SPOILERS SPOILER SPOILERS!!! What happened between; More Than Meets The Eye issue 12 and 13? By themselves; they were awesome comics. But in 12 Swerves got his face blow off. When we saw him faceless and not moving or talking. I thought he was deed. (I'm still sure he was dead by the end of 12) Whirl left Cyclonus and Rewind in a room to die. Yet issue 13, swerves is on the radio, happy. Cyclonus even though he does start a fight in the comic, didn't have a thing to say to Whirl? I would be a little annoyed at being lock in a room with a bomb. I'd think rewind would have still been recovering. And last time we saw Rung he was waking up of of a coma (but wasn't out yet) But #13? Everyone goes the the bar! Ummmm did i miss a comic? I liked issue 13 but some big stuff was happening/happened and were moving on to a comical filler issue? I keep checking the numbers but they still say number 12 and 13 Someone please tell me i missed something.
You realise that the events of 12 were not in chronological order? Pay attention to the timestamps on the panels
You're not paying attention to the fact that MTMTE 12 is NOT in chronological order. I can't understand how you'd read that and think it was. Nevertheless, Swerve was also a surprise, but the extent that most bots in this series have survived injuries is quite a feat. So such an injury probably put him into stasis for a while.
Bearing in mind, we have seen 'bots survive worse - Rung's decapitation for example - and come out of it. Swerve was heavily damaged but they probably managed to patch him up again just fine. After all, how many times have they rebuilt Pipes now?
Swerve just had his face blown off. If Red Alert and Rung can survive without heads, a face explosion shouldn't be difficult to overcome. About Cyclonus, remember what he said to Whirl. He will kill him. He's being patient. I FULLY expect that event to be brought up when the spoiled energon hits the fan.
I think enough time passed between #'s 12 and 13 that Swerve and Rewind were healed up and back on their feet. Also, I don't think that Cyclonus knows that Whirl is the one who locked him and Rewind in the room with the bomb. Otherwise I'd think he'd be taking Whirl out a lot quicker than what he currently has planned.
yes...I'm aware of that fact. But there was nothing saying issue 12 happened after issue 13. I got the time jumping there were doing. That's not the question here.
Yes bots have lived through worse and enough time has passed. But in the pass comics they made a thing about it. We saw various different scenes of red alert and rung lying in the med bay. We got the scene of cyclonus and rewind recovering. But swerves was just ok the next time we saw him. Which is why I'm confused
The reason you didn't see Swerve get fixed is the reason you don't see Donald Duck visit the toilet - they're not filling in all the details that are happening. They haven't always made a thing about it, sometimes they just skim over it. It's happened a lot of times already, from the party visiting Delphi being fixed from the rust, to all the people Fort Max shot. You can just assume Swerve was fixed in between issues. As for Cyclonus not attacking Whirl: he isn't aware Whirl closed the door on him (yet). The fact that none of the people you quoted mention anything about issue 12 happening after 13 has me wondering if you're actually reading people's replies - and the comic - good enough. It's happened to me from time to time, where I just couldn't make sense out of a comic - but in the case of MTMTE #13: there's not really a lot that is confusing. Lost Light crew won the fight with the rogue Decepticons last issue - some bots from both sides are dead. Some Decepticons have been taken prisoner and are now in the ship's brig. Some Autobots that got wounded have been repaired.
I think they were doing one final light hearted jolly jaunt before they move on to the end of season big bad story arc.
No, it's not that 12 and 13 aere out of chronological order, it's that the events in 12 are not in order. There are time stamps at the top of certain panels or pages, at the beginning of each scene. The time shown is either before the explosion or after. Hope that's a clearer explanation. Don't feel bad, I got half-way through before I caught on myself. As for everyone being 'all better', like others mentioned 'time passed' between issues. Swerve was a bit of a surprise, but it was shown at the end of 12 that rewind made it thanks to Whirl. And yeah, Cyclonus is totally just biding his time, adding to the list. Hopefully that little subplot gets a big payoff down the road.
I get what the OP is saying and I can agree, between Swerve getting repaired. Rung being up and about, everyone being patched up from the fight in #12 and Whirl & Cyclonus sharing a Table, it feels like we missed a few pages..... In fact I think we already agreed MTMTE #13 was the weakest issue of the series thus far......Course a weak issue of MTMTE is still better than 99.9% of all the comics out there.....or any anything not written by Brian Clevinger.
12 definitely came before 13. And the beginning of 13 references 12, by saying that after taking some casualties, and capturing some Decpticons, Rodimus decded to go by the planet in 13 to give some shore leaver to a battle weary crew. 12 really didnt focus on the fight itself if you read it, it focuses on the main characters and what they did during and after the fight. So a couple things like the rest of the Decepticons being captured while we the reader instead is shown Rewind being saved, etc is going to be cut out. Same with Swereve blasting his face off, it was serious enough to say knock him out (maybe a bit worse) and need to have his face repaired, but the comic doesnt have to focus on those minor details. If the series focused on all the details like that for all the characters, (let alone the other 200 crew members, that we don't even know the names of all yet) we'd still be on cybertron boarding the ship! Also I suggest reading 12 again, but not in page order, this time in Timestamp order, it is good either way, but if it might make more sense to you that way. Either way, this up andcoming issue- 14 and also 15 are going to be some sort of blood bath, and hopefully the DJD gets involved like everyone theorizes and not many of our beloved characters suffer the consequences or from fates worse than what Rewind almost suffered.
If I learned one thing from #12-13 it is Swerve > Springer! Just kidding Swerve's wound looked cleaner than Springer getting slashed.