IDW to do a GIJoe/TFs crossover comic

[griffin]

Mid-2014, IDW will be producing their version of a GIJoe Transformers Crossover comic, as part of the 30th anniversary year.

Initial details are limited (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/idw-transformers-gi-joe-crossover-press-release-178589/), but the press release shows a promo image and writer credits.

Writers - Tom Scioli & John Barber
Artist - Tom Scioli

[liegeprime]

Hah!1 that promo looks hideously 80s:D:D.... I do hope they get a better artwork for the inner pages.... what's wrong with the artist's work on the current ongoing comics... this crossover art is just ... fro the lack of a better term... ugly.:rolleyes:

[Cat]

It's his deliberate style.

He was the artist on Godland, where he beautifully captured the magic and beauty of classic Jack Kirby at his best.

His style isn't going to be for everyone, but this should attract a slightly different audience to the general main audience. Consider it the replacement for RG1: something with a keen eye to appeal to nostalgia and the comics of yesteryear, while still maintaining appropriate modern flourishes.

I think his work will grow on you, and the sequential should be enjoyable.

Yes, stylistically it's wildly different to MTMTE, RID, and the other 'modern' books, but is that a bad thing?

After all, MTMTE was a bit of a departure from our normal Transformers style, and look how that turned out.

The retro style here will hopefully work to entice the audience who came onboard for RG1 and are keen for that continued hit of monthly nostalgia, and the Joe readers, which tends to be an older audience anyway, and probably much more receptive of the style (kinda Herb Trimpe-ish for them, I guess).

[BigTransformerTrev]

It's fine that they are doing it for the 30th anniversary, but something I've liked about IDW is that a: the crossovers have been rare and b: when they have happened its been somewhere new rather than the old well trodden parth of the GIJoe Crossover. LOVED the Mars Attacks crossover!


When are we going to see some more Transformer crossovers of that ilk? Personally I would love to see Transformers vs either the Ghostbusers, Beetlejuice, Gremlins or Stripperella :D

[Sinnertwin]

Winston & Trailbreaker going after the ghost of Starscream?! Aw Yeah!

[tinyJazz]

Tom Scioli is also the genius behind AMERICAN BARBARIAN.

You HAVEN'T read American Barbarian (http://www.ambarb.com/?page_id=1048)? It's ridiculous and amazing and you should read it RIGHT NOW, HERE (http://www.ambarb.com/?p=16). (or... buy it (http://www.ambarb.com/?page_id=151)?)

And then get excited because Tom Scioli is writing and illustrating a transformers book.
I'm so pumped, I can't believe this is happening. :D



It's his deliberate style.

He was the artist on Godland, where he beautifully captured the magic and beauty of classic Jack Kirby at his best.

His style isn't going to be for everyone, but this should attract a slightly different audience to the general main audience. Consider it the replacement for RG1: something with a keen eye to appeal to nostalgia and the comics of yesteryear, while still maintaining appropriate modern flourishes.

I think his work will grow on you, and the sequential should be enjoyable.

Yes, stylistically it's wildly different to MTMTE, RID, and the other 'modern' books, but is that a bad thing?

After all, MTMTE was a bit of a departure from our normal Transformers style, and look how that turned out.

The retro style here will hopefully work to entice the audience who came onboard for RG1 and are keen for that continued hit of monthly nostalgia, and the Joe readers, which tends to be an older audience anyway, and probably much more receptive of the style (kinda Herb Trimpe-ish for them, I guess).

Yes, all of this.

[Paulbot]

When are we going to see some more Transformer crossovers of that ilk? Personally I would love to see Transformers vs either the Ghostbusers, Beetlejuice, Gremlins or Stripperella :D

No Transformers/Ghostbusters yet....

But there's an X-Files multicrossover story coming in January, and it looks like the Lone Gunmen will meet Ghostbusters and then Transformers (so two degrees of separation)

[GoktimusPrime]

It's fine that they are doing it for the 30th anniversary, but something I've liked about IDW is that a: the crossovers have been rare and b: when they have happened its been somewhere new rather than the old well trodden parth of the GIJoe Crossover. LOVED the Mars Attacks crossover!

