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Posted by Big Grim on May 7th, 2017 @ 9:44am CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Big Grim wrote:Stone the crows!
WHAT???
Serious, 2nd straight thread I've visited where I have no idea what the hell something means!
Allow me to enlighten!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/stone-the-crows.html
It's pretty British. In this instant, an exclamation of incredulity.
Posted by Va'al on May 7th, 2017 @ 10:35am CDT
One point about this:
Kurona wrote:
This only goes on for two pages, but it shows they can go for another very different style extremely well. The section stands out for its darker, sharper colours and lines; creating a great contrast between then and now - the blurred figures and misty panel separation help create an aura of mystery and wonder without veering too far so that it feels like a smudge. While I adore Pitre-Durocher and Lafuente's style employed for most of Till All Are One, this is some beautiful artwork the likes of which I would be very excited to see in future issues.
I loved those elements, but I'm also pretty sure it's almost entirely Pitre Durocher's work on the colours for the flashback sections. If I'm counting pages right on my copy, anyway.
(Compare to her covers, for example, for similar muted-but-glossy colours!)
That said, good review!
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 7th, 2017 @ 10:12pm CDT
Big Grim wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Big Grim wrote:Stone the crows!
WHAT???
Serious, 2nd straight thread I've visited where I have no idea what the hell something means!
Allow me to enlighten!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/stone-the-crows.html
It's pretty British. In this instant, an exclamation of incredulity.
You learn something new everyday!
that said, to relate to the issue: I am actually excited for the Primes. This is something that has had the build and I am a fan of the 13. And, think about it: Liege Maximo has shown up here now, and Solus is highly respected and praised on Caminus, and we now saw her death. Alpha Trion, Onyx, and Micronus have shown up in OP/RiD, and Nexus died there too. We have some very interesting things going on with the Primes, with some good set up too.
Although, another issue: if Solus died before the war of the primes, how was she able to go to a planet that housed an ore? And the Liege never settled on a planet, which was confirmed, so he couldn't have been on a planet that became a home to an ore. Man, this is like trying to keep up with a soap opera!
Posted by Va'al on May 8th, 2017 @ 3:12am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 8th, 2017 @ 11:35am CDT
Va'al wrote:Aren't the ores just sent by Shockwave, way after the War of the Primes?
The ores were sent by Shockwave well after the war of the primes, but those ores specifically targeted the planets where the Primes were supposed to have ended up on. the resting place of the 13 became the resting place of the ores, or that's how it is supposed to go. I think that is being somewhat ignored considering the Liege and Solus
Posted by Va'al on May 8th, 2017 @ 12:20pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Va'al wrote:Aren't the ores just sent by Shockwave, way after the War of the Primes?
The ores were sent by Shockwave well after the war of the primes, but those ores specifically targeted the planets where the Primes were supposed to have ended up on. the resting place of the 13 became the resting place of the ores, or that's how it is supposed to go. I think that is being somewhat ignored considering the Liege and Solus
The way I saw the whole thing, personally, was that the colonies were already being established. Shockwave starts the experiments after his Empurata, so the war is starting already and neutrals will be skedaddling. Camiens, who worship Solus and follow the Way of the Flame, were already bound for the planet, right? Maybe it's not the Prime but something of the Prime that coincided with Shockwave's ores?
Is the Forge on Caminus?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 8th, 2017 @ 5:58pm CDT
Va'al wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Va'al wrote:Aren't the ores just sent by Shockwave, way after the War of the Primes?
The ores were sent by Shockwave well after the war of the primes, but those ores specifically targeted the planets where the Primes were supposed to have ended up on. the resting place of the 13 became the resting place of the ores, or that's how it is supposed to go. I think that is being somewhat ignored considering the Liege and Solus
The way I saw the whole thing, personally, was that the colonies were already being established. Shockwave starts the experiments after his Empurata, so the war is starting already and neutrals will be skedaddling. Camiens, who worship Solus and follow the Way of the Flame, were already bound for the planet, right? Maybe it's not the Prime but something of the Prime that coincided with Shockwave's ores?
Is the Forge on Caminus?
I don't have the comic on me, but read the last paragraph. Shockwave chose the planets as the resting places of the 12 primes and the enigma since Nexus did die, which considering Solus died to ignite the war of the primes, would have to mean she ended up elsewhere to be buried and Shockwave knew where, same with the Liege as he was inside Vigilem (unless vigilem was on a planet that became an ore location at the time the ore touched down, and the entropy cloud from Micronauts could be another ore ala Micronus). The colonies themselves aren't connected to the ores. The colonies are the colonies of the primes, who went elsewhere. We don't know where the forge is, or any real artifact other than the enigma.
