verity hot? heh heh.

wow. being new here i didn't realise the vocal negativity with idw's run.

i'm quite the opposite. It took 3 volumes for DW to get to an ongoing tf comic remember, and that only went for about a year.

IDW have put out 3 volumes (including Dev #6 to come) plus a mini-series and will have 15 spotlights that add to the bigger picture but focus on individual characters more-so.

If you look at the few yrs we've had a great spell of comics. yes there's been some small gaps and delays. but all to be expected with a small independent publisher.

Other positives that shouldn't be discounted -
1. Huge fan-interaction, q & a's, discussion, previews, etc from Chris Ryall and Simon Furman (I have organised two q & a's with Simon personally in the last year where IDW forum members pose questions and he answers!)

2. Furman leading his vision for a transformers universe, with others really adding to that, namely Nick Roche (Kup Spotlight), and others coming.

The mini-series deal is really because of IDW nature, they're a small independent publisher. Regular mini-series that then easily translate into trades seems to be the modus operandi.
Maybe sales are less (as the figures seem to clearly show) but imo the quality has not changed.
And not all questions have been left unanswered, by the end of Infiltration and Escalation things were set up and concluded and moved into different arena's.

Simon's mosaic is great. It is EVERYTHING that we fans of the comics have been discussing - what will happen if the autobots leave earth? what's with the dead universe? will sun-hunter survive? these and many more things that we've been discussing and pondering and theorising, i don't know why so many people think it spoilerish (here and elsewhere).
anyhow, just some random thoughts.
can't wait to see the end of Dev!