Exciting News! (potentially...)

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:45 am

Guess what?

Wait for it.....wait for it...

http://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/sh ... hp?t=68481

Yeah. IDW is letting Larry Hama continue the original GI Joe Marvel continuity with issue #156!

Which could mean, by extension and extrapolation...carry the two....divide by.....yeah, that Transformers G1 (or G2!) could get the same treatment.

Post by **snarl** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:49 pm

I would **** my cock off if they did a continutation of G1... it's got Roche & ROberts all over it... and Furman.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:05 pm

Apart from Impys come back, a G1 continuation would be amazing!

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:18 pm

snarl wrote:I would **** my cock off if they did a continutation of G1... it's got Roche & ROberts all over it... and Furman.

Having Simon on this is an absolute necessity. Roche and Roberts would be nice, but this is Furman's baby.

Anybody know how to contact Simon directly? I'd like to PM, get the down low, see if he's interested. (Given my criticisms of him though, I may not be the best candidate for this).

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:58 pm

He pops up here once in a while as simonf123. For that matter, Nick admitted that he lurks here on the IDW board a while ago.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:54 am

pretty sure him and Andy Wildman have all sorts of contact details on their website.

I was going to email about what his original Marvel plans were about 2 years ago but never got round to it.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:19 am

That's kinda crazy.
I've had a recurring dream since 1994 of the comic continuing from G2 issue 13. Then I've woken up and thought, "Drat, it wasn't real. Why don't I just dream of having sex with Princess Leia/Dana Scully/Marina and the Diamonds who then turns into my sister/mum/aunt/best mate like normal people?"

Have I said too much?

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:22 pm

You didn't get to the part where Best First shows up dressed as Village Person, mustache and all, so we're not too creeped out.

(So I read your dream journal. Whatcha gonna do about it?)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:38 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:That's kinda crazy.
I've had a recurring dream since 1994 of the comic continuing from G2 issue 13. Then I've woken up and thought, "Drat, it wasn't real. Why don't I just dream of having sex with Princess Leia/Dana Scully/Marina and the Diamonds who then turns into my sister/mum/aunt/best mate like normal people?"

Have I said too much?

I think it's probably for the best that you weren't having sex dreams about Marina and the Diamonds back in 1994, as she was only nine years old at the time.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:20 pm

i am not as excited about this as i should be. Not sure why. Maybe if they checked out Alignment....

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:47 pm

Probably because there's more of a chance of mucking it up than improving upon it or even maintaining that same level of quality.

Plus, were older, wiser, and have seen so much in comics that I think it would lack the thunder it once had. "Through the eyes of babes", if you will.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:43 pm

If Senior drew it, I would pay 20$ an issue.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:55 pm

Rebis wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:That's kinda crazy.
I've had a recurring dream since 1994 of the comic continuing from G2 issue 13. Then I've woken up and thought, "Drat, it wasn't real. Why don't I just dream of having sex with Princess Leia/Dana Scully/Marina and the Diamonds who then turns into my sister/mum/aunt/best mate like normal people?"

Have I said too much?
I think it's probably for the best that you weren't having sex dreams about Marina and the Diamonds back in 1994, as she was only nine years old at the time.

Well Scully replaced my Leia as my crush round about 2000, and Marina's my crush for the next ten years.

It's fairer that way.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:34 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:
Rebis wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:That's kinda crazy.
I've had a recurring dream since 1994 of the comic continuing from G2 issue 13. Then I've woken up and thought, "Drat, it wasn't real. Why don't I just dream of having sex with Princess Leia/Dana Scully/Marina and the Diamonds who then turns into my sister/mum/aunt/best mate like normal people?"

Have I said too much?
I think it's probably for the best that you weren't having sex dreams about Marina and the Diamonds back in 1994, as she was only nine years old at the time.
Well Scully replaced my Leia as my crush round about 2000, and Marina's my crush for the next ten years.

It's fairer that way.

Unless you are poor old heartbroken Daveless Carrie Fisher.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:40 am

I found out last week that she was once married to Paul Young. I don't know why I never knew this.

And apparently James Blunt boshed her.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:44 am

I beleive I once asked Simon the same thing some long-long time ago. I will try to dig out that email... Basically he said he'd have, but there was little chance for this. But you can easily contact him on his Blog, Yaya, he usually replies to questions there (I got the "G2 Transformers DNA" explanation from him there in regards to IDW's Arcee spotlight).

Also, isn't the G2 comic under Marvel's copyright? IDW can allow Simon to continue, but they also have to buy the rights. Though, with Impactor or Straxus appearing, I am not sure anymore how this works...

Post by **Best First** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:54 am

TFs are owned by Hasbro. They can continue the G2 storyline if they like, no issues.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:29 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:I found out last week that she was once married to Paul Young. I don't know why I never knew this.

Probably because he calls himself Paul Simon?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:28 pm

Rebis wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:I found out last week that she was once married to Paul Young. I don't know why I never knew this.
Probably because he calls himself Paul Simon?

