Comic Review: Windblade (ongoing)

[prjkt]

Well, that was interesting.

Pretty cool to see the joining of minds work, and the cameo's at the end are quite interesting. Elita 1's got an interesting throne.

EDIT: TAV Roadblock might end up as my CW version of Scoop for a while

[CHILENO20]

Well, that was interesting.

Pretty cool to see the joining of minds work, and the cameo's at the end are quite interesting. Elita 1's got an interesting throne.

EDIT: TAV Roadblock might end up as my CW version of Scoop for a while

Just read it, very cool mind meld

[i_amtrunks]

That was underwhelming to me.

Another IDW non-event event.

I quite like the art style but it does not gel with the previous art style. I am by no means suggesting that Livio would have done better or been a better fit (his work in the previous issues was disappointing) but when collected together, it will not mesh.

Story was dull and rushed. After all that Prowl gave up so easily, a very lacklustre finish to what Barber was building to in RiD. A shame as if there was no Hasbro interference I feel we would have been given something far more substantial for these combiners. As it stands, it more or less felt as if the whole event was made up of:
1. Aargh big messy fight.
2. Bots standing near each other got 'macguffined' together
3. big messy fight
4. Prowl Angst
5. Bots standing near each other got 'macguffined' together
6. Bigger messier fight
7. Optimus Maximus angst
8. All back on cybertron.

I'm sure that if this is the way the story was heading (and since RiD was more political thriller I feel it was already heading this way, but the combiners were utilised to make it happen far quicker) that it would have been better served by characters moving the plot forward, not messy fights and Prowl angst.

For now Windblade will be a trade only deal for me unless it picks up substantially in the first few issues. Its a shame as it had such potential and this "event" has done more harm than good to the brand to me.

[Paulbot]

For now Windblade will be a trade only deal for me unless it picks up substantially in the first few issues. Its a shame as it had such potential and this "event" has done more harm than good to the brand to me.

Which is fair enough, but the actual comic hasn't really started. They did this with a recent (Jessica Drew) Spider-Woman comic, the first few issues were all part of the Spider-verse crossover event and then the third or fourth was the actual first issue where the creators could do what they wanted without the mandated crossover. I suspect it will be similar with this series.

On the otherhand, the potential spoilertour of other Transformers series brought into or made concurrent with IDW's G1 is a little boring. There's been a bit of this popping up for a while (the RID comic making it a regular thing) but I just find it unoriginal.

[kup]

This is another 'Dark Cybertron' underwhelming event due to Hasbro meddling. I wish they would stay out, their toys would be incorporated into their stories anyways.

[prjkt]

I'm liking where issue 4 is heading... moving out into the colony worlds, first one being CrematoriaVelocitron. Knock Out is being a d*ck, even more so than his Prime counterpart, but seems to suit and abrasive, speed-obsessed culture.

Now I have to go find a Prime Knockout figure for my shelf....

[philby]

i didn't like the art as much in the latest issue, the regular changing of artists annoys me a bit it seems like a big jarring change in the middle of a story or series.

[CHILENO20]

Now I have to go find a Prime Knockout figure for my shelf....

I can help you out with that if you want