Via ITunes we can share for you the 3-page preview of IDW’s new Transformers Comic Series Issue #4.
We get some action pages this time featuring Chromia, Windblade, Cyclonus and new character Geomotus. The story continues around the previous death of an Autobot scientist.
The new Transformers issue #4 is expected for release on April, so it may hit comic stores in the next days. Click on the bar to see the mirrored images on this news post, and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Thundershot
I won’t blame Disney on this. Marvel and DC both started “writing for the trade” around the same time. Long before Disney bought Marvel.
misfire19d
That seems to be Disney’s business model. Cheap, mass produced crap for mass consumption. Go to any Disney store and it’s rows upon rows of product. All of it is made in a sweatshop somewhere.
It’s the same with marvel. Cheaply made product that has been dumbed down so everyone can “read”it.
I just don’t see IDW making anything better.
Thundershot
Another problem is that back in the 80's, one issue of a comic would give you a pretty packed story. Now that one issue would be spread out over 3-4 issues. Decompressed storytelling has been a thing since the late 90's, I think. So even if Marvel brought them back and put Furman on the books, it'd be like Regeneration One where it took forever to get to the point…
Focksbot
There's absolutely no sense here that the writer is interested in grabbing people's attention in the first few pages. He's just letting the story trundle along.
Rodimus Prime
People who keep asking for Marvel to get the IP back apparently haven't read the comics in the past half-decade or so. The Marvel that you grew up with is dead. It would be even worse for modern Marvel to get the rights back.
Current year Marvel is little more than an IP holding farm for Disney, as well as a way to keep Ike Perlmutter out of everybody else’s business. Part of the problem is that they no longer pay for quality writing or editing. They just pay fanboys, YA authors, and / or Internet weirdos the minimum amount that they can get away with. To put it into perspective: in China alone Avengers Endgame earned several times over the costs of maintaining the "Hello Work" program that is Marvel Comics.
misfire19d
As long as it’s not with IDW anymore then sure.
Bumblebee2000
Established some time in the book's past, relevant to current events, but not seen by the reader.
It isn't becoming any clearer to me why they chose this starting point when all the important stuff isn't happening or has already happened. If Cyclonus' and Quake's relationship is so important, why not give them a few pages of conversation in a previous issue. Add a few issues before this one and include a conversation between the two that tells us who they are, hints at the war so when everyone goes "oh hey Quake" in #3 people who don't rant about the books on forums already know who that is. And when the Autobots decide to pick a fight with Cyclonus now, it maybe seems a little less triggerhappy and it is slightly better that it's not actually drawn because again, someone new to the franchise (which isn't this the point of ending three brilliant series, to sell one new one to different people) at least knows who is off panel.
This book should simultaneously be going slower and doing a lot more.
Was so excited for Chromia to be an important character from the beginning too. Even despite my disappointment I kinda like Rubble but while I'll keep buying until my collection matches the first volume, I don't get the right energy from this book. As in, any at all. Personality ticks might not be the high point of MTMTE, but it isn't Roberts being unoriginal either. It isn't artists unironically framing the action so it doesn't appear either.
octobotimus
They most likely just read that he's from the 86 movie, thus a plot-relevant character.
RobotKnight95
Like. I. Said. We have no evidence to support that Cyclonus has had any contact with quake aside from this flashback. We also don't know when this supposed war took place so it could have happened centuries ago. Any police investigation would follow me relevant leads. Neighbors, local businesses, and so on. They wouldn't follow someone who knew their suspect during their time in the military with a massive time gap. To punctuate my point, Chromia,Windblade, and the reader have no evidence to suggest Cyclonus has had any contact with Quake beyond this one flashback. Cyclonus isn't referenced by name in it so how do they know to go after him? For all we know it's Ferak. They just decided to ask him questions off-screen? Only a terrible writer would make that decision.
Dinobot Snarl
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Novaburnhilde
Hey, he's purple and has red eyes, he's automatically a person of interest!
RobotKnight95
Fair point in that he has a past with Quake. Now the question is why they would think Cyclonus would have any current ties to him. I know they're searching for leads but surely they'd be asking anyone who's been in contact with Quake recently or knows where he usually goes.
Novaburnhilde
Meh. Call me when Transformers '84 is released.
Dinobot Snarl
Cyclonus was the squad mate of Quake, which they wanted to find.
Spartan Prime
No thanks. The Marvel stuff wasn't that good.
RobotKnight95
1) That page of Windblade tackling Cyclonus looks terrible. Having some visuals of showing the characters transform can really help make the scene more cohesive.
2) Why are they going after Cyclonus? This is his first appearance yet it seems as if they're implying everyone knows who he is. We don't know anything about this Cyclonus so why should we raise suspicion towards him?
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3) Scratch that this whole set up of Chromia and Windblade pursuing Cyclonus is terrible.
Dinobot Snarl
No it's the special incentive cover.
Wyldmaxx
I'm getting that stuck in the mud feeling when it comes to moving this story along.
NanakoPreame
Uh, wrong thread dude.