I bought The War Within Omnibus for two reasons. One, because Don Figueroa's artwork is extraordinary; and two, because the War for Cybertron videogame came out recently, and I want to buy it. So I ordered it on Amazon and spent a few days reading it, and now I'm ready to talk about it.
The omnibus collects two miniseries written by Simon Furman that were originally published by Dreamwave and now are being re-released by IDW. The first one is The War Within, illustrated by Don Figueroa; and the second one is The War Within: The Dark Ages, drawn by Andrew Wildman. The first one was great fun to read, and Figueroa's artwork blew me away. Also, it was great to see old characters I used to love back in the 80s when I collected the original Transformers series from Marvel. I recognized Jazz, Wheeljack, Grimlock, Bumblebee, Optimus, Prowl, Starscream, Ravage, Soundwave, Megatron, etc, and I didn't even need to be told who they were. As opposed to the Michael Bay movies, in which every robot looks like crap and they're indistinguishable from each other, here I could tell who Jetfire and Hound were without even having to think about it. It was so much fun, and I had a blast reading this six-part story.
The second series, though… Well, something was obviously missing in between The War Within and The Dark Ages, and even though I quickly caught up with the events, I could never shake off the feeling of being in medias res. In addition to that, the story wasn't as interesting as the first one, and while Wildman is a good Transformers artist (I remember loving his issues in the original TF series back in the 80's, and he's only gotten better), he is no Figueroa.
To sum it up, I had a good time reading this collection, so if you're interested in the pre-Earth era of the Transformers saga, do not hesitate and check out The War Within. At least the first miniseries…
4 comments:
Brutal el trailer del juego, transformer siempre me ha parecido una gran franquicia que se ha desaprovechado con malos guiones, en cine y en comics.
Estoy de acuerdo. El otro día estuve jugando un rato al juego en casa de un amigo, y está muy bien. Ya podían haber sido así las películas. Y hablando del tema, ya veremos qué pasa con la tercera. Mucho tienen que cambiar las cosas para que vaya al cine a verla, después de lo malísima que fue la segunda.
Yo todavia no la he visto y la tengo la copia de seguridad hace ya algun tiempo. Y para la tercera quitan a Megan que era lo único agradable de ver.
Totalmente de acuerdo. Y si no has visto la segunda, ni te molestes, de verdad.
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