Transformers IDW discussion thread [SPOILER WARNING]

[GoktimusPrime]

His worst crime was the poor pacing of the series and breaking it up between Spotlight and mini-series. That's where this title feel apart.

Yeah, I also haven't enjoyed the breaking up of the story into multiple mini-series. DW did the same thing and I didn't like it all that much either. I miss the old days from G1/G2 when there was just one single continuous comic run - no pressure to hastily wrap up story arcs until the very end when G1 was unexpectedly axed (ditto G2 - and Furman showed his frustration for that through the introduction of the character name "Jhiaxus").

But was it Furman's decision to do all this or was it Ryall's or someone else's? My suspicion is that it was IDW's decision and Furman has been simply following his orders and writing stories according to this designated format. Furman has been writing Transformers stories since 1985 and this format really doesn't seem to be his style.

Either way, I prefer his writing style back in the old Marvel days when it was just one continous run where seemingly insignificant events would later resurface much later! DiTillio and Forward did the same thing in Beast Wars too which I really enjoyed.

[Paulbot]

Yeah, I also haven't enjoyed the breaking up of the story into multiple mini-series. DW did the same thing and I didn't like it all that much either.

I think Dreamwave was a bit different. Both the first and second G1 series, and both War Within series, were primarily self contained stories (with some teases for the future).

It's not the safety of familiarity. It's the fact that you expect certain archetypes to develop of a character. For instance, if Batman started acting like the boyscout that Superman s or Wolverine quipped like Spider-Man and Spider-Man growled like Wolverine, you could certainly understand why people would hate such a move.

Yep. And it's called Bendis' New Avengers/Mighty Avengers where every character is now a Smart-Alec.

As a result, we're left with this sucky piece of rushed excrement.

I agree Revelations is rushed but in general IDW's various series as a whole has been good. It would have been nice for the four Spotlights to have been their own comics and the main plot to have taken place in a six parter but twas not to be.

It is good for others authors to get a run on Transformers, as in All Hail Megatron, or Dreamwave's Generation One Vol 3 (which is my favourite of the revamps). Between the IDW books and the UK ones, Furman is simply responsible for too much of TF fiction at the moment and a break could be good. (These comments also apply to Bendis and the Avengers )