Transformers RID and MTMTE Issue Discussion

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this week's Pull Bag. Hello and welcome to The

Pull Bag. This is episode 97. I am your host

TFJoneMike and joining me is Nicole Hailstorm.

Hello. Hello, how are you? Pretty good, pretty

good. And ladies and gentlemen, we are combining

stuff now. Instead of having to take time to

do two separate episodes for multiple issues,

we're going to be doing the number 28s, 29s,

30s, 31s, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera for

both Transformers More Than Meets the Eye and

Robots in Disguise. So in this podcast, you're

going to get a review of RID 28 and More Than

Meets the Eye 28. Um, as we go along through

this journey through this new form of covering

the titles, um, eventually they're going to get

rid of the RID title. I see what you did there.

Or they're going to be getting rid of the RID

on the RID title and it's just going to become

Transformers because, hey, we get a new cartoon

coming next year. Because they can't come up

with another title besides The Robots of Disguise,

which we already had a cartoon of. Uh huh. Well,

yeah, we did, but it wasn't that great of a cartoon,

honestly. I didn't mind it. Mm -hmm. Skybite

is awesome. Uh -huh. That's why everyone watches

it. Because Skybite is awesome. And there's a

bug in my room, and I apologize if you heard

me snacking it. Wait a minute. So you have Skybite

and Bugbite in your room? Yikes. Yep. I actually

do have Skybite in my room. I just got them.

I'm sure he stands proudly next to Skylinks.

I will never have a Skylinks. Come on. Never.

Nope. Nope. My collection will never be complete

because I don't care for Skylinks. Maybe I will

change my mind if I ever play with a toy, but

I will never like the character. Unless there

are some amazing writing skills, which right

now is still pissing me off more and more. I

mean, let's face it. He is a side character.

He doesn't, you know, he's transportation at

best. He's the Department of Transportation,

pretty much. So starting off with Transformers

robots in disguise, we are dark. Dark Cybertron

is over. Shockwave has been defeated. We are

now in the dawn of the Autobots I of course have

the subscription cover because when I was collecting

print issues I was a stickler for my shop to

have I've said this before that if a company

is going to offer a subscription cover at the

same regular price as the regular cover and i

have that in my poll box or whatever you damn

skippy you better be getting me that subscription

cover if it's option i wanted i don't care what

it is though there have been some months um i

think it was um one of the dark side return issues

might have been chapter five or six Where the

subscription cover was one of the Anna and the

animites or Anna nights or whatever the hell

there's friggin mini con combiners the green

thing That one I didn't too much care for but

I at least want the ability to have the option

to choose My comic book shops always good with

that. Yeah, I actually I've said this before

on the podcast I actually had to show my comic

book shop where to look for the various cover

distinctions for IDW. So we open up and we have

the standard cover which is Optimus, the subscription

cover which is Optimus, Ironhide, Jazz, and RC,

and the incentive cover was Optimus by Livio,

subscription was by Andrew and Joanna, and the

standard is Casey's and Joanna with Colors. Pick

your cover, ma 'am. See I don't have my covers.

I don't know what happened to my issue of this

But I think I remember Okay, is there one with

Devastator you said no, it's optimus optimus

RC Jazz and iron hide and then another optimus

by Livio. Oh Okay, I know which one I got I got

the optimus one where he's like standing around

the earth It's almost like the Megatron one,

is that right? Yeah, yeah. That's what I got.

That's right. I don't know what I did with it,

but I know that's the one I picked up. Because

I wanted the trilogy of him, Megs, and Windblade.

Windblade, yeah. That was the coolest thing about

this... these... is it 20... 28? Yeah, all the

28s have... Yeah. Wait a minute, we only have

two series that have 28s, so how... Oh, the wind

blade thing was a variant, right? Yep. Wind blade,

okay, yeah, yeah. Because Livio has the... The

incentive covers also make up some collage. Oh,

okay. If you put them together. I'll have to

see if I can find that. But yeah, so we start

off with a previously page. telling everybody,

hey, this is, you know, Dark Cybertron ended.

The universe nearly came to its end, but Cybertron

United in the day was saved by the combined forces

of the Autobots, Decepticons, and some new arrivals.

