IDW Transformers Volume 1: The World In Your Eyes Review

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right now here inside the pull bag. I am Pax.

He's one of us. You've just transformed and transcended

with us here on All Things Transformers, which

is jumping inside the pull bag. That's right,

folks. It's an ATTF TPB crossover episode. I

am TF2 and Mike. Joining me as always, Steve

Megatron. Hello. Hello. First up, we have the

All Things Transformers aspect of this episode,

as it is a crossover, and we're gonna talk about

and give you our opinions on some news that has

been out there in the ether. Actually, something

that just got announced, I believe, as of this

recording, uh, November 17th, 2020. Uh, so, but

the other one has kind of been out there, I think

we talked about it in the last episode of ATTF,

actually the episode before the last episode,

because the last episode was the origins of...

John and Maggie Schaefer -Hames from Married

with Comics and the Rod Pod. Hope you guys enjoyed

that. First up, Transformers War for Cybertron

Kingdom Beast Wars Megatron. We have more in

-hand images of this figure. And he looks pretty

spectacular considering we've had the 10th anniversary

figure which kind of didn't really look like...

I mean, it looked better, but it was still like

a retool of the 96 version. And this, infinitely,

not only in color, but in stylistic design, embodies

the animated model much, much nicer than anything

we've gotten previously at an affordable price

point. The only thing that I've noticed with

him He does have a few things that are kind of,

you know, not really spot -on color -wise or

missing a couple of details, but I've noticed

that they've kind of gone away from the rounded

arms and legs and torsos and they've kind of

gotten the blocky thing back. Because if you

notice, they kind of switched to that around

the time of Transformers Energon and Transformers

Cybertron. They started to get any of these weird...

The way that it rotates, the way that it moves,

it's more of a solid clunky piece. So his thighs

and his hips and his upper arms are more of that

blocky thing that those figures had. Not saying

that that's bad. I notice it a little bit more.

It's more noticeable. You get kind of that blanketed.

cookie cutter design as far as that. But overall,

it's not bad. And this link on AllSpark, they

have a comparison side -by -side with, for instance,

the War for Cybertron Megatron G1, and he's taller

significantly. And I like the War for Cybertron

Megatron. It's not bad. He's about... a head

shorter than Grimlock, and then they show them

in various poses, and then finally they put them

side by side with Masterpiece Megatron. And of

course Masterpiece Megatron, like the pieces,

everything when it transforms is identical to

the cell model. To a T, like it's spot on. Not

only in color and in shading and in positions

of the robo -kibble. It's exact. So there are

some differences between the Kingdom and the

Masterpiece. And the first thing is the Kingdom

is about the same size as Primal Masterpiece.

And there's some color variation differences.

There's a couple things on like the hip and the

torso that are a little bit different. The dino

head's a little bit different shape -wise. and

some of the Rubo Kibble behind the head. But

I mean, overall, it's not bad for a $60 figure,

because you're getting a good percentage of the

detail that was missing from that old 90s figure

and the 10th anniversary figure. So I honestly,

I don't have a problem with this. Just putting

them side by side, though, shows me how inferior

it is to the masterpiece. But it also, they should

have done a side by side with the masterpiece,

the kingdom. and then the 96 and the 10th anniversary,

just to kind of give you that extra taste of

what it compares with. But I will say that I

do like the fact that the kingdom figure, like

the mouth opens up more, it's got more of a blaster

piece in it. The tail, he can actually let go.

Of the tail so he can use his arm kind of like

in the show or the masterpiece I did notice in

one of the bendable things and I don't know if

this is like the final production model or if

this is just because He who shall not be named

Who gets figures early for some reason There's

a piece of Megatron's knees and they're white

Right like they're blaringly like obvious that

they don't belong in the color palette, right?

Right. Yeah So I'm hoping that that's corrected

in the final thing and I've seen variations of

this figure to on some different Galleries where

the face is red Hmm instead of purple and part

of it, but it could be just like a production

model It could be bad coloring It just, it depends,

but he's got more of a pinkish purple on this

Megatron as opposed to the Masterpiece, which

is like deep purple. But overall, I am very excited

about this because as much as I would love to

have the Masterpiece, $300 is a bit steep. So

$60 for a runner up with the Kingdom figure is

definitely more in the affordable price range.

