That was really good, and the references were deep cuts. I'm glad the Flagg stuff came together, and that solar system page makes me wish we got a whole line of books, each book about one of the planets with a creative team with a totally different style from one another. This was such a huge ambitious book that managed to condense so much. I'm glad we got it in a market that hasn't really seen this type of artistic risk on commercial properties since Marvel did those Stange Tales anthologies back in 2009, and this got 13 issues! I'll be looking forward to that promised follow up next year.
So much Awesome in the book. You could make a list of everything that was great bout this book, but you'd end up listing about 100 things. Left you wanting more. Way more.
You didn't read Tom Scioli latest interview? Newsarama Interview with G.I. Joe vs Transformers Writer Tom Scioli I'll list of the things I like most. Spoiler 1. Brawn and Cover Girl getting married and having a technorganic child. 2. Earth being Primus lost sibling Atlas. 3. Megatron teleporting to the My Little Ponies universe. 4. Baroness raising her and Cobra Commander's child who'll grow up to become Serpentor on Venus.
man, so good! I wasn't sure everything would come together in a satisfying way, but hell yeah it did!! Looking forward to re reading it from start to finish on the weekend
Aside from Kohburu-La mysteriously disappearing, this was an incredible wrap-up that left time for a nice denouement. The use of the old comic panels to "remix" and invoke the long shared history was fantastic. All the stuff with Megatron...the Magnus-Optimus connection...god, they just nailed everything.
I love how they left the universe with so much potential too! Some unexplained aspects (just how the cobra la stuff fitted in, unicron and the other planets of the makers) and really compelling new situations/status quo.
I'm just posting quickly on a break at work to chime in and say DAMN this was an EXCELLENT crescendo! I hope that we can all make some time to post our deeper feedback and analysis in the coming days... This book was so crazy, so jam-packed with wild concepts, and always rushing ahead at breakneck speed. I knew I'd be psyched to read a double issue, and sad to see it end--but I wasn't expecting it to wrap up so perfectly. Definitely a few unsolved mysteries/plot threads... but so much was foreshadowed, and zippered together in a totally solid way. Loved it. Thanks Tom Scioli. We didn't deserve this, I'm so glad you poured so much of yourself out on these silly robots!
This series and SoTW will be missed by me. This kind of larger-than-life insane grandeur is what dragged me into comic books in the first place.
The Spoiler PONIES bit was the funny, but felt a little forced. Loved the bit where Spoiler The white ghost of Optimus flew out of the chest of the Autobot god of death Ultra Magnus. Such a perfect set up for Magnus, I had never really noticed before that the Optimus bot inside Magnus was in "ghost" colors. The series dragged a little in the middle (especially during the flashbacks), but overall it's been an amazing ride. Reading the American Barbarian preview at the end, I don't think it's for me. I'll stick with BIG TRANSFORMING ROBOTs.
I picked up the Free Comic Book Day issue that started the series, and thought it was cool, but was still pretty skeptical of the whole premise at first. I'm not as familiar with G.I. Joe, so I thought maybe it wasn't for me. I'm happy that I kept reading each month, because this really turned out to be a great ride! I love how it ignored so much of the previous TF fiction, and came up with its own mythos and universe. It's great how so many of the ideas were just like a kid's imagination might run wild looking at the toys. The last issue was great. I'm happy they wrapped it up so well.
^ Yeah, I liked that part too, and thought it was funny! I didn't really think it seemed forced, after all the other craziness.
I actually think that on deeper reflection, Megatron ending up in the MLPverse is actually really brilliant. "Peace through tyranny" is the will of one, the will of Megatron. "Friendship is magic" is the will of the many. Megatron was thrown into a dimension that is fundamentally hostile to him, his million years-old philosophy, and everything he has fought for. It is only his drive to survive and seek revenge that will allow to survive what from his perspective is basically Hell, galvanizing him into the ultimate steel survivor: Galvatron.
Finally got my copy of this issue. An even more fantastic ending than I was expecting. While I do wish we'd get more stories exploring the many situations set up at the end (Billy's adventures as the new Snake-Eyes/Cobra Commander, the stuff on Neptune, etc.), I am quite happy with what we got: a complete story with a beginning, middle, and ending. And one hell of an imagination all throughout it. I'll definitely be following Scioli's future works.