All Hail Megatron Issues 7 to 12

Megatron and Starscream are a bit closer in character to their Escalation selves, rather than their 80's cartoon selves, which means that sometime between McCarthy writing issues 1 and 11, he actually went back and read Furmans work.

Why Omega did not just obliterate Megatron while in Cruiser mode I do not know, and really, Cybertronians must be the worst shots of all species in the galaxy, they miss one another at point blank range, then run into hand to hand combat instead, even Cliffjumper cannot hit a target 3 metres away with his bfg.
They should hit one another more, most damage can be rid of with a CR chamber, Starscream came back from horrific injury, so why not others?

I also took Starscream barking orders as Megatrons way to get the infighting to cease, if Starscream orders his troops to attack the Autobots alongside Megatrons Decepticons, then it frees both factions of Cons to fight as a unit.

Still not a fan of Prime waking up from his injuries and being his cartoon self, rather than the Prime he was in Devastation, guess that his change of spark will be one of the things we might see in the coda?

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Originally Posted by Sky Shadow

Are we trying to sell new toys again or something?

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No. If they were going do that they would have all of a sudden started drawing existing IDW universe characters who had new looks to look like their Universe toys, and have new toys like Hound start appearing out of nowhere when the toy went on sale. Hmm, wait...

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Originally Posted by Paulbot

No. If they were going do that they would have all of a sudden started drawing existing IDW universe characters who had new looks to look like their Universe toys, and have new toys like Hound start appearing out of nowhere when the toy went on sale. Hmm, wait...

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:D Hmm... fair point. I'd thought that was just fanboyishness or Guidi using the toys as models. However, this 'theory' is far more intriguing...

They should've made Ironhide and Ratchet randomly look like their Universe models. It would've made no sense, but neither does Hound's transformation either... but I would've liked it!

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

They should've made Ironhide and Ratchet randomly look like their Universe models. It would've made no sense, but neither does Hound's transformation either... but I would've liked it!

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An opportunity to 'upgrade' their alt modes into classic molds was when they went into Kup's base for repairs.

Edit: Skyshadow, your sig makes me feel peed off at TakTom because that is the toy repaint of the mold I wanted and didn't get!! :p

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i_amtrunks]
Why Omega did not just obliterate Megatron while in Cruiser mode I do not know, and really, Cybertronians must be the worst shots of all species in the galaxy, they miss one another at point blank range, then run into hand to hand combat instead, even Cliffjumper cannot hit a target 3 metres away with his bfg.
They should hit one another more, most damage can be rid of with a CR chamber, Starscream came back from horrific injury, so why not others?

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I thought the whole battle was a reneactment of the one in the Ultimate Doom when they all line up and shot eachother at point blank range (and missed). Unlike previous battles in the IDW universe where TF's actualy got damaged the cybertronians have all upgraded thier armour so lasers just give them dirty black marks and make them fall over.

And lets not forget that Rumble was there all fit and healthy after that RPG shot to the head last issue that didn't actauly do any damage. Who knew Soundwave wa such a softie, getting all choked up at Rumble getting a nick on his nose. They really do seem to have developed a parent child relationship. Maybe I should put my MP Grimlock apron on Soundwave?

But yeah seriously the battle itself was what left me feeling disapointed the most in AHM #11.

I share pretty much the same views as Zed and I_amtrunks but it didn't bother me as much as it is what I expected - Basically a more refined Geewhunn plot as I mentioned earlier in the thread.

Although like Skyshadow, I would have preferred a lesser known G1/G2 character instead of Dropshot but at least we get someone new aside from from Genericons or Geewhunn cons. Dropshot's intro was also well done as I was expecting yet another pointless General Wikitywik 'Oh s**t what are we gonna do now?' scene but instead it was interrupted by a surprise attack from Dropshot which I found rather cool and welcomed given the extreme Geewhuness of the issue.

....I am tempted to get a Dropshot toy now as before this issue he was just a nobody. He didn't even look like his Micromaster namesake.

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Originally Posted by Lord_Zed

And lets not forget that Rumble was there all fit and healthy after that RPG shot to the head last issue that didn't actauly do any damage. Who knew Soundwave wa such a softie, getting all choked up at Rumble getting a nick on his nose. They really do seem to have developed a parent child relationship. Maybe I should put my MP Grimlock apron on Soundwave?

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If Megatron knew exactly what was going to happen, and when, then shouldn't it mean that he told Rumble about the attack, and Rumble and Soundwave played along, pretending to be hurt, and dropping the communications blockade, so that the humans left in NYC could feel fear, knowing the EU were going to bomb them?

I mean, c'mon Megatron planned all of this, down to the minutia... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

If Megatron knew exactly what was going to happen, and when, then shouldn't it mean that he told Rumble about the attack, and Rumble and Soundwave played along, pretending to be hurt, and dropping the communications blockade, so that the humans left in NYC could feel fear, knowing the EU were going to bomb them?

I mean, c'mon Megatron planned all of this, down to the minutia... :rolleyes:

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I have my doubts about the leadership of this Megatron, All Hail Starscream!

All Hail Viewfinder! :p