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Heute genau vor 29 Jahren wurde das erste Transformers Comic von Marvel auf den Markt gebracht. Dieses G1 Comic war gedacht als eine ursprüngliche 4 teilige Miniserie, die  genau am 8. Mai veröffentlicht wurde. Geendet hat sie jedoch mit Heft 80.

Happy Birthday zum 29. Geburtstag. 

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Q: Is the wayyou’re working on pages for MONSTROSITY changed at all from when you didAUTOCRACY last year?
LIVIORAMONDELLI: It’s a sortof constant evolution, but I’m not doing anything intentionally different than AUTOCRACY. I’m just trying to make the art look better andbetter, as well as clearer. I’m always trying new little things here and thereto really pop highlights on the characters, and make the images brighter ingeneral. Even when dealing with dark shadows.

Q: It’s clearyou sure like playing with light and colors on your pages. Was this somethingyou taught yourself or something you learned at school?
LIVIORAMONDELLI: Definitely both. I studied color in school, but I spend more timethinking about it now. I’m always looking for new ways to balance out thecolors and play with light. It’s tricky with TRANSFORMERS because they’re sobright, and you’re always fighting pages looking like clashing colors.Sometimes it works better than others.

Q: How muchleeway does the script give you—do you follow what’s on the script page, or dowhat you feel is best to make it work?
LIVIORAMONDELLI: The scripts always call for specific shots, but the page layouts(and the size of the panels) is my call. Also Chris and Flint are great atletting me change things when I feel like something might work better. I’malways looking to make each shot important, and so I’ll sometimes cut outpanels that I feel we can cover in a line of dialogue and that gives us thespace for more money shots. For example, in MONSTROSITY #5 we initially saw acouple panels of Scorponok and Blitzwing about to blast the door open to therefinery. But I suggested that we just show the door exploding, which gave us acool reveal, more space, and didn’t cost us anything since your mind fills inwhat came before.

Q: In thisissue, we hear about a sixth member of the Dynobots team—Skar. Was it asurprise to see this new character appear and how much did you enjoy theprocess of designing this previously unseen team member?
LIVIORAMONDELLI: It wastricky, because you’re adding something to a classic group of characters andtrying to make it feel natural, which is always hard. At first I actuallydesigned Skar to look closer to Swoop (since Swoop tends to stand outdifferently from the other Dinobots, and it made sense to me that another wouldlook like him). But it was Chris’s desire to really see Skar as Grimlock’sclose friend as well as resemble him a bit physically. Like he could have beenas strong as Grimlock, and tragically didn’t make it. So he ended up being abit of a cross between Grimlock and Swoop—his head has some Swoop elements toit. I wasn’t surprised by the reveal as I knew from the beginning of the storySkar would appear. It was just a question of hopefully making it natural.

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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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