Last Stand of the Wreckers discussion

[Onslaught Six]

I finally looked in mine and found out I have the first printing, so.

Also, this was really really good. To the point where I encouraged my girlfriend to read it! If I have one complaint, it's that the Predators don't really get enough characterisation besides Strafe.

Hey, Guzzle made it out alive! I hope that means we'll see him eventually. Guzzle's really endearing for how much he just loves to shoot things.

Also, Bullets is a great read and kind of makes me wish there was a Roberts-written TF novel focusing on more obscure characters. Him and Roche (presumably) have a real talent for coming up with (or using existing if underused) really cool TF names. (Far more than McCarthy, that's for sure. I like his writing, but that man can't do names. Drift was okay, Turmoil's passable...Wing? Really?)

[Dominic]

Wing was not really McCarthy's fault. But, your point is taken.

Yeah, "Wreckers" was damned good. But, all of the write-ups on the back would obscure it, as they are all very insular and rooted in the fandom.


Dom
-concurs about a Roberts novel.

[andersonh1]

Well, as they said over on the IDW boards, Wreckers was the mini-series aimed at the fandom, as constrasted with the attempt to aim the monthly series at the more general audience. How successful they were is debatable, but it doesn't surprise me that the write-ups would have have more insular references.

I'm all for Roche and Roberts doing more work with obscure characters. If nothing else, Wreckers showed that there's untapped potential to be mined from the later years of the G1 cast, and that there's still new stories to be told.

[Dominic]

They may have initially pitched that story for the fandom, but having fan-focused write-ups on the back of something being sold in the mass market is a stupidly wasted opportunity. On a second printing, (where the book's marketability to fans is proven), it would make more sense to try and branch out, possibly by sending out complimentary copies to *real* reviewers whose pages and reps are not bound into the fandom.

[Onslaught Six]

I dunno, I didn't see it as being insular, but that may be the fact that I'm part of the fandom.

[Dominic]

Calling it "Transformers answer to Watchmen" is almost a text book parody of the kind of insularity that fandoms are given to indulging in.


Dom
-cuz "Transformers" is apprently that important....according to the fandom. That ain't so appealling.

[Onslaught Six]

Hey, I think everybody should read the book. I think it's a pretty awesome thing, and if a friend of mine was looking to get into TF, I'd give him Wreckers. (And All Hail Megatron.)

[Dominic]

-cannot find the old thread. But, we are likely to be talking about this series again....

[Gomess]

Dangit, I said all this already!

Umm

Oh, I liked the inclusion of Kick-Off. I mean, the fact he was actually *used* in a relevant way rather than just being a name-drop cameo.

Overlord was an odd duck. Had he already been established as a character before this, in IDW? He was convincingly powerful, and pretty convincingly psychotic... But there's something about his written voice, I dunno. Can't put my finger on it, it was weird.

I think the presence of the human (I forget her name) weakened the tone overall, since it was obvious she'd survive. Y'know, in a story about death.

I liked that Guzzle balanced out the QUIRKY cast. Nice and down-to-earth.

[Onslaught Six]

Overlord was an odd duck. Had he already been established as a character before this, in IDW? He was convincingly powerful, and pretty convincingly psychotic... But there's something about his written voice, I dunno. Can't put my finger on it, it was weird.

Nope. He might have been namedropped, but that's it. (I think he has a cameo in Megatron Origin, but that series sucks and was written for DW anyway.)