All Hail Megatron Issues 7 to 12

[hotaru_oz]

Techniclly I don't count a character dead until I see a corpse,

[Sky Shadow]

Techniclly I don't count a character dead until I see a corpse,

Even that doesn't work with Transformers. We see dead robots brought back to life all the time. I could count the number of times I've seen an Optimus Prime corpse brought back to life on the Terrorcons' fingers.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah - technically a Transformer dies when their Spark/Laser Core/Primal Essence is extinguished... basically the "rule" is that if you see a Transformer get fragged, s/he's presumed KIA until further noticeretcon.

Of course if your name contains "Optimus" or the suffix "~tron" then death is entirely a moot point.

[i_amtrunks]

regarding your point about Sunstreaker Zed, if the scene had have played out like you thought it would, it would have been another nail in the coffin for AHM to me.

We already had scenes that looked like McCarthy ripped them straight out of the movies, didnt need another one in issue #8.

Would have been better for the character though.

[Lord_Zed]

regarding your point about Sunstreaker Zed, if the scene had have played out like you thought it would, it would have been another nail in the coffin for AHM to me.

We already had scenes that looked like McCarthy ripped them straight out of the movies, didnt need another one in issue #8.

Would have been better for the character though.

The whole bridge scene was ripped straight from movieland as a conveniant heroic sacrafice for Sunstreaker, I just thought a little padding might make it mor meaningfull. Now if he comes back he'll be redeemed because of his sacrafice and all will be forgiven. It would have been cooler If Drift had saved him and forced him to live with his guilt and the hatred of the other Autobots.

I really miss the Marvel days when I actualy felt despair when chracters died, sure they often came back, but at least they waited a few years.

[i_amtrunks]

I really miss the Marvel days when I actualy felt despair when chracters died, sure they often came back, but at least they waited a few years.

Sometimes they didnt even come back with the ability to transform, you know to throw a spanner into the works!

So damn glad Drift didn't save Streaker, his Spotlight has alot of work to do to make me even like the character, let alone care for him at all.

[Sam]

I got issue 9 today, must say I was really disappointed with the artwork for the pages with human characters.

[Paulbot]

I got issue 9 today, must say I was really disappointed with the artwork for the pages with human characters.

I read it has two fill in artists, one for humans one for robots. Bit of a shame that a maxi-series can't have the same artist in each issue.

[blackie]

just read the 5 page preview, and the way its looking to me is that to add in some extra comics into the series there having all these humans, seems like one big money making scheme to me

they get to a climactic and special point in the story then they cut to this crap with spike... WHO CARES :P

what we need is an 8 issue series, with no humans
would sell much better

[Sky Shadow]

[Vague SPOILERS for issue #9]

A nice scene between Ironhide and Mirage and I think it's clever that the latter has chosen to go a bit Armada Wheeljack/Shattered Glass Sideswipe for the time being.

It seems like McCarthy is reading the fandom criticism and turning it into in-jokes:

Ratchet: "I'd give anything to have Perceptor right now - the old Perceptor. Like this war needed another clown with a gun."

Bumblebee (still hating Drift for not being GeeWun enough to be part of the '84-'86 Autobots): "What right does he have to be even in this room?"

Artwise, Emiliano Santalucia did an amazing job with the Autobot scenes - it was hard to tell it wasn't Guido Guidi, except for the fact that it was actually better than usual. I can't say the same for Robert Deas's cartoony human/Decepticon scenes.

I must have missed something, but why are the Autobots all better and healed now? How did they go from 'unwell' to 'well'. Was it a lot of work from Ratchet and has quite a bit of time passed? Where did Universe Hound come from? A CR chamber? He seemed to appear out of nowhere in #7 and it looks like he's here to stay. Then again, he's not the only one to appear out of nowhere.

Bigger SPOILERS for this issue: Yes - Optimus Prime inexplicably reappeared this issue apropros of nothing as a complete anticlimax. Probably because the Autobots realised that after all their decompression, they only have three issues to actually do anything. Anyway, he's been back for two pages and already I wish he'd go away again.

Still, even though nothing beyond a bit of character development really happens (except that one thing that happened out of the blue this issue for no apparent reason) I enjoy reading this comic. Ultimately, it really is different to what has come before. I look forward to seeing how it ties up.