All Hail Megatron Issues 1 to 6 (Vol 1)

[STL]

IDW are the ones who "try and shoehorn continuites together" and yes it was a "confusing and poor business decision".

AHM works as a standalone series. Maximum Dinobots works as the next series of the IDW universe.

Similarly I think Megatron Origin doesn't fit well into the grander IDW universe, but thinking about it this morning maybe it and AHM are there own little cartoon-like universe, which I'm very happy to consider.

I think those are some great points there. I've mostly impliedly thought about Origins as separate from the rest of the IDW series. In fact, in my mind it probably sits somewhere closer to War Within than anything else. AHM is on its own somewhere too though I've only reached issue #3 to date.

It's not casual behaviour to loiter on this board, flaming people. In fact that's somewhat fanatical. Please at least attempt to argue the point rather than attacking individuals. There is a difference.

Right, and this post you posted just above was what? If Hereticpoo added an emoticon that'd make it okay too?

STL, you are so far from being a 'casual fan' that if a casual fan was lightning and you saw him or her in the distance, it would take you a week to hear the thunder.

*sigh*
"the majority of adult TF fans are casual fans and the only continuity that really stands out to them is the G1 Cartoon"

I completely agree with this and perhaps the clarification that needs to be made is that most TF fans are casual fiction fans. That's true of many of us and especially true for me until about a year ago. When I first started out, the G1 cartoon was the entire premise for my following of comics. That's why the War Within and Dreamwave's stuff was far more appealing to me that the old UK comics.

And I think lost in all this is the pertinent point that Hereticpoo is trying to make which is that it seems like there's a constant river of negativity and grumbling that rips through this thread and drowns the life out of it. And I think part of that is accepting that AHM was aimed at a different market, and that was IDW's business decision as I alluded to above. Make the choice as to whether you like it or not and move on.

By all means, I understand the nature of buying to complete as Goktimus, i_amtrunks and others have said here, I've done it myself, but if you continue to buy something you don't like that doesn't give anyone the right to drown out a thread,

As I've tried to argue above, the nature of the comic industry was like this for a few years. Fans would be up in arms yet continually buying every new issue of say New Avengers then jumping onto message boards and forums bashing the hell out of it. Civil War was the same but then in WWH and Secret Invasion and so on. Yet what eventually has happened is there's been a maturing of the general comic book reading public that if you don't like something, let it go. Vote with your wallet, make your disappointment known once, twice and move on. Look at Furman's run at IDW. That's precisely what happened despite the remaining hardcore fans arguing how good and brilliant and successful it was. Fans just left. If AHM is poor, its sales will be poorer than 10K by the time it is finished and that will be the ultimate judge of things. And we as the reading public have control over that.

In the end, we should enjoy what we like and appreciate what we like and not dwell compulsively on what we do not. it makes a chore for not only ourselves but for everyone else as well.

[Hereticpoo]

Apologies to members, Sorry for any offence. This was never my intention. Skyshadow PM'd

Clearly we will never let each other have the last word. So I'll be brief.

You say that you were replying to STL, but you quoted me, I believe that gives me the right to reply.

I also agreed to disagree with you and was under the impression that we understood each other, because you expressed a concern that we were arguing in the Review section.

My dictionary was a reference to dictionary.com.

I don't get your point, I never said I wasn't a fan.

[QUOTE SKY SHADOW]It's not casual behaviour to loiter on this board, flaming people. In fact that's somewhat fanatical. Please at least attempt to argue the point rather than attacking individuals. There is a difference.[/QUOTE]

Mate I believed I was under attack from you, so I defended myself.Also me replying to you is loitering and fanatical? Whatever man.

[Paulbot]

Right, and this post you posted just above was what? If Hereticpoo added an emoticon that'd make it okay too?

Sky Shadow was responding to your response to his comment with a fair point about casual fans. Your follow up comment about "casual TF comic fans" I think is however a good one and one that all should keep in mind.

[Sky Shadow]

STL, you are so far from being a 'casual fan' that if a casual fan was lightning and you saw him or her in the distance, it would take you a week to hear the thunder.

Right, and this post you posted just above was what? If Hereticpoo added an emoticon that'd make it okay too?

STL, I think you've misinterpreted my metaphor - I was saying that with the extreme amount you know about Transformers and your engagement with the fandom that you are far from being a casual fan (hence the joke about lightning and distance.) It may have been badly phrased but it wasn't meant to be an attack, it was meant to be a compliment.

[STL]

STL, I think you've misinterpreted my metaphor - I was saying that with the extreme amount you know about Transformers and your engagement with the fandom that you are far from being a casual fan (hence the joke about lightning and distance.) It may have been badly phrased but it wasn't meant to be an attack, it was meant to be a compliment.

In that case, thank you. Maybe I'm just used to getting to many people always praising me in glowing terms.