I think it’s just something Hasbro wants to happen, even the Transformers rpg game has a crossover with GI Joe, though also power rangers for good measure.
https://renegadegamestudios.com/pdf-...er-sourcebook/
I think it’s just something Hasbro wants to happen, even the Transformers rpg game has a crossover with GI Joe, though also power rangers for good measure.
https://renegadegamestudios.com/pdf-...er-sourcebook/
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.
This could be fun! Kirkman is a cool cat, I'm on board to give his take on these a whirl. Well, his studio/label.
I don't mind Image/Skybound but I'd rather just get new TF and Joe comics then immediately cross them over or put them together with a new Kirkman comic.
I wonder if more licensed comics is really more exciting to the market than a new creator owned book from Kirkman.
I kind of wish G.I. Joe was doing it's own thing instead of just reacting to Transformers, but that might get more people to check it out.
*sigh* Looks like Kirkman's understanding of Transformer is from the G1 cartoon and TFTM and they are going hard to appeal to that demographic. I'm guessing that'll be the same for Joe. That's it's all going to be a callback to those original cartoons. Seems like even the toy designers at Hasbro aren't so weeded to nostalgia and actually know about stuff outside the Americans cartoons (like IDW, G2, UT, BW/BM, Masterforce/Victory/HMs).
Last edited by Bruce Wayne; 06-14-2023 at 06:26 PM.
Me and my friends are big time disciples of Transformers: The Movie, it's our fav. We have watched it so many times, so many quotes, just got a new friend into it lately too. It's like, by far the best thing related to Transformers ever. I've also noticed Kirkman having a framed Transformers: The Movie poster on his wall while doing interviews online before, thought that was cool.
I think with a Kirkman produced book, he likes to mix things up. I'm sure if these books are successful and last, five years from now we'll have a pretty different and new status quo. But I gotta say, I enjoy these references, and I'm in my 30s so I wasn't even there at the time. It's just the best. Kind of like how the Star Wars trilogy is the best part of that universe, at least in concept and iconography. (Personal taste as well.)
Last edited by SavageJudgeDredd; 06-15-2023 at 10:25 AM.
The problem is going all in for the cartoon isn't bearing the dividends like it use to (like with Dreamwave). IDW had the All Hail Megatron series which was going for the cartoon audience and iirc the sales were just flat and people weren't fans of it. You have to bring something new to the table beside cartoon homages like what Kirkman is doing now with the first issue of Void Rivals.
Last edited by Bruce Wayne; 06-15-2023 at 05:39 PM.