Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

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Ah, we utilise the same resource.

Just having a flick back to Dreamwave's era... their top two titles selling about 140,000 copies each in just one month, compared to IDW struggling to get 10% of that per title (somewhere around 10,000 with most TFs issues).
As bad as Dreamwave turned out, they certainly knew how to sell a comic, as the sales number of that first Gen1 series of theirs climbed and held, instead of dropping off from the first issue (as most do).


(the thing that bugs me though, is both DC and Marvel produced almost-free comics, that they had to sell at a huge loss, just to make sure Dreamwave's Transformers didn't enjoy boasting rights of #1 each month)

I put down some, not all of Dreamwaves transformers popularity at the time to massive kneejerk reaction to there being new G1 media. I never realised there were even Transformers Comics till I saw a late G2 comic in a store maybe 97 or 98. I didn't realise DW was doing new comics till I saw one of the small digest ones in a supermarket. After that I went out of my way to hunt down DW Transformers comics. It was the first G1 Media in for ages for me and I soaked it up.

I really liked the art style, it was clean and crisp, something you don't always get with IDW. Although the IDW art has much better proportions. Now that we've had Comics of Transformers for over a decade straight the honeymoon period is over and to sell really well they need to be a very popular product.

I assumed that's what the Movie-tie-in comics were...

They weren't too bad, they often filled in a lot of story, character and plot holes left out of the films.

It would help if the movie comics were good... but they are mostly not good stories and have some really ugly art.

Unfortunately for the artists, they were trying to draw in a reasonable time frame the super ridiculously complex characters from the film, in my mind the greatest downfall of the movie tie in comics.