Yep, for me to obtain him and so I will more

than likely be picking him up Yeah, cool. Very

cool. Yeah, he looks great but you know, you're

talking about the the positioning of the body

and the you know, the blocky versus the what

you know the the aesthetics of it some of these

pictures on the all spark News link which will

be in the show notes It makes me think of they

want to call it They're not gonna call him this

but it makes me think of they're gonna call him

blast punch Megatron Because if you look at the

picture where it's the one right under It's the

second one right under the masterpiece comparison

where his top of his torso is kind of turned

a little bit I'm like, ooh, it's got torso twist

twisting action So like if you wind it up like

the old blast punch Optimus Prime thing, Optimus

Primal I should say You know, I'm like, ooh,

action feature. That's probably not the case,

but that's just me and my brain and how I react

to it. We also have coming out, and I'm not sure

when that figure's supposed to be out. The Megatron?

Yeah. The consensus of the Beast Wars or the

Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom figures

is somewhere between January and March. Oh, okay,

so first quarter. Yeah, first quarter, he'll

be out. I suspect that this will be hard to find

in the store because I have yet to see a Megatron

hit the store. I see Optimus Primes all over

the place and like Earth Wars Optimus Prime,

I see Starscream, I see like Grapple and Hound

and Sideswipe and all these other ones. But I

don't see a lot of the like, you know, I don't

see Soundwave. I don't see, you know, so I'm

pretty sure it's like... at the store the scalpers

kind of are like yoink or stores just don't order

enough because majority of the things that they

still have on the shelves that are shelf warmers

are the movie stuff which hasn't been relevant

in years like they're still selling like fall

of Cybertron masterpiece it's like nobody cares

so yeah so in that they have cyberverse which

both of those seem to be shelf warmers the the

war for Cybertron trilogy seems to fly off the

shelves Yep. I'm just trying to see here if,

uh, aha. Okay. So, what you need to do is you

need to forget trying to, you specifically, Steve

Megatron, need to forget trying to find this

in a store. Wasn't planning on it. I understand

that. Go over to our friends who are not paying

us for this promo. At BigBadToyStore .com you

can pre -order Kingdom Megatron for $52 .99.

Ah, it's $10 cheaper. Yay, there you go. I'm

saving you money and I'm saving you wrath of

your wife. Anyway, up next, we have, as I said

earlier, just announced today, November 17th,

2020, From the transformers and other people

I actually first saw it on Benny Benson ease

transformers page and then team bottom s Opta

bottom has shared it and I'm now on the transformers

official Facebook page again. This link will

be in the show notes The transformers collaborative

presents the next exciting mashup the iconic

X jet from the X -Men animated series is now

a Transformers robot called ultimate X pants

Unlike the Sentinels, this robot is the ultimate

mutant ally. Pre -order now at various places.

You can go to local GameStop or Hasbro Pulse

as of March 1st, so somewhere around March. So

the ultimate expanse is a, from what I've seen

from people commenting on this post and other

posts, it's a repurposing of the Studio Series

Jetfire figure. And does it look really, really

cool? Eh. I mean, it looks - It does, but I'm

not a fan of the crossover stuff. Like, unless

it was like the G .I. Joe Transformers, which

they've never done. Yeah. That's when I would

probably get more excited about it, like if they

were producing things from the comics. Yeah.

Yeah, and and I see where you're coming from,

but this is basically Like if you if anyone ever

watched the 90s x -men Marvel cartoon series

the you know the famous one x -men the animated

series not that they're all not famous, but You

know looking at the sr -71 jet and looking at

this toy. It's like oh that is so cool. They

repurposed it and the head of the figure actually

kind of looks like Cyclops because he has the

visor and everything else. I don't know, I think

it's a cool way... I don't mind these new...

I would rather have what they're doing now with

the Hasbro crossovers, like the Gigawatt and

the Ectotron and this new Expanse figure. I'd

rather have those than the old Hasbro Marvel

crossover toys. I think Michael Wilson sent me

a... A Millennium Falcon that was supposed to

be a crossover, like those old crossovers years

and years ago. These look so much better than

those. Alright folks, now for the pull -bag portion

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No, they won't no, they probably won't Alright

folks we are back and we are talking about IDW

Publishing's bold new era of Transformers. So

for those that don't know, from 2005 until 2019

IDW Phase 2 happened and that was 13 years of

pretty awesome Transformers comics and we covered

it all here inside the pull bag with Ryan The

Uneven Flow Merkley. I had absolute blast doing

this with Ryan and other people. Litty Wreck,

Beatles Diva, my buddy Ender, we all kinda came

together and reviewed various versions of, or

various series that IDW has done. Well, last

year, when they decided to end that universe,

they brought Unicron in, and it was the end.

