IDW's Ongoing #3 5-page preview.

[griffin]

At Newsrama website (http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=32796), is a five page preview (and 3 covers), of Issue 3.
Just from one of the covers, you get to see the new form of Jetfire, and the robot mode is very Movie-verse in appearance.
Issue is released this week.

[loophole]

Stunticons FTW!! might i have to actually pick this comic up now :D

[RageOnTheRoads]

Stunticons FTW!! might i have to actually pick this comic up now :D

My sentiments exactly. :p: Have you seen the cover of issue five loophole? check this...http://www.oneshallstand.com/shop/ongoing/issue5.html :D

[Sleeve]

I like how Don's finetuning his new style, and loving a lot of the new designs. Though still not a fan of Wolver-Rod.

[kup]

Don has soften up the faces to something more expressive but they are still bad. That Jetfire has a somewhat YF-25 inspired look.

[i_amtrunks]

Though still not a fan of Wolver-Rod.

As in the design or the character? I'm not a fan of Jetfire's new look myself, but at least the Decepticon alt modes look nice...

[Lord_Zed]

I still don't get how all these Transformers ended up being stuck on earth anyway, where'd they all come from and what happened to all those TF's fighting across the galaxy? I guess this is the 3rd IDW reboot the Mergiverse.



Don has soften up the faces to something more expressive but they are still bad. That Jetfire has a somewhat YF-25 inspired look.

I could live with the faces, but its not just asthetic changes, all the characters seem to have inexplicably changed their personalaties (again). I'm not sure I'm ready for another TF universe right now.

As for Jetfires design I would say the B1 Lancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-1_Lancer)is the main influence, his bot mode is very Mergiverse though.

[kup]

I could live with the faces, but its not just asthetic changes, all the characters seem to have inexplicably changed their personalaties (again). I'm not sure I'm ready for another TF universe right now.



Yeah, they seem to change personality every couple of issues. Here is what I wrote in the DM.Net board on the subject:

Most recent IDW writers can't seem to grasp the basic concept of character consistency. They change personality every second issue and into badly done character stereotypes.

The Ongoing IDW line is another very ill thought out story with a lot of flash and 'WTF?' moments to trick the reader that it actually has a story when it has none. Although they are trying to be all 'OMG LOOK AT THIS TWIST!!' they force the twist rather than work it into the flow of the story making it seem imposed and artificial. Their 'Prime gives up!' extreme plot twist made Prime look like a totally incompetent leader and a hypocritical emo and why the hell do we need a page dedicated to showing us that Spike likes hookers and he is a 'rebel hard ass'?

So far the only shining light that I see is the Bumblebee comic. Despite being based on events from the ongoing series, its much better written and thought out with proper dialog, characters and plot events. It's concentrating in telling a good little story rather than trying to convince us on how hardcore it is by Geewuning us in the head with a mullet every second page.

Another light in the horizon is Roche's Wreckers comic.