Story was OK, did not like Blurr's altmode. Also I expected him a bit to win the race without help.. I mean he's the fastest bot ever I really can't stress enough that I want Sarah Stone back. She was a big part why it was such a joy to read Windblade.
Theres only two issues left before it goes on hiatus until next March relaunch. Hopefully Sarah will be back then
I enjoyed the story and the art was good. I am not going to expect Sarah back so it will be a nice surprise if she does. I felt quite sorry for poor Navitas it seems like he has some type of Dementia, although I wonder why It wanted re-enforcements. I also enjoyed Moonracer and the fact that she 'made a name for herself' for driving alongside Delta like a little moon racing along in the night.
The new Till All Are One book is going to have Sara Pitre-Durocher, from today's Combiner Hunters issue, on art.
The way they set this up was good though. He got sucker-punched three times at the very start, so it was never really a fair race. The biggest issue is the whole premise of a decadent race-based society is a little hard to pass the squint test. I loved the hazardous environment with a titan racing the dawn, but if anything that makes the society yet more baffling. But in the context of, you know, this franchise, it was a fine issue.
i really liked all the cameos by the cybertron velocitron citizens. can't wait to see the next issue with the beast planet. i wonder who's in charge there? leobreaker? primal?
Override and Clocker appear, this is totally awesome! It did feel pretty anticlimatic but still very fun to read. I see Ransack, now where's my homeboy Crumplezone?
Kinda feel like this should've been a two-parter, honestly. More development for Velocitron would've been really nice.
I just love the political feel of all of this. That cliffhanger makes me really eager to see the next issue.
I was more curious what happened to the Titan on Velocitron. I get the feeling the Titan was going tell Windblade something important.
Yeah, in the context of the franchise it's a fine notion. But the sci-fi nerd in me also looks at this and goes "This would never make any sense anywhere but here." Which still bugs me a little because it's a society around speed. And not like efficiency-speed but just speed-speed. Even in context I find myself lifting a brow at it. But it does make the colony unique, albeit a little Planet-of-Hats for my taste. I'm hoping the rest of the colonies don't do something similar where their entire society is built around a central "theme"
It kind of reminds me of Nascar or Formula racing. Many race car drivers I know of are obsessed making the car frame light as possible and to point of a rough ride like Knock Out mentioned to Blurr. In that context it is believable at least for me.
You might be waiting a long time for that, given that the other Sara is doing Till All Are One. (incidentally, I liked this issue)
This book is geared toward a younger audience, right? If that's the case, I can't really knock it for feeling (and looking) so simple. But, MelficeCyrum, I think you nailed it. It's taking what was an interesting concept and reducing it down so far as to become one note and uninteresting. I mean, in a lot of ways it was ripped straight out of the Velocitron story in Transformers: Cybertron (Galaxy Force). I'm getting to the point where I wish all of the Transformers books weren't in some way intertwined, so I could just ignore some without worrying I'm going to miss something that'll tie into a later arc in another book, or crossover between them all.
He'd have probably smoked those chumps if it weren't for the cheating. But they were cheating, so just being fast wouldn't cut it. It seemed like the inhabitants of Delta had been neglecting his maintenance due to their racing obsession. I don't see it being Optimus Primal or BW Megatron as they would want to avoid confusion with the other guys, and we would be pretty upset if they got name changed. I'm hoping for Cybertron Scourge myself. Also we have a planet where celebrity culture went and took over. Yeah it isn't a functional society. And I think we saw some of that being the point. Hopefully we'll get more development later on, but for now we seem to be rushing through the planets. Sort of a shame.
It strikes me that while it's about speed, it kinda coulda been about anything. What I mean is, they created a world on mobile cities, where they were not in want for energy, yet at the same time, expansion is hard, making cities would take forever so there's no expansion push either. So you've got a whole lot of people with little hardship, but also little ways to functionally channel ambition. A mostly-fixed-sized-paradise with no obvious needs to drive them. So, as their science reached a level of efficiency where things got increasingly easy, their government becomes increasingly unneeded, and they need to focus their energy *somewhere*, so the most popular hobbies continue to grow in importance until it's half or more of what the government deals with. Think of how FIFA has made big countries like Brazil change their laws if they don't like them (yes, that's actually happened). Now imagine if Brazil had no foreign relations, no need for military, no hunger, and building more infrastructure was a tedious and slow process. But it still has football, and the people still care just as much about it- more, even, since there's much less practical stuff to worry about. Proportionally, football's influence is going to be even greater. Then have a popular ex-footballer president or two. And then have that situation go on for generations. This is a civilization that had little practical problems but did have boredom, so it turned it's ambitions to entertainment.
