Soundwave Spotlight

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:30 pm

Anyone read this yet?

IDW comes through again. This is probably my 2nd favourite spotlight after Shockwave.

I love the way that all these stories are tying together.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:20 am

It's great stuff from start to end. I'm really loving this issue right now.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:24 pm

Yeah, this'un was a real good treat, hmm!

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:26 pm

That comic rocked hard. I just wish they used more cassettes than Ravage and Lazerbeak.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:38 pm

I loved the characterisation of Soundwave and his running monolog.

Furman really has distilled the essence of Soundwave into this issue. And nicely given us a reason to have a cassette recorder in 2007

One thing though; I thought mass-shifting was only possible with the use of ore-13/ultra energon (as seen with Megatron in Escalation). Soundwave, however doesn't have access to this, as he is monitoring the very beings who are first discovering it. So whats the deal, or have I missed something?

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:27 am

He's tiny, but packs a punch! I think they said that mass-shifting was possible but used up a great amount of energy. It might be justifiable for a covert agent.

I-Pod? Hyphenated? Who writes this, some aging man in England?

Good issue. I was really impressed with the art. Thought it was Roche most of the time and was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:02 pm

Got it and read it.

It was good.

Nice story to help fill in some of the gaps that occurred between Shockwave's departure and Stormbringer, and we get an explanation for how Bludgeon was able to acquire the Ultra-Energon for his Thunderwing project.

It was nice to also see Soundwave lose, because realistically, he probably couldn't take Bludgeon and other Decepticons by himself, even with Ravage and Lazerbeak. So it was a believable ending, which I liked.

Artwise, it was okay too. Not something stellar, like Don's work or Nick's work, but things were clear, and that's most important. So it was a good intro for Matere.

So overall, I'd give it a "B+", continuing the strong string of Spotlight performances.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:34 am

thought it was spot on.

Pretty pacy introducing sky watch one week and having them all over it (if actually 20 years later) the next issue.

Quite a few TFs floating around on earth now, eh? Gonna get messy.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:07 pm

Seems that Skywatch have got 8 of them as well - Laserbeak, presumably Ravage, Shockwave and the Dinobots. Will be interesting to see what they are going to do with them all, they're going to need some pretty big shelves, for sure.

Couple of things irked me, Bludgeon's flags spring out of nowhere from one page to the next and Laserbeak is mass-shifting all over the place, but otherwise I thought it was a brilliant insight into Soundwave's character. Never thought I'd see him consider self-sacrifice for the common good. Awesome stuff.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:52 pm

My new fav. after the Shockwave spotlight.

Great to see Soundwave as his old Marvel self again... Seemingly loyal to the current leader but watching his own interests otherwise. And like in Marvel, ultimately Soundwave does the right thing and works for the survival of the Decepticon cause.

Some scenes were fabulous. Like the ending, when the kid calls Soundwave a 'Classic' - kind-a spot on as nowadays we can see Classics Soundwave in the stores too. The whole issue was well built-up too, showing us just how SW handles a spying assignment. Plus the in-jokes like Mount St. Helens. Or when Bludgeon states that being locked in his alt mode is a big inconvenience in SW's case...

Oh and who else noticed that we got our first talking (non-BW) Ravage since Marvel UK?

Art was nice too - especially the battles at the end.

Some things irked me... when the pre-pretenders teleport in and out, we always see 4 beams, but only 3 of them were shown. I guess the fourth was Skullgrin and he had to go to the little Bot's room.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:46 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Some things irked me... when the pre-pretenders teleport in and out, we always see 4 beams, but only 3 of them were shown. I guess the fourth was Skullgrin and he had to go to the little Bot's room.

I think the fourth beam was for the stockpile of Ore-13 or ultra-energon, so I don't think that's a mistake as such, but it's not clear.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:09 am

BB Shockwave wrote:Oh and who else noticed that we got our first talking (non-BW) Ravage since Marvel UK?

That was actually the bit I jeffed at.
Liked it all, was trying to take my time and not hurry through it as it were so good, but noticing Ravage getting to talk was a definite 'pause for happiness moment.'

Yeah, second best after the Shockwave one, this.

The only thing that's kinda niggling me is Bludgeon's design - something that was awesome and intimidating and thematic at first is kinda getting more silly to me the more I see of his badass skeletal self. I thought he looked like that in Stormbringer as a result of damage or something he just hadn't thought was necessary to fix or whatever due to his fanatical mindset + being his own boss, and that seemed cool. But seeing him stand in front of Megatron with half a face and pipecleaner arms just looked daft.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:52 am

i agree - i thought that at the end of the Shockers spot light, having him fully formed then (and here) but ravaged by the time we reached storm bringer (or even seeing the damage done here prior to hitting Cybertron) would have sat far better IMO.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:48 am

I think we'll see the incident that lost Bludgeon his face at some point - hopefully it will be something significant. I quite like his look, but you do have to wonder why he doesn't just get a bit more plating for his arm.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat May 05, 2007 10:23 pm

Good stuff.

Loved the way Soundwave appeared in the shadows behind Megs.

But how did he get from the centre of a volcanic eruption to a shop window?

And has the mass displacement thing been explained? (I hadn't given it thought till I read this thread).