CBR: WC11: IDW's G.I. Joe/Transformers Panel

[CBR News]

IDW Publishing discussed details about "Cobra Civil War" and revealed big plans for the upcoming Transformers-centric event, "Chaos War" during their fan-friendly panel at last weekend's WonderCon.


Full article here.

[C. Earl]

Been luvin' what IDW has been doing with G.I. Joe with the main series, Cobra, and Hama's continuation of the original ARAH series. I think the Cobra Civil War event is going to be "teh awesome," and I can see it as the event that marks a major turning point in the IDW continuity. Naturally, it would be the justification of a relaunch of the involved books with new first issues.

But as someone who has been following really only the main series, I admit that I'm not entirely sold on Javier Saltares as the new artist (I'm just not a really big fan of his work). I'm probably going to wind up following Robert Atkins on the new Snake-Eyes ongoing or moving back to ARAH.

[mosdef]

I'm really looking forward to Cobra Civil War. It sounds like it'll be exciting. I've never heard of Javier Saltares; what has he done?

[mdg1]

I'm really looking forward to Cobra Civil War. It sounds like it'll be exciting. I've never heard of Javier Saltares; what has he done?

He's probably best known for his work on Ghost Rider, both in the 90's and recently.

[C. Earl]

Saltares' earlier work kind of helped defined the Marvel look in the '80s, IMO, but his style can vary these days from painted awesomeness to standard meh. I didn't really like his last run on the last Ghost Rider series (one the reasons I dropped it) but maybe that had less to do with him and more to do with his inker. Perhaps his stuff will look different for G.I. Joe maybe...

[Sean Walsh]

"Today's continuity mistakes are tomorrow's plot twist."

Ooh, I really like that.

Saltares' earlier work kind of helped defined the Marvel look in the '80s, IMO, but his style can vary these days from painted awesomeness to standard meh. I didn't really like his last run on the last Ghost Rider series (one the reasons I dropped it) but maybe that had less to do with him and more to do with his inker. Perhaps his stuff will look different for G.I. Joe maybe...

Actually, I've noticed that Saltares' art looks best with Mark Texiera's inks. He inked Saltares back in those initial '90s GHOST RIDER comics took, FYI, though these days Texiera's more of a painter and it shows in his work.

Saltares returned to GHOST RIDER in the late '90s (when the book just completely fell apart) and his work looked quite terrible compared to that earlier work.

Since then, when he's worked without Tex, his art is........good, and has gotten better actually. He did some TF work with IDW at some point (an issue of the current ongoing series) and it looked decent; and what I've seen of his upcoming Joe work looks nice.

[The Steve Rogers]

Looking forward to "Chaos War" myself.