IDW Botcon coverage

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:29 pm

Care of Siebertron:

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/bo ... p#p1499204

Bit nervous about 6 months of MTMTE crossing over with RID, but hopefully they can make it work.

Post by **Computron** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:39 pm

This may be a dumb question but is the inclusion of Waspinator and Rattrap just a way of using two iconic characters in the IDW-verse or is it supposed to be a sign Beast Wars is in the IDW continuity?

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:59 pm

i don't think they have ever "included" a continuiuy wholesale, so i'd assume it's just bringing the characters in.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:43 pm

Surely the IDW TF stuff is set firmly in the Heroes Reborn universe?

Post by **Best First** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:35 am

Not as of Age of Ultron.

Now they all exist in Hank Pym's pants.

Post by **snarl** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:20 pm

Not sure about this.

Roberts influence on the other team ups with him and Barber have so far resulted in good issues.

Keeping it running over 6 months might be taxing. fingers crossed it cultivates RiD into something I'm more interested in, if only for 6 months.

As far as I see it, the reality, as several people have pointed out, IDW are catering for two types of TF fan, MTMTE being pitched at traditional Sci-Fi / comic readers, RiD at cartoon fans.

I would not be surprised if lots of people who buy MTMTE steer well clear of RiD (I do) and vice versa.

Makes sense to do this since the fandom seems to be split down the middle into these two camps.

Buying into that, I don't think IDW would allow the star book (MTMTE) to have it's tone shifted. Maybe IDW are looking to use this as an opportunity to gradually ramp up the expectation levels of RiD fans (who imo tolerate gash as long as it's got lots of explosions and bright colours!)?

James Raiz to possibly be doing some of the art... off the top of my head he was a bit gash wasn't he?

Death's Head · Post by **Death's Head** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:24 pm

I didn't mind James Raiz's work so much. I still think Guido needs some more work. I look over his Deviant Art page sometimes and the man's a genius.

I don't get RiD either - it should have been a Transformers version of The Thick of It. Then, maybe I would have bought it...

Post by **snarl** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:25 pm

It's just a bit balls.

It may even be that Barber's hamstrung having to write RiD.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:55 am

Hopefully having to work out his plot twists with Roberts will help the story out.

This ReGen #0 thing is cool--haven't heard about that. A mini-anthology?

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