Shades of Dreamwave, anyone?
With the amount of quality TF comics we have at the moment, this goes down easier. As it is, I'd readily believe that Chris Metzen is the latest pseudonym from Brad Mick--or whatever he was last time we checked. James McPatyk Adam McMick Brad.
Megatron gets thrown out of a spaceship, in, of course, the exact scene from the 1986 movie, and lands on Junkion. I may have had this reaction to the throwing-out scene: OH ******* [composite word including 'f*ck'] MOVE ON ALREADY. 1986 was twenty-seven shitting years ago.
But Livio actually acquaints himself well here, as Megatron utterly destroys the Junkions, then confronts the shadowy Quintessons. I didn't like the murky art in Autocracy, because it completely went against the grain of the cartoony story. The A plot here has the same problem. Livio can't handle the standard action of Dinobots fighting, of Scorponok scheming... but the moody shots of Megatron as a half-junk beast in a ragged cloak, talking to shadowy Quints... it's gold.
Gold except for the absolute cheese of the plot. Megatron rebuilding himself from scratch into a twisted mutant... MTMTE this ain't. RID it ain't, either. Metzen and Dille are not trying for the complicated, adult entertainment that IDW otherwise has provided. It's a little bothersome that this is the canon backing up RID and MTMTE, when we've seen things as amazing as Shadowplay and Chaos Theory as part of Cybertron's past.
In the current crop of TF comics, a mediocre, wanky comic goes down more easily, like a generic store brand Coke at lunch before fine wine at dinner. Nonetheless, TF history will not look kindly on Autocracy and Monstrosity. It doesn't have the defining qualities of State Games, Chaos Theory, or even The War Within, which, although it featured a rather lukewarm Optimus, carried off a good feeling of war-torn desperation. Look for a retcon a few years down the line.
Monstrosity #1
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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.
Re: Monstrosity #1
This probably applies less to Monstrosity than it does to Autocracy and RiD #17, but its a little frustrating when Roberts paints a beautifully detailed and rich picture of Cybertron's past and its players...yet it is always other writers who do the pay-off to all the build up he creates. Considering all the work he did for Orion Pax, Megatron and Senator Shockwave, he should really have been the one to complete their origins.