James Roberts
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Writes (MTMTE, Lost Light) and occasionally presents / Third sector / Views my own, RTs not endorsements, likes definitely likes / He / Him Insta: j.roberts332
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I don't need reminding that immigrants invented X or founded Y or built Z. The argument for inclusion begins and ends with 'they're human'.
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Tory Twitter when you say kids are starving:
Any responsible parent could easily feed six children on 11 pence a day
Tory Twitter when you suggest someone earning 80K should pay more tax:
This is an outrage, I’m barely managing to scrape by, do you realise how much it costs to
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Little UK news roundup for those living elsewhere. Everything’s great, thanks for asking
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Sorry for all the political tweets and retweets, but a UK general election only happens once every few months.
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Halle Bailey as Ariel and Lashana Lynch as 007: both clearly wonderful developments. But in slightly different ways, both announcements make me wonder whether the entertainment industry is increasingly exploiting the fact that certain casting choices will be controversial.
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Pete Buttigieg spends years precision-engineering 100% content-free homilies like “the guarantor of liberty is the hope that gives our dreams flight” and then the maestro pops up to show him how the fuck it’s done
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@hansmollman
I read her whole thread — tweet after tweet of agonised handwringing and soul-searching — and couldn’t help but laugh out loud when she reveals that, surprise surprise, she IS going to attend the concert
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Brought to life by
@markerguru
, first appearing in MTMTE
#7
then making his animated debut (of sorts) in Cyberverse, everyone’s favourite smooth talker Tarn is heading your way as a Real Thing You Can Buy. My first OC to get the honest-to-gosh standalone action figure treatment
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It was all worth it for this
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I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school.
They represent the summum of popularity and success.
Those who fall short of this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy.
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Okay. Alright. I thought I’d seen the bleeding edge of Saucegate Entitlement. Then I saw this. And then I wept.
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This gets a Rodimus Star ⭐️
[It's Just a Theory!]
Started out just as a test to see what BS would sound like with MatPat's voice,, got a bittt carried away
(Props to anyone who finds all the little details sprinkled throughout :D)
#Transformers
#MTMTE
#Maccadam
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Tailgate would start chatting to you. Rung would freeze until he knew there was no one else in the vicinity. Magnus goes once every three weeks, per his Excel spreadsheet. Rodimus wouldn’t close the door in the first place. In fact he’s been known to use the sink.
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Sad 👏 that 👏 my 👏 love of 👏 making empha👏tic 👏 points👏 is 👏 affe👏👏cted 👏 by my l👏ack of👏👏 rhythm
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How did this happen
10 years ago today,
#MTMTE
issue 1 was released.
Happy anniversary to my favorite comic book.
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I’ll always be proud of my contributions to IDW’s continuity, but I can’t deny the thrill of (finally!) being able to say that I expanded the Marvel US/UK G1 canon
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If MTMTE *had* been a TV show we’d have put this bit in the trailer
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Chuffed to bits about this
3yo: I want to see the orange transformer!
Me: Ok, his name is “Rung.”
3yo: Show me what he transforms into!
Me: Ok.
3yo: …what is it?
Me: that’s a very good question.
@jroberts332
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Fact
The heavily-obscured banner hanging in Swerve's is implied to read, "F**K OFF MEGATRON". (2016)
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If, from the start, the Autobots had been called Protectobots... the warring factions would have been Pros and Cons.
This is my final tweet. Goodbye forever.
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Lost Light won the IGN People’s Choice award for Best Ongoing Comic Book of 2018! Thank you to everyone who voted - it’s a nice way to bow out.
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Just smiling to myself at how Hayato Sakamoto would take even the most functional of my scenes and ramp the sexual tension up to 11. You go for it, mate
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** Now Taking Pre-Orders **
I’m making Volumes 1 and 2 of the MTMTE Notebooks available worldwide. These unofficial but professionally-designed and -printed, perfect-bound A5 soft backs contain transcripts of my handwritten ‘ideas bible’ that formed the basis of MTMTE and LL
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I’ll have you know that in-universe, Tailgate is considered to have the most sensuous — the most scandalously erotic — mouth of all. Please rewrite all your fanfic accordingly
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The fact that Beijing’s Universal Studios includes a Swerve’s has pushed me over the edge (in a good way)
Friend were sharing this in the gc I’m like: 🤔🤔🤔holy xxxx they know what we need in universal studio Beijing don’t they?
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Because obviously controversy = publicity. Maybe the blame lies with the reporting, but the 007 PR in particular seems designed to enrage (well, to enrage arseholes; but still get the desired online clamour and consequent second round of media coverage).
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This cliffhanger being resolved by Megatron ignoring Verity is up there with the best TF moments
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Prowl’s being a (typical) bastard here: the Mitteous Plateau, which Tailgate was taking a shortcut across back in issue
#1
when he fell below ground, is notoriously the most fragile landscape on Cybertron. It would never support the Lost Light’s weight
* rodimus remembered swerves "crusadercons" suggestion!
