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from my comments:
Celebrating Dreamwave while trashing Furman and humanized Transformers? I’m totally onboard with all that. Dreamwave is my favorite as well, but a few clarifications are in order.
For one thing, Dreamwave’s first miniseries wasn’t done by Furman. (He responded by saying that wasn’t what he intended to say and hope that’s not how he came off.) He did The War Within and oddly the two parts of the Unicron Trilogy, Armada and Energon (Cybertron came out after Dreamwave collapsed because Pat Lee screwed over the talent and his company by using the money to buy cars for him and his family instead of paying the talent or the bills). The first miniseries was by Chris Saraccini, and did its own “adult” moments like Megatron squashing a guy as he took a leak. The rest of the DW run was by Brad Mick and Adam Patyk and was good. Actually, outside of Furman sneaking Galvatron into the Unicron Trilogy, one of his pet characters (he would have done Grimlock in if he could), The War Within, Armada, and Energon are not that bad. It’s the only time I’ll say that about Furman Transformers stories, which includes a lot of that “humanization” of Transformers as beings. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been writing my own Transformers lore on my site. That and the whole “forced caste” nonsense that’s gone on since IDW and the Megatron: Origins miniseries.
I’m also of the mind that Transformers is a kids toyline, and thus the media should at least be accessible to kids. Nobody asked Sesame Street to “grow up with the audience”, and that’s why I can’t get into Skybound’s take. That and killing my boy Bumblebee at the start. I’m not saying it should be a “kids comic”, given what that usually means to the kid-hating modern writers, but that it should at least be kid accessible, which Skybound most definitely isn’t. I would have rather something closer to Super Dinosaur than Invincible.
All that said, Dreamwave is my favorite take, followed by the Marvel Budiansky run. Shame he doesn’t get to write more Transformers while we can’t get away from Furman
TL;DR: I agree with pretty much all of this.
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