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Dunno if they're losing it for MLP, but I do know for sure they're losing it for Transformers and G.I. Joe. Hopefully they'll lose the rest too.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on February 16, 2022, 11:12:48 PMDunno if they're losing it for MLP, but I do know for sure they're losing it for Transformers and G.I. Joe. Hopefully they'll lose the rest too.They're not. In fact, a G5 IDW comic series was just announced.
The artwork in these is absolutely atrocious. Not because it's ugly, but because the artist clearly does not care. Just about every single pony she draws is very clearly traced from either vectors from the show, or even fanart.
I love this image. I couldn't find all of the vectors at the time but this is so perfect.
Okay there seems to be a lot of IDW bashing suddenly going on in this thread so I just wanted to step in and say how much I firmly, vehemently disagree with that statement. IDW is an amazing company. Is everything they do of good quality? No, of course not. Just like any company. This Generations crossover was a complete disaster. It's not the only poorly made comic they've produced either, but neither is it what they normally make.It's not easy being a comic book company when you're not Marvel or DC. Those two had a monopolizing stranglehold on the comics industry for many years, and IDW went up against them and took a great concept (revitalizing franchises from the 80's and 90's that we feel nostaligic for) and giving us new stories with the characters we love from our childhoods.I've never read the Transformers of GI Joe series, but I absolutely adore the TMNT and Ghostbusters comics they've given us, and there's been a lot of MLP FiM comics from them that I enjoy too. I liked their little Back to the Future mini-series, too. Also I liked the Jem comics and I'm sad that they weren't popular enough to continue. They changed the story, yes, but just like The Babysitters Club show on Netflix, you have to modernize your story sometimes in order to reach a modern audience.Keep in mind that there's over 100 issues of TMNT and over 50 issues of Ghostbuters comics from IDW. They have shown they can withstand the test of time. People do like their content enough to have kept them afloat for years.The MLP IDW comics ran from 2012 to 2021. That's nine years! That's a great run for a comic series. A lot of the stories in the comics were aimed at kids, being simply friendship lessons, with a few being a little more in-depth and complicated. Similar to the MLP FiM show, actually.Sometimes they have really great artists, and sometimes they don't. There's been a lot of awesome MLP comic art over the years. Some of the art is traced, yes, but not often. (The same can actually be said of any comic book, including Marvel and DC. People have been pointing out traced art in comic books since comic books were invented, basically.)There's 100+ issues of the main MLP comic series, and a side-series called Friends Forever that has Mane 6 and background characters team up on little adventures. It gives a lot of random characters, like the Mayor and Shining Armor and Babs Seed, time to shine. The side series has over 30 issues. With other stand-alone stories and Annuals and other mini-series, there are about 200 issues of MLP FiM comics altogether. It's one of IDW's most successful series out of all their franchises.I will repeat that yes, Generations was horrible. It's sad that the FiM comics ended with a whimper and not a bang. The art is bad, the story is very bad. They lied when they said it was a Crossover, because it basically wasn't. Like Carrehz said, it might have been a thrown together project that they did just to have something until the G5 comics were ready.IDW is precious to me, because they keep alive the shows and movies that meant so much to me as a kid. And it's obvious it's not just a cash grab. IDW actually cares about these franchises. If you follow the Twitter accounts of the artists, you'll see how much they are fans of these franchises. (In fact one of the primary Ghostbusters comic artists was just a fan who made tons of Ghostbusters fanart on DA until IDW hired him to make it officially. You can still find his old DA account with all his old fanart.)So please, if you haven't read other IDW comics, don't come into this thread and assume that everything this company produces is bad based on our reviews here, because it's not. Don't automatically assume the G5 comic is going to be horrible. Personally, I'm excited to see new stories from these characters that we barely got to know from the movie.Not every comic appeals to every person, just like any form of art. But if you like old 80's cartoons and you someday see IDW has made a comic based on it, maybe pick it up and judge for yourself.
SpoilerGood point on the "is Tales 'representing' G2" thing - hadn't even considered that but you could be onto something... she HAS to be there for Brony-related reasons. It can't be a coincidence that they picked the one whose name bronies borrowed for a G4 background pony.Honestly I've never understood why this comic exists. It's clearly not aimed at us - you know, G1 fans - but... I dunno, I can't say I know how G4 fans think, what they'd like to see, etc, but would they really be into this...? It seems so far removed from the G1 cartoons (or ANY previous G1 works - like I've said all along, I'm fine with a bit of reinterpretation, mixing canons, etc, but this just really feels like G1 in name only, not much connection to anything? It doesn't "feel" like G1) that surely it wouldn't appeal to any G4 fans who maybe enjoy some concepts from G1 but not the gen itself? if that makes sense? I'm sure there ARE some primarily-G4 fans who are also into G1...The G4 stuff in the comic felt pretty generic to me, what I read of it, but I don't do G4 so I can't really comment there.It's just a weird choice for a comic all around. Surely a crossover is meant to appeal to fans of both properties that were crossing over? Why make a "crossover" and then have it focus on entirely new chars who have nothing to do with G1 other than some very tenuous, vague, tacked-in links to older characters - which you could snip out and it wouldn't affect the story itself - and not introduce any actual G1 characters until the story's already over half over?!?! I know I keep saying this, but it's just so bizarre!Out of curiosity - I know there was a FiM/Transformers crossover comic at some point - has anyone on here read it? Did that suffer from the same problems as this G1 comic or was it a proper crossover?