Next up we have an early preview of IDW’s Transformers More than Meets the Eye #16. Following Overlord’s rampage and the inevitable bodycount that followed, the survivors pick up the pieces while one Autobot fights for his very life. The five-part arc “Remain in Light” kicks off here!
Check out the preview, then pick up the full issue in stores this Wednesday!
noblekale
You have to look at it from their point of view, they weren't prepared for him, they don't THINK they have anything that can finish him off permanently, and they're more concerned about the injured and dead, so of course, they're going to leave him there without checking. And we know eventually he'll be back. That's a given. But, whether that's back to the Lost Light or to RiD or the Scavengers, who knows?
WilyMech
I don't know. I have to wait until next week.
BTW Spotlight Megatron is being reprinted again and is release tomorrow.
edgs2099
Come on Tomorrow! Gogogogogogo. New issue, FP Bruticus due at my domicile, Wing night. 3 month olds like MTMTE and wings right?
noblekale
The middle one is his symbol being crooked. It specifically looks like it was just slapped on at the last minute, probably like Swerve's "it looked stupid" symbol was.
The last one though, isn't just being clean, but also why he doesn't like jokes much anymore.
WoundSave
Omg tomorrow is Wednesday
That Guy
I can get how the first and third incidents in the preview lead to two of Magnus' OCD behaviors. What is the significance of the middle incident?
Star Saber
Most likely, but I doubt he'll be absent long.
soymonk
So I'm guessing Drift's the (voluntary) scapegoat for this Overlord debauchle and this is the reason that he (supposedly) leaves?[/
Torque
Finally gets front-paged lol
WilyMech
Prevailing theory. I am not sure list of the dead that Necrobot or list people who had great contact of the Institute
General Magnus
What if the Necrobot is actually someone working for what´s left of the Institute and compiling a list of "persons of interest" ?
Flywheels was scratched off the list because he was dead.
Girl Pants
1. Maybe that wasn't the Necrobot
2. Maybe Rewind is still alive (at least for now)
KaekoKat14
So wait, the necrobot's list.. why isn't Rewind on it..? If these are bots that are 'dead.'
gokuz23
I like Drift, but i gotta bad feeling about him :/ especially looking at those 2 covers
Digilaut
Ever since we've seen the robots working at the Institute in the Shadowplay three-parter, and how the 'Necrobot' looks exactly like one, people have been speculating that the 'bot is not recording deaths, but something else.
Just like how Springer's Wreckers invitation has been mistaken for the Green Shimmer, what we know of the Necrobot – who he is and wha the does- could be totally wrong, like an urban legend gone haywire.
For all we know, it's just as possible there is no Necrobot, but actually a bunch of robots from the Institute traveling the universe in search of certain Cybertronians. The fact that Flywheels was dead when he got 'recorded' certainly adds to the idea that it's a death list – but I think that's exactly what Roberts tried to make us think – only to reveal a much more down to earth and logical explanation of just what the hell that robot is doing later on.
Ultra Magnus' fate is undecided, still – and even if he does die, that doesn't mean all the others on the list will.
AdyCarter
Thats why it could be Misdirection.
There are plenty of hints that it *IS* the Necrobot, but thats all rather un-robertslike. It was never named as such, all we know is that at some point 18 months after the events of #8 a bot turns up and has a datapad with some names on it.
It could be anything, we're meant to believe its the Necrobot but its never explicitly stated as such. It could be a Censusbot, it could be someone from the institute tying up loose ends it could be anything.
Knightdramon
Why wouldn't it be? Was there some sort of snippet I missed that told us something else?
We were told of the Necrobot in 7 and 8, Flywheels dies in 8, 18 [or so] months later a bot looms over what's left of him and has a datapad with his name on it. On the same issue we heard of it.
Plus, Magnus' name is also on the list and according to the preview, he has a few days left to live.
Kaijumaster
You're still assuming that was the Necrobot we saw, and that was a list of Dead bots.
Kraken
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!!!!