James Roberts Archives

From Strip To Script – Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
The page we'll be looking at comes from the second volume of More Than Meets the Eye, by Josh Burcham (color), Alex Milne (art), Chris Mowry (letters), and James Roberts (script) PAGE Forty-One   P1 ULTRA MAGNUS points to a screen of Cybertronian script. – MAGNUS                                    And what's particularly interesting about this footnote is the transitive verb in line[...]
No Little 'Bots? James Roberts Retcons 'Estriol' In Female Transformers(UPDATE)
James Roberts, writer of the critically acclaimed More Than Meets The Eye series, recently listed, in issue #31, his female character Nautica as being "spark-type: Estriol-positive." Sparks double as Transformer CPUs and Transformer souls, powering transformation cogs, brain modules, and presumably all the pistons and sprockets. Roberts asked for the Estriol reference to be removed from[...]
Post-Dark Cybertron Speculation
Betting areas include the potential repair bill, and, of course, the possibility of grandstanding speeches. Tickle my axles! Megatron, that archetypal arch-villain, will be joining the crew of The Lost Light, in James Roberts' stellar series More Than Meets The Eye MTMTE has been the stand-out Transformers series of the last few years It started with[...]
Dark Cybertron Is, Thus Far, Dull Cybertron
Writers James Roberts and John Barber, especially Roberts, have put a lot of thought into how a millions-year-old robot society would evolve, function and acculturate The stories, even when they misfire, are full of big ideas. The big crossover between both titles, Dark Cybertron, launched with three chapters in November, revealing Shockwave's master plan to unleash[...]