Crybaby fans

I'm a huge fan of The Transformers and have been since they debuted in 1984, the robots in disguise have gotten me interested in such other passions such as comics, anime, video games, and even pro-wrestling my avatar for this blog is the cover of Transformers: Generation 2 #1. The Transformers have been and still are a huge part of my life.

I'm a member of many Transformers fan sites including and I'm a member of IDW's message board as well.

Now to the point: I love Transformers: All Hail Megatron maxi-series and the current The Transformers ongoing series from IDW the main reason I love these books is that they NOT WRITEN BY SIMON FURMAN! For those of you who don't who Simon Furman is, he is the man who wrote about 98% of Marvel UK's Transformers series and the latter half of the Marvel US series as well as the 12 issue Transformers: Generation 2 for Marvel and Transformers: The War Within, Transformers: The War Within II, and Transformers: Armada/Energon for the now defunct Dreamwave Comics, and created the current Transformers: G1 Universe through a series of mini-series (called Infiltration, Stormbringer, Escalation, Devastation, Revelation, and Maximum Dinobots) and Transformers Spotlight a series of one-shots. He is too The Transformers what Chris Claremont is too the X-Men he is the man who wrote the most stories.

That is my problem.

Furman hasn't written a decent Transformers G1 series since Transformers: Generation 2 ended. His work for Dreamwave was forgettable, and if it wasn't for the fact that The Fallen debuted in one of War With In mini-series and that it become a huge part of the second live action movie, I doubt I would remember even that.

His run at IDW was at best forgettable and at worse total and complete shit. Revelations was one of the worse comics I had ever read, a villain that was a rip off of Darth Vader, who was merging universes (or something like that), and the Autobots stopping him by speaking in technobabble straight out of an episode of Star Trek: Voyager and while Maximum Dinobots was a rush job to resolve what was left of his story lines he started and it was crammed with so many story lines I needed a score card to keep track of everything. After surviving this horrific ordeal I didn't pick up a new Transformers comic or trade paper back for over 2 years because I was so disgusted by Furman's crap.

A new writer named Shane McCarthy was hired to write a new maxi-series called Transformers: All Hail Megatron set one year after the events of Furman's last 2 duds and the vast majority of fans...hated it. They hated that it wasn't faithful to the continuity established in Furman's run, that a new Autobot character called Drift was introduced as a member of the Wreckers (a elite team of Autobots created by Furman during his Marvel UK run) and many fans felt that Drift was Gary Sue (it should be noted that Furman created several Gary Sues during his long reigns at Marvel US/UK, Dreamwave, and IDW) that there were too many humans, the story was dragged out, etc.

Basically they hated it because Simon Furman didn't write it.

Now I'm sure if Furman wrote All Hail Megatron word for word exactly the same as McCarthy did most, if not all, of those same fans that that hated it would love it.

Some how I through my upbringing and the events that shaped my life I see the world of pop culture as an outsider, or as I perfer as a pop culture iconoclast. I don't follow Hollywood news all that much and see little value in celebrity and even the news about various franchises that I love and care about, I don't pay much attention too.

Now I will say that Furman has written some great and amazing Transformers stories in the past, but like Chris Claremont, most fans and publishers seem to think that he is the ONLY person who should ever write Transformers comics (and same with Claremont there are fans who think that he should be the only writer to write The Uncanny X-Men) because they know these characters, they know the history, etc, well all I can say to these fans is: BOO-HOO, want a hankie?

I'm done calling these fans either fanboys and fangirls. From now on I will I call them for what they are: crybabies.

I honestly don't think it would matter to these crybabies who wrote All Hail Megatron or the ongoing series, even if it were guys like Peter David, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Mark Waid, or any other "hot" comic book writer, because the crybabies will never accept them even if they blew Furman out of the water and put sales through the roof and got great critical acclaim. They would still be the same whining bitching bastard crybabies that they are.

If I don't like a comic book series, toy, movie, TV show, video game, or whatever then I don't buy it, play it, read it, watch it, or bother with it. That is what I do. It has saved me the money and more importantly the time I would have wasted on a product that I consider crap.

Crybaby fans try to take all the fun and enjoyment out of media, it's fine that you don't like something but for God's sake stop acting like whining bitching bastard crybabies about it. You don't like something make your fucking point and move on with your lives and stop ruining the fun and pleasure of something for someone else.

I don't like Furman's IDW Transformers (which makes me in the Transfan community a cross between a loser and an idiot) because I simply know what I like and don't like. I didn't like the vast majority of Furman's IDW run it was slow, dull, boring, and very predicable but I don't start threads on the message boards at seibertron.com, TF2005.com, theallspark.com, TFArchive.com, or at IDW and flame others who disagree with me. I try to state my opinions bluntly and too the point.

When I say that I would rather be hated for being honest with my opinions than being loved as a liar that is exactly what I believe. I think that are more fans out there who agree with me but are so worried about offending the crybaby fans (some of which are mods and admins on these sites) and that will be ostracized or banned by these communities because they have a different opinion my advice is: There will are those who will agree with you and those that don't well fuck them, if they can't accept your opinions. Don't be afraid to be different.

I'm a pop culture iconoclast who doesn't give damn about what people think of me, or maybe I don't have a real high opinion of humanity, but that is another subject for another day.