Mmm... I'm still kinda confused about this story's place in the IDW-verse. Some things (that others have mentioned) makes it feel out of continuity, yet other things like talking about the Machination suggests that it's in continuity. So I'd really like McCarthy to answer the question of whether this story is meant to be in continuity or not!

Frenzy was freakin' awesome. Frenzy is always awesome in the comics (never understood why the cartoon just relegated him as a Rumble clone. Blecch)!


The Devastator combination thing was done well - I like how they took the focus away from Devastator, showing you the combining through shadows but focused on the reaction from the other Decepticons. Pretty cool because gestalt combination is something which has always been really difficult to do well in the English-language comics.