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Post by zedebo on Mar 8, 2010 21:32:28 GMT
Amazon (US) have TPB for a Drift Mini on their site due for release at end of November. It's written by Shane McCarthy, I've checked his blog and it just says he's working on a secret mini, so looks like Amazon have leaked what it is onto their site.
Oddly, this TPB comes out a month before Ironhide's TPB (in the US no dates for UK release).
Looks like it could be about his defection from the Con's and his knowledge of the 3rd faction.
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Post by mindsetoverhaul on Mar 9, 2010 16:01:00 GMT
Potentially Rad! if true(?) i haven't seen it anywhere else, but if i may speculate... and my GF's in bed, so i shall... This should be fairly well received by fellow Geewunners, as it's, more often than not, difficult to adjust to new CRAP being dropped into a 25+ yr old franchise that doesn't need freshening, but continuity. And seeing Drift's stuck around for the ongoing, the readers deserve to know why they should allow this previously unheard of Con/Bot to join the fray.
AHM, regardless of it's definite interruption of what was a poorly completed G1 story that came before it, was very surprisingly well written, and I expect the same from my Ex-local-comic-shop-employee again and hope that this project indeed comes to fruition.
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Post by Omega Steve on Mar 9, 2010 20:00:02 GMT
I'm looking forward to this series too. No doubt it will enrage that element of the fandom who loathe AHM, Drift and Shane McCarthy but as a con-defector Drift has got a more interesting backstory than most so why not tell it. To me this mini makes more sense than Ironhide who I've never found a particularly interesting character.
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Post by sentinelprime2006 on Mar 9, 2010 20:59:47 GMT
Seeing as they are doing all these mini series based on characters, do you think they will ever do one about some of Kups old war stories? I caught the 5 page preview of TF:Timelines #5 Wings of Honour. I think it would be quite interesting.
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Post by Dr Headache Rushing on Mar 10, 2010 22:33:09 GMT
I'll buy it and I'll read it with interest. To me though it's a complete over indulgence from IDW. With over 800 Gen 1 and Gen 2 characters (taking into account the Japanese and Gen 1.5 European characters) most of whom have had little to no character development, to devote a mini series to a new, freshly created character in a story (albeit different continuity) spanning 25+ years is daft. Drift is a cool character, same as Straxus and Impactor before him, but he should be a bit player not a key character in the continuity IMHO.
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Post by Omega Steve on Mar 16, 2010 23:24:48 GMT
The irony is that despite all the hype and the counter-reaction Drift IS a bit player in AHM. I mean what does he actually do? It's not until his spotlight that we get any idea of what he's all about and why he's got a different backstory to the others. I take the point about there being a massive cast of characters to choose from already but to me its no different to Hasbro releasing a new toy and then IDW or Marvel giving them facetime in the comic. Except in Drift's case the proverbial cart is before the horse.
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