He added that, in hindsight, he went back to watch the series and now really enjoys it, particularly Season 2's strong character stories. He explained that when he was involved with the Marvel comic books as a twenty-something-year-old writer, he thought the show was pitched a little young and that the stories were simplistic and had huge logic flaws, but conceded that he saw them from a different perspective than the generation that grew up watching the cartoon and buying the toys as kids, and so he concentrated on his work, which he believed was more "adult" in tone. In such instances, it has since been assumed that Furman was filling in neglected areas of the (at the time underdeveloped) Dreamwave continuity.Ĭontrary to the popular opinion that he is an outspoken critic of the Generation One animated series, Furman has stated in an interview that he loves the series. This book has seen significant criticism for being biased towards comic canon (particularly that which he penned) and, in places, inventing continuity wholecloth without any precedent in prior fiction. Notably, he penned Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, a book which described the background of several continuities which he was not particularly involved in crafting. As a result, he is often the first, last, and occasionally only resort in penning Transformers literature, with a deep involvement in a wide variety of product. He is an editor at Titan Books, which publishes collections of Transformers comics, among other material.įurman is a highly prolific writer and well regarded in the fandom.
He has also written and created many non-Transformers characters, including Death's Head with Geoff Senior and "Brute Force" with Jose Delbo. Every other series has had Furman coming in after someone else had already set everything up.
His IDW run is notable for being the only instance where he has actually created the mythos from the ground up.
Since then, Furman has also written Transformers comics for Dreamwave Productions, IDW Publishing, and 3H, and scripted the final episode of the Beast Wars cartoon, " Nemesis Part 2". Probably the most well-known of all Transformers comics writers, Simon Christopher Francis Furman was editor and author for much of the Marvel UK run, and began writing for the Marvel US comic after writer Bob Budiansky left. but Swoop is neither vast nor predatory nor even a bird! What is he playing at?
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