True, true, though these days the comics (at least the later IDW stuff) do seem to acknowledge that Decepticons can have personalities beyond "We R So EVIL!" Which is nice.
Part of the appeal of the PA novels is pure nostalgia. I read a couple books from the Doomsday Warrior series when I was a kid (well, teenager) back in the 1980s as well as some of another series called Endworld. The attraction back then was partly a way to deal with my fears of actual nuclear war happening. The nice thing about post-apocalyptic series is that they all begin from the premise that there will be a time after the apocalypse. People will survive and life will continue -- might be different, might be not great, but there will be something that comes after.
I got re-interested in these books back in like, 2007 or so when I found rereleases of the first three books in the Endworld series at Barnes and Noble. I remembered enjoying the series and picked them up as some lovely bits of nostalgia. And found out that yeahhh, these books were not good. But they were fun to read in the same way that watching a cheesy movie is fun. This led to me collecting examples of the various series that were out there with the idea of writing my own post-apocalyptic men's adventure style series that would be the kind of thing I wish my younger self had been able to find. (That's still an in progress kinda thing...)
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Part of the appeal of the PA novels is pure nostalgia. I read a couple books from the Doomsday Warrior series when I was a kid (well, teenager) back in the 1980s as well as some of another series called Endworld. The attraction back then was partly a way to deal with my fears of actual nuclear war happening. The nice thing about post-apocalyptic series is that they all begin from the premise that there will be a time after the apocalypse. People will survive and life will continue -- might be different, might be not great, but there will be something that comes after.
I got re-interested in these books back in like, 2007 or so when I found rereleases of the first three books in the Endworld series at Barnes and Noble. I remembered enjoying the series and picked them up as some lovely bits of nostalgia. And found out that yeahhh, these books were not good. But they were fun to read in the same way that watching a cheesy movie is fun. This led to me collecting examples of the various series that were out there with the idea of writing my own post-apocalyptic men's adventure style series that would be the kind of thing I wish my younger self had been able to find. (That's still an in progress kinda thing...)