Number 26's review is similar to #24. Good story, let down by the art. What is going on with Sunstreaker's ears? This space story really kicks up a gear, with some interesting plot choices. The last few pages are great.
Number 26's review is similar to #24. Good story, let down by the art. What is going on with Sunstreaker's ears? This space story really kicks up a gear, with some interesting plot choices. The last few pages are great.
I'm liking the colours and the dark tone, which I think is fitting; but the actual drawings themselves are poor, occasionally awful.
I'm not the biggest fan of Nick Roche (much as I love him) but these crap drawings leave me yearning for his art!
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Right, I've been lured back in by James Roberts excellent Megatron / Prime proper origin stories in # 22 & 23 which are the best TF comics since LSTOW. The following issues 24 - 26 are ... uneven. The space based antics of #24 & 26 are good. I don't know how Roberts and Costs have split the writing duties (one plotting, one writing perhaps?) but the mix is a strange one. You've got the slightly bloated not much happens pacing of Costa peppered with the characterisation of Roberts. still, its nice to see Optimus being properly leaderly and doing military shouting orders stuff which must be ooh the first time ever we've seen that. The scene with the ostricised Sunstreaker petting the Insecticon 'pet' was lovely. I have decided Cliffjumper is a moron and can't really say I am terribly impressed with the 'back from the dead' nature of Ironhide and Suntreaker themselves, which smacks of back tracking. The influence of Roberts is very apparent when we come to # 25, which is a real slump. A nice spotlight piece for Prowl (whom Costa does writet very well), but the Earth bound misadventures of the Autobots don't seem to have moved on since the dreadful 'International Incident' arc. Its all sneaky human organisations doing sneaky things to each other. Blah. Although enjoyable enough, I'm hoping this Chaos arc is actually heading for a big explosion and a reset (unusually for me) as IDWs continuity as it stands really isn't doing it for me and just seems a mish mash of false starts, creative dead ends, about turns and unsatisfying results. This odd mix of trying to be contemporary whilst firmly rooting nailing each character to their Marvel archetypes does no one any favours. Although he lost the plot, Furman was onto something with his year zero approach. Sigh.
On the art front. Well. Alex Milne continues to impress, but Livio Ramondelli's Ashley Wood style murk is difficult to follow and that Megatron redesign is an ugly piece of crap. Sorry, but it is. He looks like something out of Warhammer. Brendan Cahill's style is a difficult one to judge. his storytelling skills are first rate, but he seems to be the latest in a long line of modern Transformers artists who can draw the robots fine (bar that ugly looking splash of Ultra Magnus, Prowl, Streetwise and Bumblebee) but struggles a bit with humans. Incidentally, I like that most of the earth bound autobots are ones with emergency service vehicles for alt modes
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I must admit, as #26 progressed from talking to big shooty fighty bang bang pop the artwork did seem to fit. It suits an epic space battle well, but is indeed very hard to follow when the action slows.
As for #25, lets just hope this storyline wraps up all the Earth based nonsense for the time being. Tis much repetitive and jarring.
So # 27 & 28 then. repeating the process of the last two issues. The earth based stuff with Prowl 'investigating' Spike is tedious and the least interesting facet of this Chaos storyline and I don't feel any tnesion or any sense of 'kewl Spike is , like, eeevil , dude' at all. i just want it to be over. By comparrison, the shooty space war on Cybertron remains more interesting. Its becoming increasingly obvious that this is paced quite poorly though, with not a lot actually happening. I have now decided that Megatron looks like Nemesis The Warlock off of 2000AD. The art is difficult to follow too, particularly the scenes with Megatron taking on the sweeps which is a blurry mess. Not sure what i think about the whole Decepticon army forming something akin to the Scraplet monster last seen in the old Marvel comics - spray water on it, Prime! That'll stop it!
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I read #30 yesterday. It turns out the mega-gestalt was D-Void from Hearts of Darkness. Interpret it how you like, but either HoD left no lasting impression on any of us, or the art was too blurry for us to recognise him. The only other big news is in the Choas checklist, where the classified #125 is revealed. I don't want to spoil it, but it's been done before, innumerate times, so it all depends on the handling.
From what I've read somewhere (can't remember where though), the big event of #125 isn't even going to last very long.
Also, in January two new series will start - More Than Meets The Eye and Robots in Disguise. Not the most original of names, but especially the first one seems appealing, with the team behind Last Stand of the Wreckers behind it. For more information, http://www.oneshallstand.com/shop/MTMTE/MTMTE-sub.html and http://www.oneshallstand.com/shop/RID/RID-sub.html (warning - contains spoilers)
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MTMTE does sound promising, but why have oneshallstand put the RID covers in the wrong order?
So not sure i followed what happened with that bright white light. What are we meant to assumed happened?
Cybertron died?!
I think that's what supposed to have happened. Ramonelli's art is terrible. Sorry, but it is. Murky, unclear and reliant on the painted nature of the work to distract from his poor storytelling. What I red is an expressionist painting with speech bubbles on it. The end wasn't very epic. We got what was supposed to be Megatron (who now transforms into a flying flip flop) shooting at....well I don't what. The D-void, one assumes, but frankly your guess is as good as mine. Meanwhile, the Autobots stand about wringing their hands and suddenly we get the bon mot that Galvatron thinks he's saving Cybertron - really?! That makes no sense. Optimus dithers and Rodimus prods him along and that's it. The earth bound conclusion isn't up to much either, wiuth the big reveal being that it was Swindle all along!
Is this it? Is this what the last 30 issues have been building towards?
What a bunch of arse.
Superhero? No, you were right all along. Name's Death's Head. I kill people for a living!
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