IDW Drift comic reviews & comments (spoilers)

[i_amtrunks]

Had a quick look at JustOwen's issue #1, and saw loads of random and obscure Gen1/Gen2/Euro/AMs/JP thrown in all over the place. Recognising them and trying to identify others was probably more fun than trying to work out the story itself... I didn't read through it (will do that when I get the TPB, or all four of his issues at once), but I was a bit lost with how it set itself up.

Trying to find all the obscure characters is better than reading the issue. The "story" kinda just... is. There is no lead up, and feels rather forced and overpaced, which is a massive contrast to the drawn out boring pacing of the ongoing.

From my perusal though, it looks like a story about a person who has been abandoned by his people, is cast out, and through meeting up with a mysterious stranger, he learns something about himself that changes his whole life and destiny...

Replace abandoned with "attempted to be executed" and I think you are right on the money bossbot.

Sounds like something that could have been contained within a single issue Spotlight, but I can understand Hasbro wanting IDW to produce a multi-issue story to sell the new toy currently on shelves.

That and Drift already had a waste of a Spotlight issue, this looks to be more of an extension of that of sorts. Personally I think a Terradive mini series would have been vastly more interesting.

The art is good, as Griffin said, spotting all the bots and cons in the first half dozen or so pages is fun (couldnt get them all without cheating myslf) but the rest of the story is just meh. Its nopthing that warrants an issue, a single short paragraph of text would have sufficed to summarise issue one.