Ah, foreshadowing.... Think I'll go back and read that issue again before reading this one. Kudos to Scott for stepping her game up.

 

Ms. Scott is writing this. She was a writer in the TFP series. She practically wrote the best episodes in the show (Stronger Faster, Hurt, Chain of Command). You should expect her to retcon a few of them. She already added Knock Out (and the Breakdown lookalike as his Conjunx Endura) as a native to Velocitron.

 

Is anybody else feeling a bit tired of Starscream flipflopping between classic Starscream and woe-is-me-I-wish-I-could-be-better-but-I\'m-resigned-to-failure Starscream? Yeah you could argue they\'re not so different but it just feels like they can\'t decide on an overall tone or agenda for him.

 

Also, it's not retconning if you're simply adding rather than rewriting. And given the aforementioned mnemosurgery victims, it clearly wasn't a retcon but rather was seeded early on in a "throwaway if the series gets cancelled before getting here" way.

And if introducing a new character is a retcon then WOW Budiansky sure was retconning every damn issue of Marvel US. Hell, whenever I meet someone in real life who was at an event I was at without my knowledge, fate sure is retconning reality to insert this new person I've never before encountered into the timestream.

 

Ooh! I am liking this a lot!   Glad to see her in the comics! And she looks sexy as always! So does BlackArachnia!  

 

I'm not a real BW, Animated or TF Prime fan but there are standouts which is why I have both Animated BlackArachnia and the recent Takara version and would've bought TF Prime's Arachnid if it didn't look like crap. But I wouldn't be opposed to a Generations version done right and that Panel showing Arachnid being confronted has Blackarachnia and another "Eukarian" (with two pairs of regular arms) that I wouldn't mind having as well.

 

Is it just me or does Mairghread Scott only know more about the Aligned Continuity than she does with IDW? Because this feels more like the Prime/RiD cartoons...

 

I don't get that because she's really adapting those elements into the IDW universe like how she made Airachnid a memesurgeon which the profession was established long ago so she's done her research on IDW and this is the same writer who grew up with Beast Wars and added elements from it into IDW as well.

 

She adds characters from Prime, yes. But it's not like she replaces the characters or anything. She finds a place for them in the IDW mythos, then inserts them in there. Airachnid was never a beastformer nor a mnemosurgeon in Prime, but she is both here. I'd say Scott is working the IDWverse to here favor.

 

well, it's not like it really matters since the books getting canned.

 

Maybe so, but that comment seems superfluous at this point since Swindle is obviously accounted for in this issue.

 

Hmm? Starscream was sassing her about her previous failure to find Swindle. They weren't saying that they were still looking for him.

 

That's fair enough, but I know some people could have come up with the interpretation that I did, so I can see some people getting confused by the presence of that line because of it.