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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Pinned down by the DJD, the Autobots must weigh their options, but just as a window of escape appears, a moral dilemma forces them to choose between fight and flight. Perhaps some surprising back-up will save the day…? Find out in MTMTE #51, now annotated on TFWiki!
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THE OLD MAN’S BACK AGAIN! A desperate last gamble that might mean the sacrifice of one of their own gives the Autobots a chance to fight back - but what will it take for Megatron to join them? Find out in MTMTE #54, the penultimate chapter of THE DYING OF THE LIGHT, now on TFWiki!
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Come back next week for the final issues of SINS OF THE WRECKERS and G.I. JOE VS TRANSFORMERS!
LOTS of Transformers from IDW today, including a reference-heavy issue of MTMTE! Not a sitcom watcher? Don’t pay a heck of a lot of attention to Swerve’s shoulder over the course of four frickin’ years? TFWiki’s here to help! Where everybody knows your name - ‘cos we turned off anonymous editing a while back.
ALSO THIS WEEK!
COMBINER HUNTERS #1 - “An Uneventful Night”
WINDBLADE #5 - “Race Against the Light”
and TRANSFORMERS VS. G.I. JOE #8 - “Pax Megatronus”
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I’ve been thinking about this all day, and it’s kind of distracting me from my Work-work, so I’m going to go ahead and write this down so I’ll get it out of my system.
Spoilers for MTMTE #38…
I’ve said this before: Transformers has historically been a pretty regressive franchise, even for...
Prompt as ever, the TFWiki article for More than Meets the Eye #41, “The Sensuous Frame” is now up! Death! Disco! Mystery medics! Femme franchise firsts! All this and…space barnacles? Naaah, couldn’t be!
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So here are some of the characters I’ve been working on lately which have shown up on the cover to MTMTE 41 :) Yes, They are all female transformers and out of these designs 3 of them I also choose the names for.
It was fun to help create these characters. I know I’ve wanted more female characters in transformers for a while now. I’ve always placed one or more in the background of various TF projects I’ve worked on. Now we have the opportunity to have more of them and I’m very happy about that.
When the story came up for having new female characters I knew that I would like to have some of the characters that haven’t been used yet. I know I really wanted Firestar and James was able to get her for MTMTE. Then we were talking and he asked me to come up with a crew of new characters, both male and female and I was pretty excited about that. He didn’t have any names in mind at the time, so I wrote down a bunch of names and looked up on the wiki and tfu.info if they had been used. A lot of them hadn’t to my surprise so I showed them to James and he liked them. I then came up with a head sketch of them, and mentioned which ones were female and which ones were male, and he liked them. then I set out to design them.
These are the design I came up with. I wanted there to be a lot of different looking bots. First I started with Firestar. She is the more traditional look for a female TF, but where her main difference is her height. She is a very tall bot. She towers over most of the others. Not as tall as Megatron or Ultra Magnus, but she’s taller then Rodimus and most of the other Lost Light crew. I also had the idea to give her fire hair since in alt mode her head is the where the exhaust of the car. It also help add a little more emotion to the character since I can have the fire doing different things when she’s feeling different emotions. I thought it was different and something interesting to play with. With her torso design I decided to give her the same style of split canopy that Nautica has since it solved a design issue I was having at the time. Also I like the idea of some of the characters sharing similar design features :)
Next is Javelin. She was fin to draw since I wanted something very different looking. I enjoy the look of the head where is a single eye. i thought can we have a character with a single eye and not be a victim of empurata? why not?.
Next we have Proxima. When I described her to James I said she would be the equal of better of Perceptor. She would be a extreme multitasker. With her e4 head design she has main visor style eye, but 3 other eyes where 2 can move around her head.
