- Skids can move through the portal to speak to the glowing globule thing on the other side, yet Rung can’t. Pharma says its just a forcefield, but Rung thinks its similar to Aquitas tech that holds you back if it can detect guilt. What’s Rung got to feel guilty about; or anguish or self-reproach? He’s not killed anyone, it can’t be the accumulated feelings of his clients as you’d think he’d be experienced enough to separate himself from that (I know counsellors need their own counsellors, but for the sake of this story…), and is it linked to his “Deja vu” comment?
- Its always bugged me what Tailgate said to Cyclonus on his deathbed; that he was born in Rivet’s field. Cyclonus says Rivet’s Field was ignited two weeks before Ark 1 took off, and two weeks before Tailgate was trapped underground. Does that mean that Tailgate came into existence and straight away was assigned to the Ark 1 on waste disposal duty? I must be misunderstanding something.
- When the glowing orb talks to Skids it almost seems to be asking him if he is an Autobot or Deception, and in the next panel asks him something like; don’t go back to the Lost Light, stay and unite the five moons!
- Tyrest mutters once to himself when he takes Rodimus and the others hostage. There’s evidence in the text story to suggest Tyrest is another Load Bearer and therefore a point-one percenter, but who is he talking to; Dominus? Its said Tyrest only made a name for himself once the war had started, prior to that he wasn’t such a big deal.
- Minimus recalls about the original Ultra Magnus, and there’s a scene where Pax, Magnus, Skids and Delta Magnus are fighting a giant two-headed monster Decepticon (maybe Sinnertwin?). If Skids gets his memories back, it may also give us cool stories about Delta Magnus, which in turn could give more cool stories about the original Magnus brothers!
- Rung is 90% secret compartments; does this refer to his link to subspace, or multiple dimensions?
- Brainstorm seems to handle the green spark (Megatron's spark) in quite a rough n' ready way as he's getting it out of the ground. Preceptor is having kittens watching him. And then Whirl of all people seems to be somewhat clued up about sent metallic "There's an equation". This is Whirl the thug! Yes he was a watchmaker previously, but he'd have never had to handle sparks in that business. Is there something to his comment? I mean, you'd believe that line if it were coming from someone like Chromedome!
- I’m really reaching now, but there’s a panel in Issue 19 as part of a two-page sequence where Tyrest explains to Minimus what this is all about. ‘guilt’. Its the panel where Minimus says “Is that why you’re keeping me out of the loop”; it looks like Tyrest is standing over an extra large version of Rung’s alt-mode. Maybe its nothing, but again we know Milne draws everything in a certain way, or with James’ direction; there’s a reason Skids was in the panel with Delta and Pax, there must be a reason why this thing Tyrest is standing over looks a little like Rung.
- Could Star Saber also be a load bearer; his toy having the ‘robot within a robot’ motif, and that’s why he happens to be the new enforcer of the Tyrest accord. And the same is true of Max!
Its interesting trying to pin down how much Rung knows. I've assumed he knows a lot more than he's letting on (ever since "Its Rung, forever", and his disappearance in the Slaughterhouse storyline). But maybe he's not privy to everything, everything!