Current Ramblings
Friday, May 20, 2005
Finally.
Yesterday Newsarama posted an announcement about the Transformers comic license. In a move that probably susprised most people just because they hadn't even heard of them, Hasbro awarded the license to IDW Publishing, who do a lot of licenses and also apparently a bit of creater-owned stuff. (Some of it gives me flashbacks: Remember Grimjack and Wynonna Earp? Probably not.) Though they don't seem to have much in the way of their own creative vision and seem to exist mostly as an outlet for other things, I see that as a good thing. Dreamwave had all sorts of "artistic vision" as a company, which they proceeded to smear all over our poor license. I think the absolute ideal - something that a big company like DC certainly wouldn't have given us - is to let the right creators have the comics and just leave them alone with it. And I'm really, really hoping that their talk of "utilizing the best Transformers writers and illustrators globally" translates into "We've already talked to Simon and Guido."
Currently reading: What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
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