Ultimately I'm going to enjoy looking at these comics, because of the Senior covers, but I'm not going to be reading them over and over. As the wrap up to the first "arc" I'm still feeling overall disappointed in the series. Maybe if the colouring was a bit more restrained as Sky Shadow suggests it would work a bit better. Substituting backgrounds for shaded colouring doesn't help. The Transformers are fighting in an apocalyptic Washington DC? Um, yeah's there's a bit of a broken white building (maybe a house) and a road. There's no scale, no sense of place. It might as well be the danger room Kup was training in back in #81.

Using the holographic "Auntie" from one of the most obscure of the UK comic's strips (disregarding annuals etc) was a poor call too I think. I know this book is aimed at die-hards but that's a step maybe too die-hard? Or maybe it just irritates because generally this series is based on the US comic only and other UK stories are otherwise ignored (despite the main reason to care about characters in this story like Springer and Broadside).

One thing I didn't appreciate until the second reading, was that Starscream was the only Transformer to know that Megatron and Ratchet were linked mentally, having witnessed that firsthand. All Kup, and the other Autobots, would know was that Fixit had to save both of them to keep them alive when did the operation, but the more metaphysical bond wasn't revealed until the Autobots were all off the Ark. As readers we've known it for over 20 years but it would be an unknown fact at play in the story to everyone else.