As a slob who often does not bother to shave, I find that stereotype hurtful. The only statement that my neckbeard makes is that I am too lazy to shave.An unshaved neck is often the trademark of a nerd who thinks they are Cool.
Keep in mind the circumstances. "What did you do?" Thundercracker was pretty well out of bounds, what with keeping the Autobots from getting bombed to heck and all. Skywarp is not going to simply want to talk it over....Going from "I don't understand you!" to "KABLAMMO" is just poor storytelling.
I am not. Hell, Ironhide has a pretty foul temper all around in IDW. Oh man, does he ever.And don't pull the "Decepticons are EVIL!" card,
How else could it have ended? (Putting aside that Costa backpedalled this away in the ongoing.) Killing Thundercracker is the only thing that would make sense. And, it is not like Thundercracker is the only Decepticon with potential.Killing off such a potentially fascinating character immediately sinks that concept.
Skywarp is, contrary to what most people would say about the character, very layered here. He is a big dumb kid who never quite grew up. And, he recognizes that enough for it to bother him, but he cannot really work around it. Look at Starscream wrestling with the possibility of leadership that the Costa/Che story. Reread some of Starscream's and Megatron's interactions.
The whole faction starts to come apart in issue 10.
The point of AHM was never "how does this one guy handle a situation". It was "how bad would it be if the Decepticons won"? And, it was pretty bad for everybody, including the Decepticons. Its not just about Thundercracker any more than it is just about Ironhide and Mirage or Sunstreaker.
Toy accuracy means that Devastator cannot ever be looked at from any angle other than directly in front. Stoy accuracy means that Megatron is going to look like crap. You know what, there are plenty of characters that have never looked like the toys, and better for it. It is not even like those third wave Pretenders are good toys to start with....Not when it comes to toy-accuracy.
Oh yeah. Night and day. Left and right. 1 and 0.What I meant was, the Prowl story was quite deep. The Cliffjumper story was VERY shallow. It amazed me that a company could produce both. As you've said, they needed more ruthless editing.
But, this kind of schizophrenia is not unusual in the industry at all now. Marvel has guys like Bendis along with guys like Kirkman and Loeb. DC has Morrison working for them on a fairly consistent basis, but they are run by Johns and Lee. Paul Cornell and Andy Diggle have both worked for Marvel in the last few years.
Similarly, lax editing, (in every respect), is now an industry standard.
Among Transfans, guess which story is more likely to go over? And, even if the less likely story goes over, it is probably going over for the wrong reasons. (Hint, this is the same fandom that generally looks favourably on "Shattered Glass" because of its slavish adherence to cliche.)
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