When are we going to see some more Transformer crossovers of that ilk? Personally I would love to see Transformers vs either the Ghostbusers, Beetlejuice, Gremlins or Stripperella :D

Transformers/GI Joe makes more sense for the 30th Anniv. since G1 did cross over with ARAH in the 1980s. The Marvel Comics had a mini series in both G1 and G2, and in there was one episode of the G1 cartoon where a retired Cobra Commander (calling himself Old Snake) helped transform Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Springer and Arcee into humans. And the recurring character Marissa Fairborn is the daughter of Dashiell R. Fairborn (codename: Flint) and Alison R. Hart-Burnett (codename: Lady Jaye).

I'd like to see Hasbro consider releasing a Transformers/GI Joe Crossovers line, but not like Star Wars or Marvel Crossovers but more like Energon Snowcat. i.e. the robot mode shouldn't be based on human characters but just original robots engineered from the vehicle mode.

[SMHFConvoy]

X-Files/ Lone Gunmen/ Ghostbusters/ tmnt/ tf x-over announced today

[Paulbot]

No Transformers/Ghostbusters yet....

But there's an X-Files multicrossover story coming in January, and it looks like the Lone Gunmen will meet Ghostbusters and then Transformers (so two degrees of separation)


X-Files/ Lone Gunmen/ Ghostbusters/ tmnt/ tf x-over announced today

Yep, that's what I was talking about. Bit hard to see past the info dump post in the middle though.

[griffin]

Crossovers for the sake of blending two unrelated continuums, hoping that fans from each will embrace it and then buy into that other continuum.... spoils each continuum. The story continuums have to be related or make sense within each other's "comic/world".
For example, the Mars Attacks crossover was pure "fiction" in the realm of Transformers, so as amusing as it was, it doesn't add anything to Transformers, and was probably ignored by the more serious/committed story fans as being the joke it was.
The Avengers crossover unfortunately was part of IDW's TFs universe (due to certain elements that carried over to and from the AHM series), but shouldn't have been, because if the Marvel superhero universe existed in the TFs universe, where have they been all the rest of the time the Decepticons were taking over the earth?
Similarly, the Spiderman cameo in the original Marvel series was also a marketing ploy to get more people crossing over to Transformers... but it begs the question, why didn't any of the Marvel Superheros ever show up during the years afterwards. And I guess the same could be asked about the GIJoe team, even if it wasn't in their jurisdiction to get involved, surely some of the cataclysmic events would warrant past allies to lend a hand to the Autobots (theoretically... but obviously not practically in the scope of the separate comic lines).

Personally, I think that crossovers should remain fantasy scenarios, separate from their respective continuums.... because either they are always of the same universe, or they stay separate. Otherwise, unless they can be plausibly explained as being definitively separate (like being on different worlds, eg, Eternia and Etheria), no matter what happens later on, you'd be wondering why they haven't rejoined forces when in a time of crisis.
That way, you can enjoy them for the creative one-off concept that they are, without thinking about where they suddenly disappeared to in the next crisis... or have to acknowledge them at all if that is a continuum you don't even like.

(and even more personally, I'd love to see a Transformers & MOTU crossover... specifically in a fantasy situation so that it doesn't upset the canon of either universe... but that'll never happen, even if IDW had both licenses, because Mattel and Hasbro would never agree to it)

[GoktimusPrime]

but it begs the question, why didn't any of the Marvel Superheros ever show up
Iron Man 3'd! ;) :p

[griffin]

It has been announced (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/transformers-vs-gi-joe-comic-book-series-to-return-free-comic-book-day-178925/) that the GIJoe/TFs crossover comic by IDW will premiere through a Free Comic Book Day issue, which is on May 3rd 2014.
The regular issues should then be out soon after.
Still no details about the series, and the link here only has a tiny cover image that doesn't say much either.

[griffin]

An interview with the writer (http://www.newsarama.com/19995-scioli-s-ultimate-80s-team-up-transformers-g-i-joe.html), talking about the thought process behind this comic, and suggesting that it is an ongoing series (if it is popular enough - Beast Hunters was supposed to be ongoing as well).

It is noted as being in its own continuity, so it "shouldn't" crossover with any existing or past comic.

[Sky Shadow]

The Newsarama interviewer is wrong about so much. "And towards the end, Simon Furman was ready to leave…" Shattered Glass Furman, maybe. :rolleyes:

[i_amtrunks]

The Newsarama interviewer is wrong about so much. "And towards the end, Simon Furman was ready to leave…" Shattered Glass Furman, maybe. :rolleyes:

That's newsarama for you.

Not much meat in that interview, all fat. :rolleyes:
At least the previews of some art look interesting, a mix between comic and cartoon designs with some book/merchandise art thrown in for good measure.