Just read these comics today... Thoughts:

+ Art: Forget the crappiness, the inconsistency really bugs me. Sometimes they have small eyes, other times they have big eyes, sometimes Cyclonus is lavender, other times he's more purple... it's like Kung Pow Enter The Fist "Your shirt is red... your shirt is blue."

+ Story: feels a lot like Transformers Generation 2! Let's compare...
* In HoD Galvatron guided by the Anti-Matrix, peers through time and space to view the past and discovers a malevolent dark force that absorbs life, with a particular taste for Cybertronians. / In G2 Optimus Prime guided by the Creation Matrix peers through time and space to view the past and discovers a malevolent dark force that absorbs life, with a particular taste for Cybertronians.
* In HoD Galvatron insists that Autobots and Decepticons must unite to fight against the darkness. / In G2 Autobots and Decepticons unite to fight against the darkness.
* In HoD Galvatron's enemies are skeptical of his claim. / In G2 Optimus Prime's enemies are intially skeptical of his claim.

I enjoyed this story back in 1993*, even with Manny Galan's dubious art (but at least his art style was consistent!)... but this time round... meh.

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*Although apparently even Simon Furman isn't too proud of his writing of G2 given his suggestion to disregard G2 and continue G1 from where he'd finished it.