All Hail Megatron Issues 1 to 6 (Vol 1)

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I wrote a big review for Issue 6 but the server failed during the night (this has been happening the last few nights) and what I wrote was lost

Anyway, here is the brief version of what I wrote:

Personally, I enjoyed this issue for the most part. We actually saw some characterisation on Decepticons who usually don't get much more than background appearances such as Thundercracker and Skywarp arguing with Bombshell. It was also good to see Starscream showing a bit more brain than the cartoon persona and more in line with the Furman IDW stories and maybe the Marvel G1 character.I also enjoyed the first part of the Autobots as they were trying to reorganize themselves into a military force in order to strike back at the Decepticons. It was awesome to get a brief insight on Roadbuster. Overall it was a pretty good issue with a lot of characterization.

BUT

The overall story seems to be heading to a very predictable conclusion and despite it being 6 issues into this series, NOTHING much has happened. The whole series could easily be condensed in just a couple of issues or a single half hour episode if it were a cartoon.

Now Drift..

His first appearance was rather brief particularly since IDW has been pushing this character a fair bit but DAMN! he is every bit as bad as I thought he would be. He is basically the sort of character that a 13 year old would come up with in which he is 'UBBER' powerful, smooth and unbeatable, AKA: 'Awesomely cool'. Hopefully his appearance in AHM will be limited from now but something tells me that he is going to be getting centerstage appearances during the rest of the series.

In my oppinion this Drift character has the potential of ruining the only real strength that AHM has which is the Autobot's side of the story. If that is ruined by Drift then there isn't much of a point to continue reading as the rest of the story is rather mediocre and its not hard to see where its leading.

I have to agree with the TF wiki on this one, Drift is pretty much the Poochy the dog of Transformers.