Ozmasters, The MOTU General Discussion Thread.

[kup]

Chapter Three of DC's Digital comic hit this week and it focused on Battle Cat

it is a nice little peak into the past of Battle Cat and the Green Tigor Clan





i kind of liked how the narration was short and sweet, focussing on emotions to a degree.

i am not sure if this version of Battlecat actually talks....

Good that they are focusing on a character fans actually care about.

[TheFallen]

Good that they are focusing on a character fans actually care about.

Yeah but the SLL issue was still better than the actual figure

[Sky Shadow]

Good that they are focusing on a character fans actually care about.

You may not feel that way once you see who wrote it.

I quite liked the art, Panthor's presence and the last two pages, but again there's a distinct lack of Masters imagery or easter eggs for a franchise with such a visually rich history. The writing almost reaches the heights of mediocrity, and it's hilarious that DC got Mike Costa to write a MOTU comic - if he thought Transformers were "not looked upon favourably... in the comic book community," and that we are all "unpleasant", "arrogant" and "hostile" and don't know what we want... MOTU is probably not a good stop on his tour of toy franchises to write fifth-rate stories for.

[kup]

You may not feel that way once you see who wrote it.

I quite liked the art, Panthor's presence and the last two pages, but again there's a distinct lack of Masters imagery or easter eggs for a franchise with such a visually rich history. The writing almost reaches the heights of mediocrity, and it's hilarious that DC got Mike Costa to write a MOTU comic - if he thought Transformers were "not looked upon favourably... in the comic book community," and that we are all "unpleasant", "arrogant" and "hostile" and don't know what we want... MOTU is probably not a good stop on his tour of toy franchises to write fifth-rate stories for.

I would have imagined that Costa would be more 'mentally' suitable to write MOTU because the characters are actually 'people', not machines. From Costa's 'Goodbye' interview, he apparently couldn't get around the notion of 'Machines as characters' and couldn't relate to the Franchise.

[fatbot]

just got this email, should we believe any of this?

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[kup]

just got this email, should we believe any of this?

Although this is the first time ever that DR has directly acknowledged that there are issues, it is unfortunately the same tired promises we have repeatedly heard from Scott over the years.

It would be good if it is true but given the overall history with the line, I highly doubt it. Right now they are in 'elections' mode in which they will promise the world in order to get people to buy more subs ('votes') but once they get in, they'll forget all about their promises.

[Dodgeybros]

Right now they are in 'elections' mode in which they will promise the world in order to get people to buy more subs ('votes') but once they get in, they'll forget all about their promises.

I think you've summed it up perfectly with this one.
Even though I've renewed my subby, I can't afford the DHL logistics shipping price (would bring it to nearly $60 per figure, that's if our dollar holds) so I'm gonna have to tempt wait the extra month for the figure to arrive as per usual.
It is a bit of a bird flip to the international buyers to do this, but business is business, and Toyguru got his Spector..... (this figure still pisses me off).
On the bright side, I picked up an extra mosquitor and a hurrican hordak the other day (vintage) so because of that, I am enjoying positive humour today Doug.

[Tallestblue]

I got my Tax return. And bought myself a subscription. This should be interesting.

*EDIT* looks like I just made it, too.