Wow, didn't know that either.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:32 am

Posted by Andy Schmidt on the IDW boards:

Right now isn't the time for it. Maybe someday. And I wouldn't do it without Simon, at least.

We're really focusing on the ongoing series right now and about to ramp up for movie 3. I want to get those both in really good places before I can consider something like this.

I feel like we've been hitting more often with TF ongoing, but we've had a few glitches, too. I want folks to get comfortable and happy with the IDW continuity before we venture back outside of it again.

BUT, if we do something like this, someday, we'll make sure it's worth the wait.

Andy

At least it's not off the table.

You know, the Bayverse really ****s things over for us. I mean, is anyone here a fan of Bayverse comics? Does anyone really care? Why waste Simon's time with such a woeful rendition of the TF anyway?

Sales of the movie titles have consistently undersold the G1 stuff. And let's face it, IDW comics don't do much in terms of marketing the movie or the toys that go with it. Mowry did a great job with the initial movie stuff, but it still wasn't enough to make me give a **** about the movie or the toys. Why not let Mowry take over the Bayverse again, and free up Furman?

Let Simon do something more useful with his time, I say.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:26 am

i love the notion that writing TF comics can be described as "useful"

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue May 04, 2010 7:09 pm

I would approve of this.

But I say, let's not limit this to just Furman. Let's bring back Wildman WITH Baskerville, and then Senior and even Budiansky.

I also think that Mark D. Bright has far, FAR more to give than what he dished out in Spotlight: Nightbeat.

If you go to the trouble of getting Mark Bright into comics again, and doing a TF story even, then you best well have him PAINT it!

Any other lads that should be brought on, in order to make this potential rebirth the best it could possibly be?

Hmm... you've got loads of Heavy Metal and 2000 AD lads in Britain... 'Twould be interesting to mine some of them lads for TF, see what comes out the other end. Wouldn't mind Liam Sharp on TF G2, no sirree!

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Mon May 10, 2010 6:09 pm

I don't know GI Joe well enough to comment on there's good reason for the continuation and if Hama still has it (though you'd have thought IDW would have waited till they'd released the entire original series in Classics for the aid of new readers).

As for a possible TF #81 though (and I think we can take it as read that G2 #13 would never be an option, partly because in a world where LSotW shifts a minimum of copies one with Generation 2 across it will have no mileage with the casual buyer and partly because Alignment showed the Leige Maximo being a tease was much more interesting), absolutely a bad idea.

Firstly, the comic had a decent ending with just about all the lose ends wrapped up, that's part of the benefit of there being a final issue and then suddenly five more that had to be filled with something. A continuation would be pretty much a fresh start and therefore might as well be done in IDW's own continuity.

Seondly, we're talking about what's basically a nostalgia retro comic. But not recreating the most popular period of the line but one where, regardless of the quality of the issues themselves, the franchise died on its arse in the US. The amount of people desperate for a 1991 flashback are going to be very small.

And thirdly, however much they pretend it's issue 81 of the original run it's not, it's an IDW comic. And even if done by Furman and Wildman (though it shouldn't be, for all people remember the "IT NEVER ENDS!" moment the letters page of issue 80 also shows Furman didn't give a **** and in a universe where his presence wasn't death to a comic would have been moving on anyway. "Well, this is a shame ROBOCOP but I'm sure ROBOCOP Transformers might return one day ROBOCOP and I'm really awesome BUY ROBOCOP and you can look forward to the Neo Knights comic ROOOOOBOOOOCOOOOOOP") it's not going to recreate their glory days.

Though if IDW do want to be really retro they might want to hire editors who can edit.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 10, 2010 6:19 pm

inflatable dalek wrote:TF #81

inflatable dalek wrote:G2 #13

Wouldn't it be TF #93?

Or even, G3 #1?

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Mon May 10, 2010 7:09 pm

They could call it issue 333 of the UK comic but it'd stil be a bad idea.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 10, 2010 8:01 pm

Actually, I'd say that TFUK #333 would be the best of these ideas so far!

"The Further Adventures of Irwin Spoon!"

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Mon May 10, 2010 8:06 pm

He could team up with Jimmy Pink and Hunter Vegetable for the further adventures of People That Prove Whatever His Other Talents Furman Can't Think Up Names For ****.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 10, 2010 8:12 pm

It could be worse. At least he didn't spend 30 years alliterating his characters.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:50 pm

So Wildman has updated his blog

So. Is this the end of the road for Transformers and me? I did say that these would be my last pieces of Transformers artwork. An opportunity to draw a line under the whole Transformers thing. A final opportunity to depict some of the main characters the way that I would want to depict them.

Of course, there are some loose story ends from the old days that it would be great to tie up. Who knows. That opportunity may still occur

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:04 am

Can someone give me the names and numbers of the individuals at IDW I'd need to perform sexual favours for to have them get Furman and Senior to continue the G1 Marvel UK continuity?