Transformers Ongoing #1 3-Pages from the End of the Issue!, **WARNING** SUPER MAJOR SPOILERS! Options

[News Team]

Wow, they didn't waste any time:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23587

Update: These are actually FROM NEAR THE END OF THE ISSUE. Read at your own risk!

This post has been edited by Master Fwiffo: Nov 4 2009, 07:33 PM

[Chris McFeely]

Christ on a hugging pancake, those new designs actually get uglier and uglier. I mean, I wasn't FOND of them before, but I wasn't outrighting hating on them, and I don't think I've really posted my opinion on them before... but JESUS. Closeups are not these things' friends. I really don't think Bumblebee should look that *ferocious*. I realize that negativity can seem magnified on the internet and that artists have to develop a thick skin to move through blind ranting criticism to carry on with what they're doing (I hear EJ Su is quite sensitive), but by all appearances, given how shockingly unanimous the dislike for these designs is (seriously, we are talking "Shattered Expectations" levels of unanimous, here, as far as I can see), this is a time when Don should really, REALLY listen to what EVERYONE is saying.

This post has been edited by Chris McFeely: Nov 4 2009, 07:30 PM

[Database]

I have to agree on the art; thought I really do like the Cover.

Also, This seems to be a twist people werent expecting.

[Razorsaw]

Interest going... going... gone.

[Hornet]

I'm sorry but Movie-Verse style transformations just don't work with blocky, G1 style robot modes.

[Master Fwiffo]

Wuh-Oh. According to Josh at TFW, these are actually the *last 3 Pages*.

Updating to reflect that!

[Suspsy]

Shouldn't this be in the Comics Forum?

In any case, words cannot express how repulsed I am by Don's "style."

[Total Biscuit]

Nice to see all that time they spent establishing Ironhide and Primes friendship was pointless.

I'm torn on the art. I've actually gotten used to the bodies redesigns, and rather like them here, even if I do think they need to loose some of the detailing, but by gods those are disgustingly ugly faces. They just ruins the entire image, and only seem to have two expressions, angry and good old 'dull surprise', the fact that they all' seem identical, down to that awful beard they look to all have, really doesn't help either. I seriously wouldn't want to read an entire issue that looks like this, they're just too monstrously ugly.

Add to that the fact that this pretty much puts the last nail in the coffin for the story sticking with the same cheap shock tactics and grim dark immaturity that turned me off AHM, and there's pretty much zero chance of me ever wanting to own this.

I really just cannot comprehend how badly this comic has nosedived in story quality since Furman got kicked off it, I really can't. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-screamer.gif)

This post has been edited by Total Biscuit: Nov 4 2009, 07:37 PM

[Jeysie]

I think I'm just going to co-sign Total Biscuit's post here, although IMHO even the bodies are ugly-looking.

[Chip]

The designs are actually growing on me. I don't like the faces, but I also expect that by the end of the first TPB or so of this Don will have either made them work or revamped them.

So is the premise here a war between Autobots and humans? That's... actually interesting. I don't know enough yet to know if I like it, but it's something new.

This post has been edited by Chip: Nov 4 2009, 07:49 PM

[mignash]

Boy, I hadn't seen the art, just read about it. It really does look like crap doesn't it?

[Total Biscuit]

I think I'm just going to co-sign Total Biscuit's post here, although IMHO even the bodies are ugly-looking.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'd still rather these never existed and we had something more like Nick Roches wonderful art, but, most likely due to the initial shock wearing off and the sudden glut of ROTF prototypes we've had recently, these don't seem to stick out as wrong to me anymore, or at least as much as they used to. Frankly that soldier freaking out on the third page weirds me out way more.

They're still totally wrong for this comic though, and I seriously can't understand why IDW went with it for their main title.

[Blurrz]

Sigh... I just don't feel that this art matches up with that Universe. Oh well.

This post has been edited by Blurrz: Nov 4 2009, 07:52 PM

[Msol]

I really like the art, except how they all have mustaches. I think I might pick this up, a first since DW went under.

[Nutjob R/T]

Hm. So the new designs are so horrible, they kill people.

[Spark]

Terrible art? Check.

Terrible death spectacle to show how grim-and-gritty we (still) are? Check.

Yep, that fits my comic book s*** list criteria. Not touching this garbage with a ten foot poll.

This post has been edited by Spark: Nov 4 2009, 08:08 PM

[Sso02V]

Glad to see the movie story still going on in comics. I don't understand why they had to geewunnify the alt. modes, but I guess I'd be a hypocrite for liking the movieverse, but being adverse to change. Interesting to see that the distrust of the Autobots by the humans hinted at in RotF has escalated to a full-on conflict, and-- what's that? This isn't a movie comic?

[Guard Convoy]

We're fast approaching Beast Machines quality of Ugly.

Seriously, what the hell is up with the quad-split on Prowl's door wings? I'm used to freaky faces in close ups (the original Marvel Run seemed to do that a lot in the beginning, when we got a tight shot of a TF's face), but gah.


Also, even for the last three pages the prose is really stinted and jarring. It doesn't flow like Narration nor does it fit with an inner monologue.

This post has been edited by Rust: Nov 4 2009, 08:29 PM

[Robogeek1973]

So canceling all of my TF subscriptions was a smart move after all, that's a relief. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-ball.gif)

[Remilia Scarlet]

Is that guy on page 3 pulling a Superman Issue 1?