IDW's 'catchup' TFs comic.

[griffin]

To help guide new readers into the new ongoing series later this month, IDW is releasing a one-off issue that wraps up everything so far covered in their version of the Transformers universe, all the way to the end of All Hail Megatron.
So once you read this one-off issue, you should be able to slip right into the new one a lot more easily. Or at least, that's the plan.

http://www.bzzurkk.com/2009/11/transformers-continuum/

Said to be out this week, with the new Ongoing #1 to be released the following week.

[Sky Shadow]

To help guide new readers into the new ongoing series later this month, IDW is releasing a one-off issue that wraps up everything so far covered in their version of the Transformers universe, all the way to the end of All Hail Megatron.
So once you read this one-off issue, you should be able to slip right into the new one a lot more easily. Or at least, that's the plan.

http://www.bzzurkk.com/2009/11/transformers-continuum/

Said to be out this week, with the new Ongoing #1 to be released the following week.

This actually seems like a useful comic. I wonder how much they've retconned...

[OrionPax]

hmm. im interested since i skipped many idw series

[SGB]

Haven't read any IDW TF comics, but a 'catch-up' issue is quite a good idea.

[i_amtrunks]

First thing that popped into my mind was that there is no way in heck that the "-tions" and pre-McCarthy Spotlights can be condensed into a single catch up comics.

All Hail on the other hand...

Now that I've viewed the previews, I see its not a comic as much as a novella with some pretty pictures.

[FFN]

Yeah, it's one of IDW's 'cheap tat' books with no new art (except for the cover) and relatively little content. What content there is is vague because they have to condense 3 year's worth of comics into 32-odd pages.

Really people, if you want to know what happened prior to the ongoing comic, but without IDW's attempts to rationalize their editorial decisions or to explain away glaring inconsistencies, then just buy the trade paper backs, or otherwise. You'd be wasting your money on this.

Or, read a wiki, which is free.

[Sky Shadow]

http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20091111continuum.png

http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20091111.html

[i_amtrunks]

Ever since Tipton came on as a fulltime editor, things really have gone down the gurgler. Not a good thing when you consider that he was hired as the Transformers editor to make sure the mythos all stayed aligned...

[heroic_decepticon]

I really liked Infiltration all the way to Devastation (including the 'tie-in' spotlights), which I thought was really well crafted. Revelation was a little rushed. AHM was... wtf

[FFN]

It's out now, and things are even worse.

- Megatron (the "legendary unnamed guy") is said to be a slave, instead of being the working-class miner who revolted due the fact he was going to lose his means of employment. So this book makes it look like Megatron was a slave who objected to be freed.

- The Autobots believe Sunstreaker and Hunter were killed, and thus didn't bother to look for them, despite the fact that they immediately discovered Sunstreak's body was just a decoy, and that Ironhide, Ratchet, Verity and Jimmy's search was half of Escalation's plot.

- Spotlight: Ultra Magnus is placed chronologically after Maximum Dinobots.... even though that Spotlight was the reason why Scorponok fled to Earth to set up the Machination, which led to Ultra Magnus arresting him in Maximum Dinobots...

- The Machination and Skywatch are said to be the same group.

- Megatron is said to have died at the end of AHM, despite being shown to be alive in a later issue of Coda.

[heroic_decepticon]

hmmm... won't even bother buying this then

[Sam]

I got this today. Yep. Waste of money. Oh well. :)

[FFN]

Trouble in paradise: IDW's forums were filling up with people commenting on the many, many mistakes in this book, and one of the moderators, DanielW, evidently snapped, getting increasingly angry, insulting people and then rage quitting the forum altogether, posting a picture of the two finger salute as a parting shot.

The thread was heavily censored soon afterwards, in typical IDW fashion.

[kup]

Linky please

[FFN]

Oh damn, the entire thread's been deleted.

I saved the page where the mod's brainfart occured, if anybody wants to mirror it.

[heroic_decepticon]

Oh damn, the entire thread's been deleted.

I saved the page where the mod's brainfart occured, if anybody wants to mirror it.

i would be interested in a look

[kup]

Me too :).

This other IDW thread is also very negative despite several posters trying to be constructive in their criticism.

http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=6927&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Seriously, what has happened to IDW?

[FFN]

I don't visit IDW's forums, so I only managed to read the explosion thread before everything was deleted, so I don't know DanielW's side of the story that well. If anybody wants to know what happened, drop me a PM. I'll hook up Kup and Heroic Decepticon since they asked already.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I'd like to hear about that!

[griffin]

Best to discuss it privately among yourselves - we don't need to be entertaining ourselves over a problem on another forum.
It has been mentioned that there are errors in the comic, and that it has caused a stire on the IDW forum, so it isn't necessary to go on about it in length. It just makes us look petty.