Transformers Animated (Spoilers within!)

[Wicked Woman]

Did you ask Borders if they would consider ordering the comics?

While I like the fact that they're finishing the series through comics I'm also a little uneasy about it for three reasons:

1: I'd like to hear them talking and the action and a comic could take that part away from me.

2: There's never any information (outside of the states) as to where and how we can get our hands on the comic.

and 3: Do they EVER finish a TF comic series? (my big concern)


WW

[artemis-lady-warrior]

I could but they'd probably look at me funny.

Wait, didn't they finish the Armada comic book series? I know they didn't finish the Energon one because the company doing it went bankrupt or something.

[Beastbot]

While I like the fact that they're finishing the series through comics I'm also a little uneasy about it for three reasons

You could have just worded it wrong, but just in case-- this is NOT definite. They COULD be finishing the series through comics. It's in the prelimiary talking stage now, nothing concrete's been set (and even it is, that's still no guarantee, as "The 13" miniseries was set and has now been canned).

1: I'd like to hear them talking and the action and a comic could take that part away from me.

Yeah, but that also requires a LOT more money than a comic. Hasbro is focusing on ROTF and then whatever the series after that is going to be. For what is now a dead series, quite frankly we should be glad for any sort of official conclusion at all. (I'm also ecstatic they're releasing the rest of the ENTIRE planned Animated toyline at some point, I had figured except for a few molds that had already reached the painted prototype stage we weren't going to see anything more in that respect.)

2: There's never any information (outside of the states) as to where and how we can get our hands on the comic.

If you guys look hard enough, I'm sure you can find something. Plenty of sites sell comics that are willing to ship internationally.

and 3: Do they EVER finish a TF comic series? (my big concern)

In their "main" IDW G1 continuty, when it comes to the overall fiction? No, because then they'd have no main continuity to draw readers to. However, they've finished any of "alt universe" miniseries, such as Hearts of Steel. If you create a miniseries with the express purpose of giving a more satisfying conclusion to Animated, I can imagine you'll see it end definitively.

[Aesir]

While I like the fact that they're finishing the series through comics I'm also a little uneasy about it for three reasons

You could have just worded it wrong, but just in case-- this is NOT definite. They COULD be finishing the series through comics. It's in the prelimiary talking stage now, nothing concrete's been set (and even it is, that's still no guarantee, as "The 13" miniseries was set and has now been canned).

1: I'd like to hear them talking and the action and a comic could take that part away from me.

Yeah, but that also requires a LOT more money than a comic. Hasbro is focusing on ROTF and then whatever the series after that is going to be. For what is now a dead series, quite frankly we should be glad for any sort of official conclusion at all. (I'm also ecstatic they're releasing the rest of the ENTIRE planned Animated toyline at some point, I had figured except for a few molds that had already reached the painted prototype stage we weren't going to see anything more in that respect.)

2: There's never any information (outside of the states) as to where and how we can get our hands on the comic.

If you guys look hard enough, I'm sure you can find something. Plenty of sites sell comics that are willing to ship internationally.

and 3: Do they EVER finish a TF comic series? (my big concern)

In their "main" IDW G1 continuty, when it comes to the overall fiction? No, because then they'd have no main continuity to draw readers to. However, they've finished any of "alt universe" miniseries, such as Hearts of Steel. If you create a miniseries with the express purpose of giving a more satisfying conclusion to Animated, I can imagine you'll see it end definitively.

THEY CANCELLED THE THIRTEEN!!!!!???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm british, I always find the tf comics either in Borders, Waterstones or Ebay/Amazon

Of course I will be hunting for some at Auto Assembly later this year

[Baron Fel]

beastbot is mostly got the right of it.

1. Well most of us would prefer a tv show, but have some hope that Aaron Archer et al has said that they see animated as the standard for TF shows at this point or some such similar language, heavily implying that they want to continue a show with good characterization and humor and all the other things that make animated awesome.

2. IDW is almost the #3 comic distributor if you find a comic store in your area chances are that they will have the TF books. Also check Amazon, Buy.com, etc they should ship to most countries.

3. Disregarding the flop of Dreamwave, IDW has finished every mini-series so far. All of their G1 stuff feeds into new stories, but well that's kind of the point of continuity. It seems quite likely that if they do any sort of Animated comic it will have an end of the story arc. It might not answer everything in Animated but at the least it would tie up a majority of things introduced in said comic, and hopefully address various nagging problems from the show, but that doesn't always happen.

[Shadow Prime]

No more japanese transformers! do you remember what they did to Starscream?!
They like to revive characters... I can just imagine Prowler revived with them writing... oh boy.. mind wipe...

Prowl: You don't know that. They might do something different.

They did it to screamer they'll do it to you.

Hey I liked the Transformers Cybertron!

[artemis-lady-warrior]

Yeah but for real transformers cybertron ahd no connections to Armada and energon. They just made it a part of the other two shows for some weird reason in the dub. I'm referring to the stupid energon series. it sucked.

[Beastbot]

Yeah but for real transformers cybertron ahd no connections to Armada and energon. They just made it a part of the other two shows for some weird reason in the dub. I'm referring to the stupid energon series. it sucked.

Because it was supposed to be the sequel to Energon, but the Japanese writers went their own way with it for whatever reason. Hasbro always intended for Cybertron to be a continuation and marketed it as such, even going so far as to explain away some of the discrepancies (like Jetfire's accent) in the Cyber Key Code info on their website.

[Aesir]

Yeah but for real transformers cybertron ahd no connections to Armada and energon. They just made it a part of the other two shows for some weird reason in the dub. I'm referring to the stupid energon series. it sucked.

Because it was supposed to be the sequel to Energon, but the Japanese writers went their own way with it for whatever reason. Hasbro always intended for Cybertron to be a continuation and marketed it as such, even going so far as to explain away some of the discrepancies (like Jetfire's accent) in the Cyber Key Code info on their website.

I never understood why Red Alert's accent changed though...I mean it was the same actor...

[Beastbot]

Hasbro admitted in the last year or two that they wanted the accents of a lot of characters changed in Cybertron because the script gave them no personality, so they wanted kids to be able to differentiate the characters better.

Heheh.

[Aesir]

Hasbro admitted in the last year or two that they wanted the accents of a lot of characters changed in Cybertron because the script gave them no personality, so they wanted kids to be able to differentiate the characters better.

Heheh.

ah

now i like it lol

they also turned nitro convoy female.... lol