heard that…I was hoping for a longer extension on the Prime-verse.
Sockie
Actually, they have. #8 is the last issue of the series.
Digilaut
I was under the impression this title was 'ongoing' until IDW says NO. Which they haven't yet.
I like the idea of the Dinobots facing off against their original templates..I assume these are the actual dinosaurs Shockwave based them on – otherwise there would be no use of having them there.
A bit too bad if it's actually filling up most of the comic's pages (although I do think this is where Padilla shines
)…and it's just so similar to the fight with the Skystalker clone in Rage of the Dinobots…
Chris McFeely
There's something irresistibly FUN about the concept of Dinobots vs. Dinosaurs that allows this to squeak by, but it's hard to deny that there wasn't enough real content in this story to fill out its two parts. Would've been better served as a single issue, methinks – but I'm looking forward to next issue, as I presume Scott is returning to the scripting, and her work on the first two issues was really great stuff I'm eager to see more of. I hope IDW have something else she can work on after this series ends.
yakko
It's not the last issue, just the last issue in this arc. I think it joins up with the TV show soon.
Bass X0
I'm glad this is the last issue. Should have been titled as a Fall Of Cybertron comic, not a Prime: Beast Hunters comic. There was barely anything related to the TV show or toyline. Zoom should have been a toy-only character from the Prime or Beast Hunters series. Not that it would have improved the story.
A poor series from IDW but I had to buy it to know that it was a poor series. I didn't dislike it, its just more expensive for the content we're getting. For the same cost, we're also buying MTMTE and RiD.
Infosaur
*smash* *boom* *pop*
Written by Warpath?
ZacWilliam
It's disapointing because issues 1 and 2 had a surprisingly strong little story with good characterization and interesting new bots/situations. To follow that with what feels like two issues of "filler" with generic Cons and long story-light fights just seems a waste.
-ZacWilliam, if we got new and interesting internal monologue over the organic Dino fight that brought out new characterization or backstory I'd be more inclined to let it go, but pages of wordless fighting in a modern $4 comic is just painful.
Mechafire
What an absolute joke. $3-$4 for almost nothing but giant, obnoxious, wordless splash pages. The entire issue could probably be read in under 2 minutes.
Pathetic.
Tim Formas
Out tomorrow, August 28th. The early TFW review:
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters #4 – Transformers Comic Books and Graphic Novels – TFW2005
Pick it up tomorrow and discuss here!