#ruckley

[yumyumsteak]

IDW2 road rage x nautica / 2019

[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

[keycomicbooks]

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

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[decepti-thots]

heyyyy. so. the MEGA files on this have gone down, it seems, and i did back up some of them that were of personal interest but it seems i forgot to do the brian ruckley panel for lack of space at the time, which of course i now bloody want for something, LMAO. long shot but uhhh any of you folks who looked at this download or mirror it anywhere?

So I was hoping I would find it and I did: it turns out someone DID take video of the TFN panel where they went through the first ever draft they found for the TF animated movie. It's just not on Youtube, which will teach me to not look harder for this shit, lmao.

Anyway I promised some folks I would post it if I found it so. Here! I'm so glad this got recorded, it was a BLAST. Watching it is the best way to uhhhh. Experience this draft, trust me.

(Sidenote! These are hosted on MEGA, so you may have a daily GB streaming limit that you come up against, but if you download them it should be OK- the limit is harsher for streaming than downloading.)

Almost every TFN 2022 panel was recorded in fact- see here! I know some folks who follow me were interested in Brian Ruckley's panel, for example, they got that one.

…the ONLY ONE they seemingly didn't get of real interest is the IDW retrospective one and let me tell u when I recorded that thing on my phone voice recorder Just In Case, i can only assume i was being given divine inspiration to do so.

ANYWAY. Go watch the first draft presentation, it's fucking Nuts.

[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?

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[wereah]

So I've been MIA-- oops. But! I have a new little project in the works!

Hopefully once I get the script done, I'll be back to my regular art schedule. Scripting and research takes a TON out of me.

Btw, just as an aside, something that's really sad when you're turning a book scene into a comic is that you lose a lot of the overt narration and exposition. I'm not JRO or Ruckley lol so I can't make it into a novel with pictures

ALSO: DO YOU LIKE ORCS?

[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.

[sweetronancer]

bobin ruckley.

[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? 🤔

[quetzalpapalotl]

Quality wise (ie plot, characterization, narration), could you rank the idw phase 1 comics? Is RID good?

I'm a bit confused by this as because RID by John Barber is not phase 1, so I'm not sure if that question is besides the phase 1 one, if there's a confusion about when RID was published or if there's a confusion between IDW1/IDW2 and phase1/phase 2. So sorry, but I'm going to explain what it what just to make sure we're on the same page.

IDW1 or IDW05 is the continuity that spans the main comics published by IDW from 2005 to 2018. It's also the one called just IDW because when it was publishing there wasn't another IDW continuity and people called it that. It's divided by the editorial in 3 phases, I will try to summarize:

Phase 1, started in 2005 with Furman's -ation series (Infiltration, Escalation, Devastation) and some spotlight issues, after Furman the main writer became Shane Mcarthy with All Hail Megatron, and then Mike Costa took over with the 2009 ongoing called just The Transformers. There were other comics and mini series that took place in this continuity during this time, including Last Stand of the Wreckers, which is considered the best of all the phase 1 stuff

Phase 2, begins in December 2011 with The Death of Optimus Prime one shot, this starts the post war stage with John Barber and James Roberts writing two concurrent sister ongoings called Robots in Disguise and More Than Meets the Eye respectively. This marked a shift in the comics and popular opinion is that this is when they started being actually good (and I'd agree, but more on that later), there were more mini series, one shots, mini series and spotlights published. In 2014 they changed Robots in Disguise's name to just The Transformers so it wouldn't be confused with the 2015 cartoon and that's why the fandom calls this whole ongoing "exRID". Later they brought Mairghread Scott to write the Windblade series.

Phase 3, in 2016 Hasbro went on to make a "Hasbroverse" with all the new licenses they got, so this phase is full of crossovers, this was not a popular move. They also decided to relaunch all their main titles, even though they continued the same story. The Transformers (exRID) became Optimus Prime, More than Meets the Eye became Lost Light, and Windblade became Till All Are One. Till All Are One was the first series to end, it was all wrapped up in an annual and a year later Optimus Prime and Lost Light also ended. The last chapters of Optimus Prime occur concurrently with the Unicron miniseries, that was also set up in that comic, with the whole continuity ending in 2018.

Being done with it, IDW launched a brand new continuity from scratch, led by Brian Ruckley under an ongoing called just Transformers. It wrapped up in 2022 because Hasbro lost the license, but it had a good run, I think. Fans call this IDW2 or IDW2019 for lack of a better name.

Now to answer your question.

Obviously the #1 best comic in phase 1 is Last Stand of the Wreckers and I say this very confidently because it just doesn't have anything approaching competition. That comic is very good and everythign else is... well, is bad. You asked for my opinion and they're bad.

Characters are flat, execution is boring, plots are mediocre, dumb and usually deeply reactionary and then there's the racism. There are things I enjoy about them, some moments, some ideas, the fact that I'm lore obsessed and I filter my reading of those comics through the lens of what came after so I project aditional depth that originally wasn't there. I won't say is all unsalvageable, there are concepts in them that are pretty good, some are key to my interpretation of the whole continuity. But if you as me if on their own they are comics of quality, no I can't say they are.

