I liked it the art is good but I do feel like the environments are missing a sense of grandeur and size.
I'd call it an average issue of the series. Liked the premise but the art lacks a real sense of speed. Plus considering Blurr is probably an outlier, this should have been a case of the "cheating" meaning he's not a mile in front, rather than him maybe loosing cause everyone else is a dick.
I wonder if the Clocker coloring was a mistake or if the artist just liked the movie colors better than the Cybertron colors. Either way I'm happy to see even more non-G1 characters in the current G1 comic.
I thought the art was okay. I liked Sarah Stone's better, but the current artist is competent. The plot didn't have the pacing I expected, but it worked. (I thought they were going to spend the rest of Windblade trying to get the Velocitronians to ally with Cybertron.) Navitas is a total mess and I hope Windblade can help him at some point. I think Starscream's "guests" from the end are the DJD. Nickel is canonically the last survivor of her colony, so she could make a good argument for why she should have a seat on the Council. Starscream is being all smug because he knows they can't kill him - not on Cybertron, surrounded by his soldiers. It would require some cooperation between the writers, but I still think it could work.
Not happening. It's pretty obvious the guests are bots from Eukaris, which the next issue is focusing on; the book doesn't have time to suddenly bring in the DJD when it still has to give meaningful attention to Eukaris and Elita-One in the two issues it has left. Tarn also made it pretty clear that they were going after Megatron and the Lost Light before anything else.
I very much doubt that. The DJD are Roberts babies through and through, and them showing up on Cybertron is out of character. And I doubt they'd recognize any goverment but a Decepticon one. Or not try to kill Starscream when he sets them off. And he would.
Hmm, this could lay the ground work for better stories later on. I don't really like that Blurr cheated, although technically he "had help" and since there was no communication between him and Windblade during the race, you could argue that he had better reflexes than the Velocitronians. Also being built for speed and picking a fight with a fast bot from a planet of warriors could have also been a bad idea. Might have been nice if instead of cheating Blurr just shrugged off the damage and hit back with crippling injuries to the others. Also who is Number 19? Some obscure G2 euro-release? I gotta look him up. Maighread (I fixed it) also makes a lot of "fat" jokes. Really? is this what letting women write on TF's will lead to? Actually I'm kidding, it worked really well in context and Knock-out being a "weight reduction surgeon" worked perfectly. I think my biggest problem was with the art and the lack of scale of the city, it really wasn't as impressive as the dialog made it sound. If your average TF is car sized (Ironhide being maybe a pickup or a small truck) 28-30' tall or so than the city didn't look like it could have been more than a 1/4 mile long AT BEST! Wonky proportions made it look like it was a half mile tall, so 1/4 of a cubic mile in internal volume? Ummmm no? I want to come back to Velocitron in the future because there are plenty more stories to tell.
Sara? As in, Sara Pitre-Durocher? She wasn't involved in this at all, she's the artist for Combiner Hunters and Till All Are One, Maighread Scott is the one who wrote this. But yeah, I definitely agree there. I think there's a lot of story to be had from Override and Ransack's rivalry in itself, far more than the remaining issues can show.
yes Override and Ransack's rivalry, that needs to be fleshed out. throw Crumplezone in to the fray and we're good.
I am predicting that override will loose that race to ransack and ransak will end the deal with cybertron...
Ah HAH! Rapido (1993) - Autobot Platoon Commander - www.tfu.info Don't know why they didn't use his name. Is Race-Master an alias? Will there be more to this character down the line? Or did the specificly NOT use Rapido so this guy was free to be an asshole and not offend any Rapido fans?
They weren't fat jokes: Mairghread Scott. It has an element of the same bigotry to it, in that Velocitron prizes performance above all else so a larger, less speedy frame is going to be less valued but its not fat jokes and the whole point is Velocitron is a shitty place that isn't half as sophisticated as it thinks it is. I agree that the city was way too small. I enjoyed this issue, I liked all the subtle hints that the titan has been mistreated or neglected and that there is stuff going on there, I liked Windblade turning the 'there are no rules' to her advantage by cheating for Blurr and I for one enjoyed the look at a culture that prizes sporting achievement. But I'm Australian so its not really that far from the truth here.
Note that Knock Out was talking about shaving weight off of Blurr, a lightweight bot to begin with. Starscream would greet them with two (maybe three) combiners and Optimus at his side. If not a volley of weapons fire right-out. He'd use it as an opportunity to score points with the Decepticons and get them in his court again.
I once came across a list of cheating, and rule manipulation in Formula One racing. It was both interesting, and funny. Serously some downright wacky races hijinks have happened. And heck just look at the ammount of money in real life sports and some of the cheating and bribing scandals in the last few years. Yeah, for Windblade that must have been painful. Camians seem to hold Caminus in very high esteem, and Windblade is a cityspeaker, so she has an even deeper bond with them. And with the way the working class are regarded due to the racing obsession, I wonder if someone like Soundwave couldn't find a good recruiting ground for the Decepticon creed. Heck, look at some of the stuff that goes on in actual racing, or sports in general to gain just a little more traction, loose just an ounce of weight, lessen the resistance from air or water. Maybe see about getting Omega Supreme up and running. Actually I really don't think Screamer would want to risk meeting with the DJD due to the fact he's exactly the sort of guy who gets on the list. I'm honestly surprised they never did go after him for all those times he tried to usurp Megatron. And it's not just the Decepticons getting rid of the DJD would gain favor with. They are almost as feared and hated by the Autobots. Remember their existance was actually used against Megatron during his trial.
He doesn't want to meet them, but he would want to claim credit for their destruction And, while he tried to usurp Megatron, he never turned against the *Decepticons*, and Megatron clearly had a special place for Starscream. If Megatron wanted Starscream dead, he'd be dead, no need to bother putting him on the list. Remember, usurping your boss is allowed by the Decepticon way of thinking. It's only once Starscream ripped off his badge that he'd be a target. And by that point he has Cybertron behind him.