Posted by Big Grim on May 9th, 2017 @ 8:19am CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Big Grim wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Big Grim wrote:Stone the crows!
WHAT???
Serious, 2nd straight thread I've visited where I have no idea what the hell something means!
Allow me to enlighten!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/stone-the-crows.html
It's pretty British. In this instant, an exclamation of incredulity.
You learn something new everyday!
You're welcome!
Posted by Va'al on May 12th, 2017 @ 1:23pm CDT
Basically TAAO 9's Liege Maximo/Vigilem backstory.
So we took the one asshole, and we trapped him inside the other asshole, and then we trapped that asshole inside himself, and then we flew both assholes into space.
And that’s how you solve problems.
…then we took all the assholes that followed those assholes and made them guard the assholes we imprisoned until the end of time.
Posted by Va'al on May 14th, 2017 @ 7:34am CDT
Posted by Kurona on May 14th, 2017 @ 8:08am CDT
Which, naturally, does make me wonder about Metrotitan... especially as I just read All Hail Optimus. Again. Damn that story's underrated.
Posted by Randomhero on May 14th, 2017 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by ScottyP on May 14th, 2017 @ 10:54pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:The original idea was that they all did look like metroplex. Metroplex, metrotitan, the necrotitan, all the ones that were scene in Remain in light, about twelve or more seen in the annual they all shared the same body type.
This is where the info creep over time lends to the myths. The Metrotitan style Titans = Those of the Guiding Hand/Knights of Cybertrons. Viglem is of a cadre that belonged to the Thirteen Primes. How those actually converge, if they do at all (Metroplex being Alpha Trion's Titan?), is something I look forward to reading later on!
Posted by Va'al on May 30th, 2017 @ 2:13am CDT
Pop back after the book's release for a Seibertron.com review, and join the discussion in the Energon Pub!
Transformers: Till All Are One #10
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a & c)
As Starscream faces down the encroaching machinations of Elita One, he enlists Blast Off to help him bring Bruticus back!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
Variant cover by Marcelo Matere!
Posted by Bounti76 on May 30th, 2017 @ 2:31am CDT
Also, I kept reading her lines in Gina Torres' voice.
Posted by grimlockprime108 on May 30th, 2017 @ 2:45am CDT
Posted by Big Grim on May 30th, 2017 @ 7:26am CDT
Bounti76 wrote:Also, I kept reading her lines in Gina Torres' voice.
Snap. I came here to say the exact same thing!
Posted by LE0KING on May 30th, 2017 @ 7:41am CDT
Posted by Randomhero on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:12am CDT
Posted by Randomhero on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:14am CDT
LE0KING wrote:I don't care if it's Hasbro, third party, or some guy in his mom's basement, someone give me a good airachnid toy!
It's certainly a figure I don't regret selling. Found her said "yes, I don't care if she's a bad figure I found her!" Opened her up and sucked my teeth and 3 weeks later sold to someone.
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:20am CDT
LE0KING wrote:I don't care if it's Hasbro, third party, or some guy in his mom's basement, someone give me a good airachnid toy!
Heard the legion isn't bad.
Posted by LE0KING on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:32am CDT
Posted by Randomhero on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:54am CDT
Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:I don't care if it's Hasbro, third party, or some guy in his mom's basement, someone give me a good airachnid toy!
Heard the legion isn't bad.
Legion one can actually move its arms and legs.
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on May 30th, 2017 @ 9:31am CDT
Randomhero wrote:Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:I don't care if it's Hasbro, third party, or some guy in his mom's basement, someone give me a good airachnid toy!
Heard the legion isn't bad.
Legion one can actually move its arms and legs.
Also it's legion, so if your building a Neo G1 IDW and/or Prime, it won't exactly fit in. Genuinely surprised with how popular of a character she is a 3rd party hasn't taken a crack at a Neo-g1 style arachnid. Anyway back to the comic, I had a feeling as soon at there was any hint to Airachnid being in TAAO, that she would've been responsible for the killings in the first issue. I do find it interesting that Airachnid is performing something very similar to mneurosurgery, without exactly being it. Opens more lore without it being something to similar to what was explored with chromedome. Also I like how most of Starscream and Airachnid's dialog is full of backhanded compliments and veiled insults.
