by Skids » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:06 pm
Well, the Energon comic was pretty damn good, although it was never finished. I mean, yah, it was much more of your lightweight, popcorn book, but hey, they figured it'd be the kid-targeted book. (Except for the fact that it wasn't sold anywhere kids could *read* it...so they should've just made it a full-blown serious story.) Still, it was what the Energon cartoon *should've* been.
Oh, one of my biggest points of contention with Dreamwave was how they managed to screw up the reunion of Furman and Andy Wildman with their murky colors. I've seen the lineart, and Wildman was as strong as ever...but as with the Wreckers #2, DW applied a totally inappropriate style of coloring to his work, uh, baddening it. Making it worse? Wildman and Dan Khanna (The excellent artist behind Wreckers) have a very animated style that needs the sort of "four-color" (I know it's digital, now, but it looks like the old style coloring) coloring that IDW is giving EJ's and Roche's work. Heck, so does Guido, and they colored his work on Armada and Energon just fine. No love for the Wild Man, though? >_<
Oh well...I still wanna get the trade of War Within Dark Ages, since War Within was the best thing DW had going for them and I love Wildman's pencils, but...Jeezum, it coulda been so much *better*-handled!
But yah...they should've gotten worried as soon as Mick said "This is my first comic writing gig!" Uh, yeah...Toppe Flats was the second time I ever tried to write a comic script, and although I'm happy with it...there's a reason it's forever condemned to the "Workroom" as rough work. Surely there could've been more experienced writers DW could have tapped. Y'know, someone in the office. Someone like...SIMON FURMAN?! Loathe as I am to quote Will Smith, "AW HELL NAW..." Somehow I don't think Furman would actually have turned DOWN another title...