Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

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Re: Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

Post by Professor Smooth » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:50 pm

Worst of all time, you say?

5: Megatron: Origin (I think, I can't really tell wtf was going on here)
4: Dreamwave's Transformers vs GI:Joe (see above)
3: Micromasters (Just an all-around terrible story with zero redeeming qualities)
2: Prime Directive (Bring. Me. Their. Heads.)
1: (A tie between) Transformers: Alliance and Transformers: Defiance. (Trust me)
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Re: Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

Post by bumblemusprime » Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:09 am

Haven't read Alliance & Defiance. Are they comics?

I totally forgot about Megatron: Origins. Damn. It probably deserves #5, but I find Bob's moment of giving up just so much sadder.
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Re: Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

Post by Professor Smooth » Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:10 pm

bumblemusprime wrote:Haven't read Alliance & Defiance. Are they comics?

I totally forgot about Megatron: Origins. Damn. It probably deserves #5, but I find Bob's moment of giving up just so much sadder.
They were movie tie-in comics. Not only were they terrible from top to bottom, but they basically existed to fill in the gaps between movies, reconcile differences between the upcoming movie and *previous* tie-in comics, AND try to preemptively explain away some of the weird ***** that would happen in the movie itself.
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Re: Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

Post by bumblemusprime » Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:25 pm

I REMEMBER THAT.

You were the only one that read them! As I recall, they were both by John Barber, as was another one that you said was good... Foundation? I seem to remember, in keeping with Barber, that you thought two were the most awful comics ever written and one was okay.
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Re: Top 5 TF Comic Story Arcs OF ALL TIME?

Post by Professor Smooth » Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:21 am

You're right. One of them was pretty damn good! The other was *so* terrible it wiped the other from my memory.
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