>>103302420The original is a fantastic comic. Gets great about 15-20 issues in. If you like Metal Gear, I swear to you it pulls a lot of the same tricks a decade earlier. The Chuck Dixon "realistic" IDW universe was kind of alright, but sort of cartoonishly dark. After he left, or was forced out, IDW tried to lighten things up with two relaunches, but they just didn't last long. Then they went cartoony stupid with the Hasbroverse volume they told us was still part of the Dixon continuity. Which made no sense tonally or anything at all.
You can get something fun out of a crossover, if you work around the "In Disguise" stuff with black ops operations. Like imagine the Autobots need help infiltrating a Decepticon operation but know the 'Cons can detect Cybertronian energy signatures. A few brief crossovers like that which end with Hawk and Optimus shaking hands and promising aid would work.
In the original Transformer comic Bumblebee got his Goldbug form in the GI Joe/Transformers crossover, and it was eventually revealed the quasi shape shifting Silent Castle Destro used as a retreat was made using Cybertronian tech. Megatron got his G2 form in GI Joe, which was used to promote the upcoming series. Most recently around issue 200 of GI Joe there was due to be some kind of crossover which was cancelled at the last second. So a GI Joe base had some other giant alien robot under it. That was weird.
It could have been a fun angle in the Bay films if his military guys were just GI Joe. He should have just directed a GI Joe movie from the start. It probably would have sucked, but at least the right characters would be the main characters.
It was asinine to merge the stories in IDW, since RiD had Melissa Fairborn, who is Flint and Lady Jaye's daughter. Frankly the Transformers had already fucked around pretty heavily on Earth without GI Joe acting like anything had ever happened. I haven't read that era of crossover books myself, but I can't imagine they made it work.
