IDW Comics for February 2013

Grayfox · Post by **Grayfox** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:01 pm

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/11/16/ ... -baroness/

Post by **Denyer** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:36 pm

I sincerely hope that this doesn't mark the beginning of MTMTE being reined in and steered back towards the Cybertron mess.

Post by **zigzagger** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:14 pm

Ooooh, Nick Roche back to writing again. Just might have to pick that one up.

Terome · Post by **Terome** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:32 am

Denyer wrote:I sincerely hope that this doesn't mark the beginning of MTMTE being reined in and steered back towards the Cybertron mess.

What sign are you getting of that? My read on the solicits is that RID is lurching into a Megatron plotline while MTMTE gets round to Overlord.

While I'm not looking forward to Megatron's return, I am very much looking forward to Nick Roche's.

Post by **Denyer** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:37 pm

If Cybertron's falling to the 'Cons it's going to be "all hands to the pump" at some point -- even if there's a period in which they string out a tired PoW storyline first.

Also, Overlord's likely to unbalance the MTMTE plot.

More cheered by the fact that it's Roche doing the Megs SL, though.

Terome · Post by **Terome** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:45 pm

Denyer wrote:tired PoW storyline

Oh no, they're going to go Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica nine years too late, aren't they?

Overlord's likely to unbalance the MTMTE plot.

Quite likely. Though I'm not too fussed on what happens to the plot - it's the stuff that happens in between the plot that is MTMTE's treasure.

relak · Post by **relak** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:15 pm

Oh dear. The megatron spotlight sounds like its returning to the dark days of furman's style of spotlights.

Meaning that it serves merely as either a lead in to an ongoing plot or as filler rather than a character centered solo adventure of a revelation about a characters past or hidden motivations (like how earlier spotlights like shockwave did so well in)

Terome · Post by **Terome** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:38 pm

relak wrote:Oh dear. The megatron spotlight sounds like its returning to the dark days of furman's style of spotlights.

Meaning that it serves merely as either a lead in to an ongoing plot or as filler rather than a character centered solo adventure of a revelation about a characters past or hidden motivations (like how earlier spotlights like shockwave did so well in)

Wait, wasn't Shockwave one big set-up to Escalation? The Spotlights lost their way when they became a defacto secondary plot, in my opinion.

Post by **Denyer** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:11 pm

Perversely -- and from the word go -- they sucked all of the interesting plot points out of the main books, serving them up as jumbled bits and pieces rather than an overall narrative.

Terome · Post by **Terome** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:33 pm

Denyer wrote:Perversely -- and from the word go -- they sucked all of the interesting plot points out of the main books, serving them up as jumbled bits and pieces rather than an overall narrative.

That's true but I'm not sure I minded too much. I had faith in the -ations moving the plot forward and the Spotlights dropping in world-building details. When the plot strangled the main books at around the same time it ate the Spotlights, did it not? My memory is pretty hazy about the running order so I might just be narrativising.

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relak · Post by **relak** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:21 pm

Terome wrote:Wait, wasn't Shockwave one big set-up to Escalation? The Spotlights lost their way when they became a defacto secondary plot, in my opinion.

Yes but the focus was on introducing shockwave. His motivations, his personality, and his role in the bigger picture. We get an insight to his thinking process and his unique character and the issue could stand as a stand alone tale. Same with six shot, ultra Magnus etc. Compare that with, say spotlight grimlock or Optimus prime. Those ended up as ongoing dead universe arc issues rather than standalone spotlights.

Blur was a return to the good ol days for a while.

Skyquake87 · Post by **Skyquake87** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:54 pm

i did not know that there were Prime comics. Fancy!

i like the cover of that Dinobot mini-series. Very pretty. wonder if the content is up to much, or is it G1 archetypes all the way as usual...