It was a finality of whatever. IDW still has

the Transformers license for comics So they're

gonna start something new and that's where this

comes in and This is my first time reading this

I Had not I was waiting for the trades. I had

not read the single issues beforehand or anything

like that And I know you said you felt a little

lost with this Mm -hmm How did you feel like

I don't think I realized it was a complete reboot

when I was sitting down to read it and so I was

a little confused at what direction it was going

and then there were all these characters that

I'm totally unfamiliar with because I've not

really read any of the IDW comics to this point.

Because I've mostly been a guy that's read the

old Marvel stuff and the The the old Beast Wars

stuff and then the Dreamwave stuff so I've not

really read any I Think I read the Transformers

comics when they first got picked up by IDW like

around the time of the spotlights and then issue

zero and one and a few of those and then I just

kind of like tapered off like it started going

in directions that I just was there were too

many directions going on and so I just kind of

fell off the map yeah well I think with this

like we already reviewed the the first arc of

the galaxies which sadly galaxies is going away

now but uh... the galaxies run which is tyler

blisinski and livio remadelli's run uh... constructicons

rising you know those are kind of like one -shot

kind of stories that kind of eventually will

bring into this and then this is a whole new

universe uh... written by brian ruckley we have

basically I was kind of shocked. I thought it

was a misprint by Comixology. But when this was

solicited, when the volume one, the trade paperback

here was solicited, it said volume one is going

to contain the first 12 issues of the series.

And I'm like, wait, what? Like the last time

I read a 12 issue trade paperback was Welcome

Back Frank from Marvel. And as I've said on this

podcast before, on the pullback, that was a physical

copy of that book from Marvel and that is what

basically sent me to digital because I fell asleep

holding the thing not because of the content

of the book but because the book was so heavy

my hand fell asleep I fell asleep the the book

falling to the floor woke me up and I'm like

Comixology saved me and they have obviously So

Brian Ruckley is the writer on this we have three

four arcs here the world in your eyes The art

is done by Angel Hernandez and Kechit Whitman.

Additional art done by Sarah Peter Dorache, Andrew

Griffith, and Anna Malkova. Colors done by Joanna

Lafuente. Additional colors by Josh Burcham.

Yay, Josh Burcham! Love Joanna as well. And I

know Sarah. Sarah did some art on the previous

incarnation of IDW Transformers. The rest of

these artists are new to me. Orion Pax freefall

was Issue six I believe Beth McGuire Smith is

on the art for that The cracks beneath your feet

is the second part in this again Angel Hernandez,

Andrew Griffith, Anna Malkova and Beth McGuire

Smith on art Joanna Lafuente and Josh Burcham

on cover on colors And then Nautica Home was

done by Sarah Pichard de Roche and Joanna Lafuente

So the first six issues of this trade paperback,

as I said, is the world in your eyes and then

the Optimus Prime freefall. I think this is cool.

I think this is interesting what they're doing

here. They're showing us a character we know

in Bumblebee. Whether we know what Bumblebee

is going to be like in this universe and this

new universe is up to whatever once we read the

story more. But the fact that he's a mentor to

this younger bot, like Bumblebee has always been

the little bot. Bumblebee has always been the

youngest bot. Well now, there's a bot who's younger

and his name is Rubble. Not Rumble, he's not

Blue, well he is Blue. He's not Blue, Red, or...

He's Barney Rubble. Yeah, Barney Rubble. That's

funny. Flintstone's Transformers crossovers.

Anyway. That could be interesting. I guess you

could have Ratchet as the Flintstone mobile.

I don't know. Anyway, that would be strange.

So the story for this is basically introducing

Rubble, the new character, into this new universe.

