just started reading Transformers EU.
all the same complaints you’d expect to hear. killing off bumblebee and replacing him with i guess cliffjumper is a choice that was made.
don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that cliffjumper doesn’t die for once, but i don’t believe you need to kill off a character to take him out of a spotlight, and if your reasoning for killing him off is that and not even considering revival or real mentions of his existence only tells me you are incapable of making a character more interesting and relatable without characterizing someone to be basically gruffer bumblebee. cliffjumper acts in my opinion extremely different now. and maybe before his character wasn’t so explored but he was pretty active in the G1 issues DWJ claims to want to honor.
it’s not that hard to write in that bumblebee is busy with other things, don’t they do that for all other barely brushed off characters like prowl?
“but then ppl would ask about bumblebee” just have a one or two page cameo if he is doing something important… like they do for other barely occurring characters.
nothing that hasn’t been said of course
the rest, the character design looks like g1 very nice nod, the art is beautiful, the story elements are pretty solid. it’s not a bad generation. it just won’t be one of the greater ones if book 2 follows book 1
