Transformers Media and IDW Comics Discussion

This is Optimus Prime, and you're listening to

All Things Transformers. attest people the Decepticons

did not destroy Chicago No, they did not So that

movie is a lie fake news sad I Will allow that

just because that was actually funny So yeah,

we're the dynamic duel of transformers is back.

Yep, so Yeah, I've I've been doing some various

things in the show and Well, we have big plans.

So we'll just leave it at that very very big

plans I will be continuing the origin series

at some point. I'm just waiting for certain guests

to get their act together So, yes origins will

continue one thing that I've noticed in transformers

recently not necessarily to do with Hasbro or

You know anything official official Chris McFeely

is doing a series on YouTube called transformers

the basics It's amazing. Have you watched any

of these things? No, I haven't watched any of

them I've kind of glanced I think I glanced at

one of them one day, but I Got torn away because

I was busy with something else, but I know that

Chris McFeely is a awesome dude He is very knowledgeable

just like Proto man Proto man and He's also he's

also on a lot of podcast stuff and he he does

a lot of voice acting in the the audio nights

and He's also on TF wiki a lot. He was also the

voice of our Dinobot in Dark glass that never

actually made it to the light of day. So I will

send you his his you I'm sure you have it But

I'll send you and you can put a link in the post

here for his YouTube page for his transformers

the basic series because all He makes it seem

like anybody can approach the brand like you

know how I've often said Oh unless I can start

from the beginning I just don't want to do it

because I don't want to get into it because I

feel like I need to start from the beginning.

He starts us at various points. He talks about

a different topic in each one, and he makes it

basically so an everyday person can feel like

they know what's going on in the Transformers

brand without us die hard fans saying, oh, no,

it's this, or oh, no, it's that, or oh, no, you

need to do this. Oh, no, you're exiled to the

planet of junk to do this because you did this.

Or you said, no, it's nothing like that. It's

amazing, it's fun, it's wow. I have to actually

catch up. I haven't watched episodes in a little

while, but almost every time I watch one, I end

up commenting on each video. Yeah, and funny

you should bring up YouTube Transformers. I saw

somebody, they were talking about the new...

Titans Return series and we're saying, you know,

ah, slang that, blah, blah, blah. They said I

would rather watch it once Transformers G1 Redone

does it. I don't know if you've ever heard of

this guy, but Frederick McMahon on Twitter, or

not Twitter, YouTube has this channel that's

Transformers G1, like G -E -E -W -N, Redone.

Uh, and he redoes, uh, episodes of G1, uh, as

well as some TF animated and, um, some of the,

uh, he, he redid, uh, Combiner Wars. Okay. It's

actually quite hilarious. Uh, he took, uh, like

20 minutes of Combiner Wars, like he chopped

it up and, and put it together into this. And

I think they were. Think there were like 10 minute

episodes or five minute episodes or something

like that. Anyways, there's it's only 19 minutes

long And it's the whole thing kind of comprised

in there and he redos everybody's voices and

it's like almost like watching bad lip -reading

But with transformers and it's hilarious Like

they have prime and Megatron making fun of wing

blade like the whole time like not taking her

seriously and the blade not wing wind whatever

You're gonna she's a throwaway character. No,

she's not in in combiner wars. I see it as that

so I Don't care for the character Because she's

whiny That's cuz you haven't read the comics.

Okay. Yeah, I don't read the comics, but she's

a whiner in the combiner wars So anyways, they

made her out really whiny in this and it was

funny. So I'm Not that I have a problem with

a female character they just wrote her really

whiny in the the thing so uh and then this thing

was just mcguffin filled anyways uh so it was

kind of funny to watch regardless cool awesome

yeah i haven't watched the combiner war stuff

i like Now that Rescue Bots is done, I'm going

to eventually catch up with that series now that

RID is almost done or is done completely because

what's the twin twist or whatever the hell the

new one? No, the new series is actually, it's

not the Titans Return because that's coming soon.

They're having Cyberverse. Yeah, that's what

it is. What are your opinions on Cyberverse,

since I haven't had you on in a while? Honestly?

