Coptur wrote:1984forever wrote:Can we stop with the Alpha Bravo crap already? He was never an original Aerialbot. Hasbro admitted he was a mistake (kind of) when they were talking about Dragstrip and Air raid being in the wrong waves.
With the exception of Alpha Bravo not having a personality, Windblade #1 was great. The writing and art were top notch. The book made me want to buy both combiners. But in the end the book is stil a failure for using bland made up characters alongside corny creations like Hot shot and Windblade.
Alpha Bravo is an Aerialbot for the new generation of transformer fans...so you're judging his character off of a few panels..bah
I agree with Coptur: Alpha Bravo may not be original, but many fans today do not follow G1 to the dot, and I'm perfectly ok with that. A helicopter adds new persona to a flying team, and I like the FoC Vortex idea of boost jets with folded rotors. The toy can do it too
New characters add new elements to the lore too. Offroad, Rook, Alpha Bravo and whoever is to come for Bruticus and Computron will add new volume to the transformers as a whole, and I really like that. Don't like new characters? that's fine, we're all different. But I love new guys and gals. If there are millions of cybertronians, we have plenty of room to work with too. Not everyone needs to be the same old same old 50 or so characters.
P.S: I am a Live-action/Animated generation: I could have watched RiD and Unicron trilogy, but I didn't. Live-action hooked me, and I've now watched all the cartoons and read a ton of the comics, so I am perfectly ok with Both the old and the new. I really like IDW's direction, and I look forward for what's to come.