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Coming soon! Covering all of MTMTE Season 2, from the Trial to the Showdown and everything in-between. In due course I’ll post details of how you can pre-order copies (and get the Vol 1 and 2 reprints)
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Powerful Ultra Magnus energy
An incredible sense of mounting dread throughout, with a terrifying payoff
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Modern Russian roulette is scrolling through my TL wondering when
@thelindsayellis
’s Cats profile pic is going to appear
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The gap between setup and payoff 😉
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This was probably as politically in-your-face as I got in the book
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My first draft scripts for MTMTE make me look like a serial killer
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The story has become — has been allowed to become? Was intended to become? — that Lynch will replace the James Bond character, when really she’ll assume the 007 code name. But the news has made the required splash.
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That’s what I’d like to know
WHY NOT WHY WONT YOU READ MTMTE
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At some point
@JLawrence_Art
is going to draw Rodimus, First Aid, Getaway, Minimus and Drift together and you’ll all need to be hosed down
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That was... rather good, actually. Who’d have thought that a character-driven, emotionally rich story, straightforwardly told, with a great soundtrack and loving nods to G1, would be such fun?
#BumblebeeMovie
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** fighting urge to predict how each would react **
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I have never seen anything fall into a trap so perfectly and completely
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Someone tell me how
@JLawrence_Art
can give First Aid - a robot with the dreaded visor/facemask combo - a sympathetic expression
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“It’s the end. But the moment has been prepared for.”
17 years is a hell of a run - no other licensee has been a TF custodian for so long >>
IDW to Lose ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Transformers’ License at End of 2022 (Exclusive) via
@thr
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We ended up with quite the cast in the end, didn’t we?
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If you’d told me 35 years ago that there would be a Transformers SEVEN I’d have said okay, makes sense, if they’ve already made six it’s obviously a popular franchise
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“Comixology was never going to save comics, but it tried.”
Comixology helped MTMTE survive. We did OK with physical sales, but the series punched well above its weight digitally. We found a new audience, a wider audience, and that changed everything
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I see that
@Vic_Draws_
has taken a lot of what I tried to say over the course of 80 issues and successfully condensed it into a single image
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(And for those who’d like to see a woman play Bond it’s a disappointing sleight of hand.)
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The surreal weekend continues, as the demise of Lost Light - and one aspect of its legacy - make the national news
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This is devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected. IDW gave me my break and were always good to me. It’s a company full of smart, creative, exceptionally hardworking people who don’t deserve this
IDW "goes dark" on the NYSE, lays off 39% of their workforce as they cut cost to prepare for "recovery and growth."
@idwpublishing
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Anyone who says ‘classic Banksy’ or ‘epic’ or anything that isn’t ‘world’s smuggest man continues to have cake and eat it’ can leave my timeline
$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction
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Hey
@markerguru
I’m t̶h̶a̶n̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ blaming you for the origins of what Tumblr veterans describe as Megatron’s felonious DILF energy. My script was scrupulously neutral
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I dunno. I guess effective PR has always been about finding the angle that will get the most people talking. But the entertainment industry is cynical in nature, and it won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that outrage (and outraged response to outrage) makes for the best clickbait
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Can’t believe they launched the new MTMTE series without telling me
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WHO only stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1990
70 countries still criminalise consensual same sex activity
LGBTQI ppl are disproportionately vulnerable to destitution, poverty and sexual violence
The fight continues
Love and solidarity
#IDAHOBIT2020
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Incredible
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Er, guess we all forgot the earlier scene where he says he periodically erases “redundant and/or frivolous” vocabulary from his neural database, preferring to use the space for sprinkler serial codes?
Ultra Magnus denies that "relax" is a word, claiming that he's never heard of it, despite the fact that he himself used the word in a previous issue. (2012)
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Brexiteers, antivaxxers, TERFs... I’ve rode the Twitter rapids for eight years now, and nothing has me shook quite like the No Masks brigade
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This is Buttons. His first birthday was a week last Monday. 48 hours ago he went missing. What follows has a happy ending…
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Oh my god he’s done a Notes app apology…
MTMTE Books update👇
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That “Tailgate would start chatting to you” tweet will haunt me til I die
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Excited about this!
@jroberts332
DID YOU SEE EARTHSPARK?! THEY INCORPORATED THE FLOWERS AHHHHHH THEY INCORPORATED THE FLOWERSSSS
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Fuck me. In the space of 2hrs, Lost Light has been compared to Watchmen on national radio, I’ve been asked if I’d interview a SF icon for a UK newsstand publication, and one of my musical heroes has followed me on Twitter. I’m going to die in a car crash later, aren’t I?
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Okay so in my defence
I was once having amazing sex with a guy. Like top tier. We're getting fully into it and naturally started changing positions. As we moved, he suddenly shouted out 'AUTOBOTS TRANFORM!'. Safe to say I didn't finish.
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MTMTE and RiD - aka Phase 2 of IDW 2005 (it gets complicated, this stuff) - are about to hit Japanese shelves. Bathe in the bright, bright nostalgia
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We need TF7 to be so successful that a Scavengers miniseries on Netflix becomes an inevitability
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I did enjoy naming this particular story
This panel is one of the many reasons why
@jroberts332
and
@JLawrence_Art
Lost Light is one of my favourite comic series of all time
(And MTMTE of course to 😎)
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Is this some kind of threat
Doctor says in 10 years time, humans will be able to live and work till the age of 120.
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I’ve not been a guest at
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Direct action works
The workers won. Kellogg's folded. This is a great day for US labor rights.
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Literally unimprovable
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