Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:47am | IP Logged

I thought it was alright. Wasn't overjoyed to see Nightbeat get offed after being so heinously wasted by IDW (his Spotlight was crap), but Hardhead's characterisation was great.

I'm also a bit of a Micromaster fan, so it's again disappointing to see them all lumped together as a homogenous group of separatist threats to all Transformers, rather than keeping them separate as simple units in each army.

Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:40pm | IP Logged

I'd like think the Micromasters will get their turn at some point. It was suggested on another board I went to that the population of Gorlam were being turned into Micromasters, and if this is true they could be more like zombies or Frankenstein's at the moment. They'll evolve into the characters they are supposed to be in the fullness of time, I hope.

On the other hand doesn't everyone remember Dreamwave's Micromaster series? That attempted (albeit without any great success) to flesh out the characters, and was pants. I hate to say it but Bob Budiansky did a better job, and his story was some tut about TFs wrestling.

Apologies to anyone kept waiting for Hardhead through my actions (or lack thereof). I went away for the week, fully expecting Hardhead to come out a week later than it did, so the books got posted a couple of days later this month. Normal service will resume from here on.

Posted: 25 July 2008 at 12:49am | IP Logged

I expect Furman thought he'd be able to explain things like the fete of Jimmy and Verity and other dangling plots at his leisure. That's why there are so many balls in the air so to speak.

But IDW went and hired Shane McCarthy to provide a 'new direction' and suddenly Simon's story is a side attraction. I doubt IDW would admit that but it's how it seems to me. I think Mr F's doing sterling work adapting his Revelation script to the constraints of the Spotlights format, and I'd support him to the ends of the Earth - the man is a legend. I'm sure we'd never hear him complain about being taken off the main book, but he's obviously having to rethink his plans for upcoming stories.

So I'd expect Revelation to explain the dead universe stuff and give it some sort of resolution, perhaps with a revisit in a future spotlight or mini. All the Earth stuff will get sorted by Maximum Dinos presumably, and we know there are something like four other comics after that to bridge the gap between Revelation and All Hail.

Sadly I'm not going to be at AA (alchie's anonymous? ) but you can put a face to this faceless capitalist by going here

Posted: 27 July 2008 at 2:57pm | IP Logged

Well I'd be happy to send you one. You'll have to weigh up the postal cost (76p) with the time and effort of going to your LCS.

For that matter there are still a couple of the retailer incentives available. I'm not sure what the going rate is for these at the moment but mine are same price as the regular issues.

http://www.oneshallstand.com/shop/revelation/revelation2.htm l

Posted: 01 August 2008 at 10:38am | IP Logged

fianlly got it, thought i was alright.

very good all round

cant wait for the rest of this seris