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

[prjkt]

It was kinda interesting to see that Scoop nicked the Enigma of Combination and hightailed it back to Cybertron to give it to Screamer. I was wondering why Scoop had fallen in with Galvatrons crew - it had felt very shoehorned in, in that since they had the Constructicons aligning with Prowl and Megs co-captianing an Autobot ship that they had better have at least one Autobot joining the other team. But now with the whole "Scoop believing Starscream is the chosen one" thing it makes more sense that he did it just to get something for Screamer rather than suddenly believing Con doctrine.

it's interesting, he believe that Scream is the chosen one, but (seems to) have no respect for Starscream at all...

[GoktimusPrime]

it's interesting, he believe that Scream is the chosen one, but (seems to) have no respect for Starscream at all...

I think it's because he's more loyal to whatever divine forces that he believes in that chose Starscream. So I guess from Scoop's POV, Starscream is merely a conduit through which some higher power operates. It's interesting how Scoop and Star Sabre are both religious nutters in the IDWverse, but nutty in entirely different ways.

I like how this issue kept on playing around with the whole mass-shifting gimmick. I also loved this line...
"I'd've loved this in 1991, but living in a John Woo movie is still pretty nice..." - G.B. Blackrock
^a reference to another time when Blackrock witnessed an epic battle of titans.

[Jinto]

Aw man I haaaate Ramondelli's art style. *sulks*

[GoktimusPrime]

Aw man I haaaate Ramondelli's art style. *sulks*

I agree. Everything's so... chunky. No where near as bad as Pat Lee though, but still... every time I look at Marissa Fairborne's face I keep thinking, "dat chin."

[i_amtrunks]

I don't mind ramondellis art style, but for this issue, I wish we had a regular ongoing artist on board. His style does not suit Windblade and I think a different artist would do a superior job highlighting the differences between Cybertronians and Camians.

Having Swindle be the main narrator was interesting, as was the motivation... Get rich quick. What a lovely way to start the war.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I just read the last two issues. Trying to get them straight in my head from the Windblade issues, since they are pretty much one and the same comic/storyline at the moment.


But yeah, Whirl started a 4 million year war beating up Megatron in a cell, Swindle just started the Combiner Wars trying to get rich . I understand why they had to use Swindle, given his history with the creation of Menasor, but kinda a shame to see the way they have used one of the few characters that over the past few years had really embraced the end of the war and was quite comfortable spending time with his former enemies.

Some of the abilities of the new Combiners are weird, Superion opening up bits in his body here and there is interesting but odd.

[prjkt]

Some of the abilities of the new Combiners are weird, Superion opening up bits in his body here and there is interesting but odd.

I love that you can actually recreate one of those scenes (sort of) with Superion's opening chest... In fact I think I have a photo of this from a while ago, will have to find it....

Hah! here it is, from the Action Pose thread.