Quote Originally Posted by tinyJazz View Post
I wish Stone could do environments, or get another layout artist. The style is gorgeous and messy, but it's still talking heads stuff. Everyone just seems to be floating and not placed in an actual setting.
I may be wrong, but I think it's intentional as Stone is creating a "Shojo manga" style of Transformers art, and Shojo manga can be more scant on detailed environments and feature more "floating heads", as opposed to Shonen manga; and mecha manga is typically Shonen. Shojo is comparatively more visually abstract than Shonen.

I really liked how the issue ended with Optimus Prime being faced with a moral dilemma and acting on it in a way that doesn't directly contradict his core persona. On one hand, if he stood by and did nothing, he would risk Caminus being manipulated by Starscream to their detriment... or he could go to Caminus and allow himself to manipulate the Camini's religious blind faith in defence of their freedom. He's not actively deceiving the Camini by claiming to be a living deity, but he is arguably passively deceiving them by playing along with their beliefs and not at all refuting his godhood. He needs the Camini to believe and worship him as a god if he is to stand a chance to challenge Starscream's influence over Caminus. So he was forced to choose what he believed to be the lesser of two evils -- abuse an entire people's religious faith for the sake of defending those people and their liberty... and in doing so, safeguarding his core belief that freedom is the right of all sentient beings. It was an informed decision and I liked how Windblade didn't want to force Optimus' hand either, even saying that being Starscream's colony wouldn't necessarily be a terrible thing (although clearly not preferable).

Watching the Camini kneeling at Optimus' feet was an incredibly emotional moving and provocative moment. Fan-bloody-tastic!