(APR-2013) Beast Wars Era Comics - Comments and reviews

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, I didn't like how they threw in the Japanese BW characters but disregarded Japanese BW canon. One thing I do like about BWII and Neo is how it was intended to be an "expansion" of the Canadian BW series, much like how the UK Marvel G1 comics was intended to be an expansion of the US series. Of course, in practice it didn't work out quite so well, but I always thought it was a poor execution of a good idea. But like it or not, that was the canonical intent of those series. So I wasn't fond of how IDW just decided to completely ignore/override that. Of course, they're kinda doing the same thing now in ReGeneration One by ignoring UK and G2 continuity and only linking with US G1, which I'm also not a fan of. As Paulbot said, it does make things feel "Americanised" or "Yankocentric."

It didn't even seem all that necessary. Simply adding in all the Hasbro BW characters who never appeared in the show was cool enough. The thing I enjoyed about IDW's BW comics was seeing guys like Razorbeast, Snarl, Transquito, B'Boom, Grimlock, Buzz Saw etc. getting more canonical limelight. The story should've focused more on characters like these without needing to touch the Takara characters. That's why I prefer The Gathering over Ascending, as Ascending contradicts Japanese canon way more than The Gathering. With The Gathering I was at least able to suspend some disbelief and invent some bogus fansplanations as to how it could still fit in with JP continuity... but then Ascending came along and blew it all out of the water.

[Autocon]

Could have been better. All bws come out of stasis pods, they fight. Nice to see other characters shown some love. Need to refresh my mind on them. No need to read if only interested in the tv show. Source book is great to have all the characters fleshed out and in one place, some errors though. I havent read every bw comic to date.