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inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:31 pm

The with actual speech preview isn't hugely promising:

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia ... 93&page=37

Presumably (well, hopefully) it's another character talking rather than the narrative voice, it has the feel of Xaaron/Primus or the Keepers recap speeches.

With that allowance though, it's not exactly very exciting and does come across as Furman parody. And the big problem, said before, it completely misses the point. If they wanted to do a fresh jumping on point they should have just done a new issue 1 set in the Marvel Universe, promoting it as issue 80.5 sends out a completely different message to what they seem to actually be doing.

Wildman's art is better than I expected though, even if I've no idea who the long haired blond bloke is on the first page, can't be Spike can it? And of a cover that's supposed to be excitingly recalling some of the greatest moments from the Marvel (well, mainly Furman's run) why is there a completely dull picture of the moon? "Hey, remember that issue where the moon just sort of sat there in the sky? Good times".

And there's something funny about them going for purple Soundwave when IDW's own recolouring of the proper Marvel stuff has, for no real reason as it was always an intentional choice rather than a mistake they did every single issue, he's now blue.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:38 pm

The dialog was a bit 'meh', but I'll keep an open mind

"Hey, remember that issue where the moon just sort of sat there in the sky? Good times".

DJ_Convoy · Post by **DJ_Convoy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:16 pm

WITNESS!

M3Gr1ml0ck · Post by **M3Gr1ml0ck** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:20 pm

I'm gonna enjoy this, thanks to the retro style!

Could the cyborg be CIRCUIT SMASHER? Or am I totally off?
Maybe he's Circuit Breaker's son

DJ_Convoy · Post by **DJ_Convoy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:22 pm

Yeah, that's my guess. Josie's son. But who is the dad? Blackrock, perhaps...?

I'm holding out hope for Bomber Bill.

M3Gr1ml0ck · Post by **M3Gr1ml0ck** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:26 pm

I think I see a resemblance to Thunderpunch

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:02 pm

I rather liked it. But my standard for a continuation of Marvel G1 is: "Does it exist? If so, it is awesome."

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:26 pm

Agreed. Cheesy dialogue and purple Soundwaves be damned.

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:10 pm

I am probably being a bit slow on the joke here, but I have to ask this after seeing people talking about it on Twitter last month in a serious way: Is this book seriously going to feature Circuit Breaker's kid as a means of getting round the copyright thing? Apologies if it's just a meme I missed kicking off.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:25 pm

I've assumed that circuit smasher is circuit breaker - same character, different enough to the original to gt away from copyright, but close enough for us all to realise what's going on

M3Gr1ml0ck · Post by **M3Gr1ml0ck** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:12 pm

She'd be 20 years older (she'd be 40?), I'm not sure I want to see her wrapped in aluminum foil

The guy in the preview pages look like a guy and I haven't got a name for his, hence the Smasher guess.
I believe Furman ruled out that Smasher may be Josie, on his blog.

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:31 pm

I think that reasding G2 is still looking the best way to find out what happens next. If IDW are skirting round Marvel's copyright with CB it does make them look liketits. Isn't trying to make cash out of anothercompany's work that they don't own enough without bringing what they did keep into it as well?

Post by **Best First** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:38 pm

M3Gr1ml0ck wrote:She'd be 20 years older (she'd be 40?), I'm not sure I want to see her wrapped in aluminum foil

It's be like a Madonna video.

Agree about the whole 'jumping on' thing - this ain't for new comers and should not be treated as such.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:41 pm

Anyone know when this Free Comic Book day comic is set for release?

M3Gr1ml0ck · Post by **M3Gr1ml0ck** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:55 am

Best First wrote:It's be like a Madonna video.

:°D

DJ_Convoy · Post by **DJ_Convoy** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:12 pm

Yaya wrote:Anyone know when this Free Comic Book day comic is set for release?

May 5th.

WITNESS

veritech · Post by **veritech** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:11 pm

Have we ever heard why IDW dropped Simon Furman from it's main G1 series, thus truncating all the "slow burn" storylines??? I still can't believe that happened. Furman spent so much time building the universe and we all had the rug pulled out from under us with All Hail Megatron . . .

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:26 am

veritech wrote:Have we ever heard why IDW dropped Simon Furman from it's main G1 series, thus truncating all the "slow burn" storylines??? I still can't believe that happened. Furman spent so much time building the universe and we all had the rug pulled out from under us with All Hail Megatron . . .

They wanted to sell more than 15-20k copies per month.

Har. Har. Har.