All Hail Megatron #13: Coda

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:13 pm

First, the Simon story featuring Ironhide and Prime. Artwork nice, story throw away and generic. Give it a "C".

But the Costa story featuring Starscream? Fantastic! This guy is "The One", I just know it, just from these few pages.

The dialogue was very clever, the best from IDW yet. Starscream's monologue was excellent, as was his interaction with Soundwave. Loved the swipe at the animated movie when Starscream muses "if I throw Megatron out the airlock, something tells me he'd just come back more powerful than ever." Loved that.

And the art on that Starscream story? I'd say it's the best since E.J.'s painted Sideswipe story. If these guys were on the ongoing, I don't think I could be any happier.

If this is what we have in store for us, I'm stoked. Give it an "A+".

Please IDW, let Costa try the ongoing. I'm here at Comicon. Eagerly anticipating the announcement of who will tackle the ongoing.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:31 am

Yaya wrote:
Please IDW, let Costa try the ongoing. I'm here at Comicon. Eagerly anticipating the announcement of who will tackle the ongoing.

Yaya, if the whispers coming out of ComicCon are any indication, you are going to be one happy fellow.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:32 am

Professor Smooth wrote:
Yaya wrote:
Please IDW, let Costa try the ongoing. I'm here at Comicon. Eagerly anticipating the announcement of who will tackle the ongoing.
Yaya, if the whispers coming out of ComicCon are any indication, you are going to be one happy fellow.

Who is this Costa guy, anyway? What has he done before? He seems to have a pretty firm grasp of the Transformers, yet I can't recall his name on any TF project before.

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:15 pm

Yaya, you're getting way too excited. Based on this evidence, Costa is a step up from McCarthy, but there were some worrying issues with that story regarding attention to detail. To whit:

1) Starscream - the same Starscream who has just saved Megatron from certain death because he's decided he needs to win leadership of the Decepticons in a fair ousting - now wants to take the easy way out and finish him off when he's already at death's door. This would be fine if there was some nod to his actions in AHM#12 as being rash and foolish, or for show, but as it is, it just seems jarringly inconsistent.

2) Astrotrain is now the size of a Decepticon space cruiser, apparently, while still looking like an Earth space shuttle.

3) Transformers apparently wear heavy bling. Like that wouldn't [composite word including 'f*ck'] you up the next time you tried to transform into a plane.

The dialogue was fair, with some nice layers of intrigue. The art was pleasingly old-skool, but was hampered by a reliance on toy/cartoon designs. To be honest, it reminded me more of the cover to Marvel's Transformers #1 than EJ's Spotlight: Sideswipe.

Still, if Schmidt is the new editor, hopefully there'll be more attention to detail in the future. He really impressed me with his handle on things in Spotlight: Metroplex.

Furman's story was quite disappointing. It starts off well but then the flashbacks just become random scenes of Prime knowing what's best and being generally great, with Ironhide looking like a doofus who needed a friend to stop him constantly getting killed. I don't mind the experimentation element in Don's art, teeth and all, but with it he seems to have lost his iron command of proportion. Too many panels have Ironhide looking emaciated because of his short shoulders, long neck and prominent cheeks.

stranger · Post by **stranger** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:38 pm

Horrible horrible horrible.

The Ironhide/Prime story was as dull as ditchwater, and I can't for the life of me make any sense of it. Unless... is it supposed to look like Prime is great, and Ironhide is a bit of a plank with the transformer equivalent of a meths problem?

The Starscream story... good grief. This is the same Starscream as one issue previous? His plan was to bin the matrix (in astrotrains internal waste system no less). How does that work?

Revelations seems like such a distant memory...

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:16 pm

stranger wrote:Horrible horrible horrible.

The Ironhide/Prime story was as dull as ditchwater, and I can't for the life of me make any sense of it. Unless... is it supposed to look like Prime is great, and Ironhide is a bit of a plank with the transformer equivalent of a meths problem?

The Starscream story... good grief. This is the same Starscream as one issue previous? His plan was to bin the matrix (in astrotrains internal waste system no less). How does that work?

Revelations seems like such a distant memory...

I read it as the Matrix having some kind of influence over Starscream.

I liked the Starscream story, the Optimus/Ironhide one was meh and the art was pretty ugly.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:28 pm

FANTASTIC Starscream story. Loved the nod to the movie, which I suspect also foreshadows next issue's story.

TBH, while the Prime/Ironhide story may have been okay, the artwork was putting me off all the way through, and I wasn't able to focus on it at all.

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:26 pm

At least this is dividing people somewhat, eh?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:18 am

Hound wrote:
I read it as the Matrix having some kind of influence over Starscream.

That's how I read it too. Something about the Matrix seemed to be affecting Starscream's thought process.

It seems like some are seeing it as a flaw that Starscream is being inconsistent with what came in AHM.

I don't see it that way. Or rather, I just don't care. For me, this is a fresh start, and AHM is a distant memory, something that happened but is of little significance in the grand scheme of things, much like M:O.

I think there's a reason McCarthy wasn't even mentioned on any TF project here at Comicon.

And at this point, I don't care what size Astrotrain is or what color scheme such and such is. It's irrelevent to me, as long as Costa can deliver a good story, I'll accept minor breaks from what Shane did.

Yaya, you're getting way too excited.

Maybe. Maybe so, but I really liked this Screamer short story, and I see promise in Costa that I don't think Shane ever displayed except in Newsarama interviews and the like. In other words, I think with this issue, Costa might just be able to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

Yaya wrote:

Please IDW, let Costa try the ongoing. I'm here at Comicon. Eagerly anticipating the announcement of who will tackle the ongoing.

Yaya, if the whispers coming out of ComicCon are any indication, you are going to be one happy fellow
.

I am happy. We'll see if it's premature.

They also announced a miniseries by Roche involving the Wreckars and a
Bumblebee miniseries by Zander Cannon.

stranger · Post by **stranger** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:12 pm

Yaya wrote:For me, this is a fresh start, and AHM is a distant memory, something that happened but is of little significance in the grand scheme of things, much like M:O.

Thats an intresting way of looking at a comic that has "All Hail Megatron" splashed across the cover, and continues that very story.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:43 am

stranger wrote:
Yaya wrote:For me, this is a fresh start, and AHM is a distant memory, something that happened but is of little significance in the grand scheme of things, much like M:O.

Thats an intresting way of looking at a comic that has "All Hail Megatron" splashed across the cover, and continues that very story.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:52 pm

It ain't just a river in Egypt.

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