Comic Review: Transformers Regeneration One

[i_amtrunks]

Read #99. Cool Shockwave cover. The Galvatron cover is nice too.

But aside from the covers? Awful. Just dreadful, anticlimactic and boring.

Will #100 bring it home strong? I hope so but my I doubt it.

I was hoping that you were mistaken, but I should know better by now.

Anti-climatic and dull, all to tie up a loose end that was not the most important one to wrap up, and would have better suited a 5 issue arc than the Scorponok arc.

Too much to do in the last issue unless miracle after miracle occurs. Even a double issue wouldn't be enough and I think it is only a standard comic.

[Verno]

There seems to be two (but perhaps even three) distinct forces at work in ReGen1 -- Primus, Unicron and the Dark/Anti-Matrix Energy Monster.

Primus did genuinely take over Grimlock's body back in Issue #94, and then took Hot Rod through the multiverse to give him information, as well as the Matrix, to transform him into Rodimus Prime in #0. It's been said in the series that 'energy cannot be destroyed', so perhaps Primus survived his 'death' in Issue #75 of the original Marvel run and is now trying to get his 'plan' back on track. Why I believe this to actually be Primus (and not the energy monster tricking Rodimus) is because of the distinct change in speech pattern.

I believe that plan to be the minds of the Underbase becoming something of a replacement for Primus himself. The (now) five minds in the Underbase become The Guiding Hand of the IDW universe.

The Dark/Anti-Matrix Energy Monster Thing wants to expand its reach into the entire multiverse, instead of just being contained in the Marvel universe. Sounds similar to what D-Void wanted/wants from what I've read on the TFWiki. Perhaps using Spike as a host, it can traverse the 'crack' in space and time and thus spread.

Ultimately, Rodimus will make some kind of sacrifice or drastic decision that leads to the Energy Monster not succeeding, this time. But he can't destroy the monster outright because 'energy can't be destroyed' blah blah blah. The Marvel Universe becomes the Dead Universe.

Unicron is having a last hurrah, and has taken over Galvatron's body. "One will become all" was a line in a previous Issue (just after the head in the Primus chamber killed all the Unicron Cultists) with emphasis on the 'one', perhaps. Could this not just be the Energy Monster as well? Maybe, yes, but we had Unicron threatening Optimus Prime right the way back at the start of the series and we've not seen hide nor hair of him since.

[Verno]

Too much to do in the last issue unless miracle after miracle occurs. Even a double issue wouldn't be enough and I think it is only a standard comic.

It's a double-issue, so there is hope.

[Paulbot]

Marvel Universe becomes the IDW Dead Universe? Instant reaction was interesting idea, but on further thought the Dead Universe was around 7 million years ago so, shifting timescales aside it doesn't really work.

I still expect some sort of cosmic reset button but we'll see.

[Verno]

Marvel Universe becomes the IDW Dead Universe? Instant reaction was interesting idea, but on further thought the Dead Universe was around 7 million years ago so, shifting timescales aside it doesn't really work.

I still expect some sort of cosmic reset button but we'll see.

I never saw the Marvel and IDW universes running parallel, but rather one ends and then the next begins. The Marvel universe 'dies', the Guiding Hand (Underbase) creates the IDW universe and on we go, with the Marvel Universe remaining as the empty 'Dead' Universe.

But you're right -- there is a big reset button-mashing coming up.

[Paulbot]

I never saw the Marvel and IDW universes running parallel, but rather one ends and then the next begins. The Marvel universe 'dies', the Guiding Hand (Underbase) creates the IDW universe and on we go, with the Marvel Universe remaining as the empty 'Dead' Universe.

The collection of Hot Rods from many dimensions (issue 0 i think?) suggests they are all parallel.

[Sky Shadow]

This is all I want to see in #100...

[Sky Shadow]

This is all I want to see in #100...

Or I would be happy with this...

[Verno]

The collection of Hot Rods from many dimensions (issue 0 i think?) suggests they are all parallel.

Perhaps, but 'Primus' took Hot Rod to see Galvatron kill the Rodimus Prime of another universe, which we could assume happened at another time, as that Galvatron might be the time-travelling one now seen in ReGen1 (or something), which would mean they're not running parallel.