Classic GIJoe & (Gen2) Transformers reprint in March

[griffin]

It's nice to hear that people who can't find the original editions, will be able to obtain almost all comic issues that contained Transformers, outside of their own TFs comic.
Pity about the #138 being left off though, but hopefully they include the couple of pages as an introduction, to explain why the Decepticons just "suddenly show up" in #139.
When I bought #139, I had to hunt down #138 to make sense of it (and when I found it, I couldn't just browse through the issue to see if it did indeed have TFs in it, because it was a bagged issue, due to some freebie included - so I had to risk it and buy it).


Interesting to hear that it is a first volume, suggesting that IDW are going to reprint other GIJoe/TFs stories - maybe both Dreamwave and Devil's Due crossovers.

Although, I would have thought a complete Gen2 omnibus would make more sense... with the 5 GIJoe issues and the 12 TFs issues, all in one volume as a "complete" edition.

[Paulbot]

but hopefully they include the couple of pages as an introduction, to explain why the Decepticons just "suddenly show up" in #139.
When I bought #139, I had to hunt down #138 to make sense of it (and when I found it, I couldn't just browse through the issue to see if it did indeed have TFs in it, because it was a bagged issue, due to some freebie included - so I had to risk it and buy it).

I still haven't read #138 and never felt it necessary. Megatron makes it very clear right away that he detected the castle transforming and had come to investigate. I assumed that was all there was to it back in the 90s and scans I've seen since haven't encouraged me to track that issue down.

[griffin]

True... I was a bit disappointed that their arrival on Earth wasn't explained, nor was the second shadowy figure in #138, because only Megatron appears in the next issue. It was like a tease that even the GIJoe people didn't yet know about. Like, "put in a couple of shadowy figures, and we'll worry about it next month".

[Paulbot]

Issues #78 and 79 was enough for me. I was thrilled and surprised to see that dangler followed up.

[Lord_Zed]

Yeah I thought they had enough of an explanation too, as for the shadowy figure, well Megatrons appearance in the G2 comics flanked by Starscream makes this clear to me.

Considering IDW can't even manage to publish all the pages of the classic Joe comics, or get the coloring right, the Gi joe fan in me would be miffed if they suddenly took thew unlikely step of adding new pages to cover Megatron, who soaked up way to much of the limelight anyway!

Gi Joe is for Gi Joes dammit, Transformers is for Transformers, the last thing I want to see is Hawk opening the matrix to destroy Unicron.