IDW Transformers ongoing [spoilers]

[Paul Agnew]

the guy's not improved since 1986... "consistency is not victory". You fail, Magnus.

Ah, but it's his consistency of not being able to deal with it that ensures victory.

[SharkyMcShark]

G1 Comic Magnus was pretty cool. Yeah sure, he constantly got nine colours of snot beat out of him again and again and again -- but that's because G1 comic Galvatron was a freakin' demi-god. For a relative "mere mortal," I think Ultra Magnus did okay.

SharkyMcShark: since this thread is about IDW's ongoing G1 and not their movieverse comics, I would have appreciated it if you'd spoiler tagged your comment about humans being vapourised to skeletons, as I'd read that post _before_ I picked up my DotM prequel comics yesterday (and only read it this morning). Perhaps if it were posted in a thread for the DotM prequel comics then I would have abstained from reading such a thread until I read the comics to avoid spoilers... but I walked into this thread about TF Ongoing, which I'm up to date on, and was inadvertantly exposed to a DotM prequel spoiler.

A spoiler warning and/or spoiler tags would be appreciated. Thank you.

Generic humans being offed isn't a spoiler and doesn't warrant two s.

[heroic_decepticon]

Ah, but it's his consistency of not being able to deal with it that ensures victory.

... I'm not sure how that would work. Maybe if his UK love interest Cindy helped him, victory might be possible...

[Fonecrusher]

So #15 is the best issue we have had thus far, but the art still stinks, and there were still about 6-10 pages wasted on crud that could have been covered in about 1-2 pages tops.

Fills in the back story nicely, it is not the first time a TF has had a new body constructed from nothing...

Having Megatron give a little of his conciousness to each gun also is silly, and a very roundabout way of getting Bumblebee shot... it's almost like this plot point was quickly thought of after Costa had decided to have Bee shot... knee jerk backstory with plenty of "lucky coincidences" ftw.

Yeah I gotta agree #15 was pretty good mini megatron guns aside. But who was narrating it? It's been kind of bugging me, I was under the impression Shockwave was...

[Sky Shadow]

#17 was probably the first unawful issue in a long time. Stuff actually happened! And even though Megatron no doubt has a plagiarism lawsuit on the way from Adrian Veight, at least he was interesting this issue. "Don't be an idiot, Prime. You'd only try to stop me and I'd probably accidentally kill you. And I can't have you dead yet" was the best speech bubble in a Transformers comic since Last Stand Of The Wreckers. And the ending was great - I don't know if it was a deliberate allusion to Marvel US #4, but it was awesome either way.

(That said, the random redesigns of characters is just getting stupid. Can you imagine if every subsequent issue of Justice League America had the characters drawn with completely different costumes and hair? Seriously, IDW needs to come up with specific models for each character and get each artist to draw that design in their own style, not just use the kewlest Jetfire or Jazz or Cliffjumper that comes to their heads in any given month.)

[SharkyMcShark]

The designs as they were in that issue (Jazz and CJwith headlamp shoulders, Jetfire as a hulking B1-ish bomber, etc) are the designs that the first arc of Ongoing used, and I wish they'd stick with them instead of randomly going back to Sunbowish funland every now and then.

Having soundwave standing there was kind of dumb and annoyed me a bit, but the twist at the end was good.

Also on page 11 it looks like Magnus is doing something to Soundwave's foot with some kind of finger tool. What was going on there?

[SharkyMcShark]

Also that Jazz design is about 10 times better than RtS Jazz.

EDIT: I mean in saying that I understand that Ongoing Jazz is like 95% Animated Freeway Jazz done in the style of Don's Ongoing bots, but I think my point still stands.

[Tallestblue]

So, caught up on my Ongoing reading and well, it's almost to the point where it should be. Megatron SHOULD be vaporising puny humans for daring to strike him. None of this Constructicons being taken out by one man garbage.

[snaketales]

Also on page 11 it looks like Magnus is doing something to Soundwave's foot with some kind of finger tool. What was going on there?

I figured he was detecting/jamming Soundwave's transmissions, which I think were channeling the 'voices' to the people with those weapons.

[GoktimusPrime]

(That said, the random redesigns of characters is just getting stupid. Can you imagine if every subsequent issue of Justice League America had the characters drawn with completely different costumes and hair? Seriously, IDW needs to come up with specific models for each character and get each artist to draw that design in their own style, not just use the kewlest Jetfire or Jazz or Cliffjumper that comes to their heads in any given month.)

YES! This is something I've whinged about before... the lack of consistent visual continuity in the character designs!! Gah! It reminds me of that scene from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist with Evil Betty... "Your shirt is red!" "Your shirt is blue!"

Also on page 11 it looks like Magnus is doing something to Soundwave's foot with some kind of finger tool. What was going on there?

Kootchy-koo?