Interesting insight of what's to come later on for Windblade especially seeing Optimus himself defend Prowl's misdeeds yet they have terrible consequences. Perhaps this could change how her relationship with Chromia with how she hid what she did after seeing how defending Prowl came back to bite Optimus's aft often.
I hate to say but this diversity is good. I like that Scott's actually trying to appeal to the fans of the other Transformers series here. Oh god, that comparison, how did i not think of it before.
I like that Scott's adding in elements and characters from non G1 series into her books since it's a great way to acknowledge the different TF series we've had over the years.
I love the inclusion of transformers from other branches of the franchise, and so far the plot rational of lost colonies has been a pretty good one. I was out of the transformers scene during most of those lines. Has there been any characters from the animated line yet? I really dislike Howell's art. Probably my least favorite transformers artist now. I don't like the very cartoony style. I really with they stuck With the artist from the first Windblade series.
Actually I do not think Scott understands it all very well when she's making a direct comparison between Prime and Windblade. With Prime, he did let Prowl to be imprisoned and punished, even if he was his long time friend and even then Prime was pissed enough to beat crap out of Prowl. Prowl's escape is down to either Prime's incompetency, or Rattrap's competency, take your pick. But it's not like Prime shielded Prowl completely, or tried. With Windblade, she gave Chromia maybe a slap on the writs and the basically a weak pasive-agressive talk like "boo, bad Chromia, you should feel bad!", then few issues later she was happy to hug her. There's no equality between these two situations. Prime still comes far more just and unbiased (though also overly indecisive at times) than Windblade. Unless Scott's just handwaving her unfortunate writing from ending of WB mini.