All Hail Megatron Issues 7 to 12

[Zahhak]

I personly like perceptor..but he does seem too..action hero-ey most of the time. I agree with skyshadow but I'd like to add a minor complaint that shrapnel still does not have his little speach qwirk, unless ofcourse he's spose happen via some sort of injury or something.

also the more I see the swarm the more I wanna make toys of them.

[liegeprime]

Some great work from the creative team this month.

Things I liked a lot:
- Barely any humans (and those who are around all get tortured or killed. Hurrah!)

ah something realistic then, good.
As it should be, its a wr of giant freaking robots rampaging everywhere, there SHOULD BE BLOODY CASUALTIESSSSSSS!!! I hate it even in the movies that when Prime fell from the building he was thrown from by Megsy when he landed no human got splat!! WTF?!? Good to see that is not the case in this fiction.

[Tallestblue]

Just read AHM #8 today! (One of the advantages of being buddy-buddy with people in a comic book store)

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Lots of suspicions confirmed, and flashbacks to before AHM and the end of -TION and Maximum Dinobots, Sunstreaker being an enormous Jerk to Hunter, all of humanity and revealed as the Traitor! EEEE!! And the Last page with Hunter!! Double EEE!!

[i_amtrunks]

It's almost like between writing the script for issues 6 and 7 McCarthy was forced to read all the IDW stuff that preceded AHM, it's finally meshing into the other series.

Good call to Paulbot and others who picked the traitor, although for him to be exposed (at least to Ironhide) then sacrificing himself to save the rest of the team was very Hollywood.

I wonder know if Kup did know who the traitor was, or if he only knew that it wasn't Mirage?

A bit too Hollywood with Perceptor and Drift again, the upcoming Drift Spotlight should hopefully flesh out this cardboard cut-out character. Some more lines for 2nd tier character Cliffjumper, but other than Kup, Ironhide and the Traitor, barely anyone else bares a mention on the Autobot team.

Things were looking interesting on Earth, until the preview art for Issue #9.

Art is getting better and better, but I feel once Devastator is brought back, the problems might return, and since it would be most logical for the focus to switch to earth now, I guess that is going to happen.

So the series is improving, it was just one of those things where the series had to hit rock bottom before improving, all that has happened in issue 1-6 could have been made into 1 issue, these last two comics have been much better.

[roller]

at the meet up i asked McCarthy if he would have taken the series in a different direction at all, he said everything is pretty much how he planned it out, cept there would have been numerours traitors or something, i forget

But i liked issue 8 alot, sunstreaker you dog!

[griffin]

If Perceptor is being portrayed as a tough warrior type, that reflects his Marvel comic character. He was only a spineless, whimpy scientist in the cartoon. In the comic, he was the commander of an Autobot resistance cell.

[Sky Shadow]

If Perceptor is being portrayed as a tough warrior type, that reflects his Marvel comic character. He was only a spineless, whimpy scientist in the cartoon. In the comic, he was the commander of an Autobot resistance cell.

The problem is more that he's being portrayed like one of those people in films who wear long overcoats and jump sideways firing two guns at once in slow motion.

Without the long overcoat.

Basically, what Drift is to Japanese martial arts films, Perceptor is to action films with guns. And snipers.

[i_amtrunks]

If Perceptor is being portrayed as a tough warrior type, that reflects his Marvel comic character. He was only a spineless, whimpy scientist in the cartoon. In the comic, he was the commander of an Autobot resistance cell.

If he were only portrayed like he was in the comics, I'd be cheering, but as Skyshadow pointed out, he's portrayed in an over-the-top action-hero way.

There is a frame where I seriously believe McCarthy wanted the readers to view it in their minds as if he was doing the motions in bullet-time, with the whole 360 degree camera shtick.

[Paulbot]

And he's doing it all pretty mute. Even comic book Perceptor talked a lot, not silent assassin.

On one hand though I like the idea that the "scope" aspect of Perceptor allows him to be a sharpshooter... but you could have put Sureshot in that role too and nothing would change. It would have been much cooler if Perceptor turned into his seldom seen cannon/tank mode instead of pulling out big guns.

[GoktimusPrime]

...yeah... Drift = speedy sword munchkin, Perceptor = "I know Gun Fu." Now we know what the Transformers movie would've been like if it were directed by John Woo or the Wachowski brothers.

Any more cheese and AHM will start attracting rodents.