Yeah, I enjoyed this issue. Seeing Sky-Byte come in was a pleasant surprise... although I found his Haiku was a bit ... odd (it had a 4-8-4 syllable structure instead of 5-7-5; although it did have the nature reference which does make it a proper Haiku and not a Senryu which was the faux pas he made in his first appearance in Car Robot (as nitpicked by Fire Convoy ); also neat to see them putting in more known characters as NAILs instead of just inventing random generic nobodies like "Noddy" (oh, now he's called Tappet?! ) and... Hipotank (what's a hipo?! Is it a corruption of "hippo(s)"; Greek for horse? ). The Wheelie reference was neat.

Oh, and more transforming!

Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
Issue five was brilliant. Sky Byte is the outsider observer poet without the bias of any of the three factions, and this issue continues to makes it clear that there are no easy answers for either the Autobots or Decepticons. Even if the Decepticons did want to 'change' they are third-class citizens under an Autobot militia who can't risk trusting their former enemies and removing their inhibitor/deterrence chips. (Or can they?)
The current socio-political climate is pretty much like how I've long imagined Cybertron to be like after the end of the Great War and signing of the Pax Cybertronia -- where former Decepticons are treated as an underclass, which eventually leads to the formation of the politically underrepresented and socially marginalised Predacons, culminating in the Beast Wars 300 years later.

It'd be kinda neat if something similar happened here... like maybe former-Decepticon Sky-Byte could be one of the founding members of the Predacons? </pipe.dream>