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 10:35am CDT
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Also I like how most of Starscream and Airachnid's dialog is full of backhanded compliments and veiled insults.
Their relationship is absolutely perfect - I think it may be too much to ask for her to be a main player, but dear god would I love for her to show up again. I much prefer her as Starscream's partner-in-crime to Rattrap.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:42pm CDT
Big Grim wrote:Bounti76 wrote:Also, I kept reading her lines in Gina Torres' voice.
Snap. I came here to say the exact same thing!
and I was thinking the exact same thing too!!
Dang, now if only I could read Starscream in Steve Blum's voice. I haven't really been able to do that yet
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:48pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Big Grim wrote:Bounti76 wrote:Also, I kept reading her lines in Gina Torres' voice.
Snap. I came here to say the exact same thing!
and I was thinking the exact same thing too!!
Dang, now if only I could read Starscream in Steve Blum's voice. I haven't really been able to do that yet
What we need is a very, very good voiceover. I wouldn't have even thought of Animated Megatron as the voice for IDW Megatron (or, hell, as my favourite Megatron voice) until this very awesome video. But now it fits perfectly! (mtmte32spoilers)
Posted by Big Grim on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:25am CDT
Kurona wrote:What we need is a very, very good voiceover. I wouldn't have even thought of Animated Megatron as the voice for IDW Megatron (or, hell, as my favourite Megatron voice) until this very awesome video. But now it fits perfectly! (mtmte32spoilers)
Wow! That's really rather splendid!
Posted by ScottyP on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:00pm CDT
And I didn't even touch on Starscream yet. Keeps getting better somehow. Guess the ceiling is the roof for how far they're gonna take him and it is so fun to read.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:02pm CDT
Posted by Kurona on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:03pm CDT
ScottyP wrote:So 10. That was so good. Blast Off went from "somewhat defined supporting role character" to "deeply relatable, well rounded, conflicted, possibly critically important" in 20 pages. All the creators involved should take a bow
And I didn't even touch on Starscream yet. Keeps getting better somehow. Guess the ceiling is the roof for how far they're gonna take him and it is so fun to read.
Starscream starts from the whole 'I am a terrible person and I will never stop being a terrible person so why even try' resolution at the end of last issue (for lack of a better phrase ) and absolutely RUNS with it in this issue. And like I said above, his relationship with Airachnid is perfect and I want to see more of her. The two are absolutely devious.
Blast Off as well has shot up to one of the best characters in the comic. He was already well on the way there but #10 sealed it.
Posted by LE0KING on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:28pm CDT
Why is it that every single relationship shown in IDW has been same sex? Don't get me wrong, I understand that there wasn't gender on cybertron, but ever since fembots became a thing there still hasn't been a straight couple. We've had 8 total couples shown on page, 3 fembot on fembot and 5 robot on robot. The closest we've gotten was Skids and Nautica and that never got past the high school crush phase. And with Chromia leaving I doubt Ironhide will have a shot.
Am I the only person who has issues with this? Or am I wrong?
Posted by Kurona on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:33pm CDT
LE0KING wrote:So please don't take this out of context.
Why is it that every single relationship shown in IDW has been same sex? Don't get me wrong, I understand that there wasn't gender on cybertron, but ever since fembots became a thing there still hasn't been a straight couple. We've had 8 total couples shown on page, 3 fembot on fembot and 5 robot on robot. The closest we've gotten was Skids and Nautica and that never got past the high school crush phase. And with Chromia leaving I doubt Ironhide will have a shot.
Am I the only person who has issues with this? Or am I wrong?
Sparkstalker and Lightbright, Tigatron and Airazor. Heavy hinting with Arcee and Sideswipe as well as Nautica with Brainstorm.
Regardless, considering I've seen so much fiction which purely had straight relationships, I'm very happy to have fiction which almost purely has non-straight relationships. And it makes sense considering the worldbuilding has stated Cybertron is not a hetero-normative society unlike the culture most of us are used to and live in.
Posted by Kurona on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:47pm CDT
I should have written this a while ago, but I wanted to wait until after Issue #10 because it was such an important issue for me, a triumph of our series. And I think it truly is a triumph. It’s difficult and uncomfortable and still very compelling. This is in big part thanks to Sara’s amazing art and Joana’s amazing colors. So now I’ll say it. We’re cancelled.
What happened? Nothing.
