Thema: IDW Transformers Spotlight: Hoist

Forum: Generation One

Autor Skywarp


Skywarp - 20/4/2013 um 12:03


Skywarp - 20/4/2013 um 12:03

[html]Wir haben hier die Vorschau zum IDW Comic Transformers Spotlight Hoist.

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Skywarp - 1/5/2013 um 20:43

[html]Jetzt haben wir zum IDW Comic Transformers Spotlight: Hoist die Kommentare von James Roberts für euch.

PAGE 1: What was it that stood out about Hoist as a character that would allow you to tell this story about him and all that he is?
JAMES ROBERTS: Truthfully? What stood out for me, going back and re-reading previous stories that he’s been in (and there aren’t many, and I’m afraid I didn’t seek out the G1 TV episodes), is that nothing much stands out! He’s the archetypal “background ’bot”–competent, pleasant, hardworking, straightforward. But that’s not a bad thing when you’re settling down to write a SPOTLIGHT about someone. It gives you more of a canvas. Having said that, I sort of made his vanilla-ness a plot point in itself. I deliberately put him with three characters (excluding Bob [the Insecticon] for a moment–sorry, Bob) who are larger-than-life, and let the story play out from there. If I’ve done by job properly, Hoist will be a more fully-rounded character by Page 22.

PAGE 2: How was the collaborative process for you with artist Agustin Padilla? Was there a lot of give and take on how the pages turned out?
JAMES ROBERTS: This was the first time I’d worked with Agustin (we collaborated again on MTMTE #16), and while he and I would communicate very little (English is his second language and he works with—I don’t know what the word would be? An intermediary?—who passes his pages back and forth.
Anyway, Agustin would submit the rough page breakdowns and then respond to any feedback, and in the art itself he’d make choices that improve on how I saw things play out in my head. I love what he’s done—the art has a real Geoff Senior vibe about it—all those heavy blacks, all those close ups, all that weight—so I was a happy little scribbler.
And the first three pages of this SPOTLIGHT are uncharted territory for me: pages without dialog. But Agustin makes them look so beautiful and kinetic and alive (that shot of Hoist in midair on Page 1!)… it’s enough to make me wonder why I don’t go for the silent treatment more often.
Special mention, also, to Joana Lafuente’s scrumptious color work. Together, Agustin and Joana create pages that invite close scrutiny and then slap you in the face—in a good way.

PAGE 3: This issue is set between issues of TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEET THE EYE. Is it hard to find a gap for the story to slot seamlessly into?
JAMES ROBERTS: So far, there are two big gaps in MTMTE where you can squeeze any number of “lost” stories: the gap between issues #5 and #6, which is where the Hoist and Trailcutter SPOTLIGHTS take place, and the gap between issues #12 and #13. So for any fanfic writers out there: go fill those gaps! I didn’t deliberately create those gaps, incidentally, but I’m glad they exist.

PAGE 4: Swerve and Sunstreaker are revealed inside of Hoist’s craft. Sunstreaker hasn’t had a lot of page time in MTMTE—why bring him along for this trip with Swerve and Hoist?
JAMES ROBERTS: I think you’ve answered your own question! The fact that Sunstreaker doesn’t get much page time was a big reason for making him one of the crew. And I know that he has a lot of fans out there, and people had been clamoring to see more of him, and Bob, so I thought that doing this would people happy. Same with Perceptor, to be honest. I almost put Hound in there too, but it would have been too crowded. I do want to write a little off-shoot story featuring the likes of Hound, Huffer, Gears and so on—all the classic G1 characters that we only see in the background of MTMTE. Maybe one day.

PAGE 5: This comic is going to be included with a toy—do you feel a sense or pride this could be someone’s introduction to Transformers through your work? What would the boy inside you say?
JAMES ROBERTS: The fact that this will be someone’s first TF comic—and maybe their first introduction to any TF continuity—was a little daunting. I wanted to write something that would appeal to the uninitiated and to regular readers. I didn’t want the former to feel left out or the latter to feel they were reading something that didn’t complement the style of story they’re used to.
Of course, my most fervent wish is that a boy or girl buys Hoist, reads the comic, and dives headlong into the IDW books, old and new. Hoist as an entry point into Everything Else. I like that!

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Celice - 7/5/2013 um 19:47

Das Heft war sehr schön zu lesen und gehört ja indirekt zu More Than Meets the Eye und stammt ebenfalls aus der Feder von James Roberts, wodurch so ne gewisse Qualitätsgarantie eigentlich gegeben war. Es ist nur die Frage, ob Hoist jetzt wirklich eine größere Rolle in den kommenden Heften spielen wird, oder ob das Heft "sinnlos" war.
Was mich sehr gefreut hat, dass Bob mal wieder vorkam. Eigentlich sollte er ja mal ein Spotlight kriegen. xD

Axxis - 7/5/2013 um 23:40

Die momentanen Spotlights behandeln nur Figuren die Hasbro jetzt rausbringt (Orion Pax, IDW Megatron, IDW Bumblebee, Trailcutter und Hoist).

Schätze das wird der Deal sein, das sie IDWs Desigen nehmen und zum ausgleich jede der Figuren nochmal ein eigenes Heft kriegt.

Drum treibt auch keines der Spotlights die Handlung vorran wie der früheren Spotlights.

Celice - 7/5/2013 um 23:47

Der erste Teil war klar.
Es gab auch früher schon Spotlights, die die Handlung der Hauptreihen nicht fortgesetzt haben. So z.B. Spotlight Ramjet. Es geht sogar soweit, dass man dieses Spotlight streichen könnte, ohne das es irgendwie irgendwo fehlen würde. Die neuen Spotlights scheinen auf den ersten Blick auch alle unbedeutende Einzelabenteuer zu sein. Aber da scheint mehr hinter zu stecken, als man auf den ersten Blick sieht. So hat z.B. jedes der neuen Spotlights in irgendeiner Form eine Verbindung zu Metroplex. Metroplex ist im IDW Universum auf einer mysteriösen Mission, die irgendwann nach Monstrosity angefangen hat und das allererste Mal in seinem eigenen Spotlight erwähnt wurde. Ich kann mir sehr gut vorstellen, dass die Aufklärung von Metroplexs Mission auf IDWs To-Do-Liste steht und eventuell schon sehr bald in More Than Meets the Eye oder Robots in Disguise thematisiert wird. Zumal beide Reihen ja auch schon die Metrotitanen thematisierten. Die neuen Spotlights mögen vielleich jetzt noch nicht als Teil eines größeren Ganzen erkannt werden können, aber ich denke, dass sich das bald ändern wird. Robots in Disguise kündigte ja auch das kommende größte Event in der Geschichte der Transformercomics an. Gut möglich, dass Metroplex da mit mischt.

Axxis - 8/5/2013 um 00:11

Metroplex wird sicher noch eine große Bedeutung haben, immerhin kommt ja auch von ihm eine neue Figur  :biggersmile:

Das Ramjet Spotlight war auch ziemlich unnötig das stimmt, aber immerhin war er am schluss tot, also hatte es doch wieder Auswirkungen auf die Handlung ^^

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