Roadmaster was fun to design. I wanted a big characters that looked like she would bend and break you if you looked at her the wrong way. She is the biggest of the characters I’ve designed so far, matching Ultra Magnus in height (well to his head, not shoulders) When I was working on this character I thought an interesting variant would be to make a strika out of her, but then I would want strika to be a bit bigger then her. But the idea is in the back of my mind so maybe I’ll work something out of it?|
Last character who isn’t on the cover, but I saw that she was partially shown on a post on the credit’s page is Velocity. Another fun design where I got to play around with features that I don’t normally see with many TF’s :)
Thats it for now
Enjoy :)
Last week I said I’d read the IDW Transformers comics if they ever came up in a Humble Bundle or something because I knew they had already been in a Humble Bundle and didn’t think they’d do another one anytime soon, and today they did one and now I have to read these 75 issues of Transformers comics that I just paid twelve bucks for and let me tell you I am just FURIOUS about this.
ha ha you have to read something great
FROM THE VAULTS OF TRANSMASTERS UK - an early story from James Roberts! Printed in the Christmas 1999 issue of TMUK’s “Continued Generation 2″ fanzine comic, this story casts Huffer in the role of Scrooge in a Transformers take on “A Christmas Carol”. It includes appearances from current IDW/MTMTE fan favourites Prowl, Hot Rod, and Nightbeat, and proving people never really change, it is, of course, named after a Morrissey song. ;) Art is by TMUK mainstay Matt Dallas! Printed on a variety of paper stock and colours and pretty degraded by photocopying, I’ve cleaned it to the best of my limited ability.
This is Part 1 - Part 2 is HERE.
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #50, @idwcomics
Story by James Roberts
Art by Alex Milne and Brendan Cahill
Colors by Joana Lafuente, Priscilla Tramontano, and John-Paul Bove
It’s not often these days that we get the opportunity to see a comic reach its fiftieth issue, and that MTMTE has done so is a testament to its quality. We’ve followed Rodimus and friends (and not-friends) on their quest to find the Knights of Cybertron (please pretend that text has been Blingee’d) and the many, many…many distractions they’ve faced along the way. Between spark-eaters, mad doctors, monsters in the basement, Megatron Himself joining the crew, a chase sequence through time(complete with Back to the Future references), and all of the other abundant deterrents the crew of the Lost Light have confronted, surely they’ve come so far in their adventure?
…Nah.
However, #50 marks a huge change in the status quo of MTMTE as we know it. “How Bright Their Frail Deeds”, the first story in this issue, takes a sharp turn as things get dire for Team Rodimus. The storytelling is paced exquisitely and, paired with Milne’s beautiful artwork, creates an almost cinematic experience while reading. Each page will have the reader on the edge of their seat wondering what more could possibly go wrong for our heroes.
The second installation, “No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases”, is a short character piece focusing on the memories the crew (and we, the readers) have made on their journey. Cahill’s art in this story really strengthens the blow the reader feel with his grasp on subtle body language and emotion. The story is poignant and sweet and funny, and you will need tissues.
MTMTE #50 is a hallmark in the series, and only Roberts knows where it will go from here. Will it break our hearts? Probably. But I’ve always enjoyed suffering the slow burn of a good story. I mean, as Swerve so eloquently puts it, “Who wants closure? Let’s really stretch this sucker out.”
ComiXologist Prime is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and really, who is that pseudonym kidding?
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Anonymous asked:
What has Udon done that was bad? Not sure what specifically to look up.
thankskenpenders answered:
Director of Publishing Matt Moylan is a ComicsGate-style annoying reactionary nerd who complains about how everything isn’t exactly the same as how it was in the ‘80s, and that seems to be the main audience he wants to court. Transformers fans know him as the guy who made “LilFormers,” a comic strip he often used to complain about every little change in the Transformers franchise and call new female characters Mary Sues and stuff like that
It also bugs me how flagrantly horny a lot of Udon’s output is, like the Street Fighter Swimsuit Special that is quite literally just softcore hentai. Believe me when I say I am not anti-horny. If this was a fan zine I wouldn’t bat an eye. But when you’ve got an official Capcom-licensed Street Fighter book out where the cover is literally just a closeup of a sunbathing Chun-Li’s boobs and thighs with her face cropped out… yeah, that rubs me the wrong way. Especially when juxtaposed with Moylan’s personal views, it paints a bad picture
