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

[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.

[i_amtrunks]

Twice now we've had combiners made by a group of bots being in the room at the same time as the story needed them to be.

Art is getting harder and harder to tell what is going on with Livio's art. His face work is clearer and better than before, still not great, Sunstreaker looks odd to put in mildly.

Barber does well weaving all of the old plot points, raising elements from Primacy, AHM, ongoing, MtMtE, and more. The Prowl and Prime scenes are the highlight, however I would love some more information on Rattrap to explain why he does what he did.

[Seraphim Prime]

I'm a little disappointed in the way that Scoop has become the replacement Scrapper.

It serves an interesting note on the nature of a combiner, and ultimately makes Devastator loyal to Starscream, but it could I would have liked to see it done almost against his will with greater repercussions to his unique identity. Unfortunately the nature of Combiner Wars means that this aspect has had to be rushed over. And we no longer have Prowlestator.

Kinda hoping that Hasbro will stay out of the comics for a while once this is over.