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Originally Posted by liegeprime

Well one thing I hated about the early artworks is when a Tf gets hit is he does the dinosaur death split, which is ridiculous whichever way you look at it.... Im talking about they bend when hit by a blast 90 degrees backwards, like how the Optimus toy bends at the hips when transforming him. It doesnt follow physics properly you get hit in the midsection of course that portion goes back and then your upper part arms and legsremains abit back . you end up in the > position but nope early artist always drew them getting blasted in the misection they do < bend. and the hands oh my the hands.....

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Are you talking about Delbo's usual hit-by-a-blast pose? That was pretty much exclusive to ONE ARTIST. Each different artist has their own repertoire of poses... and yeah, sometimes they can suck.

Modern TF artists are just as bad at this. But I'll point out that you're tarring a lot of different, unique, awesome artists with the same brush here just because of the art of one guy.

That's really bad.

I can be really curmudgeonly about treating new artists fairly -- but I always tackle them as individuals and look at their individual merits and failures.

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I like Don's art for it being mecha, but yeah he needs to work on facial expression ... his work on Macromasters is better than his work when he got under DW wing. but then I think this is due to the policy that company has on making coherent generic artwork...

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You can blame Dreamwave -- but Figueroa's never been THAT great at expressive art. IT's not just his faces. His figures have no expression either. They're just... well... big ole mecha. You can't tell what Prime is feeling, or what Soundwave is feeling...

Yet somehow guys like Wildman and Perlin could give those faceless guys character. Strange, huh?

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I like the clean early work of Andrew Wildman, until he decided to get all melty face for the TFs on the later issues... that scene in an issue where Starscream in jet mode ( best/simplest clean one Ive seen so far) flanking Triggerhappy and Mindwipe when they deserted Scorponok is a fave panel of mine :)

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Wildman always drew TFs with human faces and human hands. Mostly because he REALLY WANTED TO DRAW SUPER HEROES, not robots. It's a failing of his art, and something I don't like.

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As Gok pointed to me anyhow some of the artworks are really good but it depends on the ones doing the inking and coloringit either helps make the artwork even better or just ruins it totally..

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I definitely agree with that. So many modern colourists completely DESTROY what could be good artwork.

It makes me actually PINE for the days of Nel Yomtov. Sure he was sloppy and lazy... but at least you could usually READ what he'd coloured.

--Jhiaxus.
(I'm an old fuddy-duddy.)

I dont mean to tarr any of them good past artist you've mentioned. It is kinda unfair of me that I bundle up all those other artworks and present them in like done by one person in my reply. Should prolly phrased my reply to something like " I dont like in particular the drawing made by whoever that artist which draws them TFs doing the backwards 90º split when blasted which is just wrong physics wise, and well aesthetically looks ridiculous" that way, as like before that even if made no mention of any artist ( i dint bother knowing them until Wildman), it does pertain to only one singular artist's artwork , which leaves all of em others in the clear.

I only bothered to know who the artist was when I saw Wildman's drawing as it particularly made an impression and looked "fresher" to me, so he's the only one I know by name and can mention. All the other artists, good as you've pointed out they are, well just didnt catch my interest:). . Also I only got to read few older/earlier issues ( which I read for the story and characterization of some characters, not really so much the art then) I latched on to regularly collecting the issues on the later later ones, after Matrix Quest. Just when I thought the story was getting more interesting, it gets canned though:(. Wish theyd continue a bit with the Actionmasters arc.
Am more of a DC titles buyer, TFs was the only Marvel I bought:).