THE TRANSFORMERS: COMICS, BOOKS AND MANGA

CLUB AND CONVENTION TRANSFORMERS COMICS

Paradox
Reviewed by Blackjack

All which left Windrazor in something of a no-win situation.
Pretty messy, with us jumping all over the timeline. The sequences with the Beast Wars cast are probably the sole saving grace of the story. Windrazor is not so bad either, but Simon Furman has a tendency to fill everything with random flowery descriptive dialogue, even when describing something as simple like Windrazor falling down the chasm. The result is overtedious and overlong. The sequences with Sandstorm, too... why do we care about the legends in J'nwan? The description of the journey is so tedious and banal, and while it might have had some semblance of purpose if the legends actually, you know, decided to help, the fact that they didn't means that one half of the story is devoted for the purpose of Sandstorm realising that Point Omega is happening.

To make matters worse, there is a good chunk dedicated to recapping the events of Beast Wars and the last two text stories, and the end result still makes as much sense as a bad fan-fiction. Sandstorm and Windrazor are pretty lifeless, and the Covenant have been reduced from the semi-interesting temple knights to just a bunch of generics. And I wonder why we need Unicron in the first place if Shokaract is going to be the Big Bad. It's very convoluted and tedious.


The Beast Wars portion happens after Megatron has obtained his Transmetal 2 body, but before Tigerhawk's arrival, placing this between 'Master Blaster' and 'Other Victories'.

J'nwan is a 'region of quantum flux, a fissure in subspace that rotated through numerous pocket dimensions'. It is also a thinly-veiled pun of 'Gen-One' but the way it seems to be written it is kind of a Valhalla analogue... only that one can travel to it, apparently.

Dinobot II has feelings of honour and whatever, but those quickly succumb to his rage.

Rattrap lampshades that they always 'get Waspinator', something that happens in nearly every episode of Beast Wars.


The Hunter describes his timeline as one that 'Megatron' had taken over, and Predacons hunt Maximals down. The setting is implausible with both Megatrons — Decepticon Megatron is dead by the time Maximals and Predacons come, while Predacon Megatron's rule began with the annihilation of all of Cybertron's population.

Teletraan-1 is spelt 'TeleTran One'.

In the first paragraph from Sandstorm's POV as he begins to succumb to J'nwan's insanity, he is referred to as 'Windrazor' once.

Sandstorm is then later described as having fingers when he does not have them.

Depth Charge is MIA from the Maximal ranks.