Comments on: ARCEE A-GO-GO!

By: Jenner

Jenner — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:50:44 +0000

Well, are we going to get an explanation for the fembots in Megatron:Origin? Also, when in the IDWverse timeline did Jhiaxus have his way with Arcee?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:16:01 +0000

I LOVE it.

By: Coptur

Coptur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:30:01 +0000

Two Mirage minds one body, simliar to Punch/Counterpunch or Doubledealer/Dealer but without the physical change.

By: Dawfydd

Dawfydd — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:10:46 +0000

Personally I found the Mirage spotlight to be intriguing, and provided a nice twist on the character. I’m just wondering if this means that there are now two mirage’s tooling around the IDW-verse…
And the more I re-read Arcee, the more I enjoy it. I’m contiunally blown away with the size of the cast, and how the majority of them get enough dialogue to give us a flavour for the character respective peronalities.
I’ve also enjoyed reading Simon’s reasonings for why he made the choices he did regarding transformer gender, and just have to wonder Simon, is there any chance IDW might compile some of your thoughts on this subject for the third Spotlight collection?
Just a thought…

By: Jazzblack

Jazzblack — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:00:48 +0000

Charles RB , you are right, I forgot about the Kup Spotlight, it is an impressive story.

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:20:33 +0000

I dunno, Nick Roche did a brilliant Spotlight.

By: Jazzblack

Jazzblack — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:04:52 +0000

A great issue. Good to see that Autobots can lack moral fibre too. I just saw the Mirage spotlight, it is booty. IDW should allow no one but Simon Furman to write Transformers material.

By: Denyer

Denyer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:29:17 +0000

“Non distributed solutions”

Build a neural net, populate it with data. For story balance require resources that neither faction has sufficient access to, and/or cultural stigma directed towards mind copies or lesser, partially-developed AI.

We’re talking about beings with lifespans in millions of years that can cross interstellar distances, use matter-to-energy transporter tech, destroy or seed worlds, etc. Even humans have been developing basic machine intelligences in the few decades they’ve been discussed.

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:59:06 +0000

Only just got the Spotlight and was quite happy with it – my only complaint is not enough on Arcee’s origin, it’s a strong idea and I felt more could’ve been done elaborating on the horror of the experiments, how it drove her mad and all that. I do quite like the understated bit on her isolation though, with people inadvertently reminding her she’s alien every time they _talk_ to her.

Onslaught’s cool response to Arcee’s debut and Vortex carrying on with the job (and dissing Fort Max as he leaves) were great, fully selling them as super-competent soldiers.

By: simon furman

simon furman — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:32:08 +0000

Again, thanks for all the feedback. I don’t think there will ever be an explantion for ‘female’ (or ‘male’ for that matter) Transformers that satisfies everyone, simply because it’s like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It’s like saying the T-X in Terminator 3 is female because ‘it’ looks like one. It’s not. It’s a Terminator, a robot, end of. But I didn’t think ‘looks like’ was good enough for Arcee and the rest. So, for the purposes of the IDW/TF-verse (and I’m not seeking to re-write or overwrite classic TF, that it what it is, like it or otherwise), there is no gender. But someone like Jhiaxus, having witnessed the gender divide in other species, may have become intrigued, and ‘in the name of science’ decided to introduce/force gender on one of their own (to see what benefits, if any, it brings). ‘Transsexual’ means the swapping the characteristics of one sex for another. That’s not what happened here. Arcee is like ‘Eve’, but the trouble is, there’s no ‘Adam.’ And no other ‘Eves’. Or are there?