Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
I just read issue 8 of Ongoing and I am disgusted by it. I have never read such a horrifyingly bad issue, not even the worse AHM issue or the 'I am transformed' issue of the first volume of ongoing compares.

The issue is all about showing us what a hard ass Spike is and how he can take a Decepticon single handedly with no weapons with a bare chest. As I was reading I was like WTF?? every second page that just focused on how cool Spike is. What dribble.

I am so glad that I am no longer paying to read this s**t and it's becoming even less acceptable to read even for free due to how horribly written it is and themes it follows.

I am saddened by this comic - What happened to Transformers comics?? How is this crap acceptable as a professional work is beyond me, it's just crap. It feels more as if they got some school kid with a hard on for Spike to write it.

Enough ranting but Drift is becoming much more palpable than Spike, specially after this issue.

Where does IDW pick up it's writers?
Quoted for truth.

Just read number 8 and it is an absolute pile of crap. They've had some pretty average issues already, but issues like this are going to kill the Ongoing all together.

For starters the art is absolutely terrible in this issue. The artist clearly can't draw humans well, and this issue is practically nothing but humans. And Spike doesn't even look like Spike from AHM or previous issues of the ongoing.

The writing is terrible. "Hey I'm Spike, I can take out a 30ft, technologically advanced giant robot who's fought in wars for millenia, with no technology, no backup, some chemicals I mixed up in my kitchen and no shirt." Awesome way to completely destroy the Decepticons as any kind of credible threat.

The stupid thing was the intent of the issue is to build Spike up as a bad-ass human hero of the ongoing story, who can hold his own against a Cybertronian. But with the whole "I'm too cool for school, I didn't pay attention and just got in fights" backstory, it just succeeds in making him look like an arsehole.

I've been a pretty big fan of IDWs stuff. Love Nick Roche. Simon Furman's earlier stuff was great. Spotlights have been 90% excellent. I even somewhat enjoyed the much maligned (particularly on these boards ) AHM.
But, that's it for ongoing for me.

I was only getting it for the iPhone anyway, as it wasn't worth the price for a hard copy before this. But with this kind of writing it's not even worth the $2.50 for the download.