Our attrition rate was fairly normal and Issue 12 would be our profitability breaking point. We were asked if we wanted to do something to shake things up (shift focus, shift cast, shift story) after the First Strike event, which is also normal, but I didn’t. I love Transformers, but I’ve been writing it for literally years and I wanted to tell this story. So rather than think of a new story I didn’t love as much, I just chose to end us here.
Till All Are One will go to Issue 12 and then an annual will be put out late 2017/early 2018 to wrap up any loose threads. A thousand thanks to our editor, Carlos, for giving us that much-needed space. A thousand thanks to Sara and Joana and Priscilla and Tom and John and Meg and Jason and all the people I know I’m forgetting and shouldn’t.
Issue 11 and 12 are going to be awesome by the way. I think we crafted a really satisfying, positive ending emotionally and the annual puts that needed cherry on top. We did something I never thought I’d be able to pull off that I’ll talk about more when it’s released.
In the meantime, I’d like to take a moment to say all the things I couldn’t before:
FAVORITE LINE I EVER WROTE:
FAVORITE THING SARA’S EVER DRAWN:
The Combaticons. Think about it. These guys DON’T HAVE FACES! (Well, Blast Off does) and she makes them so expressive without making it seem like she’s cheating their designs or making them cartoony. I had to keep writing them!
WORST THING I EVER MADE SARA DRAW:
The Bruticus face made out of Combaticons. Even as I wrote it I was like “I’ve got nothing. Good luck!” Naturally, she knocked it out of the park, but I still feel bad. [NOTE: this doesn’t include Issue 12, which may still kill her because it’s also basically impossible.]
THINGS I WANTED TO WRITE BUT DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO:
-Ironhide’s private security firm and their wacky adventures (mostly with Tall Tankor and Fat Tankor)
-An issue of Titan’s Return just about the Maccadam’s Crew having to defend the bar from being smushed.
-Lightbright and Sparkstalker’s Conjunx Endura ceremony.
-Somehow bringing together all the femmes from the G1 crew onto one team for an issue.
-Breakdown calling out Knock Out for weight-shaming.
-Exploring the racial/tribal divides on Eukaris.
-Giving Metroplex an avatar so he could move around the city and meet people like a normal ‘Bot.
-Metroplex goes to Caminus and has to come to terms with the cut-up body of his most treasured companion.
-Tall Tankor and Fat Tankor meet the Micromaster Tankor that turns into a train and they hate him for, like, no reason. He just can’t get into the “tankor clique”.
-Elita One takes over Kaon and builds a militarized city-state that threatens to reignite the war.
-Revealing Windblade and Chromia’s holo-avatars.
-Having everyone from Cybertron be disturbed by Elita One because she is literally the color of energon so it’s like meeting someone painted in blood.
BONUS THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT FAT TANKOR:
-There were two separate occasions where my husband argued that Fat Tankor should die for emotional impact and I just couldn’t kill him.
-I almost took out the name “Fat Tankor” in the final proof of Windblade Vol. 1 because robots can’t be fat and I was nervous, but John Barber insisted I keep it.
Finally,
I want to take a moment and thank you, the readers. You’ve made me stronger, bolder, and better at my craft and the love you have shown this story has been inspiring. I will miss you most of all and I hope you follow me on my next books (because there will be more books) even if they don’t have giant robots.
Be Well,
Mairghread Wild Scott
Posted by LE0KING on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:52pm CDT
Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:So please don't take this out of context.
Why is it that every single relationship shown in IDW has been same sex? Don't get me wrong, I understand that there wasn't gender on cybertron, but ever since fembots became a thing there still hasn't been a straight couple. We've had 8 total couples shown on page, 3 fembot on fembot and 5 robot on robot. The closest we've gotten was Skids and Nautica and that never got past the high school crush phase. And with Chromia leaving I doubt Ironhide will have a shot.
Am I the only person who has issues with this? Or am I wrong?
Sparkstalker and Lightbright, Tigatron and Airazor. Heavy hinting with Arcee and Sideswipe as well as Nautica with Brainstorm.
Regardless, considering I've seen so much fiction which purely had straight relationships, I'm very happy to have fiction which almost purely has non-straight relationships. And it makes sense considering the worldbuilding has stated Cybertron is not a hetero-normative society unlike the culture most of us are used to and live in.
Ah, thank you. I'd forgotten tigatron and airazor.
Did they ever make sparkstalker and lightbright a couple? I don't remember them getting more than a few lines in one of the windblade comics.
Personally i don't think arcee is capable of that kind of relationship, she's just now learning how to make friends and not decapitate them.
But still, even if you were to pick your sparkmate by random chance 2 to 8 are rough odds.
