Transformers: War Journal

[GoktimusPrime]

I liked some artist's styles better than others, but that's a personal taste thing. The cool thing about having a different artist on each page is that it offers a variety which would cater for different people's tastes.

Oh and you guys are bastards for leaving us hanging!

I really liked the ending. It's meant to be one of those "Over The Top" stories - quite popular with WWI stories which saw the height of trench warfare - the kind of story that you usually don't follow up (at least, not straight after).

We had a moment like this in G1 in a flashback where Optimus Prime and some Autobots are fighting in a trench on Cybertron, hopelessly outnumbered and getting slaughtered. One Autobot despairs and begs Prime to surrender to the Decepticons before more Autobots are lost.
Optimus Prime: "Do you have the White Flag?"
Autobot: "The flag? Oh, yes, the Flag! Thank Primus! I'll tie it to the front battlements and--"
Optimus Prime: "You'll bind my wound with it, soldier!"
...soon after that Prime leads a charge over the top with all the Autobots following screaming, "NEVER SURRENDER! NEVER SURRENDER! NEVER SURRENDER!"

...of course, on the next page we see Powermaster Optimus Prime in New Jersey, kneeling in front of Scorponok and placing his Autobot badge on the rain-soaked mud in front of Scorponok's feet saying, "In the name of the Autobots, we surrender!"



I don't know if the whole over the top thing in War Journal is supposed to be a homage to that G1 scene (I thought the beginning of this story had correlations/tributes to G2 but TF Mosaic said that it was just coinkidinkly) but even coincidentally it's a neat parallel.

[liegeprime]

And they all died in a massive autobot massacre ever after heheeheheh. yeah yeah it isn't suppose to be the implied ending but then hey its open to interpretation by any fan hheheeh this is mine... shattered limbs and robo parts scattered everywhere..... Also noticed that in this narrative version Gestalts are nonexistent or an unknown that is why Superion is considered a "monster", an abomination... nice. I ahvent seen any storyline with Wheelie in a better light.... the most reviled rhyming abomination ( sorry to etrigan fans) Id like to see the storytellers "try" making this character cool.

[GoktimusPrime]

...no no no, at the end Time Warrior comes and saves the day!

[i_amtrunks]

At least they didnt take the next step like the movie "Gallipoli" and show them all getting cut down...

I would like this to have some kind of bearing in the IDW-verse, but I somehow doubt it will

[STL]

At least they didnt take the next step like the movie "Gallipoli" and show them all getting cut down...

I would like this to have some kind of bearing in the IDW-verse, but I somehow doubt it will

It's not possible though, is it? I think we've already seen Silverbolt alive and well in one of the Spotlights... I cant' remember which one. IIRC he was a leader in his own right of a squad of Autobots

Plus Furman touching Twincast, I'm not so sure about since he stems from Blaster.

[i_amtrunks]

It's not possible though, is it? I think we've already seen Silverbolt alive and well in one of the Spotlights... I cant' remember which one. IIRC he was a leader in his own right of a squad of Autobots

The only thing I can think of that may have shown Silverbolt would be Stormbringer, or Spotlight Shockwave, where more popular characters were shown on holo-screens.

But I really cannot recall seeing him in anything IDW have released, and I think the same goes for all the characters in the Mosiac War Journal, they were picked for not appearing in anything IDW...yet.

[GoktimusPrime]

...which I think is a really good thing for obvious reasons.

[kup]

I really enjoyed that story. It had all the hallmarks of an award winning book. It had style, drama, tension, action and more in relatively few pages.

Its hard to believe that this is fan made as it screams of quality and its much better than most of the recent comics. You guys should be hired by IDW to produce your own comic book series. These are the types of stories that would truly revive the Transformers franchise as they not only have excellent art and focus but also triggers emotions on the reader which is hallmark of a great book.

If only the people at the 'top' could see the untapped potential of the Transformers universe as you have.
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