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by Dominic
Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:35 am
Forum: G1 | G2
Topic: Dreamwave G1 read-through
Replies: 77
Views: 24841

Re: Dreamwave G1 read-through

Nice "Dark Knight Returns" reference there, Don.
Refresh my memory. (I like to think I would recall this. But, I cannot.)


As much as I liked IDW's Prowl, I never understood why some elements of the fandom decided he was a bad guy years before "All Hail Megatron".
by Dominic
Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:04 am
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: Transformers: Legacy
Replies: 91
Views: 37104

Re: Transformers: Legacy

Tranatulas' robot-crotch is supposed to be the spider-mode face. That was the idea of the original toy and the cartoon. The number of eyes changing was the sort of cheat that was common in the beast-era. (The fact that the BW cartoon cheated so aggressively is why I am a little more forgiving of fac...
by Dominic
Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:57 pm
Forum: G1 | G2
Topic: Dreamwave G1 read-through
Replies: 77
Views: 24841

Re: Dreamwave G1 read-through

I reread "War Within" a few years back. Figueroa carried that book. Fun fact: In '02, I actively wanted to be out of comics. This was not the sort of idle "I might be out of comics" that we all go through. For a number of reasons, I made a decision that I would be out of comics b...
by Dominic
Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:10 pm
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: IDW Transformers Comics - retro reviews
Replies: 187
Views: 49101

Re: Dreamwave G1 read-through

"Revolution" was terrible. Hasbro tries to use their most (arguably only) viable property to carry or relaunch failing and moribun properties. MASK might have stood on its own. But, tying in the back story to that idiotic Dire Wraith storyline killed it as something that could work on its ...
by Dominic
Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:06 pm
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: Transformers: Legacy
Replies: 91
Views: 37104

Re: Transformers: Legacy

Tarantulas' spider face (or robot crotch) are facades of each-other. It is the sort of thing that I can accept on BW figures. But, it is still facade parts. I actually bought Tarantulas on Thursday. (Last week has a slog. Issues with Verizon, helping my cousin find a place for her cat, and other thi...
by Dominic
Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:28 pm
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: Transformers: Legacy
Replies: 91
Views: 37104

Re: Transformers: Legacy

I skipped Tarantulas and Knock-Out last week. (I saw then at Newbury's with prices that would make me blink even in better times.) Both look good, though Tarantulas's facade parts bother me. Jhiaxus - I like this better than I expected to, but the vehicle mode suffers badly from dumping parts hither...
by Dominic
Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: Last Bot Standing
Replies: 12
Views: 5926

Re: Last Bot Standing

I wanted to like this. I really did. I hoped that it would tap in to the best of what IDW had done. Roche is the guy who had the "Frank Miller moment" with "Last Stand of the Wreckers". Instead, it leaned in on the worst of IDW. Loose, overly emotive, story telling. Awful art. An...
by Dominic
Mon Sep 05, 2022 6:21 pm
Forum: Modern Comics / Generations | Universe | Classics
Topic: Shattered Glass II
Replies: 2
Views: 2719

Shattered Glass II

I plan to post more about this. It looks like IDW, a company that went out of its way to be contrarian, is closing out with a largely conventional, and generally competent, run of comics. At a thematic level, it works for 'Glass. The premise of "reverse universe" lends itself to the kind o...
by Dominic
Sat Aug 27, 2022 11:14 am
Forum: G1 | G2
Topic: Dreamwave G1 read-through
Replies: 77
Views: 24841

Re: Dreamwave G1 read-through

RID was current at the time (mid-02). The toys were gorgeous, and deserved better media than the cartoon.

I really wanted that RID comic. (The 5 issues of "Armada" from Saracinni and Raiz are still some of my favorite TF content.)
by Dominic
Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:24 pm
Forum: G1 | G2
Topic: Dreamwave G1 read-through
Replies: 77
Views: 24841

Re: Dreamwave G1 read-through

Comics being story-boards has been a thing for years. It is not great. But, it is better than the endless jabber of the Silver Age. The slow reveals of named characters worked at the time, because the series was a revival of a property that had been functionally non-existent for long enough that eve...