Originally Posted by Self-Modifier

Don't get me started!

Everything Simon Furman was building for two years, all the planning and sub-plots and build-up -- all destroyed by that wretched abomination that is All Hail Megatron!!! Glacial in its pace, idiotic in its premise, inaccurate in its character portrayals -- except for the absolutely beautiful art by Guido Guidi, it is everything a Transformers comic should never be!!

And as a secondary "Don't Get Me Started," I absolutely loathe Shane McCarthy's "super-awesome bad-ass bestest-Autobot-ever" Mary-Sue character, Drift. The day he dies a slow, painful death will be a happy one for me. And what's up with the pointless and unnecessary conversion of Peceptor from a thoughtful, absent-minded scientist into a giant-cannon-toting killer? Was there any call for that from anyone?!? "I know -- instead of using someone who already exists and fits this role, I'll just totally change an exisiting character to fit my needs!!!" Please!!

I would hope and pray that Shane McCarthy never touches the Transformers again, but advance solicits from IDW already indicate that's not the case. I can instead only hope that he'll be sidelined in favor of either giving Furman the main story back, or bringing in the guys who wrote Dreamwave's amazingly good ongoing Transformers book -- McDonough and Patyck, their names were -- wrote every character, without fail, as if they'd just stepped out of either the G1 cartoon or comic!

Hmm... I seem to have "gotten started" despite myself. So, how about those IDW Joe comics, eh?