More than Meets the Eye (IDW ongoing comic)

[Shockwave]

What about the Magnificence?

Talk about the ultimate in dropped balls! I don't think we're ever gonna know the answer to that one. Unless one of us finds the Magnificence to ask it

[Onslaught Six]

(I want my resolution to this fucking Orion Pax/Bludgeon/Thunderwing thing, though. That's just not happening at ALL.)

As much as I'm loving Barber otherwise, I still really have to question why he wrote that story when he did, and had it released as an RID issue, and why its installments are spaced out so weirdly. If anything, it should just be running as few-page backups in RID. As it is, I'm with you in that I just have no idea why that story is even THERE.

What about the Magnificence?

I totally forgot about it being RID, and not MTMTE.

That said, I do have a theory. Check out when it was released, and how the release dates for MTMTE and RID suddenly swapped around and changed after that. I get the feeling that they had that story ready to go for a while, and were waiting for the first time somebody had to be delayed for whatever reason (because it's a monthly comic; at some point it will be delayed) they could just rip it out and use it.

Magnificence was a Furman plot point! And clearly, Roberts remembers it, because it briefly came up at one point.

[Dominic]

http://www.fullmetalhero.com/content/mt ... view-5825/

And....one of the covers looks like something that would be posted on DeviantArt.


Dom
-dropped this book for a reason.

[BWprowl]

http://www.fullmetalhero.com/content/mt ... view-5825/

And....one of the covers looks like something that would be posted on DeviantArt.

Next month's cover is all the characters with their genders flipped. After that, all of them as Sonic characters.

Seriously though, you're not even reading the book anymore, and it's just a cover. We're not all as deathly allergic to fun as you are.

[Sparky Prime]

And....one of the covers looks like something that would be posted on DeviantArt.

Many professional artists have DeviantArt pages actually. Including Transformers artists Alex Milne and Guido Guidi. That Milne cover I first saw after he had posted it on DeviantArt come to think of it.

[Onslaught Six]

Word is, the Vacation Planet has a "No Cybertronians Allowed" rule in effect. So they get around that.

But yeah, I'm with Prowl. "Allergic to fun" doesn't even begin to describe Dom.

[Dominic]

"Allergic to fun"?!?!?!?

I send plenty of fun messages from my phone.

Next month's cover is all the characters with their genders flipped. After that, all of them as Sonic characters.

Dude, and this is the kind of thing I am talking about. The cover looks like the sort of fan art that you are sarcastically describing. Part of me wonders if Roberts wrote the issue the way he did to justify having said cover.


Dom
-has seen better from Fun Publications.

[BWprowl]

"Allergic to fun"?!?!?!?

I send plenty of fun messages from my phone.

So what you're saying is...you want a cover with the whole Lost Light crew mooning us?

Dude, and this is the kind of thing I am talking about. The cover looks like the sort of fan art that you are sarcastically describing.

Yeah, and the fact that you're the only one freaking out about it just shows that you're WAY too uptight about the sort of thing. Honestly, if you *weren't* aware of the trend of humanized-TF artwork, you would probably see the cover as an interesting curiosity, rather than something to take offense to. Fact is, lots of artists, official and fans, have done interpretations of 'Transformers as Humans' (and indeed, entire episodes of the various cartoons have been written around the concept), so it's hardly confined to 14-year-old-girls' DA accounts, and I don't see how such a thing is any more offensive than, say, Guido Guidi reinterpreting the G1 cast as steam engines and the like for 'Hearts of Steel'.

[Onslaught Six]

(and indeed, entire episodes of the various cartoons have been written around the concept)

I actually really liked Only Human, and not just because of Cobra Commander.

[Shockwave]

Yeah that and, let's not forget that episode of Animated.