Man, Scott is really knocking it out of the park with TAAO, these six issues have elevated her to the top of the IDW writers.
Sparkstalker and Lightbright's little romance has been a minor background plot for a while, so it wouldn't surprise me to see one of them die as part of a "we killed this minor named character to prove things are super serious" trope. (I'm sure it has a better name on TVtropes, but a fast Google search failed me.) Still I'm hoping I'm wrong.
I believe that would be filed under 'Mauve Shirt,' which is like a Star Trek Red Shirt, but given a little more character development so their death will sting more than a no-name Red Shirt while still leaving the 'big' characters unharmed.
i've read every TAAO issue and i have no idea who Sparkstalker and Lightbright are, were they in TAAO? what issue?
I think Sparkstalker's gonna make it, someone'll swoop in and save him, if the cover to #7 is to be believed he'll be part of Windblade's team sneaking around Carcer.
They showed up in Combiner Wars #3/Windblade volume #2 issue 2, Combiner Was Epilogue/Windblade Volume #2 issue 4, and apparently became Conjunx Endura in the Holiday special. I think Sparkstalker showed up in a couple of issues of TAAO, mostly in the background. They were seen more in RiD than TAAO/Windblade, I think.
They showed up in Combiner Wars and Windblade2 and in last year's Holiday Special issue. The wiki can probably get you the exact issues.
If they kill Sparkstalker, in true anime fashion I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM! Not that I am reading this comic, mind you. I just hope someday a competent writer like Roberts can work with the Firecons. Apart from that terribly drawn special where Sandstorm tries to blame them for murders, I don't think Cindersaur and Flamefeather have been seen in years in these comics.