I have not kept up with any like the only thing

Transformers wise I'm keeping up with sort of

kind of because I've been moving the last month

and a half and I'm getting married in less than

a month and a half and all that the only thing

I've been keeping up with is this comic solicitations

for IDW like I know I haven't even seen anything

from cyberverse I haven't seen a trailer I haven't

seen anything there is a graphic with Bumblebee

and he has the G1 aesthetic Okay, and it's got

the RID kind of It's almost like well. It's got

almost RID mixed with animated. Yeah animation

feel yeah, that's what RID was supposed to be

and It's it's got bumblebee in his classic kind

of look I mean he's still a Camaro looking car,

but he's more aesthetically like the G1 And then

wind blade is is supposed to be his best friend

And he's supposed to have some high regard mission

that he's supposed to remember. And for whatever

reason, he's forgotten it either due to trauma

or something else. So her goal is to help him

through it because it's like a high priority

mission and they have prime where he's not wearing

the faceplate. But he looks G1, you know, like

the RID series. So it's. It looks like it's gonna

be kind of interesting, but it looks like it'll

be probably better than what we've gotten last

couple years anyway So I'm kind of looking forward

to it to see what they do with it honestly But

yeah, that's all we've seen from it. There's

been a few figures that have come out But they're

like the almost like legends level. Yeah, so

there's really nothing of substance there I know

rid just recently had bulkhead Coming to the

show Because he's Like they've had ratchet they've

had prime. They've had Starscream in his original

body. They've had sound wave they've had I'm

still waiting until they have Megatron show up

because I have a feeling he's going to show up

towards the end It's supposed to be Megatron

as far as I've heard because It's it's You know

reluctantly his it's supposed to be like a band

of Decepticons that are fighting the actual Decepticons

that are In Megatron if you remember kind of

was like forget this I'm done. Yeah He's like

screw you guys I'm going home kind of like the

Combiner Wars where we're g1 Megatron's like

screw this and he's gone and he's just out on

a backwater planet just gladiator fighting, you

know so I think it's going to be very similar

to that. I'm kind of liking the fact that they've

kind of given them that robots in disguise animation

that kind of kept as much of their aesthetic

as possible. It's on a couple different places,

I should say. There's that, and then we've got,

of course, transformers bumblebee yes which I'm

kind of I honestly I don't know as I've said

before in the past when we've done news episodes

which it's been forever since I've done a news

episode but Little bits and pieces of information

like the fact that Steve Jablonski had stated

that he may not be able to produce music for

the Bumblebee movie because of other projects

he's working on currently that's kind of disappointing,

but he does say that He's under the impression

that the movie will be released in summer 2018

rather than Christmas since scoring only happens

during the final stages of post -production And

according to TFW, we can guess that there is

still a chance for him to compose if approached

by Paramount. It would be great if Jablonski

did the Bumblebee movie because his scores have

been good, excellent, amazing for all of the

films. That's my favorite part of the live -action

films at this point is his music. However, because

it's... technically a solo film I almost want

to see somebody else approach it just for that

one film I have this this distinct feeling like

it's gonna turn out that way yeah and that's

more so because you know look at the Star Wars

movies for instance the the individual films

have different people usually helming different

parts of it in different Yeah, Michael Giacchino

did Rogue One. Yeah, and so I mean I think that

it's kind of fitting if they have different people

do the solo films. However, there's only going

to be four robot cast members for the movie.

What? Which only one of which is Bumblebee, and

we know of a possible Decepticon in a red 1971

Plymouth GTX. So there's two more. So there'll

be either a... Another decepticon or another

Autobot or another two decepticons. It's hard

to say So yeah, it's gonna be mostly a human

based film which kind of again sucks I'm not

a fan of Robo kibble. So the movie universe doesn't

really fit my Tastes, but I know that some people

like them Yeah I yeah, so you've got you know

John Cena's a sector seven agent you've got Jason

Drucker who I'm not even sure who that is and

then Haley Steinfeld on the set so I don't know

I'm kind of interested to see what they do with

it because it's a solo flick and it has nothing

to do with the current continuity and It's not

Michael Bay. It's not any of the same Stuff so

it kind of strikes me because I think that it's

gonna be a different aesthetic and in different

style to it Mm -hmm, which I think that this

series sorely needs at this point Yeah, I think

we need someone else's vision and someone else's

writing and someone else's production company

dealing with this and not any more of Michael

Bay, right? I mean, I can't I can't say he's

done terrible because he's reinvigorated the

franchise like Beast Wars did back in the 90s

but same token i'm kind of sick of this yeah

um what is so interesting to me for uh Jablonski

and his scoring stuff obviously he worked on

Bayes the Island but he did the he did the music

for Desperate Housewives Can't believe that No,

I find it hilarious more than anything else like

transformers and desperate housewives He did

the music for Pain and Game, which is a Bay film.

