by overhaul » Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:38 pm
So, just got my copy (had to order it over E-bay).
Initial thoughts: I am mostly a fan of the new art style (I was one of those who really liked it when I first saw it), but I prefer the more toon style faces (not too toony, like some artist do, Dons' regular faces are just fine). I also prefer the blocky fingers the characters have been having since DW started with the series. And then, Optimus's truck mode leaves much to be desired... looks too much like a kids imagining of a truck. In fact, it made me think of the Powermaster toy...
ANd some characters look a little too overdone with the new style, and chief of those being HotRod. I wouldn't have recognized him had he not had a tag naming him, and had I not saw pics leaked out months before, and had to puzzle over who he was.
Art aside, it is a good intro. And like Mainframe said, it seems like it'll take a little time for some action to start (although I don't think 4-5 issues). Reminds me of G1 Volume 1 from DreamWave when they got the title and introduced their new comic. A lot of V1 was build up, with the first issue being teasers here and there, seeing parts of the Transformers from this angle and that, until the final payoff at the end of the issue, a full shot of the offline Optimus Prime in a hanger.
Anyway... Megatron dead? I don't remember that. Last I head of him from AHM, he was on life support inside of Astrotrain.
So maybe Megs is still kicking, but the Autobots are just assuming he's dead by getting shot with a big gun in the face (btw, where did Spike get that gun? Someone said it belonged to a transformer who had it for a hand, and I assume they mean Shockwave, but Shockwave was fully reassembled in Maximum Dinobots).