Guh... the story's just getting silly with the whole Earth being a Cosmic deus ex machina MacGuffin that can make anyone into some ridiculous gestalt or unmake existing gestalts. I understand that Hasbro's likely pushed them to introduce characters like Victorion and Sky Reign, but this is just getting stupid with literally every Tom, Dick and Harry becoming gestalts. (-_-) And the art in the current issue doesn't suit this series IMO. It was fine for Windblade, but doesn't seem to suit the tone of RiD. The worse one was when we first see Optimus Prime shooting back at the humans -- it's so badly drawn. Optimus Prime is just standing still like a poorly articulated G1 toy and shooting at the sky without looking up. It's as if this were an illustrated photocomic using G1 toys.

The story otherwise had potential, but is burdened by such a silly plot device. It's even worse than other toyline-driven stories like The Rebirth. Imagine if The Rebirth decided to make everyone into Headmasters and Targetmasters, like say Optimus Prime, Galvatron... oh wait, that's Titans Return.