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Who is the worst Transformers writer?

Bob Budiansky?
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No votes
Chris Sarracini?
12
57%
Brad Mick?
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No votes
Simon Furman?
4
19%
John Ney Rieber?
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No votes
Josh Blaylock?
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10%
Jim Salicrup?
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No votes
Ian Rimmer?
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No votes
Dan Abnett?
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5%
Other?
2
10%
 
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Post by spiderfrommars » Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:14 pm

I'm going to post a poll! Because I can! And before we all get sick of 'em...
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Post by Best First » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:40 pm

based on g1 issue 6 i will go with Mr Chris.

Mick still has potential tho...
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Post by Computron » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:41 pm

Why isn't Pat Lee on that list? He wrote Volume 1 right?

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Post by Best First » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:54 pm

heh heh.

a vote for Chris is a vote for Pat.
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Post by Computron » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:56 pm

See the thing that pains me is that Chris did a solid job on Armada 1 and 2, so he's got the potential. It's a shame Volume 1 will always cover that tho. :(

Course there's Armada #3...
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:24 pm

sabotage...
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Post by DevilScreamer » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:44 pm

Gotta be Sarrachini, sure he has potential, but the wounds of G1 Vol1 will take a loong time to heal.
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Post by Best First » Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:06 pm

so true...

welcome DC. My folks live in York.
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Post by DevilScreamer » Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:15 pm

Best First wrote:so true...

welcome DC. My folks live in York.
My condolencies to them. Poor souls, having to live in the same town as me. :D
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Post by Kaylee » Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:05 pm

I have so much sympathy for Bob I couldn't vote for him. I voted for Dan Abnett, because he was involved with Death's Head II! all such insurgents much die...
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Post by Legion » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:41 pm

i'm going for Sarracini.
he had a completely blank slate to start from, he could've done anything, anything at all... and what does he come up with? g1v1... man, it's not even consistant within itself, characters are out of character and it just doesn't make sense... it's CRAP.

i would've voted for abnett for reasons that karlypoos mentioned, but i though Sarracini deserved more of a TF related bashing (meaning i could've recall off of the top of my head what TF stuff Abnett had written).
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Post by DevilScreamer » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:56 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:I have so much sympathy for Bob I couldn't vote for him. I voted for Dan Abnett, because he was involved with Death's Head II! all such insurgents much die...
I`d forgotten about that. Yes, Abnett deserves many beatings for that, as well as the mess of Warhammer novels he`s written.

Still voting for Sarrchini though. Git.
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:13 am

which guy wrote the big broadcast? the karate kid ? whos that again?
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Post by Guest » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:18 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:which guy wrote the big broadcast? the karate kid ? whos that again?
Ralph Macchio, a.k.a. Other?.
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Post by Cliffjumper » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:06 am

What? Josh "Hey! Wizard! Look at Me!" Blaylock! Blaylock's a cock.

DUKE: "Wow, Snake-Eyes, that was teh r0xx0r, even if it shattered this story's last fragment of credibility. Now, let me act out the writer's wishes and rub your penis for a while."
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Post by Warcry » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:37 am

Sarracini. Others have produced worse (Budiansky certainly did, and I've heard bad things about the recent GI JOE crossovers) but they had other constraints. They had Hasbro breathing down their neck, or they had to work with huge casts of varying characters, or whatever else...these factors don't excuse their failures, but they mitigate them somewhat in my eyes.

Chris had no constraints. He could essentially do whatever he wanted with whatever characters he wanted. But the best he could come up with was a dreadfully mediocre story with sub-par dialogue. And to make matters worse, he let Pat put his own artwork ahead of the story...which bumped the whole thing down to something bordering on a crime against humanity.
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Post by KingMob » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:50 am

Best First wrote:heh heh.

a vote for Chris is a vote for Pat.

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