Several members of the team that worked on IDW’s My Little Pony / Transformers, a four-issue miniseries originally included in our May solicitations coverage and still expected for release later this year, shared their creative process insights with Hollywood Soapbox.
How did the writing work amongst the three co-writers on this project? Did you try to collaborate to keep track of storylines and plot points?
IAN FLYNN: We mostly worked independently under editor Megan Brown’s guidance. We all tossed our collective ideas into the pile, and the most promising were chosen to be fleshed out and finalized.
SAM MAGGS: The great James Asmus dreamed up the inciting incident (e.g. the big moment that first brings our My Little Pony and Transformers friends together). With that knowledge in hand, Ian and I were able to go wild coming up with whatever other stories we wanted to tell within that initial framework! It was super-fun just throwing hilarious spaghetti at the wall and seeing what our editors found most fun or interesting.
How difficult was it to have two artistic styles for this four-part series?
JACK LAWRENCE: I didn’t actually approach it as two artistic styles as such. It’s different characters as part of the same animated TV show like, say, Bobby interacting with Uni in the ’80s Dungeons & Dragons show. The two character types are built differently, but exist in the same world.
Creator credits: James Asmus (Author) Ian Flynn (Author) Tony Fleecs (Artist, Cover Artist) Jack Lawrence (Artist) Sam Maggs (Author) Sara Pitre-Durocher (Artist, Cover Artist) Bethany McGuire-Smith (Cover Artist) Casey W. Coller (Artist, Cover Artist) Priscilla Tramontano (Artist, Cover Artist) Joana Lafuente (Colorist)
Check out the entire interview here, then sound off on the 2005 boards!
Judgement prime
Again. Language.
Mistakemus Prime
ah shit my bad. i meant frick
Judgement prime
Uh watch the language. Kids might be seeing these threads
Judgement prime
Oh. That would be interesting
Peacefather
Imagine Discord as a combiner
Mistakemus Prime
partly, but also because high school is hell and if anyone found out, my social life is over. Collecting action figures is weird enough
Omegashark18
Yes, it’s still being made. But in all likelihood it’s not going to come out when originally planned. And that’s just a guess.
Neko-bot77
With the worldwide… situation… do we even know if this is still being made?
Megastar
Yes and was it the fanbase that drove you away?
Mistakemus Prime
as a former brony i can confirm that i would buy the fuck outta those
D15M45
I don\'t like it
Judgement prime
This series needs some mlp themed transformer toys(similar to extortion)like twilight as a prime and/or all the mane six as robots in disguise. Maybe even starlight, sunset, celestia, Luna, cadence, trixie chrysalis and spike
Garret
Huh…Spike teaming up with Dinobot Grimlock……..AWESOME!!!!!
God these writers are cool guys ^^
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I'd pay for a Transformers movie comic that revealed TF4 creators.
Waveblast
Holy sh!t that’s the watch robot from microchange in issue #21 never would’ve expected that out of an Transformers comic anytime soon
Waveblast
Holy sh!t that’s the watch robot from microchange in issue #21 never would’ve expected that out of an Transformers comic anytime soon