IDW Transformers ongoing [spoilers]

[FFN]

Anybody read ongoing issue 10 yet?

I'm getting tired of how the art style keeps changing. YEP, the art style changed AGAIN. This is the fourth such change since Don stopped drawing this book.

[Sharky]

Anybody read ongoing issue 10 yet?

I'm getting tired of how the art style keeps changing. YEP, the art style changed AGAIN. This is the forth such change since Don stopped drawing this book.

i read it.... didnt notice it too much but then that could be after effect of blocking bad art out..




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what i didnt like was onslaught... he appears to be a bumbling idiot... instead of a military stategist...

and for some reason they rely on swindle for plans and everything.......

and not to mention the autobots staying in car mode...

[griffin]

Issue 11 came out this week, and sets up a bizzare situation for what we know of Decepticons... and it bugs me.
These are warriors who take what they want, not work for it.

We have the Combaticons 'working' for Energon, supplied by Nth Korea, and now we have the Predacons appearing to be defending China's territory, like mercenaries.

I remember seeing some Decepticons barely surviving on some baren planet in an earlier issue, but these ones on Earth shouldn't be content with working for humans. They should be taking and destroying.

Is this what happens to the Decepticons when there is no real Leadership/Dictatorship controlling the troops? Or maybe this is their way of infiltrating Human super-powers without setting off a nuclear war or military strike.

I'm hoping it leads up to something worthwhile in the 12th issue, as it should be the final issue in the second story arc of the Ongoing comic.

[kaiden]

If this is what im missing out by not reading the comics... then whatever.

[Paulbot]

Issue 11 came out this week, and sets up a bizzare situation for what we know of Decepticons... and it bugs me.
These are warriors who take what they want, not work for it.

We have the Combaticons 'working' for Energon, supplied by Nth Korea, and now we have the Predacons appearing to be defending China's territory, like mercenaries.

I remember seeing some Decepticons barely surviving on some baren planet in an earlier issue, but these ones on Earth shouldn't be content with working for humans. They should be taking and destroying.

Is this what happens to the Decepticons when there is no real Leadership/Dictatorship controlling the troops? Or maybe this is their way of infiltrating Human super-powers without setting off a nuclear war or military strike.

Well IDW's Decepticons have never really seemed to be the just "taking and destroying" type. Their phases approach to war was to use the local resources to get their energon rather than taking by force (and it makes them stand out from other Universe incarnations of the Decepticons). Getting paid by the Asian governments for shelter and their military might seems to be working out quite well for the Combaticons and Predacons really. They've not been executed like poor old Thrust.

The only thing that really bugged me in this issue was the scene with Brawn at the beginning -- because the strong grumpy Minibot is actually Gears not Brawn and if anyone's got to have issues with being left out wouldn't it be the paranoid Red Alert?

I also think one of the panels of Vortex being taken out by the Autobot's backup seemed confused. It's like a panel is missing of the actual collision/attack? One minute he's jumping the next he's falling down to the ground?

[i_amtrunks]

Just read issue #10, and it was a setup issue for #11, no question about it.

Though it was a stupid autobot plan... "lets get mauled, and have soldiers get truly hurt, just to instill a false sense of security on the decepticons... for when we bring in a secret weapon next time."

Art is improving, and surprise, surprise, the more transformers, and less humans the better the issue. (still hated the rather bad portrayal of a certain human leader, very Team America).

[Paulbot]

Issue 12 provides a bit of an odd conclusion to this story. On re-reading the speech at the end might be a good bookend to some of the earlier scenes but as a standalone issue I was thinking "boy this book is getting preachy".

There's some stuff I can't comment on without spoilers so spoilers the ending is supposed to be shocking but I find myself not caring. IDW have played the shock death card far too often for me to be concerned the way I should. end spoilers

Best bit of the issue: Cosmos gets his moment to shine.

[Sharky]

the more i read this the more disapointed i get where did the predacons get the energon from to leave the others.

and as i said somewhere else. an oh so too familiar scene to wrap up the book

a year into the book and it feels we have nothing....

[i_amtrunks]

So boring, so dull, and some of the better scenes with TC are not seen?

And the conclusion is just a retread of a retread of a retread. I wonder if IDW will put out another Mini to revive the character "killed off" where Alpha Trion awakens him somewhere?

[Sky Shadow]

Well that was stupid. The only good bit was Rampage - it's intriguing that he and the Predacons have made their home in China and it's a fantastic contrast to the typical Transformers All Live In America trope. The problem is, the series does not have a good enough writer to take that great concept and actually run somewhere worthwhile with it. And I hope that guy at the end was IDW's Joey Slick, because if that gun was anything but Megatron, this series makes no sense at all.