I only take issue with it because there's not a lot of gay people where I'm from so I have trouble relating. (Yes, I admit, I struggle to relate to million year old murderous robots)
Posted by ScottyP on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:53pm CDT
At the same time, this isn't super shocking given the sales. I think the TF comics faithful had bought into this one a while ago, but new readers and the folks that jumped ship last fall (you know who you are) never came around to it. Good job, nerds.
Posted by Kurona on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:54pm CDT
I was of course upset about this when I saw the name of the article and worried that something terrible had happened like the higher-ups deciding it wasn't making as much money or such. But upon actually reading the post, it made me extraordinarily happy - in a world where comics can come and go at the drop of a proverbial editorial hat, this cancellation is not happening because of some money-related business or some petty ass in charge; Scott is in complete control of this decision. She is deciding to end this story because she truly feels that this is in full the story she wanted to write and has written, and does not want to burden anyone and indeed herself and her creative team with another story she wouldn't feel as much passion for just because 'might as well continue the comic'. This is the writer saying that this is the perfect place for the story to end and the perfect direction in which to take things.
So while it's of course very sad to see the cancellation of an excellent ongoing - arguably the best ongoing of the three IDW comics this year - it's fantastic to know that that ending is coming about for legitimate reasons that come from a place of passion and reason rather than mandates and profit. This has been an incredible story to follow for the past almost-year, and I will adore seeing how it all culminates in the end
Posted by Kurona on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:56pm CDT
LE0KING wrote:Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:So please don't take this out of context.
Why is it that every single relationship shown in IDW has been same sex? Don't get me wrong, I understand that there wasn't gender on cybertron, but ever since fembots became a thing there still hasn't been a straight couple. We've had 8 total couples shown on page, 3 fembot on fembot and 5 robot on robot. The closest we've gotten was Skids and Nautica and that never got past the high school crush phase. And with Chromia leaving I doubt Ironhide will have a shot.
Am I the only person who has issues with this? Or am I wrong?
Sparkstalker and Lightbright, Tigatron and Airazor. Heavy hinting with Arcee and Sideswipe as well as Nautica with Brainstorm.
Regardless, considering I've seen so much fiction which purely had straight relationships, I'm very happy to have fiction which almost purely has non-straight relationships. And it makes sense considering the worldbuilding has stated Cybertron is not a hetero-normative society unlike the culture most of us are used to and live in.
Did they ever make sparkstalker and lightbright a couple? I don't remember them getting more than a few lines in one of the windblade comics.
Wonderfully, I had the exact comic this happened in opened and just a page away from the panel:
The 2015 Holiday Special is a thing of beauty.
Also, depends on the people around you and your environment (and, naturally, how accepting it may or may not be). I'm a queer lady myself, and the majority of my friend groups both in real life and online are of LGBT+ identities as well.
Posted by ScottyP on May 31st, 2017 @ 8:57pm CDT
Posted by LE0KING on May 31st, 2017 @ 9:05pm CDT
Here's hoping this isn't the end of the cybertron stories.
I think you're right Scotty. Sounds like They wanted a change and she didn't. So to keep from potentially ruining a project she loved, she chose to end it. I can respect that. I hate that it happened, but I can respect it.
Posted by Ironhidensh on May 31st, 2017 @ 9:16pm CDT
Honestly, since the revelation debacle, I've simply had a hard time caring about any of the books, even my beloved MTMTE/Lost Light.
I listen to the podcasts, and I try to see the points that ScottyP makes, but they just aren't there for me. The books have become boring, I just hope this isn't a beginning trend.
On a side note, I'll admit some of my negative feelings could be due to my bitterness at IDW for their extreme failure and mishandling of M.A.S.K. it's been a very bad year for comics.
Posted by SG Roadbuster on May 31st, 2017 @ 9:27pm CDT
the book was consistently good, and good BECAUSE of it's consistency.
some dips@#$ in upper management wanted a status quo shakeup, after this year's stupid f*&%ing crossover event
Scott didnt want to shake up her status quo because she had an actual f%&*ing story planned.
book gets cancelled
Posted by dragons on May 31st, 2017 @ 9:33pm CDT
Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:Kurona wrote:LE0KING wrote:So please don't take this out of context.
Why is it that every single relationship shown in IDW has been same sex? Don't get me wrong, I understand that there wasn't gender on cybertron, but ever since fembots became a thing there still hasn't been a straight couple. We've had 8 total couples shown on page, 3 fembot on fembot and 5 robot on robot. The closest we've gotten was Skids and Nautica and that never got past the high school crush phase. And with Chromia leaving I doubt Ironhide will have a shot.
