Leonardo wrote:Chronic wrote:and there are countless other loose threads to tie up aswell, all in all it seems like the Transformers had a pretty eventful year, and to be honest I think I'd rather read about that, still though for all its faults AHM isn't that bad and definitely has potential, hopefully they will explane what exacty happend before and tie everything together neatly
Yes, I think AHM will fill in the previous year's gap via flashbacks, etcetera. Hopefully, he won't have one 'bot reel off a page of expositional dialogue!
turkishproverb wrote:I like it but I don't see how it could remain cannon. I mean after all that weird crap in the first few minis, optimus suddenly had the matrix in his chest for Megs to rip out?
Did it actually say in AHM that the Matrix was within Prime? Perhaps he acquired it at some point between "Revelation" and AHM. I can't remember what happened to Nemesis Prime's Matrix but maybe it's a purified version of that?
No, they won't have one bot reel off a page of expositional dialogue but they
will have to release that AHM Coda to overcome and explain all the damn inconsistencies!
I'm sorry, there
are moments in AHM that I really like (some of the characterisation for example and, ironically, EJ Su's art in #7) but I'm feeling really let down. I mean, a few years ago IDW and Furman took a chance and they rebooted the series and made it a galaxy-wide story with eddies and currents of stories hinted at and made a new, tantalising mythos based around the TFs. It was something more serious than what we grew up with, it was a comic that wasn't a toy advertisement first and a story second. You had something that was up there with some of the other major comics out there - a comic that was no longer a childishly guilty pleasure. It went from being a comic that kids read to something meatier and more grandiose.
Then All Hail Megatron came along. As I said to McCarthy when I wrote to him, he took a story that was well-established and going in a certain,
well-defined direction and seemingly ignored a majority of it. He put a lot of the readers out because his story was just that bit too far removed from what we had grown to know.
His plot doesn't make a lot of sense due to the inconsistencies and lack of common sense on his behalf. I'm sorry but an
advanced alien race aren't going to revert back to older alt modes after taking on cutting-edge modes (ie. The Seekers), the Witwickys are now in and the original 3 human characters are gone without a trace other than one shot of Hunter as Sunstreaker's head in #7 (seriously, the Witwickys?! Why?! Were they
really a necessity??), why has the comic become a toy advertisement again (TF Universe modes anyone??)?. I want to know why McCarthy can't let go of the 80s!
This coda that IDW are releasing to "bridge the gap" is such an obvious back-pedal that it's not funny. An attempt to try and wedge in something that is just too far removed from the established story. If this Coda comes out and the last page is of Wheelie waking up and realising it was all a bad dream, I swear I'm going to throttle someone!
Let Furman get back to doing what he was doing and stop trying to "shake things up a bit"! The series was going along really well IMO. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I know this is just my opinion and everyone has one, I'm just wanting to vent a bit of the frustration I feel because every time I get into my oldest favourite comic and feel like things are rockin' along, something happens to screw with it. Marvel G1 cancelled (after a very good run, admittedly), Marvel G2 (cancelled after 12 issues), Dreamwave (cancelled because Pat Lee is an egotist), and now this.