given Furman's current form, i can't see this being up to much. i'm also baffled to think why anyone thought this was necessary or warranted. G2 effectively closed the Marvel continuity, so who desperately needed to have this revisited?
Superhero? No, you were right all along. Name's Death's Head. I kill people for a living!
I can't speak for anyone else obviously, but for me there's a few reasons.Originally Posted by Death's Head
For a start IDW just keeping redoing G1 over and over again anyway, and if you're gonna do that surely it's better to just go back to the original, especially when the original did what it did so well for so long, and did it without going through the majority of the problems that have plagued IDW's ongoings.
Also, with keeping Rodimus as leader in the future and having Transformers evolve so far that Optimus Prime was half human and Unicron was over...finished, it was the one series that genuinely moved the franchise on, which gives some hope that we may get that again.
And whilst G2 had a couple of very well written moments and did wrap things up, it has dated terribly, and between it and the rushed ending G1 got in the first place it would be nice to see things handled perhaps more as they had wanted.
Mostly it's just that and there's just really nothing of worth fiction wise in the franchise and hasn't been since Animated finished. It'll be nice to see something with the name Transformers that actually makes me feel more than apathy.
Basically it fills the same role as Classics did for the toys.
Again, just speaking for myself.
Enough people expressed an interest to warrant it. The only thing I'm slightly disappointed by is how closely they are sticking to the 80's aesthetics. It's a bit like what happened with Halo Anniversary, we were all hoping for Halo 1 in the newest, shiniest, most up to date game engine, and all we got was a lick of paint and a few nice textures.
I do understand that though. The Marvel series has a lot of die hard fans, some of which are concerned this could be typical newer IDW stuff with the old name tacked on, and IDW have a couple of continuities they created that they want to push seperately that are very much their own, so this sets it apart even at a glance.
Of course if the title is successful enough to maintain I'd imagine this would quickly change and we'd see the art quickly transition to something much more modern.
I Agee with you but a little scared. There is always a risk when you deal with canon, though.
That frightens me.
...and if they did that, surely that would undermine the point. This is very much a full on retro project, that Hasbro weren't keen on hence the finite number of issues dealt to Furman. So, given that the marvel US original comic ended in the throes of the Action Masters, are we going to see these characters return - ditto the Pretenders - or are we, as I suspect, just going to see the same old faces from '84 - '86..? And is Furman actaully capable now of recapturing that same vibe and feel of that time? The odds seem to me to be stacked to much against this book. Plus, I'd rather we weren't yet again living off past glories.
Superhero? No, you were right all along. Name's Death's Head. I kill people for a living!
Nah, plenty of things have traded on nostalgia only to find favour with the audience and be evolved into something old yet modern. Capcom's Street Fighter and MVC3 are perfect examples of that imo.
Almost all fictional franchises have this problem though.
Marvel didn't stop all their regular titles and replace them with Ultimates because fans would go beserk.
As radical and creative as some newer stuff is, they still live on past glories at the same time. They could never do it the way we've had it.
Same with the regular titles. They may have given Dick Grayson Batman's cowl, but before long Bruce Wayne took it back again.
By comparison, we've got it quite light for trading on the past.
Well, except that whole retelling the 1984 story every couple of years
And then again, maybe we wouldn't need to live on past glories if the current state of things wasn't so completely awful.
The movies are a creative vaccum and IDW show us just how much the lack of single vision forced by Hasbro can make a comic series a mess.
And TF Prime, well it was just dull, and in my opinion suffers for trying to be a bit of everything rather than being all of it's own thing.
Same with toys and games, where G1 based products, including third party products are almost drowning out anything based on newer stuff because it's all just so dull and uninspired.
It frightens me too. George Lucas has left me very, very cautious about these projects.
Personally speaking... I. Cannot. Wait. That said, I've already waited twenty years so a few more months won't hurt.
I missed the talks on Regeneration One at Roll Call Roll Out 3 is it supposed to ignore Generation 2 or be set before it?
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