Admitedly I have to agree with pretty much everything you said in regards to AHM. Before I hunted down every TF comic, these days I'm happy to pass them up and just grab em when It's conveniant.Quote:
Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
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Admitedly I have to agree with pretty much everything you said in regards to AHM. Before I hunted down every TF comic, these days I'm happy to pass them up and just grab em when It's conveniant.Quote:
Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
It's a shame, I was another person who used to race out and grab almost everything that IDW pumped out (bar most of the movie titles) and often I'd grab single issues as well as the trades.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord_Zed
Now I doubt I'll be grabbing single issues at all, and right now IDW needs all the sales of Transformers single issues they can get.
Between ROTF and AHM plotwise, all the good new TF fiction for me is made up in my head these days. ;)
Not me. :p When I play with my toys I make up my own continuity and fiction, but I'll be the first to admit that it's all totally crap. There's a reason why I don't write fan-fics. :D
That's kinda what I was getting at.
Regarding wether it's any good or not, well It's different when you only have to please a target auidence of one. :)
Hunter :(
I call total and complete BS on McCarthy's claims that he respected Furman and wouldn't piss all over what he did. What do you call making Hunter and Sunstreaker suffer, then killing them off? Hunter was our "human perspective" character and CLEARLY was destined for greater things than what was given to him.
Hunter was an annoying character. So was Verity. So was whoever the other one was. They lacked any real dimension and I'm happy to see the last of them. Human characters work best when they don't dominate the story. Those characters were shoved down our throats and were noise in the overall scheme of things. No one cared about them and they simply inhibited story progression. How useless were they when Sixshot struck? What did their whining add? The whole Sunstreaker headmaster thing? Hardly convincing. For it to work, we need two characters we actually have been made to care about and been developed. Hunter hardly fit that.Quote:
Originally Posted by FFN
Up to that point, it had all been little miss-I-have-so-many-problems-Verity. Then Hunter is someone we all of a sudden we care about? Please.
I don't see it even the slightest as even "pissing all over" what Furman did. It probably would've helped if what Furman did (in terms of the Hunter character) was something people actually cared about. As far as I can be concerned, McCarthy had licence to take the books in a new direction. He took it in a way so as to drive his own story and that to me is perfectly fine and to some degree it makes sense. Imagine if all of a sudden u get saddled up with something totally foreign to share ur body, specifically ur head.
Even ignoring that, I personally haven't enjoyed the rearing the head again of Furman elements into McCarthy's story. it should've been forgotten. There was a lot of promise with Furman's stuff but it never amounted to anything (which I think is pretty much what happened with AHM too btw). It killed people's enjoyment of the book and that's why a reboot was initiated. I don't think the reboot was that great (and I've only read up #9 of AHM!) and successful but IDW made a fist of trying to take it in a new direction. Sales have been about 3000 units more on AHM compared to Furman's run on Revelations/Maximum Dinobot averages. IDW can call that a win I guess as 9000 vs. 12000 units would be considered success in volume terms. Especially given the end of the market they operate in that that would be considered large as compared to say Marvel or DC.
So while I don't think McCarthy went out there to "piss over"Furman's work, I think someone, whether or not it was McCarthy, was enittled to. The whole Hunter character was a joke. Never developed properly. Never had any substance. Never remotely interesting.
So pretty much like every other human character in TF comics in the past 10 years then. :p Not least of which the new humans added in AHM. Who managed to bore me to tears in a few issues. Hopefully the next big TF writer will kill of some of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by STL
Totally agreed. The last that were materialyl interesting to me were Galen and Spike who were the Fort Max combo in the Marvel comics. They actually were very interested and had texture to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord_Zed
But the number of human characters who've actually been developed and meaningful? Not many.
Josie Beller and that chick that Ultra magnus saved in the UK comics also come to mind although they predate Spike and Gallen who are indeed the last notable ones. Lord Zarak was cool to, though I guess he is a TF really.
These days I even find some of the old one shot humans from the Budiansky days amusing. Say what you will about Budiansky's writting, but his odd human one shots were often more unique and interesting than the more common sterotypical transformer kids/teens or ace military hero guys/gals.