Va'al wrote:Sarah is doing interior art once RID shifts back to Cybertron, apparently!
(The September issue, according to solicitations.)
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
That's cuz they're taller than most everyone.Va'al wrote:Dinobots. No manners *and* they're always high.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
cybercat wrote:Man, I dunno. I keep expecting this series to grow on me and it hasn't. I'll be honest, I find Nautica and Chromia to be much more interesting characters than Windblade, and I'd much prefer one of THEM get another series.
Things I don't get:
* Why Windblade seem pretty savvy when Roberts and Barber write her, and then, six months later in canon (when Windblade is set) she's somehow, uh, kind of really overly trusting? Like she's been there how long and she's not picked up the vibe of Starscream not being a Nice Guy? Did she not talk to ANYONE for those six months?
* Why she was 'ground zero' at a bomb that we're told was deliberately targeting her but she lived, but later we hear that a lot of people died from that explosion. That...is not how bombs work? There's no magic 'safe zone' in the kill radius.
* Torture doesn't work like that. I'll leave out that the torture the babe is a really problematic gendered trope discussion just to say that I find it improbable that she's instantly able to attack Starscream, both physically and psychologically. And moreover that it is to become this massive turning point where she goes from being gentle and hopeful to LET"S KILL EVERYONE--so bloodthirsty even Chromia is more reasonable, insisting they not kill guards unless they have to.
* Can we talk about the strangling? I get it was played for laughs, and I sure did laugh, but it was that secondhand embarrassment kind of laugh for the writer. Because, well, if Windblade's been pretty isolated from other cultures and if she is a Cybertronian herself, WHY WOULD SHE EVEN THINK OF STRANGLING STARSCREAM? You or I might because we're human and it works on humans. But if we weren't? We wouldn't even think of it.
The big issue I have with it is that it seems to be written based off a plot diagram, and Scott will bend and twist and mangle her characterization to get them to follow her carefully mapped plot points. The result is that finding a coherent characterization for Windblade herself is really difficult. Considering the main question that was used to pimp the story was "WHO IS WINDBLADE?" I have to say I still don't have a clue. Innocent, naive city speaker? Out of control angry fighter? Victim? Hero? The last issue has a LOT to try to pull together.
CC, [UNNECESSARY VOICEOVER RECAPPING EXPOSITION]
Va'al wrote:Hmm. That would also disappoint me, though.
Let's see let's see.
(It's bound to come up when I'm away this week, just you wait..)
Transformers: Windblade #4 (of 4): Dawn of the Autobots
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sarah Stone (a & c)
PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE! WINDBLADE seeks out the last refuge she has left, the living city METROPLEX as his malfunctions intensify! WINDBLADE realizes that even if she survives STARSCREAM, METROPLEX himself may doom them all!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
WINDBLADE versus STARSCREAM for control of CYBERTRON!
WINDBLADE’S first solo adventure comes to its soul-searing conclusion!
The aftermath of this issue will affect TRANSFORMERS comics for years to come!
Variant 30th Anniversary cover by Phil Jimenez!
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