He did the music for Ender's Game. I saw Ender's

Game. That wasn't too bad. I mean, it wasn't

great, but the book was definitely better. He

did the music for the new, of course, at this

point it's seven years ago, the 2010 version

of Nightmare on Elm Street. He did the music

for that. I think that's getting a reboot, too.

Probably is. I'm sure all of them are at this

point. Yeah. Reboot's galore. It's like Oprah,

you get a reboot and you get a reboot. Where's

actual reboot? I was gonna say for the art for

this episode, you should have her saying that

and then have Bob come up and say, what reboot

or something like that? I don't know. Anyway,

what else we got for Transformers stuff on your

end? Well, I mean, other than the Machinima series,

which I'm looking forward to, I know that the

Headmasters fan dub is going to be working on

another episode, finally. Because I'm privy to

that information, as I'm one of the voice actors.

I do the voice of Scourge, which is awesome.

Cool. I still enjoy doing that. I literally have

not recorded a vocal for that in probably two

years. You should probably get on that then.

Well, it's not even my fault. I'm waiting for

the next script. I think that the last time I

got an episode was episode 8 and... Now, mind

you, this thing started over after I initially

started it. I think it made to episode five and

then somebody else took it over and started back

from episode one and redid it because they wanted

to give it more of a generation one vibe. Right.

And so we all had to we had the option to pick

up our characters again. And I'm like, well,

yeah, I'm going to do it like I want to be cemented

in this fandom. So I. I of course rejoined and

so I've done Scourge through the original set

that we did and then the rebooted version but

I still enjoyed doing it. The hard part was when

I first started doing it was getting the voice

down and it wasn't even getting it down. It was

getting it to fit within the Japanese mouth flaps

and getting it to fit in the time span before

it jumped to the next person speaking. there

were certain phrases that I had to say, which

still are... Like, I can hold the voice, but

the longer Scourge talks, the harder it is to

keep the voice uniform. Because, he talks like

this, you won't escape alive. And, you know,

then, Rodimus Prime and, you know, something

else, and then so it kind of... It gets hard

to say like the whole sentence because there

was there was a whole debacle with Talking about

Galvatron mighty Galvatron and you know and then

Metroplex and six -shot and something else in

the conversation and I was like man. I just can't

hold it and so like I I had to to go through

the rounds of all years and doing a bunch of

Megatron vocals to get the Scourge vocal? Yeah,

well, because they're actually tied together,

which is funny because I get to this natural

progression of Megatron by trying to do Scourge.

Because the more I scratch my vocal cords by

doing Scourge, the better I can do Megatron.

It's like when I'm sick, when I'm sick is the

best time to have me do Megatron. Because...

I can do Beast Wars Megatron no problem when

I'm sick because that's the only voice that I

can get that comes out and sounds perfect. My

own voice sounds like garbage when I'm sick.

But the minute I try and do Megatron, like I

pretty much when I'm sick, I will talk in pretty

much Megatron's voice almost exclusively because

it's easier for me to do. And it doesn't hurt.

It's like if I've got a sore throat, that's like

my go -to. I'm like, I am Megatron for the day,

children. And then my son's like, Dad, stop.

Ian's like, dude, he's like, Dad, stop doing

that. And I'm like, what? I'm like, I'm not doing

anything. I have an argument with my kid doing

Megatron, and the younger one just thinks it's

hilarious, and then Ian's like, stop. He doesn't,

he's not very amused by it anymore, like, it

used to amuse him, now he's just like, stop it!

Do some other voice, go away, or like if I start

doing other voices, he's like, it's not funny.

You should start doing the Joker for him all

the time now. I did that and it scared the crap

out of him, so I quit doing that. It just sounds,

it sounds so evil, so like he's... You know,

I pretty much relegate that to when I'm like

irritated around the house. And I go, oh bloody

hell! And then uh, which almost sounds like uh,

uh, Steve Blum's Starscream in a sense, but.

You should do that like when you're going to

wake him up. Do the Joker. Hello children. That's

funny. It's your dear old Uncle Joker here. Yep.

