Clov
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I always thought the 1986 movie had made me forever immune to franchises taking what I love and murdering it on screen after all my childhood favourites were killed off in the first five minutes. And then I watched a Michael Bay TF film and it made killing off old characters to sell new toys because money seem almost benign in comparison to the raw hate and militarised, tubthumping nationalism going on in his films.
I still love the 1986 cartoon. I grew to love the new characters too (except Hot Rod) and it’s so quotable, I still do so today (much to my wife’s chagrin after teaching my kid the Universal Greeting).
Still, Transformers One sounds like it has potential, I’m in for that next year!
It's funny, since I wasn't a big fan of Hot Rod in the film, but I'm a huge fan of him in the comics!
It helps that they give him a cool design, a personality, and didn't make him responsible for getting everyone's childhood hero killed! He's the star of More Than Meets the Eye, a comic that also made me care about a lot of characters from the movie that I thought nothing of. Like Cyclonus, who goes from being "literally just some guy" to "morose gay space warrior".
On the topic of the comics, there's been some preview images of the new series from Skybound starting in October! I don't know how the writing will turn out, but the art is looking very promising!