Hi Everyone,
There is so much that I want to say to you...here, on this forum. But, the moderators, and likely the FCC would take offense, so let's just talk about the comics.
(Joking aside, good to see you back.)
I'm of genuinely mixed opinions on this, as going more traditional and/or simplistic with the storyline could stave off the pre-Crisis snarl
""Pre-Crisis" is not the best word to describe early IDW. (At its worst, IDW never indulged in the Silver Age idiocy that defined Pre-Crisis DC.)
However, it is fair to say that early IDW picked up baggage. The baggage was more the result of IDW having 10+ years of comics.
Even counting the fallow years between the original G1 and later G2 runs, IDW still held the license longer than Marvel before "Unicron" closed out the first IDW run with "Transformers". While this is not an unprecedented run for a comic, it is unprecedented for "Transformers". And, IDW is a young enough company that it is probably unprecedented for their organizational memory.
A reset every decade or so is probably healthy for any property.
Marvel's "Ultimate" imprint was launched as a modernized, streamlined and (most importantly) baggage free line of comics for incoming readers. Marvel dropped the ball by going for crass shock-value with some of the early offerings (particularly Millar's stuff). But, they generally stayed baggage free for ~5 years.
After 5 years or so (2005 or 6), "Ultimate" started to pick up baggage, even discounting the dumb stunts that Marvel started to allow for that line (around '07 or so). That was a natural effect of publishing an ongoing series. The only way to avoid it would be to adhere to "stasis quo", which would undermine the modern quality that was a hook for the "Ultimate" line.
, and it may just be the current political climate, but I'm pretty done with what could easily turn out to be just one more WWII analog starring Megatron as young Hitler.
I do not think that they are going for a WWII analogue. (Please, oh please no.)
If nothing else, (as discussed above), we cannot rule out that current Ruckley Megatron is heavily influence by how Roberts handled Megatron in the previous run.
I'm impressed that Rubble has so far remained the wide-eyed reader POV character without degenerating into a saccharin kid character.
Agreed their.
Right now, the smart money is split between Rubble dying and Rubble joining the Decepticons.