What didn't you like about it? Have you read the original G1 comics? I can understand some of the youngins who weren't exposed to G1 being totally lost and not engaged by this comic.Originally Posted by klystron
But honestly non-G1 fans aren't the intended audience for this series. This series happened because we G1 fans partook in an online petition and asked for it en masse -- to continue a comic that we loved 21 years ago. And it might be an issue that we may come to appreciate later, cos you know how Furman likes to "plant seeds" for future stuff later on that makes you look back and go, "Aaah, so that's why... ooh, now I get it!"
Also, G1 ended off badly because Furman had to wrap things up really quickly -- much faster than he expected or had wanted to. Now he kinda has to carefully unwrap things and pick things up again. Hopefully without Hasbro breathing down his neck about what characters to introduce or eliminate and when to finish stories etc. he'll have greater creative freedom to tell good stories (or maybe it was that pressure that made his old stories great <shrug>) -- time will tell.
But yeah, this is a comic series that was demanded by G1 fans and made for G1 fans. It is a very specialised niche market demographic, which is probably why most other TF writers steer clear of touching the original G1 lore and just do continuity reboots where they can engage audiences without relying prior knowledge of TF canon etc. This is the first big attempt at continuing on from G1 lore since Beast Wars/Machines... but it's arguably more challenging because it's a direct continuation using the same characters and picking up where G1 finished, whereas Beast Wars was a kind of "indirect" continuation that picked up hundreds of years after G1/G2 ended and dealing with a new generation of Cybertronians.
I like the comic thus far, but I know that it's because I fall within its target demographic range. I wouldn't recommend this series to anyone unfamiliar with G1.
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