Comic review: Robots in Disguise ongoing

[Sharky]

this title has me wondering how long before we see alot of autobot (not just red shirt) casulties.. the ending was a bit of a disapointment i thought.... to easy of a finish... prowl should of took them down single handedly and had them all in stasis cuffs... but of well....

[i_amtrunks]

prowl should of took them down single handedly and had them all in stasis cuffs... but of well....

Thats what I was expecting too. Guess since one limb is already killed and with the failure of the combination with him being nothing more than a dead leg the writers saw no need for that team any longer.

Shame because even individually they could have been used quite well as masterminds/ technicians for other plotters.

[Sharky]

Thats what I was expecting too. Guess since one limb is already killed and with the failure of the combination with him being nothing more than a dead leg the writers saw no need for that team any longer.

Shame because even individually they could have been used quite well as masterminds/ technicians for other plotters.

i was thinking for sure starscream would have them out in some wasteland harvesting new cybertrons resources already and building a new base of operations whilst playing government..

i am also getting tired of metalhawk... always quick to put down everything and yet we see nothing of ow good he is to the population... no noble acts to win support from autobots cybertronians or decepticons he is just there... and whinging....

boring character to me...

[kup]

The last issue wasn't very good mostly because it was rather pointless and as I_amtrunks said, all over the place. Despite it's 'complexity' nothing was really resolved or accomplished, just more Decepticons dead and the Autobots coming off as jerks.

The last Wheeljack issue was much better.

Overall I have been enjoying reading RID (although it is a distance second to MTMTE) but I am not sure I am liking it's current course, specially after the last issue which wasn't good.

Too bad about Predator Skydive, they should have given him a bit of character before killing him off panel.

[Sky Shadow]

Issue five was brilliant. Sky Byte is the outsider observer poet without the bias of any of the three factions, and this issue continues to makes it clear that there are no easy answers for either the Autobots or Decepticons. Even if the Decepticons did want to 'change' they are third-class citizens under an Autobot militia who can't risk trusting their former enemies and removing their inhibitor/deterrence chips. (Or can they?) Some clever Shakespearean allusions - there's the obvious Yorick/Sweep shtick (which was a clever nod to Robots In Disguise Scourge, and RiD is the title of this comic so having Sky Byte in it is especially appropriate). More subtle was the nod to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Cinna the poet is attacked by an unruly mob who think he's Cinna the murderous conspirator (Sky Byte the poet is attacked because an unruly mob mistake him for Skywarp the murderer.) I liked the Wheelie reference too. Great art and writing. An A+ issue.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, I enjoyed this issue. Seeing Sky-Byte come in was a pleasant surprise... although I found his Haiku was a bit ... odd (it had a 4-8-4 syllable structure instead of 5-7-5; although it did have the nature reference which does make it a proper Haiku and not a Senryu which was the faux pas he made in his first appearance in Car Robot (as nitpicked by Fire Convoy ); also neat to see them putting in more known characters as NAILs instead of just inventing random generic nobodies like "Noddy" (oh, now he's called Tappet?! ) and... Hipotank (what's a hipo?! Is it a corruption of "hippo(s)"; Greek for horse? ). The Wheelie reference was neat.

Oh, and more transforming!

Issue five was brilliant. Sky Byte is the outsider observer poet without the bias of any of the three factions, and this issue continues to makes it clear that there are no easy answers for either the Autobots or Decepticons. Even if the Decepticons did want to 'change' they are third-class citizens under an Autobot militia who can't risk trusting their former enemies and removing their inhibitor/deterrence chips. (Or can they?)

The current socio-political climate is pretty much like how I've long imagined Cybertron to be like after the end of the Great War and signing of the Pax Cybertronia -- where former Decepticons are treated as an underclass, which eventually leads to the formation of the politically underrepresented and socially marginalised Predacons, culminating in the Beast Wars 300 years later.

It'd be kinda neat if something similar happened here... like maybe former-Decepticon Sky-Byte could be one of the founding members of the Predacons? </pipe.dream>

[i_amtrunks]

It was an alright closing issue for the first mini-arc.

Nice retcon/futurecon of that catch-up issue IDW pumped out that was set in the future.

Again it revolves more around Prowl than Bumblebee and the governing of Cybertron. Thankfully Metalhawk is barely in it, but the whole setup of having Starscream hanging about is still wasted. There are a few things in this issue that are wasted.

Sure the fallout of Arcee will come back to the fore in the not too distant future when this book is getting cancelled for diminished sales.

Not sure if bringing Pax back into the fold so early on is a good idea, when there is so much more that could be looked at (They didnt have to wait until Decepticon month to have a bigger focus on the cons, this is their new society too.

Art is still not as grabbing as MtMtE though I am happy to report it does not fluctuate between super detailed and bland as much as the last issue.

Wonder why they went with a 5 story arc, rather than an actual ongoing like MtMtE ?