#ruckley

[yumyumsteak]

IDW2 road rage x nautica / 2019

[quetzalpapalotl]

Incredible how IDW2!Nautica is all "oh I don't fit in Cybertron, it's so dull, I feel much more at ease interacting with aliens" all while being completely unaware of her trail of broken hearts that were utterly captivated by her melancholic autistic girl swag.

[keycomicbooks]

Transformers #1 (2019) Gabriel Rodriguez Cover & Angel Hernandez & Ron Joseph Pencils, Brian Ruckley Story, Origin of Cybertron

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[elfdragon12]

While I'm okay with genderswapping Transformers in shows to better balance gender ratios, I do wish that wasn't apparently the first resort for writers once they've grabbed Arcee, Elita-1, and/or Windblade instead of just... Using one of the many female Transformers that already exist.

Other female characters I want to see animated:

Autobot Road Rage, my tippy top pick. She is so cool and sexy.

Decepticon Spacewarp. She's a deep space explorer that has lots of different adventures and finds herself questioning the Decepticon cause.

Megaempress and the Four Guards. For the love of all things good, please pull a Ruckley and write these ladies something decent because the Unite Warriors comics are terrible with them.

Autobot Javelin, sharpshooter and warrior! She has a really cool design and I think there are some really interesting ways you can take her character, especially if you bounce off the IDW2 story where she's traumatized from getting a head injury in combat!

Decepticon sleeper agent Flip Side. I want to see a dedicated story arc based off of her story with Blaster and how she deals with realizing her life was a lie.

Pyra Magna and the Torchbearers/Rust Renegades. While Victorion showed up in the Prime Wars trilogy, the separate components didn't seem to do so. I think either story from IDW1 or IDW2 would be fantastic story to explore in an animated story!

What female characters who've never been animated (or perhaps showed up for maybe 5 seconds) would you like to see?

[decepti-thots]

🔥 on IDW

People like to blame IDW2's lackluster fan reception among enthusiasts for them losing the license. I think this is bullshit, and that they would have lost it whether or not they continued the IDW1 continuity instead. At the end of the day, IDW as a license holder never had amazing sales figures for the Transformers comics after the original launch post-Dreamwave- I know Roberts and Barber have both confirmed that MTMTE was doing better than the official sales figures indicated (as it was selling unusually well on digital platforms due to its demographic appeal, which are not counted because Comics Industry Bullshit), and I believe them when they say that helped there. But even by the overall dismal standards of USAmerican monthly comic sales (and they are dismal), by 2018 every single comic they were selling for Transformers was not looking good figures wise, and nothing they tried was boosting them for long. Hasbro didn't take it away because critical reception was poor; they took it away because they saw a better offer, and IDW as a company is just often... not... great at getting their comics the kind of publicity that is needed to keep your longterm serialised monthly comic out of the cancellation-figure graveyards. It's sad as hell it got cut short and I really wish it hadn't been. But I think attributing it to anything but sadly mundane comics industry problems- that unless you are Literally Batman, the market is tiny and highly spread out and keeping comics profitable is a losing game- is grasping at straws. Certainly I think laying all the blame at Ruckley's feet because not everyone loved IDW2 is unfair. (It sold better than the LL and OP runs in phase three!) (That relaunch was, of course, also comics industry BS, and not their fault.)

By contrast, Skybound is as of the latest sales figures outselling EVERY SINGLE DC COMIC. This is so incredibly rare among non-big-two comics. It won two Eisners. That is near unthinkable for a licensed comic. It's clear that Hasbro took that offer when the license was being renewed because Skybound had a plan to make TF comics explosively popular again, one which has self evidently worked to date, and there's really no need to get conspiratorial about why this happened when that explains the decision perfectly well. Shrug.

[quetzalpapalotl]

Thank you, what would I do without you.

I went to TV tropes to get a better idea of what things he writes and the only one with a page of a decent size was the Wonder Woman one.

So like, this is a wild assumption based on a single series, but it seem that even if he goes for grittiness, he still respects WW as a loving heroine and doesn't write things completely hopeless, which sounds good because the way you described it, I was worried it would be a complete edge fest.

Also iirc, Ruckley wasn't all that familiar with Transformers and he still pulled characters from whenever he could, so maybe there's still hope for the C listers?

Nate, my boy, since you know everything and what you don't you make up, do you have any info on Warren Johnson as a writer?

Well he's got a short list of projects but they're definitely nothing to shake a stick at. Wonder Woman is a huge net score. Beta ray bill is too. Working with both marvel and DC is solid credentials.

Dead earth seems to have notably good reviews, which i remembered from extremely fleeting familiarity. I've heard the name before positively.

I found this review particularly noteworthy:

However Chad isn't the only one concerned about it being in character

One of the main complaints people seem to have is that DWJ had a story he wanted to tell and he pushed the characters he was given into the molds to tell it.

Also very highly rated.