And then we have, and this is what's so cool

about this, this is what I love about this issue,

and this is what I love about the more than meets

the eye issue. This is just really strange for

me, because you're reading the physical copy

this time around, and I'm reading the digital

one. There's something the other way around.

That's what's crazy about this. Megatron, the

Decepticon leader, joins the side of his longtime

enemies. Windblade, the newcomer, arrives on

Cybertron and makes the place for herself. Optimus

Prime, the Autobot commander, returns to face

a new world order. I love how they do this with

the three characters like that. Just I think

that's so great. That's a nice little layout

a nice little description to kind of catch everybody

up I'd like it's just so awesome and I I really

think that they Kind of waste a page though.

They actually don't they give you that one. Oh

I believe there is still there is still it and

the next page the six months later. I think that's

all I think they give you one. Let me just double

check here. Two, four. I mean, I don't know.

I just I mean, I like it. I think it's cool that

they do it. I like it in the digital issue more

than I do in the print issue. Yeah, they give

you that one. OK. All righty then. So we start

off with six months later and we are. It's just

so freaking weird. I love this guy. I know you

love this guy. I love this guy. If anything happens

to him, I will be so ticked off. I think you'll

be more ticked off if anything happens to Buster

more than anything happens to Thundercracker.

That too, but that's one of the reasons why I

love Thundercracker so much. He's a dog lover,

and he writes horrible fan fiction, which is

amazing. And I want to see it. I actually want

to see them do it. I don't know. I just don't

know. So we open up with Earth and Thundercracker's

screenplay. And he's flying around the planet.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is why, one

of the reasons why I have Nicole here is because

I don't know, like what I know from the Transformers

comics right now is what I've read from Death

of Optimus Prime to whenever now is. So I don't

know anything. I have never read the original

Transformers ongoing they had. I haven't read

Chaos. I haven't read Last Stand. I know I should

read Last Stand. I know, I know. Hey, I only

got into comics two years ago. Give me a break.

Last Stand was good. Yeah, definitely have to

have Amy on for that one. You think Roberts is

bad now. That's where it all started and it's

a very heartbreaking story. I don't think he's

bad. I think he's just cruel. No, he's not bad.

He is a genius writer. He really is because he

brings these characters that you know nothing

of. He does two little blurbs of me like, Oh,

I love this character. Oh, That was bad I should

have fallen in love with this character just

last page and now I'm crying over him. That's

how good John Barber is Yeah, I'm sure he likes

it knowing that the tears of many readers Yeah

We have all sold our souls to Robertson Barber

honestly, yeah over and over and over again So,

Thundercracker is flying around planet Earth

because apparently he can do that even though

I know just from him passing and from other people

that Earth and the Transformers don't have the

best relationship anymore. No, no. And I've heard

it's all Spike's fault. Spike's an asshole. We

can't even go there yet. No, it's not. That guy

really needs to die. This is what I was telling

you earlier. I want to see Prowl just slowly

step on his skull. You know, eventually like

his teeth just slowly popping out one by one,

his eyes gushing out. Just a slow and painful

death because that's what Spike deserves. I don't

think the higher -ups at IDW and I don't think

Barbara would do that in general, but I don't

think the higher -ups let him do that. No, but

that's what I... Watch You're gonna have to have

Andrew and some of the other artists do that

for you as a fan I've told people I'm like, uh,

this is the first With the way the prowl the

relationship of prowl and spike Prowl will be

the first Cybertronian to taste flesh because

he wants to make sure that Spike's dead and he

will eat him and I will be so joyous. Yay. So

Prowl is going to turn into a Spike eater. Yep.

Alright, so Thundercracker's flying around, flying

around and we see all this dialogue that he has

and I can't tell if it's him reading it to us

or if it's the person that I think what because

we will you will get to where Who's reading this?

Yeah pages, so yeah But like when I opened it

up, I'm like wait After the end of dark Cybertron,

I was like wait a minute What the hell are they

doing? Like I realized what they were doing after

you know a couple pages, but it was like I just

don't get this. I don't like this. I hope this

isn't going to be how the entire movie is going

to go. I love it. It's just such cheesy dialogue,

which is like the premises of any soap opera

that anyone's ever read, you know? I love it.

