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Name: Veira
Age: 22
Location: Chicago, IL
Fandoms: DC comics (Green Lantern, the Flash), Milestone Comics (Static, Blood Syndicate), Transformers (G1, TFA, IDW, Bayformers), Digimon, Pokemon games, Jane and the Dragon, Shin Megami Tensei games (Devil Summoner, DDS, Devil Survivor), So You Think You Can Dance
What in fandom interests me: fic, gen, fanart, discussion, trawling my way through massive canons, lurking RPs
What in fandom does NOT interest me: porn
Major Non-fandom Interests: music, writing, drawing, knitting, science, science fiction books
My LJ Contains Mostly: fandom rambling

Edited 2010-01-30 23:03 (UTC)

As a fellow IDW Transformers fan you're automatically awesome. What sci-fi authors do you like? I'm always curious to compare notes since I love sci-fi/fantasy as well.

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Eeee Shockwave~ <3 Added, man. :)

I'm through AHM in IDW at this point, and I have to say that it has been generally a pretty great read. Kinda a new TF fan so right now I'm still like "Anything Transformers is awesome! :D"

My absolute favorite is Robert Reed, but no one's ever heard of the guy. Adam Roberts too. I've always been fond of Larry Niven's stuff and Timothy Zahn's non-Star Wars books are great. Gregory Benford can be fun. Um. Man, I know there's more but I am blanking at the moment. D:

:D Heck yes Shockwave is my favorite. And added back!

Skjshg I loved AHM when I read that. But I'm a biased Decepticon fangirl like that. So far I'm kind of like "Not sure if want" about the new IDW stuff but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. I think once it really gets going it will be good.

:< I can't say I've heard of him either, but I'm always looking for new stuff to read so maybe I'll check some of his stuff out once I've narrowed down my "to read" list. Right now I'm trying to get through the rest of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

I honestly can't choose between Shockwave and Soundwave for my favorite Con.

AHM was awesome. I loved the Decepticon powerplay and the Autobots kinda broke my heart at points. I'm still trying to figure out what to read after AHM because haha, figuring out the continuity to get up to that point was a little difficult. (I am used to the DC numbering system.) But hopefully it gets good. As long as it's still fun, it should be.

I think I've heard of him, but I don't think I've actually read anything. I'll have to add those to my to do list as well. :)

XD I know a lot of Soundwave fans too. I really can't explain how or why Shockwave wound up as my favorite. Given my lifelong love of jets, you'd think it would be Starscream. He's probably my 2nd favorite though.

Have you read all of the previous IDW stuff? I was soooo confused when I started reading TF comics. I didn't realize that there were like three different companies with stuff that was around. Dreamwave has some pretty cool stuff, but it's a pain in the butt to find now since they're bankrupt and dead. You can track it down via internet though. And the oldschool 80s Marvel comics are pretty amusing too. As a fellow Shockwave fan I think you'd like both of them if you're interested. Just be warned: Dreamwave leaves off forever on a Godawful cliffhanger, and Marvel has wack art and a lot of it is super cheesy.

I picked up the Banks stuff after a friend mentioned them and the spaceship/robot characters in the series. It's not too often I come across a book that totally hooks me on the first page. Some are better than others, but they're definitely worth checking out. So far my favorites have been Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, and Excession.

Soundwave has that weird family thing going on that always seems to hook me to a character. I can't figure out why I love Shocky either, though. It must just be logical.

Yeah, I've read everything that comes before AHM. I stumbled upon some list somewhere that finally made sense of IDW numbering for me. It's figuring out what comes after that I need to get to. XD But I am addicted to wikis, so I've been trawling through those and slowly figuring my way around the comics.

Oh man, actual robot characters? I must check these out. The authros I read usually don't do that.

One weird reason that Shockwave appealed to me is his voice. I don't really know why. But I watched a few G1 eps on Youtube and I was just like "...Wtf is that guy with no face? And he has an accent? Oh wait, I know. He's awesome." So then I ran out and found a bunch of the comics, like the IDW Spotlight and stuff. And the comics are the place to be if you're a fan of Shockwave, because he's just so awesome in them. And you're right. It's totally logical to like such an awesome character.

Oh man the TF Wiki has saved my butt with fandom stuff so many times. Especially when I was first getting into it, there were so many times I would be sitting there thinking "Ok, I'm reading this and I have no idea who 90% of these characters are. Time to go figure this out."

Yesss! That was a big selling point for me. And not just robots like C-3PO in Star Wars either. Pretty much all of the Culture's machines are sentient, from the suitcase-size drones all the way up to the giant ships and Orbital human habitats. I have to say, the mechanical characters are some of the best in the whole series. And the ships in particular have the coolest bunch of names.

Haha, why did I laugh so hard? But yes, his voice is half of his awesome. I dunno, I especially love the no face thing. I'm fond of the mechs that have visors or mouthplates, but Shockwave just takes it to a different level. And I love his G1 altmode. 40 foot space gun? Yes please. Darn it, I think I have to go reread that spotlight again now.

I'm the kind of person that needs to do the research ahead of time. When I was first poking around I decided to watch the 1984 cartoon and had the hardest time telling who everyone was. They all looked the same. Wikis are lifesavers. Now I don't even have to squint at the comic panels. Haha.

Dude. I have three original characters who are sentient drones. It is so good to know that there are actual authors putting that in fiction finally. The culture an AI group would invent is entirely fascinating to me.

Yeah I really like the no face, gun arm thing too. And the giant space gun is also a major plus in my book.

I had the same problem when I started reading the comics/watching the cartoon. I could remember a few of the major characters, but everybody else just kind of blurred together and I couldn't remember who was who for the life of me.

:D You should definitely check out the Culture novels then. I think you'd really enjoy them. Some of the ones I've read haven't had a lot to do with the machine characters, but the three I listed before are good ones.

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