So…one of the events that I didn’t get to discuss during my hiatus earlier this month were rumors that IDW Publishing would be losing the license to Transformers and G.I. Joe, but now that it’s been confirmed I can safely say…I’m happy to hear it. If you were on this site back when I had money coming in and was buying Transformers comics you know I grew increasingly dissatisfied with the direction IDW was taking the franchise, and that’s before the recent universal reboot, which frankly would have been the perfect time to drop out as this was IDW admitting they took their universe as far as they could go, and this new reboot will now be unable to complete its story the way they wanted since at the end of the year it will be going to somewhere else.
Look, if you like what they did, fine. While the following list of my reasons why I’m happy to see this find a new home (rumors suggest Robert Kirkman’s Skybound studios, who usually publishes through Image comics, are in talks and I’ll go over my opinions there in tomorrow’s follow-up article) will contain very huge mistakes, including one longtime readers already know is coming, most of these come down to personal preference as to what I want to see in a Transformers series. I will also note a few things I liked. In fact, let’s start this sort of memorial there.
