Just noticed it's going to be at least two months between issue and issue 4?!
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Just noticed it's going to be at least two months between issue and issue 4?!
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i asked about the wait in the global news comics thread, apparently there is a 'family thing' going on with one of the staff or something.Originally Posted by Paulbot
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Man, sometimes I forget just how brutal the Wreckers comics can be!
We had all those long-time Wreckers characters and a bunch of newbies die in Last Stand. Now in issue four of Sins we have Impactor murdering Hubcap because he is a security risk and Tarantulus shrinking down, literally getting inside Roadbusters head and then resizing so we are treated to an image of a giant organic looking spider bursting RB's head like an energon-filled water balloon!
So now we've had Roadbuster, Twin Twist and Topspin die on Wrecker missions, Broadside is on the Lost Light with a bunch of mutineers, Whirl got kicked out of the Wreckers and is currently trapped on the Nercobots homeworld facing the DJD and Sandstorm is in prison for murder! Not many of the original Wreckers left - just Impactor and Springer at this stage.
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I see what you did there, IDW.
Roadbuster also died a horrifically violent and pointless death in G1. In the Time Wars (one of the best G1 stories evah!), Roadbuster was attempting to use an experimental weapon known as the Pathblaster. It malfunctioned and exploded, killing Roadbuster instantly. Here we have Tarantulas mass-shifting up and exploding out of Roadbuster's head, killing him instantly.
I hope that Impactor doesn't end up dying and coming back as a zombie.
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Maybe the slow release schedule killed some of the momentum, but curious what others thought of the conclusion. Can't say this series won me over at all, maybe it'll read better as a whole?
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that's what I'm hoping... will read the whole series again soon when I get the chance and then decide if I like it or not
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I need to re-read it from the start too, before I pass final judgement. But it was a different kind of story to LSOTW
Overall for my first reading I feel it lacked the oomph of the first one.
One reason for that I feel is the more ambiguous morality in this series. I thought Tarantualas was a good villain and he had reasons for the evil he was doing, but he wasn’t the irredeemable sadist that Overlord was, so there wasn’t the same level of payoff when the badguy got taken down. Also I found many of Prowl’s actions just as cold and evil. For me Prowl was also a villain in this comic who once again for the good of the Autobots has escaped judgement or reprisal from his fellow Autobots (though Guzzle tried). For that reason I found the epilogue at the end with Impactor interesting, I wonder if they ever make a third series will it be Wreckers vs Prowl? Aren’t they getting tired of dying for him?
Another reason the first one is such a classic is it had Ironfist who was written as a very relatable character for the reader to easily become attached too, while Stakeout and Hubcap played a similar role in this series they were killed maybe a bit too early, once they got down to the big names who may be more popular but less relatable and kind of untouchable the suspense vanished for me.
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