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Nothing really happens.
At best, this is hundreds of pages devoted to what's basically a white dwarf scenario.
First time I encountered Tom Scioli's work–TF vs GI Joe–I thought he was on some powerful psychedelics. Go back and read comics from 80s and you'll notice some of the crazier stuff in his storytelling, both visually and plot-wise, is delightfully on point. Go-Bots is no exception.
Enjoy the ride!
The Bumbl–ur-Cliffjumper story is fantastic. It's the best thing since the IDW reboot followed by the other Galaxies story about the Constructicons. The main series remains plodding and is just puzzling when you consider how the prior two stories point out how much you can cram into a few issues. It makes you wonder why so much of the slow rise of TF book wasn't compartmentalized into distinct character driven series rather than what's become a bit of a slow muddle.
Poul Anderson's a great writer and this ages better than most sci-fi that traces back to pulps. It's hard though not to spend nearly every story wondering if the agents cause so much chaos then “why not just eliminate the Time Patrol itself?”
Beringia, the Wanda Tamberly story, is the pick of the bunch.
Really good across the aboard. Spotlight Bumblebee is actually quite weak–not a coincidence that it's earth based–but Nick Roche's Megatron is fantastic.
It's amazing how Barber and Scott are given a toy-driven storyline and absolutely deliver a compelling mix of politics and lore.
Head popping.
The best part of this series is possibly the 1D4Chan summaries: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Beast
I know Ramondelli's art isn't to everyone's tastes. But I was surprised on reread to get deep into the first story without being explicitly aware this was his work. His art's come a long way to the point where he's able to convey a lot of dynamics and emotion via his style and it's hard to imagine a brooding Sandstorm, Bludgeon or Trypticon having the same effect under someone else's brush.
Lots of humans, Optimus annexes Earth and executes an enemy!
No it's not the Michael Bay-verse's Murder Prime, but rather a convincingly complicated take on Optimus care of John Barber.
Yes!
1. Abnett is really a cut above most BL writers. He has this knack for capturing the utter ridiculous banality of the Imperium even when the humans are battling the worst evils imaginable.
2. Stuff happens! More is brought to a head (Little Horus) and greater depth is added to the lore (Primarch creation) than the last 30 or so HH books put together. The shame of it is that the entire HH line could have been this good if the main line books followed a similar packed narrative rather than going on interminably about Calth and so on.
3. Everyone's swearing now. Is this new? Did I miss something where BL relaxed on the kid friendly dialogue accompanying genocidal violence? Even Dorn swears now. It's great!
That's a lot of ink spent to get to a small factoid about Primari$ origins.
Well, hopefully that's the last of the Shattered Legions arcs–which were frankly most memorable for a completely nuts episode with a sentient hand.
There's a short story from the WD150-ish era about Thousand Son's Brother-Captain Karlsen's “memory palace” that's so much better than this entire book.
A lot of the gamer essays are hit or miss, but the player histories and follow ups are the highlight of the book.
The galaxies stories are okay (Ultra Magnus) and really good (Guage). But the main series remains incredibly aimless and slow.
Gillen does such a great job translating the feel of the movie gang to print without engaging in retreads.
The colour style is just not my thing.