We also have Optimus Prime and Megatron, which

I absolutely love this. And I think as we go

along with this, I don't want to make it political,

but I have to say as... I see more of Megatron

in this series. I'm like, are they, is Brian

Ruckley trying to say Megatron is a certain,

he's not, but orange -ish person and maybe that's

just - I don't think so. I think that they're

kind of playing with like the political atmosphere

we find ourselves in right now. Right. But I

don't think that it's necessarily paralleling

to the T what we have going on. Yeah, but it's

just later in the story it's like, oh, Optimus

is completely on this side and Megatron is completely

on this side and the way Megatron sees it is

that, you know, the Autobots are these overlord

kind of and he wants revolution and I'm all fine

for Megatron being a revolutionary. But he's

also trying to do it in a way that it's not harmful,

at least initially. At least initially at least

initially and the thing is is that shockwave

is kind of the The tormentor behind the scenes

like he's not he's like, well, you're you know,

I'm a ends to a mean and Megatron is kind of

like no, you know Because he's at least trying

to do it the proper way. Yeah is Because he's

working with Orion Pax throughout the entire

Trade. Yep. And what I like about This first

arc, The World in Your Eyes, is... Basically,

the title is on the nose for the trade. For the

story arc in the trade is The World in Your Eyes.

No matter what character we're looking at, it's

the world through Optimus Prime's eye... Actually,

Orion Pax, I need to say, because he is Orion

Pax, he is not Optimus Prime. And Sentinel Prime

is actually the ruler of Cyber Leader, ruler

whatever you want to say of Cybertron. I do find

it weird that they never actually have Prime

as the Orion Pax that we see in the G1 cartoon.

Yeah. They always have him just look exactly

the same. They're like, eh, he's Orion Pax. And

it's like, he looks like Optimus though. Yeah,

he does. But at the same time, it's like you

need a face. Like, you know, if you're... Like

okay, so if you go back to the very first page

of the comic where it's You know the cover the

main cover of the first issue and it's like oh

Optimus and Megatron you see that on a on a Comic

stop comic book star shelf and you're like, oh

Optimus and Megatron. I'm gonna pick that up

So that's kind of a thing Even though the thing

I notice and the thing that I love that they're

doing with this is the Decepticons are not a

thing as of yet They're not and I know but the

Autobots are yeah Yeah, that was another thing

that threw me when I got into it. I'm like, who

are these as sent to cons? I'm like they're Decepticons.

Like why are they? It wasn't making sense to

me either on that front. So like I got it once

they finally flipped the switch on it. Mm -hmm

And and I got the the reference with the logo,

you know upside down Yeah, I thought that was

really cool Well, I thought it was cool and how

they had it and then they had it what I think

it was barricade or something He basically had

the decepticon symbol as his face. Yeah And so

it was, I don't know, in a lot of ways, it was

kind of interesting on how they played around

with it graphically and story -wise to make it

kind of fit. And they made it almost sympathetic

that, you know, you want Megatron's regime to

kind of go through and you kind of feel it until

he's like, ah, screw it, let's go to Septicon.

Mm -hmm, you know But I mean like you can kind

of see both sides of their their struggle and

they're both trying to do it the correct way

but you know Megatron is kind of Tired with the

waiting game with the audio bots keep playing

and you know It almost paints the Autobots as

the bad guys in a sense Yeah, and that's the

way that the ascente cons and the rise see them

is so we have three factions here folks We have

the Autobots we have the ascentecons which is

megatron sound wave and them and then we have

these people called the rise and the ascentecons

not the rise i believe uh... yeah because that

happens later like it's revealed and i was surprised

that it got revealed that uh... megatron was

kind of behind all of that or shockwave was but

I love the colors in this. I love the art. The

art is really cool. What are some of the characters

besides Rubble? Because Rubble was a new character

to everybody. What are some of the characters

that you mentioned that you didn't really know?

Well, that's the point. I don't really remember

the names because I don't really know who they

are. I mean, so it was a lot of a lot of those

instances like just I saw random characters I'd

not been familiarized with before and so it was

some of that it wasn't like I my my level of

knowledge with Transformers g1 is Everything

I saw from season 1 to season 4 like I don't

I don't know anybody else that shows up like

when they're when they're in there I mean, I

know who wing blade is and Yeah, I mean I don't

really care per se for the character, but You've

seen windbladed multiple cartoons at this point.

Yeah, I've gotten used to her just in other programs

so I mean that doesn't bother me either, but

I There's some other like obscure ones that I

see come up and it's just I'm not familiar with

them, so that's more so what it is. Now, did

reading this make you want to learn more about

them? About the characters I know nothing about?

Yes. No. Really? No. And I'll tell you why. I

think if I'd been reading this in smaller doses,

I think I would have been more interested, but

I felt like there was a lot of dialogue. I get

it, but I felt like there was a lot of dialogue.

