IDW Comic: Heart of Darkness - reviews and thoughts

[Gutsman Heavy]

The art is by some web comic guy, so yeah, it's crap.

[GoktimusPrime]

The artist is Boo and s/he's done TF art before for some of the TF Animated comics. His/her art style is okay (but not fantastic) for Animated, since it's quite cartoonish, but just doesn't suit the 'Neo-G1' aesthetics of HoD. Gah.

And being a web artist is no excuse for inconsistencies in one's own style. There's greater artistic consistency in Penny Arcade, Shortpacked and Homestar Runner!

[Gutsman Heavy]

True, but the 100 million other web comics are generally poorly drawn tripe, like this comic!

[liegeprime]

I like the cover art of some of the comics. They come up with various alternate covers anyways so I pick up the ones I like. As for the inside art... hmmmm...I prefer the art in the ongoing series, there are a lot of inconsistencies considering its the same artist..... sotry wise, well I just can't picture a non crazy Galvatron well, I guess since it's an alternate reality (IDWverse) Galvy I guess he could be sorta hero-anti hero in status.

[GoktimusPrime]

True, but the 100 million other web comics are generally poorly drawn tripe, like this comic!

Yeah but you usually don't have to pay $6-7 for the privilege of reading online tripe!

As for the inside art... hmmmm...I prefer the art in the ongoing series, there are a lot of inconsistencies considering its the same artist.....

I know!! G2 had inconsistent art within the same issues, but that was because each issue was broken up into two parts, and each part drawn by different artists (Manny Galan, Geoff Senior). But at least each artist was consistent to themselves. It's not as if Manny Galan drew Transformers with wires hanging everywhere on one page, then made them "wireless" on the next only to have them dangling again on the following page!

Boo's art in HoD is like the story in Revenge of the Fallen -- haphazard and inconsistent!!

sotry wise, well I just can't picture a non crazy Galvatron well, I guess since it's an alternate reality (IDWverse) Galvy I guess he could be sorta hero-anti hero in status.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time for Galvatron. Remember in G1 when he helped instigate actions against Unicron... e.g. awakening Primus, launching the first strike against Unicron and inspiring the panic-stricken Autobot-Decepticon Alliance to rise up against Unicron etc. -- but the key difference it seems (so far) is that G1 Galvatron did all these seemingly altruistic things for his own self-purposes! (I love that line where after awakening Unicron Galvatron thinks to himself, "Even Gods can be fooled" ) - whereas HoD Galvatron seems to be more selfless. But then it could be argued that IDWverse Galvatron has never really been an inherently selfish agent anyway - cos even previously he (and all of Nova Prime's crew) were ultimately serving what they considered to be their calling from the Dead Universe. Even now he's following the calling from the Anti-Matrix rather than serving his own personal agenda... which doesn't make him as fun a character as G1 Galvatron (who doesn't love a self-centred bugger of a villain? ) -- but on the other hand it does make him more distinct from G1 Galvatron, which one can understand. Don't want everything here to be a rip off of previous continuities, right?

[Fonecrusher]

I've thought about picking this up but I just wanted to know when in the current timeline is it set? I'm up to Ongoing #16 right now, and I'm wondering if is this a stand alone pick up and read series or should I read the newest Ongoin/Infestation issues?

[GoktimusPrime]

The story pretty much picks up after the whole Dead Universe/Gorlam Prime saga. The events in Infestation appears to occur after Hearts of Darkness - so you don't need to read that first.

[griffin]

Check tfwiki.net - they had a timeline a few months back when someone here was asking about the order, and they're likely to be updating it with each issue's release.

[GoktimusPrime]

Hnn... I'm experiencing problems accessing TFwiki, but here's the URL:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/IDW_timeline

And here it is at Teletraan 1 in case anyone else is having trouble accessing TFwiki:
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/IDW_timeline

[Paulbot]

The story pretty much picks up after the whole Dead Universe/Gorlam Prime saga. The events in Infestation appears to occur after Hearts of Darkness - so you don't need to read that first.

Turns out Infestation occurred between panels of Heart of Darkness.

The art was a problem with this series. The odd and inconsistent drawings of Galvatron and his troops was one thing. The colouring didn't help sell the scariness of the situation or bad guys either. Everything was so bright. This could have been a two-parter I think, or a double-size "Alpha" issue or something.

Definitely not recommended reading in my opinion for the Chaos story. Read the Hot Rod focused issues of the ongoing instead.