All Hail Megatron #5 preview.

[griffin]

Posted here:
http://comicnewsi.com/article.php?ca...1&itemid=12379

A five page preview of issue 5, which introduces the writer's new character.

[Golden Phoenix]

Looks good. Hopefully we will either get some big back story or finally some real forward momentum.

[Lord_Zed]

S'ok, looks very cartoon season 3. I wish AHM had a little more character variety.

[GoktimusPrime]

*shudders at Transformers calling each other "boy" and "man"* (-_-)

[jacksplatt11]

*shudders at Transformers calling each other "boy" and "man"* (-_-)

While it does seem odd that they would call each other those things, I'm not really fussed... Just out of interest, what kind of things would you like them to refer to each other as? "Bot"? or something similar?

[i_amtrunks]

So why have they refused to show Kup for 5 pages when he graces the cover?

Swarm, Hot Rod off Earth, Kup alive and well... so much to fill in on from Maximum Dinobots.

[GoktimusPrime]

While it does seem odd that they would call each other those things, I'm not really fussed... Just out of interest, what kind of things would you like them to refer to each other as? "Bot"? or something similar?

Neither. These are alien robots... there's no need for them to try and sound so human. :/ That was one thing I thought that G1 writer Bob Budiansky always did quite well in - making the Transformers seem so otherworldly. The live action movie writers did a good job with that too IMO... but I really dislike it when the Transformers start acting far too human. It's something that we endured in that awful Transformers Armada English dub... I was hoping that it would be a thing of the past. And this isn't the first time McCarthy has done it in AHM either... I mentioned this to him on this board but I guess he's chosen not to take that on board.

[Paulbot]

You realise this comic was probably written a couple of months ago don't you? Even if he did agree with your post, most fans (particularly the audience this series is trying to sell to) remember Kup from TFTM where he used words like Boy and Lad.

[Sky Shadow]

*shudders at Transformers calling each other "boy" and "man"* (-_-)

Although I'm not the greatest fan of 'All Hail Megatron' (which isn't a dig at the writer - the Cybertron scenes are great - I just hate the Earth bits [Spotlight: Blurr was excellent too, by the way]) I don't think McCarthy can be blamed for doing something that's been done to Transformers for over twenty years.

"Keep at it Springer my boy, help's at hand!"; "Looks like the big boy needs a little training!"; "Yo, Bluestreak! Over here, man!"; "Worry later, man. We've got some rescuing to do!" etc.

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't blame him alone. The majority of TF writers make them too human, even Simon Furman who is my favourite all time TF writer. I'd say that Budiansky, Orci and Kurtzman are in the minority of TF writers who IMO can write Transformers quite well as other-worldly beings. So I'm not really out to single out McCarthy for this... it's just one of my TF writing pet peeves and it just irks me... every time I come across a Transformer saying or doing something that's unnecessarily too human... it's like hearing fingernails being scraped down a blackboard.