I don't know if it was because part of it was

fighting, part of it was politics, and I'm kind

of politicked out. So I understand and I appreciate

the story for what it was doing and kind of explaining

some of the more of the backstory of why... Megatron

and Optimus had this colossal split, you know,

pre -battle to leave Cybertron, because we really

don't get a lot of that. I mean, we've had various

iterations. We've had the War Within comics back

in the day. We've had a couple of different origin

stories. But, I mean, this is even the War for

Cybertron animated series doesn't really touch

on it. I mean, it does. And it kind of parallels

in some ways because like Bumblebee's not in

an Autobot, he's kind of a loner. And so I kind

of see parallels between the two. But on a whole,

I understood it, I enjoyed it. But I felt like

it was, as Marty McFly would say, this is heavy.

So basically, also as Marty McFly would say,

I guess you guys aren't ready for that just yet.

But graphically, this was beautiful. Yes, it

is. Through and through. There was nothing I

had to complain about as far as any of that.

I did find it interesting that Cyclonus is a

part of the starting crew there. Is he like a

carryover from when Unicron decimated the universe

and reset it? I mean, Cyclonus in the original...

I don't want to say original, but in the previous

universe, he was always... He was non -faction,

essentially. Like, he was a Decepticon in his

past, but then he gave it up in the other universe

in the... phase two books that they call it as

they're called Friday W. He was on the lost light.

He was more in line with the Autobots. He didn't

want to fight anymore. He was done fighting.

So that's kind of the thing here with him. I

think I don't know if it's the exact same character

from the previous universe. Um, but it's the

same kind of character traits that he doesn't

really want to fight anymore. He just wants to

be left alone thing. What I dug about this is

and we get cartoons don't give you enough time

because cartoons don't have enough time to do

these kinds of things that the comics can do

i loved all of the issue where it's megatron

and optimus talking to each other and going over

these memories of them and how they like the

explanation of the split and how they split i

issue six freefall was really really well done

I thought and I thought it gave us more insight

to Optimus Orion and Megatron here setting up

where they end up being divided and I thought

that was great with this being a 12 -issue trade

paperback Issue 6 and issue 12 are kind of like

the the the rest easy moments I'm more okay with

issue 6 that I am with issue 12 because issue

12 takes place before issue. It's like a flashback

issue and I don't necessarily like I Wish that

part of the story was told in story order not

as a flat like if you're gonna have those events

happen, have them happen more linear than just

do it as a flashback, because by the end of this

trade, I was all taken out of it. Like, issues

one to 11, great, fine, absolutely, I get everything,

I understand everything, I understand where Bumblebee's

coming from, I understand where Cyclonus, where

Orion, Megatron, even Soundwave, I get it. But

that whole... flashback issue just kind of took

me out of it yeah I'm still interested though

and I still want to read more of this because

it's Transformers comics and I enjoy the story

that they're telling like this is like the way

to a new future and I really enjoy Brian's writing

Brian Ruckley I think he I've never read anything

he's done before I can't even begin to look him

up right now and maybe I'll do that for our next

Comic episode if you're still interested in doing

these I mean, I'm still interested in checking

out what's going on. Yeah because Now he's announced

the Decepticons Yeah, so so therefore I'm interested

in finding out where they go from here and how

people switch sides and pick sides out of the

two. It's more so in that realm. Like I said,

again, I'm more of a obviously a Beast Wars fan

than a G1 fan, so when the Beast Wars comics

come out, I'm going to be heavily involved with

that. Oh yeah, we will definitely be covering

that Beast Wars miniseries here inside the pull

bag and obviously on all things Transformers.