I can be fun to see the ways they fail, but I don't think about them enough to confidently rank them from the top of my head, I would need to re-read them all and I... don't want to do that.

I'd say Stormbringer is the best one on the basis is the one I have less issues with and even if it can be a bit dull and the narration tries to hard, it's just 4 issues. Really, the -ations are probably the best of it, but don't quote me on that.

The worst is probably... Mike Costa whose worse crime (besides the racism and all of that) it's that is all so uninspired while also being the longest running. It's just a constant stream of empty dolls going through the motions of doing a comic that's not fun and doesn't make sense. Again it has its moments, but I feel like most of the interesting stuff from it got picked by Barber who actually made something out of it, and on that topic...

exRID is so good. I love exRID. I like it more than Mtmte at times, I certainly like Optimus Prime more than Lost Light and I'm the kind of person that puts a lot of weight on a story's ending. I will use Mtmte as a point of comparison not to throw shade but because I consider both of them of the same overall quality and the "best" IDW1 has to offer (I mean also the Wreckers series, but that one os made of 3 entries thatw ere thought final and not an ongoing, so it's different).

Character-wise, exRID is not as strong as Mtmte, not because it has bad characters, but because it's more plot-focused. A lot of Mtmte's charms comes out of characters interacting and bouncing off each other even in the more plot-heavy parts, and it has kind of a sitcom-y feel. That is not something you will find in exRID, and I think that's why a lot of people who first read Mtmte are dissapointed when they pick up exRID. It has less space to breathe, not that it doesn't have interesting dynamic or funny moments, it's just that moment-to-moment Mtmte is more enjoyable, and Mtmte's dialogue is just so good.

While exRID has a much more utilitarian approach to characters, where everyone serves a specific purpose towards the overall narrative, they have enough characterization and personality to not be flat and give their actions meaning most of the time, althought everyone is kind of a jerk, exRID it's very sympathetic to its characters. Even when people are being unreasonable, they usually have a point or a reason to feel the way they do. For the most part, the narrative really isn't concerned in having someone be "right" and everyone is some manner of flawed, even the Autobots.

This results in a better narrative econony and thematic consistency, which is really where exRID excells at. Barber had something he wanted to tell and focused on achieving that, while Mtmte kind of starts falling apart at the seams due to everything JRo threw at it and some of it's main characters felt like their arcs were dropped. I feel much more satisfaction towards exRID/OP as a complete story, it does feel like, for the most part, ever small part of it contributes to the whole. While Mtmte deals with the war and it's consequences, the setting creates a distance from it, so it's more about how the characters process it on a personal level (and on this sense, it fails when it tries to work through it on a bigger scale it's not designed to handle), in exRID the consequences are very physical, the peace threatens to break at any moment and the plot is carried out by how characters react to these circumstances, for which we get very different perspectives. Really most characters just want to be safe and happy, but given their story, getting along is not so easy.

Now, problem is that to get the most out of most of exRID, you really do need to read the bad comics of phase 1 (and some of phase 2) and Barber is a continuity freak. Which honestly works great for me, but no so much for other. It is genuinely interesting to see how Barber tackles some of the concepts introduced earlier, especially when Optimus Prime re-enters the scene, as he's a fascinating character work that tries to consolidate all the other writer's portrayals. Similarly, the Optimus Prime ongoing took the brunt of all the Hasbroverse crossovers, which range from good, to mediocre, to bad. You can probably follow the plot even if you don't read any of that, but it does make much more sense if you read all the side stuff.

I'll stop now. But yeah, that's my opinion, I hope you found it useful.

[tabbytabbytabby]

Do the echoes of my heart reach you where you are? (5034 words) by tabbytabbytabby Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Josh Russo Characters: Evan "Buck" Buckley, Josh Russo, Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Christopher Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Additional Tags: Angst, Grief/Mourning, Denial, Ghosts, Memories, Loss, Fluff, at least some, Hopeful Ending, At Least As Hopeful As I Could Give It, I'm Sorry, I Made Myself Cry Summary:

All Buck wants is to stay with Josh, where they're both safe and happy and blissfully in love. Where they have a future. But reality keeps creeping at the edges of that bliss, and eventually, Buck has no choice but to face it.

For @lovelylittlegrim

[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.

[elfdragon12]

I'm reading through IDW2019 again and there's the part where Optimus and Ironhide use Prowl as a marker for how angry Megatron is/how difficult he'll be to work with.

I think folks get caught up in the idea of Prowl being an angry person than actually considering what he's angry about. The event the two are referring to is Prowl being stuck under a pylon for 10 cycles.

For reference, Brian Ruckley has said that a cycle is a little less than an Earth day.

So yeah! Prowl being spittin' mad at being stuck under a pylon that is multiple tons for about 10 Earth days is actually pretty reasonable.

For contrast, when Rubble speaks up to say that he's seen the Voin they're on the look-out for and wants to help and Prowl's like "they all pretty much look the same unless you're experienced", Barricade scoffs "civilians" yet Prowl shuts that down and reminds him that Rubble is extremely young and yet has been exposed to the first murder on Cybertron.

Anger just so happens to be Prowl's stress response and there are a ton of things to be stressed about.