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[bumblemusprime]

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INTERIOR SENIOR ART

INTERIOR SENIOR ART

TEN ELEPHANTF*CKING PAGES OF INTERIOR SENIOR ART

[Computron]

I need to change my pants.

[snarl]

Oh dear.

I didn't have my ******* balls stuffed up my ass at the time...

Yet somehow...

I've got **** all over my balls.

[Metal Vendetta]

Dammit, I really hope pages 11-20 are when all the big fight stuff happens

[Computron]

Just read it and I gotta say, I loved it.

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Ok, hands down favorite moment, Ultra Magnus and Galvatron. Holy crap, I want all those pages as huge posters, especially UM standing over a crushed Galvy.

Though to be fair, the Rodimus Prime Reinforcements were also fantastic.

Guidi's art was just epic. I mean utterly epic. Senior does a bit better job of portraying momentum and action, but Guidi was just unstoppable. Loved it.

Plotwise I actually felt it held up and didn't suffer from trying to wrap up a bunch of stuff at once. To be fair I'm still not quite sure what the Dark Matrix Creature was, (A shred of Unicron? G2 Swarm?) but I did like that Rodimus fought it with knowledge and wisdom rather than shooting first. He's finally become a Prime.

Also that last bit. So much speculation! Was that a new Cybertron being formed? New TF's? Who knows. Perhaps someone recognizes what emerged from the cocoon? Or maybe it's just something totally new?

Either way, loved it, plenty of real emotion and seriously glad this series got made.

[Hound]

I don't really follow what I just read

[Metal Vendetta]

First thoughts: I need to read this again, but wow, what an epic ride! I mean, this issue is Furmantacular, it's Furmalicious, it's pure, triple-distilled Furmahol served with Furma-Cola on the rocks. It's like there was some kind of Furpocalyse, after which the last Furman managed to find the last Furwoman alive and together they created a new Furworld, which they populated with their Furbabies, and millennia later their descendants sifted through all the wisdom of their elders and drew up this comic as the finest example of the spirit upon which their culture was built. I think that one got away from me a little bit.

It's a bit brutal, isn't it? Pretty much everyone snuffs it, though the idea of Shockwave, Starscream and Ravage going on to become intergalactic ambassadors for peace is both hilarious and brilliant all at once. They were the three that resurfaced back in US issue #69 after they were all supposed to be dead, so perhaps Furman has a soft spot for those characters. Everybody else, though? Let's do a quick body count over the series:

• The Last Autobot is nuked.
  The Skyscorchers are executed by three of the Deluxe Insecticons.
  All of the human characters bar two, and most of the population of Earth are dead.
  The 84/85/86 Decepticons - with the exception of the big five, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream and Ravage - and the Monsterbots, for some reason, were lobotomised and turned into zombies, then they're beaten by the Autobots, deactivated and incinerated from orbit.
  Ratchet spent 21 years as a face, and then Kup shoots him.
  Optimus Prime puts Megatron down for good.
  Lightspeed and Nosecone and probably others get eaten by Demons.
  Slapdash and a few generics are killed by the Autobot Headmasters.
  Misfire and Treadshot are killed by Scorponok and Grimlock respectively.
  Pounce is shot in the head by Crosshairs.
  Roadblock and Scorponok fall into the Sonic Canyons.
  Poor Cosmos.
  Windbreaker goes out with a sad parp.
  Just to make sure we know it, we see Buster and Jessie killed by Ratbat in a carwash, plus Movie Ultra Magnus, Kup, Springer, Arcee and Rodimus are killed in another timestream. Jhiaxus killed Boltax, Decanus, Tallus and Rokan.
  Monstructor is quite comprehensively ripped apart.
  Mainframe's definitely dead.
  The G2 guys kill a load of Demons.
  Hound buys it while taking on the G2 guys.
  Jhiaxus kills Joyride, Sky High, Crosshairs and Brainstorm. The Wreckers and Shockwave slaughter thousands of G2 guys. Galvatron takes out a bunch of generic Autobots..
  Almost EVERYONE WHO WAS LEFT ON CYBERTRON is consumed by some sort of energy shadow-leech thing. Iguanus, Soundwave, Beastbox, Squalktalk, Howlback, Wingthing, Slugfest and Overkill explicitly, Scattershot implicitly. But pretty much everyone else is dead.
  So at this point it's probably easier to list who's still alive. The characters we've seen are Rodimus, Blurr, Jetfire, Blaster, Ultra Magnus, Kup, Nightbeat, Bumblebee, Chromedome, Wheeljack, Streetwise, Blades, Groove, Powerglide, Jazz, Getaway, Beachcomber, Skids, Fastlane, Prowl, Broadside, Whirl, Topspin, Sandstorm, Roadbuster, Rack 'n' Ruin and Hardhead plus the ever-indestructible Dinobots. We can assume some other Autobots are off-panel as well, as we later see Mirage, Red Alert and (bizarrely) Backstreet alive, as well as Hosehead, Slingshot and Tailgate (aw) who show up just to get shadow-leeched to death. As does Streetwise.
  Magnus puts down Galvatron like a mad dog.
  Fort Max comes back wrong and has to be put down.
  Optimus Prime dies (again).
  By the end of the issue, all the other Transformers are dead apart from Rodimus, who dies.

There are probably others that I've missed, but man, talk about a downer ending.

Also that last bit. So much speculation! Was that a new Cybertron being formed? New TF's? Who knows. Perhaps someone recognizes what emerged from the cocoon? Or maybe it's just something totally new?

I'm getting Botanica. Which is weird because if we are leading into some kind of Beast Era, it seems odd to explicitly kill off Iguanus, who was implied to have been his BW self.

[Computron]

Oh wow good call on Botanica. Did not even think of that.

But yea the deathtoll is rather staggering.