Aw, yes. Wake up. Now. Yes. So yeah, and then

on this podcast we're going to be doing the Beast

Wars 2 and Beast Wars Neo reviews, although those

will be delayed for a little bit because I'm

going to be out of town for the weekends for

the next two weeks. So... Yeah, I'm hoping well

I know you're still gonna have content But I'm

hoping to get at least one or two origins episodes

in so that way the content keeps going I don't

know Alright, so I mentioned earlier in the podcast

about the Transformers IDW comics I'm not currently

actually reading them But I'm keeping up with

those solicitations from IDW and I just got the

January 2018 solicitations in for all of IDW's

titles But obviously since this is a Transformers

podcast we will focus on those specifically Transformers

Lost Light number 14 written by James Roberts

Brendan Cahill and Jack Lawrence on art. McGuffin

Quest. The scavengers have never had it so good.

The war is a receding memory. Their patchy service

records have been forgotten, and the five of

them can roam the galaxy as they please. All's

well that ends well, question mark. Not quite,

because unbeknownst to Crook and Co., their next

adventure will be their last dun dun dun. Then

there is optimus prime number 15 written by John

Barber art and all that stuff done by key Zama

I assume I'm it's key key ke I so I assume it's

key. I don't know anyway the falling part one

Darkness falls over Cybertron as the legendary

Onyx Prime returns. What does this mean for Optimus

Prime and the Earth? Windblade defends an already

tense planet against a secret that could shatter

Cybertron forever. And then we've got the last

one here. Transformers versus... Transformers

versus the Visionaries, number two of five. This

is written by Magdalene Visaggio? And art is

done by Fico Oseo. Um, the Trulina, or Verlina,

leader of the Darkling Lords, has discovered

that the Transformers are vulnerable to magic,

and now she's using that weakness to try and

gain control of Cybertron and wipe them out.

Lyric and Ironhide team up to stop her, but quickly

find themselves facing not only the Darkling

Lords, but all of new Prismos itself. Dun dun

dun. Yeah, I'm so far behind on the Transformers

comics as far as reading them and there is a

point to that because eventually Ryan Merkley

and I will come back and do another Autobotly

April and or Autobotly August next year for all

things Transformers and the pull bag. I have

not even read the new Optimus Prime comic or

the Lost Light comic which is the reboots of

More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise.

I have several of the Windblade comics already.

I know you said you're not into comics, but I

want you to get just a better feel for her character

other than what you feel is the crappy written

animated version. So I will send you those and

you can read them at your leisure just so you

can see that she's more than what she's made

out to be in the cartoon. And I put him to sleep,

folks. Sounds good. Sounds good. It's not that

I'm disinterested in the comics. I literally

just don't have time to sit there and stare at

them anymore. And it's also because I'm not a

fan of... I haven't been a fan of anything IDW

has put out. Personally. Because I see it going

in way too many directions. Whereas there was

strictly one line... with when I was a Marvel

follower when I was a Dreamwave follower like

yeah there were different like there was Armada

there was you know Energon there was uh there

was G1 and then they were going to have a Beast

Wars series which uh I collected all the different

ones but they were totally different universes

so like that's that's kind of where I get a little

bit thrown off is like I don't want to have to

keep up with everything going on okay so I will

explain this to you off rep and I loved the aesthetics

of Dreamwave over This stuff like That's kind

of what it what it boiled down to and after that

I'd kind of I Was kind of done like I collected

some of the stuff here or there and I do like

some of the graphics I've seen on some of the

covers and some of the stuff inside, but I really

haven't followed any of it since IDW took over

other than the Beast Wars material and even then

like That's about all I cared about if Dreamwave

came out with another Beast Wars series. I'd

be all over it, but I just I haven't had any

interest in half the orient investments in the

characters they've had Right Well Cuz like I

I see Megatron is leader of the Decepticons I

see primes leader of the Autobots like anything

else it just kind of throws me out and I'm kind

of I'm Old -school like that. So like I just

I don't rather than sit and piss and moan about

them And who's in charge and all these different,

you know dynamics going on. I just kind of I

Just don't read it All right, well there are

Several things I can point you to, not necessarily

reading, but you can at least listen. And you

can decide for yourself if you want to actually

read the things, because Ryan and I pretty much

go in depth on every single thing we've done

with these series. So we can tackle that another

day. Sounds good. Yep. So I think that about

rounds this out. Yes, it does. So until next

time. Transform and roll out.