Comic review: Robots in Disguise season 2: #28 onwards

[i_amtrunks]

prowl feels like he is doing a lot of whinging...atleast i hope we get to see a showdown with spike sometime soon now that Galvatron has set it up well

A nice one and done in a dozen or so issues would be nice, especially if it ends with Spike left as a mish mash pile of ooze and bone. The less time spent with him the better, I don't care at all if Barber wants to "fix" him as a character, he had his time in the sun, now it's time to be rid of him.

I will admit that I am glad we are going back to Cybertron, if Starscream is written much the same as he was in the Windblade mini, he could actually be interesting for a change.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I thought this was one of the best RID issues I have read. A nice shout out to the animated movie poster in one panel, Galvatron killing his human ally was cool, the ship getting blasted was great and overall it was very good. I REALLY hope that Ramjet and Thrust turn out to be alive and being duplicated somehow rather than dead and just being cloned. Thrusts death that didn't even happen on panel in Spotlight Prowl really annoyed me as I thought such a long standing character deserved better than that.

Prowl continues to grow in arrogance - a far more interesting character than Thundercracker at the moment

[GoktimusPrime]

I like both Prowl and Thundercracker for different reasons, but I especially like Thundercracker because IDW is now finally, after almost 30 years, portraying Thundercracker in a manner that is accurate to his original 1984 bio! It ends a nearly 3 decade long drought where Thundercracker had so much potential to be an interesting character (as a morally conflicted Decepticon), but it had just never been exploited by TF writers before. I made a joke about this once in a photocomic that I made 10 years ago.

I like Prowl too. It's pretty cool to have morally dubious Autobots like him and Whirl in the story, but let's face it, IDW Prowl is nothing like how G1 Prowl was originally described in his G1 bio. IMO it's easy to take a character, effectively disregard its original specs, and then scratch-make a new character out of it; but it's more challenging and satisfying to see a cool character created from being faithful to the source material. Or when writers switch bios around, like how IDW Swerve's persona is arguably more similar to G1 Hubcap than G1 Swerve (although IDW Swerve isn't quite as deceitful as Hubcap, and he can be unfocused like G1 Swerve ).

[Sky Shadow]

#33 is back on track, by which I mean it is the best issue of RiD so far. It's unashamedly a toy tie-in in the best eighties-Furmany way, and a character who's been out of action for a couple of years is befuddled to have reawoken in this bizarrely random universe of Generations figures. There are some nice character bits, even though in part this is a setup for the upcoming big toy/comic tie-in (and explains at least one thing that half the toy fandom was whining about in a truly endearing way.) And Stone's art is rad. Hopefully this is the way of things to come in this title, and judging from the cover of next issue, yet another random toy is on his way - it will be interesting to see if he's his usual self, or has dark designs as RiD Tankor #3.

[i_amtrunks]

So, who'd have thought it would be Screamer who can see the threat a long way off and be able to pull everything needed together to start a pre-emotive response.

This was very well written, although I am still not used to the manner of Wheeljacks speech, but that's more due to me hearing his G1 voice when I read him than anything else.

I wonder if a prowl has set up this "insider" like he did with Soundwave, to try and scare Starscream? It seems both are playing a long game, and whilst I know a Starscream only truly cares about being in power, hearing him talking about never letting Cybertron fall is awesome. The characters in other prominent positions will set up some good plays later on. Also interesting that Windblade comes across as a smarter, more decisive and compassionate character than she did in her own mini. Is it the writing, or growth / learning from her character?

As Skyshadow said, the art is brilliant, I know some dislike the style and the eyes can be a little weird with pupils, but the style and colouring is top notch.

Easily one of the best RiD issues, and no surprise since it is a Wheeljacks based issue and those have always been Barber's most cohesive and fluent issues.

I know it is a set up issue, getting pieces in place for the upcoming event but it was a good lengthy read, lead by character interactions, with information drip fed and plenty of foreshadowing.

[GoktimusPrime]

Great issue for reasons aforementioned by others. Found some grammatical and typographical errors; I hope that IDW will correct these for the TPB. (-_-)

[Jinto]

Just read today's issue. I'm not sure what's going on with Prowl, any suggestions?

Otherwise it seems like a pretty standard 'shoe-horn plot points and coincidences into everyone's backstory' kind of issue. Hopefully Rhinox shows up again.