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I read the first issue of Infiltration, decided it wasn't my thing because apparently human characters in TF stories will always irritate the hell out of me unless they're gibbering semi-primates with clubs.

Then I read Beast Wars & dug that a little bit more--the focus was where it needed to be and was a nice enjoyable self-contained read.

Stormbringer . . .ehhh. If only there hadn't been a flashback every other page, I might have found it easier going, but I liked what they were doing insofar as filling in the background of Infiltration and the like.

I haven't picked up any of Escalation because IDW's cover prices mean I pick up maybe one title at a time from them and that's it. If it's downplayed the humans somewhat (God, that hacker girl got on my nerves in a record two pages) and the inlking of an actual direction's presented itself, I might give it another shot.

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Ehh. . .whether it's my lower standards (I have no problem with pages and pages of TFs whomping the shit out of each other) or the fact that Armada and the other shitty TV series they've done lately have had such annoying human characters it's soured me on the idea of creeping vermin in general, the humans always seemed like some unneccessary "identifying mechanism." That, plus when human characters are combined with Furman's writing (he has some ratehr grating writing tics) they just feel super-annoying to me. But that's just my opinion.

E.J. Su's still drawing the main series, yes? He's compenent enough, but his stuff doesn't quite have the punch TF artists like Figueroa and Guidi bring to the table, to me, anyways. Lord knows he's several orders of magnitude better than anyone Marvel could get on the damn book. Or Pat Lee.

Re: Stormbringer--you're better off waiting for the trade with it, however long it takes. I liked it, but that thing was a mess to read monthly. Even DW's G1 series wasn't as flashback-happy as that.

Beast Wars and Magmatron was pretty awesome. My only complaint was the lack of Rampage.

The preview pages of Evolutions and Spotlight hadn't exactly excited me, but I'll pick up Escalation and see if it's improved after a rocky start.