I really liked this issue. I like the idea of peace being the thing that kills off the Wreckers, and how they need conflict to 'survive.' Which is really quite sad, because even Megatron and Starscream seem to arguably be better at adapting to civilian life than the Wreckers!

It's also a really poignant allegory for the true nature of war. For example, we're often taught that in wars like WWII, we had "good guys" and "bad guys," but even the children's series Horrible Histories points out that both sides committed terrible atrocities, and more recent movies like Fury and Inglourious Basterds have attempted to portray WWII in a more historically accurate unflattering light (the DVD special features for Fury shows how they consulted with actual WWII tank crew veterans, and much of the barbarism shown was based on their own experiences). And although Inglourious Basterds is a highly fictitious story, the Basterds themselves are actually based on real people. I think that Agent Fowler's description of the Wreckers in Transformers Prime is an apt one; they're black ops. They operate outside the normal chain of command. And yet when that chain of command no longer exists, they are unable to operate. The psychology behind the way that the Wreckers seem to also be making up their own micro-societal rules (re: Guzzle's crime and punishment) is interesting. Makes me wonder what the Wreckers would turn into if they were ever isolated... would there be some kind of nasty Lord of the Flies stuff happening?