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IDW's Beast Wars comic...

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Any word on whether it's going to be basically the aborted Dreamwave comic on a different label? What promotion I've seen says yes, what with the same "sideways from the TV show" cast and basic plotline... But has there been any word on whether it'll actually be the same series? And will it fit in with the Summer Special story?
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I think that it will be the same plotline, but during the Beast Wars rather than agfter them. Perhaps somewhere in between seasons 2 and 3?
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Originally posted by Cassettacon 27
I think that it will be the same plotline, but during the Beast Wars rather than agfter them. Perhaps somewhere in between seasons 2 and 3?


Well that makes about as much sense as... well, it's late and I really can't be bothered to think of an analogy, so I'll leave that upto the reader's creative ability... presuming they have one.

The basic plot of the planned DW series was "this is what happens after they left." Saying "I think it'll be the same, but set before they left" is, well... as I said, I can't be arsed to think of anything that really conveys how idiotic that sounds, but rest assured that if I could, I'd be typing it here!

Oh, sod it.

"Here's a great idea for a series - we'll remake M*A*S*H - exactly as it originally was. But it'll be set in America. In peace time. And they'll be in a bar instead of a hospital. With Woody Harrelson."
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Isn't this a four issue series? In which case at least two issues of DW stuff has been junked...
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who cares as long as its cool last POST for 11 days gang :angel: will it be available to the UK at all???
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Can't see any reason it wouldn't. If you don't have a local comic store, try:

http://www.oneshallstand.com/
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New interview about the four-issue series...

http://comicnewsi.com/article.php?catid=208&itemid=7960

News thread here:

http://tfarchive.com/community/showthre ... adid=32908

Don't let me picking out the Grimlock quote influence you; I think the focus will still be on the regular cast and new toy-only characters.
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Originally posted by Denyer
Don't let me picking out the Grimlock quote influence you; I think the focus will still be on the regular cast and new toy-only characters.

I don't think making G1 Grimlock into BW Grimlock is a good idea.
Hopefully he gained some intellegence during the past 300 years.
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Originally posted by Cassettacon 27
I don't think making G1 Grimlock into BW Grimlock is a good idea.
Hopefully he gained some intellegence during the past 300 years.


1) Doesn't matter - BW Grimlock has always been the original one.

BM T-Wrecks is also the same character.

2) Grimlock was only ever an idiot in the G1 cartoon, which Furman didn't write. Ergo there's no reason for him to be stupid in this.
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I don't know much about the G1 // Gen2 comic's. I just hope that they keep the "Me Grimlock ..." to a minimum.
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Originally posted by Cassettacon 27
I don't know much about the G1 // Gen2 comic's. I just hope that they keep the "Me Grimlock ..." to a minimum.


Bad grammar does not make somebody stupid. Just inarticulate.
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Post by Cassettacon 27 »

Originally posted by Brendocon
Bad grammar does not make somebody stupid. Just inarticulate.

I don't find him stupid because of his bad languistic skills.
Let me explain,

I have every ep of G1 on DVD, but I've read only a few TF comic's, and the one's I have read had little to no Grimlock. In the cartoon he was pretty stupid by the 3rd season. I only have Cartoon Grimlock to look at when someone mentions Grimlock. I don't know about the comics. He could have been fairly intellegent, but I'm just going by my own experience and what I've seen.
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Grimlock is Furman's favorite charecter, so I think we can trust him to write him well.

I've just got issue zero of the G1 comic in my hands, I was only going to get the one covewr, but four for £2.80 was to much to resist...
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