Dave's Transformers Rant: Dreamwave Posters Set 1

     Optimus Prime ("Captimus Primus")
     Megatron
     Autobots
     Decepticons

     No real spoilers, these are posters, eh?

     All four posters are 27"x39" (68cm x 98cm), full movie poster size.
Smaller mailing tubes don't work for them, sadly (I found this out after
buying a couple of smaller tubes to transport my posters in on the return
from the comic shop).  They sell for $6.95, a reasonable price for posters of
that size.

     Optimus Prime: The label on the wrapping calls this Captimus Primus,
heh.  Anyway, the image is of a crouching Optimus Prime standing on an
Autobot symbol.  Above him is a silver Transformers logo, and at the bottom
are faux movie credits for the Dreamwave crew, plus Hasbro's logo and some
legal info.  The fake movie poster stuff doesn't overlap any art, so if you
have a really good papercutter or a steady hand with scissors, you can remove
it if you'd rather a straight non-movie poster.
     The art is a bit rough at this scale, although this seems to be
intentional.  The proportioning and perspective are pretty good, the pose
being one in which the Dreamwave house style of "Forced perspective means
huge feet" works reasonably well.  It's a bit dark, though.
    The text at the bottom of the poster reads "Transform and roll out!"  The
art is by Pat Lee.

    Megatron: Similar in composition and style, with Megatron on a Decepticon
symbol.  Same somewhat dark, deliberately sketchy art style.  The text reads
"I still function!"  Art by Pat Lee.

    Autobots: Where the first two posters are long in the vertical direction,
this and the Decepticons poster are long horizontally.  This is basically the
wraparound cover art from G1 #1, with minimal logo/text (just the Dreamwave
and Hasbro logos in the lower right hand corner).  One advantage of the
heavily computerized art process at Dreamwave is that you can blow something
up three or four times as large without it looking blown up or sketchy (the
sketchiness of the Prime and Megs posters is a stylistic choice, not an
artifact of scaling up).
    Because the proportions of the poster aren't exactly those of a two-page
comic spread, the poster is missing a tiny bit of the image, what amounts to
the bottom centimeter of the cover.  I don't have the Decepticon cover #1,
but I presume the same trimming happened.

    Decepticons: Like he Autobots poster, the scaling up is very smooth.  I
find the forced perspective to be a bit wonky here, it makes it look almost
as if Starscream is half as tall as Megatron, since both appear to be right
in front of one of Devastator's huge hands.  Also, the center of the poster
is a bit dark.

    Overall, they're all decent posters, and none shows TOO much of the
problems that some (like me) have with Pat Lee's art and the Dreamwave style
in general.  They're all going up on my walls when I move into a new
apartment in Kansas this summer.

    Dave Van Domelen, hopes he can post this...eyrie's having memory
problems.