I wish Marvel would get the license.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:05 am

I cant help feel that if Marvel had the TF comic license all would be good period. what with good writters, great artists, and lots of spin off comics...

I can dream!

anna · Post by **anna** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:51 pm

i agree i loooved thier run (i have them all) of course it probably doesnt help i dont buy comics anymore(toys and yu-gi-oh cards have my money)

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:13 pm

I don't care who gets the license. I just want something worth buying. I want there to be a story in there that just makes me want to toss down some hard-earned cash and make the book my own.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:18 pm

well id rather Marvel gets it because then it will probably be worth buying...

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:20 pm

Sans Mad Brick, I'd admit you're probably right.

Post by **Denyer** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:02 am

Asides from reprints, most stuff I read is handled by publishing branches of DC... I think people assume that Marvel having the license would result in a comic similar to the ones they released ten years ago, and I don't think that would be the case.

Chosen · Post by **Chosen** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:04 am

Denyer wrote:I think people assume that Marvel having the license would result in a comic similar to the ones they released ten years ago, and I don't think that would be the case.

Neither do I. Marvel may have gone a great job handling the old G1 stuff (I actually started reading some on that disc of mine!), but I fail to see how anything they had going in the past will even be touched upon if they get the license now.

Main reason I'd like to see Devil's Due get it, is simply to avoid a cheesy crossover, which would be almost inevitable if Marvel or DC touched it.

Osku · Post by **Osku** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:52 am

Chosen wrote:Main reason I'd like to see Devil's Due get it, is simply to avoid a cheesy crossover, which would be almost inevitable if Marvel or DC touched it.

Opposed to one or several more G.I.Joe/Transformers (in that order) crossovers, that Devil's Due would surely publish?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:20 pm

Señior's Covenant wrote:I don't care who gets the license. I just want something worth buying. I want there to be a story in there that just makes me want to toss down some hard-earned cash and make the book my own.

Same here.

And at this stage I really don't know who would do the better job - Devils Due or Marvel. May the best one win.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:05 pm

Yea, that's the thing: even if Marvel DOES get the rights, there's NO way they'd go with the same continuity.

My line of thought is: it would be better for a small publisher to get the rights, because then it would be one of their big guns, and they would push in and advertise it, and stand behind it, like DW (only DW went completly overboard, oversaturated by market both covers and titles, and used TF to finance their other titles).

What's to stop Marvel from just saying, "Well, f*** this," six months after the movie has come out?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:27 am

marvel or DC continue to write exciting storys, and handel spin offs better the most companys.

Im not saying they will go back to G1 but I bet good money they can write and produce a comic better then DW can or DD could.

Imagine the TF by Marvel, then like xmen where u have spin off comics that interweve with the main xmen plots, you would have bits about say Galavatron, or Deaths head etc... oh I can see it now, Glorious!

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:33 am

Shanti418 wrote:Yea, that's the thing: even if Marvel DOES get the rights, there's NO way they'd go with the same continuity.

My line of thought is: it would be better for a small publisher to get the rights, because then it would be one of their big guns, and they would push in and advertise it, and stand behind it, like DW (only DW went completly overboard, oversaturated by market both covers and titles, and used TF to finance their other titles).

What's to stop Marvel from just saying, "Well, f*** this," six months after the movie has come out?

Fluffy

Post by **Best First** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:03 pm

i don't see Marvel as being that interested in cross overs, or DC for that matter - TFs don't mix well with other franchises by and large.

The notion that bad cross overs can be avoided by giving it to DD who have already been responsible for 2 crap crossovers is somewhat bizarre.

Marvel continue to produce a number of good comics, even if some of there core titles have gone off the boil badly (X-Men especially). What really matters is getting a decent writer tho, and i think Marvel or DC probably have a slightly better chance of that.

However that said rumblings are that Hasbro are going to be full on control monkeys which means whoever ends up with it it will probably stink anyway.

meh.

anna · Post by **anna** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:30 pm

not into crossovers the ones with gi-joe aside circut breaker appeared in an issue of the miniseries "secret wars 2" also in ish three spiderman showed up(probaly for star support) so yeah they probably do them (there were more x-overs too)

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:55 pm

Marvel have so many characters crossing over that I don't think they'd try it with TF's. (Makes no sense, well I'll try to explain my reasons)

You have characters like the Hulk, Sentry, Superman (ooh good fight Supes Vs Sentry) and Juggernaught that are all supposed to be so powerfull that the big slow TFs wouldn't stand a chance against the smaller, faster and more powerfull super heroes and villans.

Then you have the not so over powered types who would probably get creamed. But any character that would fit effortlessly into a TF crossover would probably have links to a Mega powered character, which would just leave me thinking thats cack!

Which leaves us with G.I joe Vs TF's again as they're average "Joes" in the military. What I mean is that it's plausable. Although I think TF's Vs Aliens would be nice or a Halo crossover (Same thing)

I think it should be introduced as a stand alone title (By whomever), then a year after the new movie bring out a (working/plausable) crossover to generate interest in the line again to non-believers

Post by **Best First** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:40 pm

anna wrote:not into crossovers the ones with gi-joe aside circut breaker appeared in an issue of the miniseries "secret wars 2" also in ish three spiderman showed up(probaly for star support) so yeah they probably do them (there were more x-overs too)

Spider-man showed up early on to boost sales. Howeverf after that the only reference to mainstream Marvel continuity was the brief presenc eof Roxxon in the UK story "The Icarus Theory" - it was clear Marvel deliberatly decided not to persue the notion of TFs in the mainstream Marevl U.

The only other cross over after that was Gi-Joe, which as Marvel don't have the licence would not happen again.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:31 pm

Im not to fussed about x-overs, if done well, cameos arnt to bad.
I do like the idea of the way Marvel do special series of comics, like wolverine etc... and that u can literally follow wolverine out the door in uncanny xmen, and follow what happens in wolverine, thats pretty cool and u generally get some nice character detail.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:37 pm

Whoever thinks DC comics don't do crossovers doesn't read DC comics.

And as for mainstream crossing over, DC is the one who the rumours indicated would put the Transformers into the main DCU.

If Marvel got it, they may MU it, but they have a recent track record of creating new imprints that cater to specific tastes, in a way that DC Vertigo and DC Wildstorm don't do.
They are also trying to critically 'serious' the main MU, by revamping the main hitters. The upcoming Hose of M is going to re-jig the status quo further in this direction; throwing in the TFs to the MU seems to go against the current editorial thinking (although I guess a House of M affair is the perfect place to retcon them in; they'd just stick out like nobody's business).
Anyway, as well as fielding several imprints for different styles of book, they also have a seperate internal Line for license books. Whilst the seperate lines haven't really been a success and can have confusing delineations, they're still viable, and those and a seperate publishing Line seem to ake the idea of Marvel doing well if they had the TFs not unbelievable. I think they'd produce a really good Cybertron book, actually.

Doubt they're gonna get it, and I'm not flag-waving for them as I actually barely buy any of their titles anymore - I thinkI'm down to 1 Marvel book now - but it certainly wouldn't be a terrible thing for the brand.
It;s completely bizarre (and looks like it's driven by little more critical faculaty than simple Marvel-Bashing) to suggest that the TFs being published by one of the Big Two would be worse than what DW did with it, ie run it into non-publication with bad management and actual product that didn't set the larger market on fire, or indeed even get it's attention judging by the prevalence of 'Who Cares' reactions to the news that DW had gone bust in pretty much all of comicdom not connected to DW or interested in Transformers.

Personally, I'm in with what Señior's Covenant said about 'as long as they create someone worth buying'.

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I wish Marvel would get the license.

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