IDW - life after Dark Cybertron

[Sam]

I stopped buying the Dark Cybertron issues after issue 1. Thought I'd wait for the trade paperback instead...

For those of you that have read it, is the story worth buying for? Because I don't find myself missing my TF comics.

[i_amtrunks]

I stopped buying the Dark Cybertron issues after issue 1. Thought I'd wait for the trade paperback instead...

For those of you that have read it, is the story worth buying for? Because I don't find myself missing my TF comics.

We are halfway through and learnt next to nothing, bar that issues missing a MtMtE sequence or three is noticeably awful and that Shockwave is a Bond villain.

It could all turn around but so far it feels like a comic to sell toys rather than a comic featuring toys.

[Paulbot]

On the positive side, I saw this quoted on the IDW forums from James Roberts on Twitter

"And we have lift off! @TheJohnBarber has just approved the individual story outlines for issues #31 to #54 of MTMTE. N-World, here we come!"

So there's that to look forward to.

[i_amtrunks]

#54... another 2 years of stories! Awesome.

[griffin]

Two more teaser images for life after Dark Cybertron have been released by IDW.

The first one above teased that Optimus could be returning to Earth.

The second one has Windblade, who will be the new "Drift", so will be heavily featured over the next year.

The third one would have to be a bit of a spoiler, as a certain character looks to be joining the MTMTE series (the one with the Lost Light), AND sporting an Autobot symbol.
(probably best not to look if you are reading the series)

[griffin]

SPOILERS PEOPLE.


YOU

HAVE

BEEN

WARNED!!!


Looks like the three teaser images are from the covers of the three comics in April... and the Incentive issues combine together.

RID is focusing on Earth, while the new Windblade series is focusing on Cybertron, leaving MTMTE to continue exploring space on the Lost Light with a new "Autobot" in command.

TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE #28: DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS

John Barber (w), Andrew Griffith (a), Casey W. Coller (c), Andrew Griffith (vc), Livio Ramondelli (vc).

EARTHFALL! The AUTOBOTS return to Earth--with OPTIMUS PRIME in command! But what brought them back--and what terrifying secret do the humans hold? A bold new era begins here!

32 pages, $3.99.

TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #28: DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS

James Roberts (w), Alex Milne (a), Casey W. Coller (c), Livio Ramondelli (vc), Alex Milne (vc).

CERTAIN DEATH, HERE WE COME! MEGATRON assumes control of the quest to find the Knights of Cybertron--a quest that has never before been so urgent, so personal, and so likely to end in tears. An incredulous Lost Light crew is left asking the same thing you are: how exactly did it come to this?

32 pages, $3.99.

TRANSFORMERS: WINDBLADE #1: DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS

Mairghread Scott (w), Sarah Stone (a), Casey W. Coller (c), Sarah Stone (vc).

WHO IS WINDBLADE? In the aftermath of DARK CYBERTRON, WINDBLADE takes the planet by storm! But where did she come from--and what does her secret mean to the future of the TRANSFORMERS? A powerful new chapter in the TRANSFORMERS saga begins here!

[Paul Agnew]

Looks like the three teaser images are from the covers of the three comics in April... and the Incentive issues combine together.

Funny. On Wednesday, I was looking at the teaser images and thought 'maybe they're a single poster chopped in pieces and can be put together once all revealed'.

[Sam]

We are halfway through and learnt next to nothing, bar that issues missing a MtMtE sequence or three is noticeably awful and that Shockwave is a Bond villain.

It could all turn around but so far it feels like a comic to sell toys rather than a comic featuring toys.

Okay thanks for your thoughts. I may wait for some reviews before I decide whether to buy the Dark Cybertron TPB then....

[kup]

Yeah Dark Cybertron is dull and uninteresting. It does seem as if it is imposed rather than a free creative effort like the previous MTMTE runs and even RID despite not being very good.

I just hope it ends soon enough and that not much damage comes as a result so we can go back to regular MTMTE quality writing. Before MTMTE issues at Kings sold out within a day, apparently after Dark Cybertron, the issues remain for weeks.

[SMHFConvoy]

Yeah Dark Cybertron is dull and uninteresting. It does seem as if it is imposed rather than a free creative effort like the previous MTMTE runs and even RID despite not being very good.

I just hope it ends soon enough and that not much damage comes as a result so we can go back to regular MTMTE quality writing. Before MTMTE issues at Kings sold out within a day, apparently after Dark Cybertron, the issues remain for weeks.

I don't think Dark Cybertron has damaged MTMTE at all. James Roberts occasionally tweets about season 2. Definitely interested in what makes everyone declare themselves an Autobot and I know Megatron will be handled well. As for RID? It needs a real shake up and I don't know if a return to Earth will do it. Although Police Action was really good (was that Barber or Roberts?)