But yeah as far as g1 is concerned like I mean

I kind of know where it's gonna go because I

mean they typically go in the same direction

every time and It's just they add variations

or expound upon Things as they go mm -hmm Yep,

so what I'm loving here, and I'm actually looking

on comic vine and again comic vine well Whatever

just go to comicvine .com and search Transformers

folks, and it'll it'll pop up IDW publishing

2019 So they list all of the issues that are

up to current so they have 24 issues I love how

they break down without actually looking at the

issues like the titles for each one so like Issue

11 was the cracks beneath your feet part 5 issues

1 to 6 issues 1 to 5 were uh... the world in

your eyes issue six was a ryan pax freefall and

then as we go further once we get volume two

and volume three again it's one of those things

where oh interesting like they they have this

thing like issue twelve was a nautica issue was

that that that uh... flashback issue i mentioned

issue 13 starts with the change in your nature

part 1 and ends at issue 17 with change in your

nature part 5 issue 18 is RC and green light

run so this is what I'm loving about this setup

you have a five issue arc of a story and then

you have this breather but it still brings every

like the whole opt Orion and Megatron issues

issue 6 that was like I took a breath I was reading

that because it didn't feel like it was one long

continuous arc even though it is you know what

I mean yeah and then obviously with issue 19

we get rise of the Decepticons and that goes

through to issue 23 So and then issue 24 says

wheeljack orbital decay, so I'm very interested

for us to continue on with this I I very much

am Looking forward to more Brian Ruckley and

these artists man. Oh Man like I'd have to go

back to the page to get their names But like

the artists that are working on this book because

I'm new to them. I Think they get like side swipe

looks like G1 sideswipe a little bit, obviously

Megatron looks like Megatron, Orion looks like

Orion even though he looks more like Optimus

but I'm actually glad that even though they're

calling him Orion he still looks like Optimus

because again as I mentioned earlier it's a it's

a it's a thing of someone like you who has only

known a certain part of it like if you know if

somebody only had known G1 you see Optimus without

a faceplate, you're like, okay, who's that? And

that's the thing. Would I, as a long -time, die

-hard Transformers fan, as someone who has kind

of embraced all of the United States, the Americanized

versions of the characters, would I have been

mad if Optimus, Ryan as Optimus, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah? If Orion didn't have a faceplate

in this, no, because I know in the original G1

cartoon, Orion never had a faceplate. No. But

I get it. And I think it's really good that he

does, because it's more of a visual thing of,

oh, you see where this is going. Now, we don't

see whether he's going to die in this series

and be reborn as Optimus or how that's going

to happen. I have not read ahead yet, because...

As of this recording, the IDW books have not

gone on sale and volume two is $20. And I don't

have $20 right now. If anyone wants to donate,

tfdunmike at gmail .com. Boy, that was a mouthful.

And what I love about getting the trade paperback

is at the back of it, you get the variant covers

during the end of each of the issues and I love

those too. but you get all these variant covers

and they're so cool and so many different artists

like what I love about the variant covers is

for this specific run and I don't know if they've

done this with the the volume 2 and volume 3

they have posters for visiting Cybertron I thought

that was hilariously good yeah that's kind of

interesting I didn't I didn't catch that initially

but yeah I mean that's that's Pretty funny actually.

Yeah, so as we get to the back of this and I

know we said we were gonna do issue 1 to 6 and

issue 7 to 12 but honestly folks I think we've

talked about it and We haven't really spoiled

it. Maybe we'll spoil the next one a little more

But looking through these covers like Cybertron

daily departures, you know, this is done by It's

a Primus Air thing. I can't see who the artist

is. Oh, it's up there at the top. Sorry, folks.

This is how podcasting really works. In the moment,

the art is done by Jeffrey Virage. I'm sorry

if I'm mispronouncing your name, Jeffrey. But

it's like an airline poster kind of thing. And

then the next one is Welcome to Iacon, also done

by the same artist. And then he also did take

the sky bridge today And again, it's like I'm

really digging this guy's art on these posters

and then the last I think the last one he did

was Visit the scenic Cybertronian mountains and

these all looks oh you get one more Cybertron

war Memorial They look so good Just so good.

I'm really loving the art. It's so fun. It's

so interesting So cool. And there's plenty of

other variant covers as well for these. Like

there's a War for Cybertron looking Optimus and

Soundwave cover. And there's even an old G1 cover

done by Adam Riches, which basically it's G1

Optimus and G1 Megatron fighting each other on

the old G1 background kind of thing. Very, very,

very cool. Very interesting Now what would you

rate this if you had to rate it zero to five

stars overall? Hmm Because I really don't have

any like nitpicks per se like I'm I Mean I'm

just in general just nitpicky on stuff sometimes

without a legitimate reason. So I'll probably

say a four, just because I would give it higher,

except I, again, I just have my own stumbling

blocks. But it's nothing against the issue itself.