Chad didn't like this one, but apparently the characterization issues were absent this time. Scrolling through other reviews, I didn't see any other complaints about characterizations-- I saw lots of comments about how great the characterization is, actually. Perhaps that is because beta ray bill has a lot less history than wonder woman and perhaps people are more open to seeing more diversity and exploration of who this character is. If you don't go here, beta ray bill is not a HUGE character, but he's been around since the early 80s and has plenty of media to draw from. He has plenty of ardent fans, so plenty of people who already have an idea of who this character is when they went into this story.

All of his work has reviewed really well, nothing dips below a 4 on Goodreads.

Reading reviews and summaries of each book, it seems like DWJ really likes action, blood, hyperviolence, and, specifically, mad max. I see people being up mad max in so many reviews I can't not mention it. he does a lot of stories with fighting, with big action setpieces, wrestling, heavy metal, grit and gore. Pretty much all his stories are gritty.

I strongly suspect he is going to write a very "gritty war story" version of transformers, which is... Something we have seen before. It may not be bad, but idw definitely already did that. So did wfc siege. Grimdark kind of hyperviolence and war and action is pretty par for the course with tf. I don't see a lot of people talking about his stories being particularly deep or emotionally engrossing. I see people say some are very FUN or very engaging or even that they have interesting commentary. But... Mm.

Having not read his stuff and only having just studied these reviews, I'm expecting some really pretty war violence. Seeing as he's clearly not as familiar with the property as your average tf fan, he's still a little shaky on his tf stylization, I'm predicting he's going to focus on a lot of mainline G1 characters, the pop boys people recognize. Megatron, Optimus, soundwave, prowl, Jetfire, starcscream, the seekers probably, ultra Magnus, grimlock, hot rod maybe, arcee definitely. I think it's a lot less likely we will see more obscure characters like we did with idw2.

Tho if I had to drop money I would bet windblade is there. Hasbro has been pushing her hard. I really suspect they will have asked him specifically to make sure she's there.

[roomwithanopenfire]

bro we should give you a cat like bobin ruckley just had kittens come get one/j💔💔

I want a cat so bad curses of university housing

[quietbluejay]

IM GOING TO START BITING IM SO MAD

RUCKLEY HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME IN THIS WAY I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU I WENT TO BAT FOR YOU I WENT ON ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL THEMES OF YOUR COMIC

oooo "our merit is not in our choices but in their consequences" GO KICK ROCKS

is every transformers writer i love going to do this to me

[lunastigerlilies]

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[sweetronancer]

[redacted] is like if Bobin Ruckley and Talin Fouden combined and made another sad lesbian

[quetzalpapalotl]

Truthfully, I do find some times about Johnson's upcoming ongoing worrying (as in, I worry it may not be good). But really, it'll be what it'll be, so I think it's best not to worry about it and just take it for what it is when it comes out. But really, I'm still pissed at the fandom for deciding to hate IDW2 before it even came out and reading it in the worst faith possible and I see that's starting to happen again so yeah

[pipermca]

For the Transformers Ask game

📽- What was your first TF series?

🤍- Fav Neutral or Obscure Character?

💬- Favorite Obscure TF fact!

📽- What was your first TF series?

Technically my first series was G1, but I wasn't allowed to watch it was discouraged from watching it because "it's too violent." I probably would have loved it, but since it was not permitted it just didn't make an impression.

My first real series was Beast Wars. It was on when I'd get home from class, and I'd watch it while making myself lunch/dinner (depending on my schedule). I adored it, and would definitely have stuck around for Beast Machines if the station hadn't started dicking around with the time slot. I ended up missing a bunch of episodes and lost the plot thread, and thus lost interest.

🤍- Fav Neutral or Obscure Character?

I'm tempted to say Bluestreak (since he hasn't had an important role in anything since (checks notes) Angry Birds vs Transformers holy FUCK am I salty about that), but I know he's not obscure. XD

So I'll have to go with either Road Rage (who did have a pretty important part in IDW2), or Devcon (who hasn't been in anything of note since G1). They're both cool characters with a lot of potential imo, and I love what Ruckley did with Road Rage in IDW2. :)

💬- Favorite Obscure TF fact!

Ooh! I LOVE the whole story/idea behind what happened to Smokescreen in Binaltech!

See, they develop this tech to allow one spark/laser core to control multiple bodies. Most Autobots use them to prevent their death (having everything saved to a "backup" body) but Smokescreen used it to control multiple bodies at once! Each body would have its own experiences, then they'd come back and synch back up and share memories.

Only one time there was a problem with the synch, and his mind fractured into multiple personalities vying for control. The one that ended up winning was evil, and Smokescreen defected from the Autobots and eventually sided with The Fallen. However, he was plagued by the voices of the other Smokescreens in his head.

