miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2015

Some thoughts about Transformers: Windblade #6

Windblade will need to learn about the new tribes if she wants to unite them.

Eukaris is a civilization where the robots with beast forms reside and they resent Cybertronians because of their previous actions against their race. However, Windblade will need to demonstrate they need each other despite of their differences.

There are things that actually work and others not so much sadly.

When Mairghread Scott is concentrating on worldbuilding the issue actually shines. By developing new kind of Transformers that are born as twins as well as the race of Beastformers the author actually expands of some concepts that were unused for a long time and integrate them into current continuity in a pretty logical way.

However (and this is a big HOWEVER), the presentation is certainly lacking. At first the introduction of old fan-favorite characters from Beast Wars like Dinobot and Cheetor is good for fanservice sake at the very least but after a while you realize that these reintroductions lacked any kind of substance and impression, they just appeared that's it, they felt pretty bland overall. The dialogue don't help matters since the characters can speak in pretty derivative ways that make them sound like caricatures of their former selves.

I think the right course of action would have been to start integrating these characters one by one in different sections for a deeper portrayal and presentation but alas that's not the case.

Corin Howell is on art duties and her cartoony style is not really bad since it allows for some interesting expressions but it's kinda ill-suited here due that the chapter would benefit from a more complex style.

Mixed thoughts about this as I said, I wouldn't call it bad necessarily but is not great either.

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