Am I the only person who has issues with this? Or am I wrong?
Sparkstalker and Lightbright, Tigatron and Airazor. Heavy hinting with Arcee and Sideswipe as well as Nautica with Brainstorm.
Regardless, considering I've seen so much fiction which purely had straight relationships, I'm very happy to have fiction which almost purely has non-straight relationships. And it makes sense considering the worldbuilding has stated Cybertron is not a hetero-normative society unlike the culture most of us are used to and live in.
Did they ever make sparkstalker and lightbright a couple? I don't remember them getting more than a few lines in one of the windblade comics.
Wonderfully, I had the exact comic this happened in opened and just a page away from the panel:
The 2015 Holiday Special is a thing of beauty.
Also, depends on the people around you and your environment (and, naturally, how accepting it may or may not be). I'm a queer lady myself, and the majority of my friend groups both in real life and online are of LGBT+ identities as well.
I prefer see real transformers devastator balls than see this I can't tell if this was meant to be funny actually happening transformers getting married it's joke right
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 31st, 2017 @ 10:24pm CDT
Posted by RNSrobot on May 31st, 2017 @ 10:47pm CDT
"this is apparently not an editorial decision but Scott's own for reasons relating to writing, finding the best way to get across her story, and out of not wanting to write another story she feels she would not be able to put as much passion into simply for the sake of continuing the comic. "
It's not editorial's "decision" in a purely legalistic sense. But they weren't going to allow Scott to continue writing the TAAO book she wanted to. She's leaving instead of writing a story she doesn't want to write about characters she doesn't care about. Her decision is forced, as her options are basically a. write shit she doesn't want to b. quit c. likely be fired.
Others have pointed out some of the other problems with this. But this is not a sweet decision, it's frustrating, particularly as TAAO has quietly become the best TF book. Lost Light has completely failed me, OP is just Barber Barbering, and I've dropped both (hard decision on LL because of what MTMTE meant/means to me, but...). I literally just this morning said to a friend "damn, this is the best issue Scott's ever written. This is fucking amazing. She's entirely found her groove." I LOVE her Combaticons. I was in to read this for a long time because it's simply become fantastic.
And ffffffft.
I'm done with IDW and their Transformers comics. I have no issue with the shared universe, but I have zero interest in continuing with a company that has, in less than one calendar year, seen a new editorial staff completely ruin what was a stunning golden age of Transformers comics.
Peace.
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on May 31st, 2017 @ 11:30pm CDT
ScottyP wrote:I took it as "you have to shake it up to get some sales", then she made the call to just close the curtains here rather than do a stunt launch for something less genuine. This is very close to what you said, yes, but I think $ was the genesis.
I think another factor is she could seriously be burned out with how many "Start/Stop/Start/Stop/Start/Stop" moments there were between the beginning of Windblade to TAAO. Delays, Crossovers, More delays, Creative team changes, not to mention what ever editorial mandates were beginning to creep their way into her production.
Posted by Black Bumblebee on June 1st, 2017 @ 12:12am CDT
The world sucks. :-/
Posted by X3ROhour on June 1st, 2017 @ 1:27am CDT
wha...?
what are we supposed to do now?
how arrewedff
how r we going to experience life on Cybertron?
there is just so much left untold!
why?
can't we stop micronauts
or revolutionaries
or or oror
or
everything else?!
or start some new talent take over continuation?
with a writer that want to
or willing to do the whole
multitude of introducing a big new angle
that she didn't want to do?
do we kill an entire universe because the writer wouldn't be excited or motivated?
helllll noooooo!
get a new writer
or writers
that will bring in aspects of story that grab us?
we r gonna have to have just Lost Light and Optimus to sustain us?
oh gods...
Posted by X3ROhour on June 1st, 2017 @ 1:28am CDT
Black Bumblebee wrote:Damn it. Stop with the @%@%@ event crossover events and let the writers freaking write the stories that they want to write. We were enjoying them. @%@%@%@%!5&(*&ew@#%@.
The world sucks. :-/
in the vernacular of my time
WORD!
Posted by Coptur on June 1st, 2017 @ 3:18am CDT
Like others in the forum I thought TAAO was now the best TF comic.
To me i'm fed up with LL and OP is ok but not keeping me engaged enough.
I agree with another poster about MASK from the announcement i was unhappy with it.