Cliffjumper wrote:As for claims by Schmidt in the other thread that this book is inaccessible... I'd argue with that.
Keep in mind that the definition for 'accessible' in Transformers stuff these days apparently is "has the 1984 cast and/or reminds people of the Bay movies". You would expect things like self-contained storylines and character arcs to factor in, but apparently not.
I read this the other day and really liked it. Roche and Roberts are doing a great job fleshing out the newbie Wreckers, to the point where I'm hoping that it's established characters like Perceptor or Kup who end up as designated cannon fodder -- the new guys are just so likable. It's nice to see Snare get a bit of depth too. One of the things that I was worried about from the first issue was that we wouldn't get to know any of the lower-ranked 'Cons because Overlord would steal the stage with his sadistic Giant Ham act.
It was nice to see that Sixshot wasn't the
only Phase Six killing machine, although that leaves me to wonder just where Trypticon fits into things. Up until now I had sort of assumed that he would have fit into the same niche, but now I'm left wondering exactly what he's for. Unlike the Autobots, one assumes that the Decepticons wouldn't leave one of their biggest killing machines sitting alone on an asteroid (hello, Metroplex and Omega Supreme...).
The best thing about this series so far, IMO, is that Roche and Roberts have done a much better job of pacing things out. The talk-heavy scenes have a lot more dialogue crammed into each panel than something like AHM, which helps them fit more action into each issue. But more importantly, it also means that the cinematic scenes (like the half-page of 'Cons trying to shoot down the Wreckers' landing pods, or the first-page shot of Overlord) actually have an impact because they stand out from everything around them.
Roche needs a bit of practice drawing humans, though. Half the time Verity looks like a normal person and the other half she looks like she's got some sort of hideous facial deformity.