This is 163% brilliant

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:01 am

http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopi ... sc&start=0

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:38 pm

Thunderwing posted that on Bottalk a week or so ago. Its brilliance is without parallel. It's perfect in every way. Even the Japanese (and the fake Japanese "Bot-tosai") is flawless. Seriously, there's nothing NOT to like about it. Even the poster's name (Thunderwing) is awesome. I mean, I can say, "Thunderwing is awesome," and damn near everyone would agree with me, even without the comic.

Bravo, Thunderwing, Bravo!

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:21 pm

That's fantastic.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:24 am

AH! Its a Gundam!!

Love it.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:10 pm

Awesome! Now that's $3.99 worthy.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:27 am

It's entertaining.

I'm amazed; I remembered my IDW forum password.

Though, now that I look around, I don't have anything useful to add there, either. I fail at teh interwebz.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:08 pm

When I met Ryall two years ago, I asked him why IDW didn't publish a TF spoof comic, as I thought it would be a hit. This was the time Hearts of Steel came out, and I thought if they could go with that, they could sure as hell make a comic poking fun at the Transformers. I felt after two decades of being serious, the property earned the right to get spoofy.

He didn't think so.

I still do.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:28 pm

Sadly he opted for 'bad parody of former self' instead

Kinf Og The World · Post by **Kinf Og The World** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:01 am

This is pretty damn good, by ALL accounts. Half the jokes indicate that Thunderwing seems to (SHOCK!) actually know a bit about the characters he's writing about! And gives them some personality whilst alluding to past foibles and events! Can a writer even DO that? And in only twenty-odd panels per episode? Shurley shome mishtake?

However, he seems to think that Wyndstarr being trained by the 14th member of the 13 is some kind of gag at Drift's expense. That's not a gag! Shane had that all planned out. Drift IS the 14th member of The 13!

In AHM after that bit when Drift knew Mirage was invisible because being able to see invisible robots is one of the ways of the samurai as written in that book in Ghost Dog, Prowl and Kup have a natter, and there's this one panel where Percy is checking out Brock 'Cliffjumper' Samson's zipgun zapgun and there's 13 TF's on panel. But no Drift. Hmmmn. We must look to the teachings of the elders and repeat our mantra. 'Where's Drift? Where's Drift?' Ah, Grasshopper. He is always with us, but there is meaning in all things, hidden as it is - as hidden as our favourite TF! Drift IS the 14th! And maybe the 23rd as well AT THE SAME TIME. He's multiversally delicious!
See, plain as daylight. The reading was in the text all along. Thanks Shane!

Man. I got to stop reading the IDW Forum...

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:49 am

I hope we've all been following this as it's progressed. The most compelling piece of fiction to be associated with IDW since Revelation.*

* that doesn't have Guzzle in.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:07 pm

I would pay $3.99 for a monthly of this sort of thing.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:44 pm

Fanbelt-****ing gearbox guts

awesome!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:34 pm

OMG I didn't realise it carried on beyond the first one.

*joys*

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:01 pm

I shot coke out of my nose when I saw "AHHH ITS A GUNDAM!"

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:23 am

And now is finished.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:05 pm

Woo-ha.

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:32 pm

I can't think of a better ending.