by Windsweeper » Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:37 pm
I want to like it, I really do. But 8 pages of advertisements, a double splash page just for contents, 7 pages of puzzles and competitions and 4 pages of letters just seem excessive to me in a 36 page magazine. There's only 8 pages of comic strip, less than a quarter of the comic.
The Movie verse stories just seem hollow. The art isn't bad but there's something missing. Maybe IDW and Dreamwave spoiled us, I don't know. Plus am i the only one who thinks ROTF Bludgeon looks goofy. The Wreckage repaint was so much cooler. I was actually enjoying All Hail Megatron which is difficult to get over here and the butcher it before removing it altogether.
The large page size make it feel like a kiddie mag and I'm a tad embarrassed buying it.
Given that they have some of the original Marvel UK crew available to them, it's a shame they don't publish it in that format. Smaller pages, 1 page of letters, maybe a competition and some profiles. An 11 page and a 6 page strip.
The Marvel UK comic never felt this childish and it ended when I was 15.
Sorry to be so negeative but I had to get this off of my chassis.
Be nice if they rotated the comic strip to show other versions of Transformers, preferably new stories that follow on from the likes of Marvel G1 or Energon.