I love Nickel's summary of the Scavengers, "everything's a joke to them, Deathsaurus--a joke with no punchline". She's probably not even been with them a full day and she's already sick of their shit, haha.

 

Thanks for sharing. Mirrored images on the news post here:

IDW Lost Light #14 Full Preview - Transformers News - TFW2005

 

On one hand, this is a Hasbro property, but on the other, it's a James Roberts comic, so both options are equally likely.

 

HA! she's right though...

 

I wasn't explaining any holes. Tarn is sadist who thinks of himself as enforcing the moral Law on behalf of a higher power. Overlord is a sadist who thinks of his sadism as a defiance of that power. The relationship between sadomasochistic fantasy, superego, and Kantian ethics, is a foundational topic in the thought of modern Lacanians like Alenka Zupancic and Slavoj Zizek (and probably dozens of others, but those are the ones I'm familiar with).

 

i just wanna see how Nicked]l deals with being in close proximity to Motherfucking GRIMLOCK!!! of all people

 

\"-Wait. Someone\'s coming out.\"

*cut to cover*

 

UM guys that was Bludgeon

 

Shooting the phone works too

 

*checks 5 page preview*

Yep. Logical.

 

 

Can anyone name all those dudes on page 1?

 

who's the blue dude with the wings in that single panel of the scavengers?

 

Looks decent, but one thing that's annoying me is how obnoxious they're being with Tarn now that he's dead and his identity is revealed. It's very heavy-handed with the "I think I'll call you Damus" and him taking off his mask for no reason. Kind of ruins the character's remaining aura of mystique when you just parade around his true face and name all the time. It's not a dealbreaker or anything, but it's a minor nitpick at best.

 

This could have been a perfect issue to give new readers some context on Shockwave and Scorpanok. Instead we get "crazy shanagens" with the loser squad.

 

worse.....with nickel....

hopefully grimlock murders that awful character so we can have one less roberts fanfic oc nonsense

 

That's Agonizer. He owns the museum the Scavengers are in. I *think* he's an original character, but uses a differently colored version of the TR Sixshot toy as his character model.

 

It’s been a year and half since the reveal and while it was a mystery to the audience it wasn’t a mystery to the IDW-Verse. It’s like Shockwave, he’s called Senator now because of the reveal.

Don’t be irked by it. It’s nothing.

If anything it’s Roberts going “okay knock it off with you people still thinking it’s roller. It never was.”

Because for the love of god there still are people who think Tarn was roller and Elegant Chaos changed it even though it didn’t or people who need their brain looked at and think he always was even though Roller now in the damn book.

 

oh yeah! i went back and re-read those issues [which is what i should have done before asking] and i'm back on the same page now.

@ y'all quibbling about wanting 'context' for shockwave and scorponok instead of the Loser Club, can we get real a bit? Shockwave has had SO much context - his whole mysterious senator tragedy/turning the universe into a black hole thing, that was a powerful and moving piece of work. It's great to see him in a flashback gettin' down with the baddies but come on, more context? what do you really need?
and if you think for a second that this opening scene isn't going to have Consequences through the rest of the book in some way i can only say we must have been reading a different comic.

 

That's an interesting question. Yea, the shoddy work that goes into this book at times is why I stopped reading it a while ago.
Even Milne's art couldn't really get me to enjoy Roberts' work again -- it's just not that great on deeper examination.

 

So Bludgeon and the Monstructor Six scared off the DJD? This proves they are weak against combiners, pretenders or pretenders who combine.

Though seriously I'm wondering if we'll get the Irony years down the road of someone having the DJD be brutally massacred to show how powerful and scary their OC bad guy is.

And sorry Nickel, but the Decepticon's have a long history of doofuses and loonies. I mean look at some of the original bios. You're just seeing another side of that coin.