So a couple of the two main characters in this

play or screenplay or whatever he's doing. Susan

Jurnier and Josh Boyfriend, I'm wondering which

Josh they're talking about. I picked Josh Perez.

Oh, okay. So, we get back, Thundercracker transforms

and he has a dog. Buster! Love Buster. And he

goes on to, you know, and he calls out to his

dog and asks the dog, you know, why are you out

here, girl? And there might be bears out here

or sharktacons or, well, probably not sharktacons.

I think that's so cute. I just fell in love with

Thundercracker in this few pages. I love him.

He's so silly. What do you think of the vials?

as he's walking in. Oh, his energon? Well, I

always, that's one of my favorite questions to

ask, you know, podcasters and fans. What do you

think energon tastes like? And it's just like,

I'm pretty sure they've got different flavors,

you know, they have to or just be boring and

be like having water your whole life. Mean after

looking at after seeing all 65 episodes of a

certain cartoon also I can think of is regular

energon dark energon speed energon That blue

stuff looks delightful, but I don't think that

he likes that one cuz that one Yeah, so he's

just like the regular stuff Thundercracker is

a regular kind of guy I am When I first saw this

I'm like, hey Where's Kranix when you really

need him because it reminds me of all the bottles

that they had in the original 86 film before

Unicron ate the planet. Oh, yes. Yes How do you

live with yourself Thundercracker? I Love Marissa

In this opening part, yeah, yeah, I like I did

like your interaction As we go along not so much

she's she gets worse, yeah She's basically making

fun of him which you know, it was kind of kind

of cruel She is being a bully. Yeah, I don't

like bullies. No So we then go to half a million

years ago, Cybertron, the fall of Metroplex.

What? Poor Metroplex. I know, right? And hey,

look, there's War for Cybertron Bumblebee. Which

is good. War for Cybertron was awesome. yeah

and it's actually well it's fall of Cybertron

and then because the reason why I say it's fall

is because look at Optimus Optimus is clearly

the the fall of Cybertron design from the toy

now what do you think about them incorporating

toy designs into past you know versions of the

Autobot body well I know it's like Hasbro's doing

this is their IP so They got to have a say and

of course, they've got to sell stuff. I know

a lot of people it really bothers. It really

doesn't bother me a whole lot because transformer

designs. Yeah, if you've been a fan as long as

we have, you notice that transformer designs

happen a lot, especially if you get different

artists on all the time. They're going to change

into What they want you know what of course Hasbro's

like no you got to add this and this and this

so really doesn't bother me a whole lot Unless

it's like a major drastic change, but not really

it doesn't bother me I Think I was too spoiled

on the dead universe stuff in dark Cybertron

because I really love Livio's style and no offense

to Andrew or any of the other artists like I

really want Livio's style in issues all the time

now. Go pick a Pinkery Birds. Well, that's true.

You did it, Livio. I know he is, I saw. So this

whole flashback is, you know, the story of, you

know, part of the war when Megatron is, you know,

uprising and not giving up and... you know, wanting

Metroplex and... Megatron is being Megatron,

G1 Megatron. Pretty much, yeah. You know, we

have Optimus and Prowl arguing back and forth

and back and forth and then all of a sudden we

have Alpha Trion. When was the last... I don't

remember him being around for a while. Alpha

Trion? Yeah. It's been a while. When was the

last time we saw him in the comics? Was the costume

on probably okay in a bit a while I Like his

design though. I think his designs pretty cool

So we have that going on, you know We have Megatron

and Optimus with one final battle and then they

leave we go back to the present day Where Optimus

and the team are returning and apparently their

ship is going haywire because someone's detected

them and apparently the ghost shields have failed

so Apparently the Starscream technology for ghost

shields doesn't work Of course of course What

do you think of the present -day optimus body?

