WORP, there it is: Swindle entertains special guests in the five-page preview of Transformers issue #33, due in shops this week. Catch up with Bumblebee’s search for justice, then sound off on the 2005 boards!
Creator credits: Brian Ruckley (Author), Bethany McGuire-Smith (Artist), Ed Pirrie (Cover Artist), Lane Lloyd (Cover Artist), Alex Milne (Cover Artist), David Garcia Cruz (Colorist)
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K1712829
Poor sixshot
Senator Magnificus
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Rodimus Prime
The artist is very good, but he is not the style I would have chosen for Beast Wars, which always had more natural looking curves, etc compared to other series.
Senator Magnificus
They're a new version of those characters.
The same way TFA Optimus was a new
incarnation of Prime. Under no obligation
to be beholden to the original.
Berser Car
Comics rotate artists between volumes all the time. The artist of the first issues is probably already starting to draw issue 13-ish.
KylewithaC
any particular reason announced to why they switched the artists? Did enough people complain or something?
Bass X0
the new artist is correcting the art to how it should have been all along. And no, it’s still part of the Beast Wars continuity family. They’re the same characters. Like how Dreamwave, IDW1 and IDW2 feature the G1 characters even in a new setting.
Senator Magnificus
It should feel like it's own thing. It should'nt lie underneath the enormous shadow of it's legacy. If I wanted to see the BW cast as they appeared in the 90s cartoon, I'd simply head over to Tubi. I like Burcham's out there proportions, his signature boxiness. I especially liked Tarantulas cartoonishly curling little spider legs. Very Tim Burton flavoured. Writing, story & design wise this really should've embraced being a reboot. It was a chance to weave a fresh reinterpretation of an old story.
Q Prime
I mean, technically the new artist for issue 7 is hijacking an existing comic series if "hijacking" is something you're against. And the BW comic didn't hijack an existing series given this a reimagining and reboot rather than a continuation or replacement.
Bass X0
Unique by itself is not a selling point. The BW cast looking like how they should do is how it should be done and is expected to be done. It feeling like “a separate Beast” just degrades it’s legitimacy as an actual Beast Wars book.
The difference between Animated and the new Beast Wars book (because someone compared it to Animated earlier) is that Animated still had detailed characters with the only exaggerated proportions being their chins. The new Beast Wars book has flat, under-detailed characters with random crazily exaggerated proportions. Also Animated was it’s own thing; it didn’t hijack an existing series and radically change its aesthetic.
Still we get a welcome break with #7. From the preview, I have nothing to complain about regarding the art style.
Senator Magnificus
It's far more unique. This is just "BW cast- in standard comic art form!" Whatever my misgivings are for this book's unoriginality, Burcham really did make this feel like a separate beast (excuse the mediocre punage) from it's 90s animated precursor.
AzT
artguy101
Transformers Shattered Glass #1 is coming out this Wednesday so here’s my cover to the issue. It’s a great looking book pencilled by Transformers veteran artist Guido Guidi! (While I tag teamed with Guido on this mini for interiors for issues 2 and 4, this Blurr cover is the only one I drew for the series.)
fishpop
Okay, i\'m lliking this internal art for Beast Wars way more than the pseudo TF Animated style.
I liked Animated but the style doesn\'t fit for BW.
Optimax Prime
Okay…..wasn't expecting a warning from this Megatron on the thing. But I gotta wonder, how'd it even get on the thing in the first place?!? I mean, it's a whole Assload of years until the Voyager Probe gets launched, so how's that even happen!?!?! Unless BW-Megs takes advantage of the Ark to implant a message for G1-Megs to then put onto the disk later but………
Bass X0
it being angular is why I don’t like it.
Senator Magnificus
I prefer Burcham's more out there, angular style.
Scurv
Decent art? Yesssss.