Right. I'm going to give it... I'm in between

a three and a half and a four overall. Maybe

if I was, as you said, maybe if we had done this

slower, you know, dose by dose, maybe if we had

done an episode for the first five issues kind

of thing. But here's the thing, folks, I didn't

want to do that. I didn't want to have either

one of us dragging out, like, oh, we need to

review the first five issues and do that. Like,

I liked us talking about the whole thing as a

whole because I want the story as a whole. A

friend of mine, at least I hope I could call

him a friend of mine, Jeremy Dennis, who is one

of the hosts over at Transmissions podcast, the

Transmissions Transformers podcast with Charles

Shelton, Big C Charles Shelton and Daryl and

others. He actually commented when I posted about

that I was reading this. When I posted about

this on Facebook he says I haven't gone back

and read the early arcs again But I've heard

the pacing issues that plague the issue by issue

reading aren't as evident in the trade And I

don't know I can't compare it But I have to say

that the way I read this even though it took

me a while because it's 12 issues in one trade

paperback Versus like five or six in one I didn't

have any problem with the pacing of the comic.

I didn't have any problem of going from issue

to issue. Like, I felt like I was on a cliffhanger

every end of every issue. Like, the world in

your eyes, five parts. At the end of each part,

I'm like, oh, cool, oh, wow, okay. And then you

get a cover, and then you get the next cover

for the next issue, and then you jump into it.

And I'm like, oh, I'm so glad I did not have

to wait for this monthly, because it would drive

me insane. It would drive you insane, except

for the fact that you'd actually have time to

comprehend things. True. Very true. And like

I said, folks, we will be covering more of this

series. I don't know exactly when. I do know

that coming up here inside the pull bag, I've

got Joe Reed... I'm basically dangling his head

under a bowl of turtle soup because we're going

to be covering the rest of at least your issue

100 of the IDW publishing team and T -books and

that's going to be taking us all the way through

January of 2021 on the slate. I have us to do

potentially if we need to change this fine. Episode

397 and 398 of The Pullback will be Volume 2

and Volume 3 of this series, so Volume 2 is the

change in your nature and Volume 3 is all fall

down. As of this recording, Volume 2 is out now.

According to Comixology, here is the description

for Transformers Volume 2, the change in their

nature. A bold new era dawns in this fresh vision

of the Transformers universe that will excite

long time fans and new readers alike. Orion Pax,

Chromia, and Security Operations have almost

cracked the case of the RISE terrorists who killed

Brainstorm and Rubble. But they aren't the only

ones worried about the RISE and with a... with...

a bolder Ascentacon faction behind them. Megatron,

Starscream, and Soundwave seek to save Cybertron

from all threats. The Rise, the Nominus Edict,

and the Autobots. This collects Transformers

13 to 18, and Transformers Galaxies number 1

through 6. I'm going to be interested to see

how Galaxies 1 through 6 is slotted into this,

even though I have not hit the buy button on

this yet, even though I can. Although I don't

have the money for it, but like, it's gonna be

interesting to see how they weave galaxies into

the main story with the trade collection. And

then volume three, all fall down. The bold new

vision of the Transformers universe that will

excite long time, uh... Crisis! The tether holding

Cybertron's inner moon to the planet has fallen,

and hundreds of lives have been lost. As the

rubble is sorted, no pun intended. The Ascentikons

are on the move, hoping to leverage the situation

and the lives lost in their favor. Meanwhile,

the Ryze, now under Megatron's command, attempt

to hide some of their most vicious members, but

putting a bunch of killers in a single transport

is never a good idea. Plus, in response to the

crisis at home, the revisionist faction has fled

Cybertron and the teachings of their leader have

convinced them that the only way to return is

to trigger Cybertron's rebirth. But when the

decision comes to gauge, the youngest Cybertronian...

Will she spare the planet? And far away from

Cybertron, Ultra Magnus has his own problems.

Namely, a group of sinister mercenaries on the

hunt for Cybertronian artifacts. This collects

issues 19 to 24 of the Transformers Ongoing and

Transformers Galaxies issues 7 through 12. That's

a lot, folks. and I can already tell you right

now folks we are only when we get to these we

are only covering in one episode for these tray

paperbacks the actual issue like I love that

they're collecting the galaxies run in volume

2 and volume 3 but we will do those I will do

those as separate individual issue episodes not

I will do the Galaxies series as its own thing

because that's just way too much at once. Way,

way too much at once. So, anything else you want

to bring up? Is there anything you've found or

anything other that's going on with Transformers

that you want to talk about before we get the

heck out of here? I don't think so. You don't

think so. Okay, all right. Well we thank you

as always for joining us here on all things transformers

and inside the pull bag New episodes will be

coming to ATTF at some point We just released

two new episodes the episode before this and

then this one obviously The pull bag as I mentioned

before has turtle stuff coming up in it and all

of that So make your great escape into comics

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