So after 16 issues of going nowhere really, we get this.
This game changer.
I'll have to do some more reading of all things Dai Atlas to double check, but I am not sure if this ties in seamlessly with the established pre war history, but it is an awesome revelatory issue that twists all the Shockwave related stories nicely into one comprehensible braid. It ties in the Shockwave spotlight, Maximum dinobots, Spotlight Kup and the Orion pax single issues together with Shadowplay.
Funny that the best (and in retrospect, only decent Cybertron based) issue of RID is a follow up of a MtMtE story. Barber continues to do wonders with continuity.
Again Ramondelli's art will polarise, but I find it suits these kind of stories. The only time I was unsure what was going on was with Dai, Shockers and Proteus, I think the projector Shockers was using was an actual transformer, but not sure.
It is a minor thing, but I liked it, Starscream talks like a ruffian, very thuggish. It suits who is was back before the war, I think (do we know what Starscream was in the IDW-verse before the war? was he elite guard or something?)
If you were planning on giving up on RiD, as I had thought about, DONT. If this issue is an indicator of where RiD is going, (doubtful seeing as next issue goes to Arcee feeling sorry for herself) then RiD will be worth reading for months to come.
Looking For: Wreckers Saga TPB Collection (with Requiem)