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by bumblemusprime » Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:27 pm
Finally got this. The combination of end-of-the-quarter-coming-doom and watching the kids and cramming to play shows... well, it actually led to a Transformeriffic day, in which I got ReGen, RiD and MTMTE all on the same day.
Loved Springer's death. Rather liked the fight between Prime and Megs. Don't want Scorponok back. That leads to my bigger problem.
It feels like Simon is retreading material from the Furmination run significantly, though, albeit in a smarter way--set Megs up as a credible threat immediately, have a showdown, have a Thunderwing and Scorponok subplot...
I don't know how I feel about this, guys! I mean, I loved the Furmination run above most other TF stories save maybe G2. EJ Su's art was miles beyond Wildman's, or anyone's. Is Simon trying to satisfy the fans upset over the abrupt end of Furmination?
That's cool and all, but CHAOS was essentially Costa ripping off the whole plot of Revelation and trying to do it one better. I'm good without dead universes, Thunderwing, Headmasters, etc.
Furman's really entitled to do whatever the hell he wants in this series, really. I am just giddy that it exists at all. So he's retreading material from 2006-2008--well, I've never been bored reading ReGen. That's more than I can say about Robots in Disguise, which has an awesome original premise delivered with all the zest of flat ginger beer.
I think this hints on a deeper issue for me. A bit of a retread, but more importantly, it comes down to where my closure really was for the original series. I bought every issue of G2 off the stands when I was thirteen. It is my all-time favorite comic book series. The hanging plot threads from Generation 2 haunt me--Megs and Prime against a common foe, the Liege Maximo off in space planning his next move--more than what Simon left undone in the original series. Granted, G2 was able to end well while issue #80 (in Merkin land) wrapped things up as quickly and dirtily as possible. But G2 did more for the TF concept than any other series I've read. When else has there been a credible third side to the war? Not in Crystal City; they're just pacifists. Not really the NAILs; they're not so much a threat as a complication. The Cybertronian Empire was so damn creepy, committing mass genocide to turn planets into battle stations, then abandoning them.
Ah well. I may be letting this overshadow the goodness of the issue. It was a great way to wrap up the Ratchet/Megatron debacle that never got resolved, not even in G2. The series is just as fun as old-school Marvel. And we have a monthly Simon book. Like I've said before, we get our minds blown by MTMTE, our Furman fix in ReGen, and a book full of at least interesting potential in RiD each month. Hell, that's better than we were doing at the height of Furmination, with a Spotlight and a (usual) limited series issue each month.
Best First wrote:I didn't like it. They don't have mums, or dads, or children. And they turn into stuff. And they don't eat Monster Munch or watch Xena: Warrior Princess. Or do one big poo in the morning and another one in the afternoon. I bet they weren't even excited by and then subsequently disappointed by Star Wars Prequels. Or have a glass full of spare change near their beds. That they don't have.
