How IDW treats Transformers certainly has relevance to how IDW treats STXI! I’d have thought a comic strip adaptation woul be a dead cert, but comicbook prequels to the prequel? You never know. After all, Abrams’ Alias got a funky between-seasons cartoon!!

I think for a Generation, mainly X’ers, there were many wonderful archetypical fictional and fantasy characters that embodied high ideals to strive towards, and interestingly enough these characters all borrow from the same swaggering, John Waynesque’ no-nonsense male bravado school of character development and design within their respective franchises-
James T. Kirk,
Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Optimus Prime,
Rocky Balboa
all representing essentially the same fundamental sense of righteousness and the pursuit and preservation of that righteousness.
This unyielding ethical and moral edict woven into the writing and portrayal of these characters seems to have usurped and surpassed even real life male archetypical role models.
Where are the unyielding Optimus Prime’s defending the cause of justice?
Where are the Obi-Wan Kenobi’s never failing in their pursuit of said justice?

This present age is defined by the anti-hero, and grey area of morality , entirely reflected by the emmerging machinations of media, politics, religion, social-economic trends, information, and entertainment.

I find it telling when children relate more to angst-ridden, cynical, often times jades fictional characters or true to life archetypical constructs.

Batman is “cool”, yet Superman is “lame.”

It’s a very perplexing dichotomy and indicative of a stunted society and culture when the hero wears black and villains possess “admirable” qualities a young impressionable mind wishes to emulate.

It’s going to be interesting to see how this Transformers film even under Bay’s visual direction establishes these characters for a big screen audience, and perhaps give us the Trek fans a clue as to the direction we can expect our Trek heroes to go.

… and I don’t see where Xai did anything wrong. He (she?) just expressd an opinion and didn’t say anything bad about anybody.

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In this case it covers both Transformers as well as Trek comics. if you arent interested you dont have to read the story….but it isnt like there was some \’hot scoop\’ trek story that this took the place of.

…and for the record I asked John to write this article because he is doing a sep article on the new IDW trek books and I thought it was interesting. You can expect a review of the new IDW comics and discussion of treks return to comics soon…as the article states