RID #6

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:46 am

Have I missed something or shouldn't MTMTE 6 have come out before this? I actually wondered if my supplier had sent me something early again but as the Underbase review has gone up I'm guessing not...

Anyway: So the whole Shockwave thing was a giant red herring, with him only making a contractual obligation appearance in flashback. It's really Orion Pax Vs. Jiaxus, Bludgeon and Monstructor! With the return of Hardhead, Wheelie and the guy from his Spotlight (Who seems to have gone all butch in the interim)! Erm... yay?

A bit of an odd issue, and obviously the first in an occasional series following Pax's team. All the continuity references to Chaos left me more than a bit confused so I'm not sure if Bludgeon now turning out to have been working for Jiaxus actually contradicts his brain dead zombie routine in Revelation.

The art was very pretty, Pax was well written (loved his "Yeah right" reaction to Hot Rod's "Death") and it was nice to see Hardhead again.

On the other hand though, I thought Chaos was supposed to have ended all the old business so plot threads like Monstructor getting picked up when, frankly, I don't think anyone cared is a bit odd. Especially when the book has more than enough dangling threads of its own to deal with.

And the fact Hard Head's so easily able to stay in touch with Bumblebee once again raises the question of why the Lost Light can't. Even with Rodimus probably not caring there should be at least one robot out of the 200 wanting to send a "Hey guys, We're OK!" space fax to his friends.

Other than that though, it's the first part of a story we won't be picking up on for (another 6?) months and is very hard to judge on that score. I actually wonder if the original plan was to break up the main narrative or if this got pulled forward as a PR push? There's nothing outright bad and it reads quick enough (and it's certainly not as poor as 4 was) but until we get a clearer idea of where this is going there's a sense of pointlessness to the whole diversion.