Dalek: Go on IDW, give us a Skybite POV issue with all his narration done in verse. I challenge you!
I second this challenge. Every second they do not publish this hypothetical comic is a disappointment to me.
TLB80: I'm still not sure why Sky-Byte even had to be in it, if it wasn't for the poem you could've replaced him with almost any other character and it would have made no difference. I hope that's gonna change though.
I'm a bit put out that they stripped the wackier / more distinctive parts of the character out, but from a basic approach of 'sympathetic Decepticon without blood on his hands,' he's the best fit out of existing characters I can think of. I mean, Dirge is presented as a goodie now, but he must have killed a lot of people in his day. And he, like Sky-Byte, could have left whenever he wanted, or at least in the early days.
Dalek: With the info out there and the damage done there's actually very little reason left for Prowl to have Dirge hunted down except out of spite now anyway.
Prowl is a spiteful guy. He was happy enough with pulling a gun on Ratchet for aiding humans back in the day. Most of his narration in his AHM coda was about how delicious it was to have the mental one-up on Springer, who rubbed him the wrong way. He also took a certain amount of delight in subverting Kup, the kind of hero he can't stand, into commanding Autobots for him by proxy. He'd plumbed some depths before this series started.
Dalek: Presumably if Dirge did talk everyone knows about Arcee now as well?
Perhaps that's what precipitated Arcee and Prowl's little chat in this issue? There was something going on in the background here that we weren't privy to - Bumblebee and Wheeljack were busy with something, Prowl found something 'unbelievable,' Arcee is having all sorts of new thoughts... it's plausible that all that could be down to Dirge singing. Swindle does mention that he's holding
something back though.
Another thing I liked about this issue: the designs on some of the background NAILs were fun. The guy with two heads was nicely bizarre while, at the same time, being perfectly Transformery.