I love that bit of canon and kinda wish it would get rehashed sometime since it has a lot of possible places it could be taken. :3

[myemergence]

Y'all really went after it didn't you? 🤣🤣

No longer accepting asks for Tropetember... because I'm gonna be busy lmao I'm not promising that I'll be able to fulfill all of these by September, but I'm going to do my best 🤪

Here's what we have in the pipeline

9-1-1

Madney

-Floral shop AU for @maddieandchimney I can picture Mrs Lee having a floral shop that she always planned to keep in the family, maybe it was something she'd have passed down to Kevin. After he passes and it's time to retire, she hands it over to Chimney. I'm not sure beyond that yet, but I can totally picture that universe.

-Touch starved for @maddieandchimney again, not sure what I'm going to write for this but I have plenty of time to think on it.

Bathena

-Accidental baby acquisition for @theseventeenstairs (coincidentally prompt 17 😂) I feel like this has so much possibility to be equally angsty and adorable/fluffy. Bobby angsting over taking care of a baby when he couldn't keep his kids alive or even just Bobby changing a diaper and remembering those days with his own children. Out of practice Dad!Bobby trying to care for a baby could be really cute and fun to write.

Ruckley

-Touch starved/fake dating mash up for @depthandcharacter thought I'm not sure of the reason for the fake dating, I'm sure it'll come to me and I'll iron it out in your DMs lol

9-1-1 Lonestar

RyderDie

- Sick fic for @kittycat-cas there is just something so pure about a sick Judd and Grace caring for him

-Leanining towards a Super Hero/Super Villian fic for @benjaminrussell for them, where they have every reason to hate each other... enemies to lovers, maybe? ;) This is really outside of my lane so we'll see how it goes, but either way it should be fun. And Grace would be a SEXY ASS VILLIAN.

-Amnesia fic for the thorn in my side @mistmarauder obviously she knows me and this ship too well, because we immediately began plotting it out. Set during Saving Grace, when Grace regains consciousness she doesn't remember her life. The last thing she remembers is planning to go to college but she wakes up still in Austin, married to a man she doesn't know, barely able to move... and pregnant. SO. MANY. POSSIBILITIES.

The Rookie

Chenford

-Didn't know they were dating/accidental dating for anon, @timlucys & @itsoneofthemuses - not sure exactly how this is going to go yet, but probably just something along the lines of everyone knows Chendford is dating... except for them. Maybe a 3+1 or 5+1 where people in their lives refer to them as a couple... and the plus one is when one of them does.

-Sickfic/Whump for anon- not sure what I'm going to write here, writing a sick Tim would be fun but I'm writing a sickfic for another pairing so maybe I'll just whump one of them a little ;)

-Accidental baby acquisition for @firstdegreefangirl (obviously it's gonna be Tim)

-3+1 for @firstdegreefangirl - three times everyone assumes Tim will bring Lucy, and one time it's a shock to them all.

-Found Family, once again for @firstdegreefangirl lol gonna think on this one, but I know I can come up with something

-In @firstdegreefangirl 's words Competitor Businesses. It's not a perfect fit, but you KNOW what I'm prompting here, babe. (AKA my 9-1-1/Rookie Christmas crossover)... does it count as a prompt if it's already started? 🤔

[elfdragon12]

Daily female Transformers

Shadow Striker! A blue car that's a determined Decepticon warrior! The third of her name, actually. Two other Shadow Strikers (who have alternative names now) predate her, the Revenge of the Fallen one even sharing animosity with Bumblebee--which may be why Shadow Striker of Cyberverse has animosity towards the same guy!

This version of Shadow Striker was introduced in Cyberverse and continued on to have a fairly significant role in the 2019 IDW run by Brian Ruckley and in the Transformers/My Little Pony, as well as the Transformers: Heavy Metal AR game!

I think Shadow Striker is possibly my favorite new take on a character from Cyberverse!

[decepti-thots]

What do you think of the 2019 transformers is it worth the read?

As with any request for recs/anti-recs, this is something I can't really tell you without knowing your personal tastes, anon. Maybe it is for you and maybe it isn't- I dunno what you do and don't like! Whether I'd recommend IDW2 depends entirely on the tastes and interests of who I am speaking to, same as any comic. (There's plenty of people who, for example, I wouldn't recommend MTMTE to, because it wouldn't be their thing at all. Etc.)

I can tell you my feelings and assessments of IDW2, which is that while it had a slightly rough start (you can tell Ruckley was getting to grips with a monthly comic format and the way comic dialogue works), I enjoyed the overall run a lot because I like stuff in which slow worldbuilding and lots of interconnected plots are woven together gradually are a focus. It was a lot less character-focused as compared to e.g. MTMTE, or even exRiD, but that's not a mark against it for me personally. It has some great big fantasy-scifi concepts going on that I found really compelling and to me that run is the most grounded and lived in Cybertron has ever felt, which was for me a huge plus in its favour. It has its strengths, it has its weaknesses, overall I enjoyed a lot of IDW2 and want to revisit it sometime. Maybe in 2025!

I'd say give it 15 issues (which is around what I myself can read in, say, an afternoon at the weekend in one go) and just... see if it grabs you! If it does, keep going. If not, try something else instead! By that point, the comic has about settled into what it's doing, I think, so.