Transformers: Infiltration, and beyond

[Mirai Gen]

Holy shit, Mirai Gen opening a topic about Transformers! Who would have known!?

So, new Transformers series based on G1. (http://cyberstore.decepticon-matrix.com/comicstransformers-idw.html)

Now that Infiltration is finished, I'm glad it sets up for some more. Spoilers ahead. The introduction of Megs having been buried in an abandoned Nebraska Decepticon base was pretty cool, and an inventive way to have Megatron come back and beat the fuck out of Starscream.

I also really liked how the plot was first set up, where Ratchet takes the kids with him, reveals his Transformer status, and then...is arrested by Prowl and the others. That's supported even further by O'Nion's whole 'conspiracy theory' of the robots. It's giving Transformers a nice twist on it - making it so that way they're required by law to not reveal themselves.

As a final note, I love the fact that Prowl was 'head of Earth operations' and Prime was kept almost entirely out of it, until the very end. Very nice touch, sort of a 'chain of command'.

I also like the fact that all of the Bots and Cons have the same alt modes (the exception being Megatron, but I honestly prefer his tank-mode anyway) as G1. Even though there's handheld computers (what Verity took), she still looks at Bumblebee and goes, "A bug! Cool!"

Thoughts?

[Aureq]

Y'know, I've always liked G1 better than most of the other Transformers sequal series (so yes, I am of the Trukk > Munkee variety), and thus Infiltration and the other Dreamwave and IDW comics have appealed to me greatly. I'm also rather fond of the Hearts of Steel series of comics, which is sort of a 'what if the Transformers showed up when all we had was steam trains and biplanes?' concept. The new line of Transformers Classics figures are also pretty sweet, featuring a bullet-train'd Astrotrain in the first wave of figures.

This seems to be a heavy counterpoint to the upcoming movie, which looks like H.R. Giger and Todd Mcfarlane went halves on desifning our mechanical friends.

[Mirai Gen]

G1 was truly, to be said, 'where it was at'.

I'm a fan of the comics, though, because it gives more personality to the main team - Sunstreaker, Prime, Jazz, Prowl, Ratchet, Ironhide, Wheeljack, and occasionally Trailbreaker and the Dinobots.

Also; Dinobots are coming in when Extraction (the next part of the series) comes out. If you look on the first comic, at his little computer screen, it talks about dinosaur footprints recent and much bigger than makes sense.

Aw yeah. Grimlock in the hizzy.

Let's just hope he's like his Marvel incarnation and not like his G1 (Dumbass) version.