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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ZeroWolf » Sat May 05, 2018 2:09 am

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This story arc has got a lot to live up to but I have trust in barber. I still think unicron will be gone at the end (maybe they'll use magic and then shift unicron into the new continuity, so it becomes their problem :-P)
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ScottyP » Sat May 05, 2018 8:24 am

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This is a great book given the truncated size, it isn't filled with ads as the back matter (features the pages from First Strike 6 where Unicron is introduced plus some reference material on the continuity), and the art is holy ---- levels of good. Get this today! (But buy something too - your local shop pays for the free copies so grab some Lost Light or Optimus Prime issues or branch out and grab something new!)
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ZeroWolf » Sat May 05, 2018 9:07 am

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I picked up mine from one of the local libraries near me. Though they are stamped by a comic shop with an outlet an hour away from me. I don't know how free comic book day works in that case..
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Sunstar » Sat May 05, 2018 9:55 am

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I got it, I read it and WOW.

the back of the book covers the "missing sections." I would advise not reading that if you don't want optimus prime 19 (and possibly 20) spoiled. Quite the terrifying concept.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sat May 05, 2018 10:18 am

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I took the plunge. It is Unicron after all. I've pre-ordered issues 1 & 2 so far. This #0 one doesn't seem to exist physically online though? Is it required reading for issue 1 or will it be part of that issue, for those that miss out??
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ZeroWolf » Sat May 05, 2018 11:30 am

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I thought places like comixology would have the free issues.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Va'al » Sat May 05, 2018 12:28 pm

Motto: "Till All Are Pun!"
As I and others have said further up in the thread, and in the review, this is only out today physically.
It should be out digitally before issue #1 hits, but we have no confirmed release yet.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Sunstar » Sat May 05, 2018 12:53 pm

Motto: "All hail Lord Starscream"
Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I took the plunge. It is Unicron after all. I've pre-ordered issues 1 & 2 so far. This #0 one doesn't seem to exist physically online though? Is it required reading for issue 1 or will it be part of that issue, for those that miss out??


you may find 0 after today - but it probably is a good idea to obtain. I am sort of iffy on something like this being part of FCBD - because not everyone can get the day off. I was lucky.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Randomhero » Sat May 05, 2018 1:50 pm

I had a theory Unicron was going to be targeting the Ores. Guess I was right.

He’s taking all the ores and doing what Shockwave attempted with Regensis in Dark Cybettron. Much like shockwaves goal was to turn into a singularity that forever feeds off the universe Unicron is doing the same.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby D-Maximal_Primal » Sat May 05, 2018 2:30 pm

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Picked it up, first time actually being part of free comic book day. Great read, sad story that gives me hope for Unicron.

You killed Wheeljack.... that was so sad.

And what is it now, unicron has eaten 4 colonies and he's starting on Eukaris #5 at the And? Wow. And man he's killed a lot already
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby rslatt74 » Sat May 05, 2018 2:47 pm

Is it just me or does it look like Rom and his buddy are about to be transformed into Scourge and Cyclonus?

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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Randomhero » Sat May 05, 2018 5:53 pm

rslatt74 wrote:Is it just me or does it look like Rom and his buddy are about to be transformed into Scourge and Cyclonus?

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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Black Bumblebee » Sat May 05, 2018 7:45 pm

Maybe I missed it in one of the spin offs (I only really read Lost Light & Optimus Prime), but has it been explained how they got Bumblebee back from the dead (or wherever he was)?
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Daniel Adkins » Sat May 05, 2018 9:14 pm

Black Bumblebee wrote:Maybe I missed it in one of the spin offs (I only really read Lost Light & Optimus Prime), but has it been explained how they got Bumblebee back from the dead (or wherever he was)?

This story takes place after The Falling, and Bumblebee will be coming back during the upcoming issues of that storyline. He should be back by issue #20.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby Sunstar » Sat May 05, 2018 9:32 pm

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it actually explains his return in the back of the book. I don't advise reading it because of spoilers
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sun May 06, 2018 2:37 am

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I'd imagine "healing coma". The BS that was popularised with Superman :roll: aka He was Dead... But not really.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ZeroWolf » Sun May 06, 2018 2:47 am

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No bee was definitely dead...actually I question his return less than I do the other big return in recent issues of Optimus Prime...after that it's quite easy to resurrect the yellow bot. Question is, has he been brought back just to die again?
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sun May 06, 2018 2:50 am

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I felt it was kind of vague. I read Dark Cybertron (in the TF Part-Work) and they just kind of left him.

The general rule of thumb in media: if you don't see the body, they ain't dead.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby YoungPrime » Sun May 06, 2018 8:04 am

Umm, yeah. This felt like a free comic.

Unless they give Unicron more personality and less irritating (Pyra) and forced (Bumblebee) dialog from the rest this is going to be a bland ending.

2 out of 5 for me.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sun May 06, 2018 11:33 am

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Beyond Orson Welles voice, when has Unicron ever had personality, aside from "evil"...?
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby ZeroWolf » Sun May 06, 2018 3:03 pm

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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Beyond Orson Welles voice, when has Unicron ever had personality, aside from "evil"...?

He's never needed one really as he's just been a plot device but them what can you do with him? If he's truly a god then his motivations should be alien to everyone else. He's the archetypal "other" a being who is relentless in his goals.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Sun May 06, 2018 3:06 pm

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Exactly my point. You can't really decry a depiction of Unicron for a lack of personality, when it's never been an issue before.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby D-Maximal_Primal » Sun May 06, 2018 7:28 pm

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Randomhero wrote:
rslatt74 wrote:Is it just me or does it look like Rom and his buddy are about to be transformed into Scourge and Cyclonus?

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...just you

Nah, I can see it some too. It sort of looks like the scene, even if it really isn't a transition/transformation scene.

And I agree with the directly above comments, Unicron is basically a God of destruction and chaos, his personality has always been to destroy Cybertron and the universe. He isn't really anything more than that.

And I think this did spectacularly in hyping him up. In the course of this short free issue, he ate a major Hasbro universe planet, he was said to have eaten 4 more (well, 2 more and a black hole/planet remnents), and then at the end he started to eat yet another one. And he is targeting the ore/colony planets, and he has killed an entire colony (Override was shown as a corpse, if the planet leader didn't survive, no one did, except those already on Cybertron), the Autobot team sent to rescue them, and then Wheeljack, a major character. Heck, it's implied at the end he has killed almost the entire Beast Wars cast by destroying Eukaris with no hope of evacuation. He is doing what was expected, and he is doing it well.

Heck, he never even showed up entirely on a page, only parts of him were seen. They are hiding his true scale.

Also makes me wonder if the dead Cybertronians littering his surface had their sparks consumed by him, and their bodies left to rot on his skin. It also looks like the Velocitron titan literally crashed into his surface instead of being consumed and transformed into part of him.

Either way, lots of cool stuff set up.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AllNewSuperRobot » Mon May 07, 2018 6:47 am

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Found it on EBay! I imagine it will reach me sometime this week. As I've said, Death of Optimus Prime was a jump off point for me and reading MTMTE/LL & (Formerly) RiD through the part work have done little to convince me I made the wrong decision. But Unicron is Unicron and since they have messed up The Trinity in IDWverse, Unicron is alpha & omega for my enjoyment.
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Re: IDW Transformers Comics - Road to Unicron

Postby AlphaBass » Mon May 07, 2018 1:17 pm

Is there a way to get it without spending a ton on eBay?
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