I Again, it's one of those things I like it,

but it's I I'm one of the few probably I like

his alt mode his robot mode Just like his abs

Giant grill yeah, but he's pretty much exposing

his cleavage Yeah, he needs to get a bra for

that Or maybe a bro I can't believe I got a Seinfeld

reference into a Transformers comic I could probably

do more if you need So we have Kramer the transporter

showing up in skylinks you never never know You

can't do that. You can't compare Skylinks with

Rio. I'll give you that, because I want to kill

both of those characters. Oh, wow. Cross to her

for podcasts, people. Yeah, for those that don't

know, she is talking about Rio Pachenko from

Gem and the Holocrames. Who is about as worthless

as they can be. All right, so Skylinks shows

up. He's not... as much at least in his opening

lines he's not as much of a dick as he was in

the cartoon series because in the g1 cartoon

series he's like only i sky links can do whatever

it needs to be done and blah blah blah blah and

so he's not that much of a dick at least in the

beginning here after all they're only loading

up into him So they are gonna go to earth and

the title of this story is earthfall part one.

Hello cruel world So we then go to I do I do

I do love that That page though, the Earthfall

page. I think it's beautiful and that's saying

a lot with Skylinks in it. Mostly because Cosmos

is there and I love Cosmos. Nicole loves Autobots?

No. I like my Autobots. I love G1 Bumblebee.

Hello, I love Bumblebee. I will say that. I'll

be with a few people say I love Bumblebee, but

I love Cosmos too. Not as much as Bumblebee.

I love Cosmos. Skylinks could go fly a kite.

I don't care about him. Oh boy. Yeah, so we get

We get another flashback to last month In in

the story last month because obviously we are

way past dark Cybertron now and the time that

this issue came out How this whole new mess got

started? I really do like the face -off between

Prowl and Starscream. That's a nice panel. I

love it, too. Who's doing the art on this one?

Is it Casey? No, it's Andrew. Andrew. Andrew

Griffith, colors by Perez, and flashback colors

by Joanna. He's doing a remarkable job. Beauty

really beautiful. And of course that the coloring

is beautiful. I got it I do love that face off

with proud Starscream, but again, I love Starscream

Yeah, yeah And proud well, I have a love -hate

relationship with proud I like Constructicon

proud But I do like that that face off because

he's got you could tell that Starscream is just

smirking underneath there and I love it It's

just like yeah, come at me, bro. Come at me.

Well in the next panel. He's smirking at him

Here's a word chosen as I was chosen to rule

Cybertron and you can clearly tell he's smirking.

Yeah Well, he loves telling people that He loves

it. He might as well just get a badge. I'm surprised.

You ever have Rodimus had a badge? I'm surprised

Starscream hasn't made a badge. Oh my gosh, Starscream

and Rodimus are like almost the same characteristics.

No, they are not. Oh, no, no. Yes. Okay, come

on. Rodimus is awesome. I just love it when he

gives his butt kicked. Yeah, we know. Come on,

the same thing's about stuff too. You love torturing

Rodimus, we know. I do love the next panel here.

He's talking about Optimus, and Optimus shows

up right behind him. Oh, hey, hey. Really gotta

start paying more attention. You think that robots

would have better hearing, especially with a

large man like Optimus. I mean, I don't see Optimus

being the best, like, hide -and -seeker. No.

Not at all. And then we get Mr. Mopi. Which one?

If you screw this up, the city will turn against

you in a real literal way. Plus, you got me and

Windblade here watching you. Oh boy, good old

Mr. Mopi Ironhide. Oh, I remember when Ironhide

was kick -butt. I will say, you know, all props

to Andrew for putting his own spin on Windblade.

I do not like Windblade's design in RID. I've

gotten mad. Overall. She looks a lot, she looks

angry in it. And she's got the robo -boobies,

whoo -wee. She's definitely a lady. She's got

the robo -boobies and the robo -80s shoulder

pads. Oh, yeah. Like I said, all the respect

in the world to Andrew Griffith, but Windblade

was the fan character that got put into the show

or put into the comic, and Sarah is the one that

pretty much... In my personal opinion is the

one that kind of does her the best Since it was

Marigold and Sarah to do the to do the original

miniseries for Windblade I Just don't like other

people other than Sarah drawing her at this point

in coloring her I mean the colors are fine. The

colors are fine. It's the way she's drawn Just

she looks so serious If you if you want if you've

watched that I say that watch punishment because

I Do like Livio's take on her? Yeah, I have to

wait till punishment comes out for the rest of

us unlike I still don't know how I'm gonna like

it in actual physical form I mean, I mean, I'm

still gonna get the digital when it comes. I'm

not gonna I don't think I'll get a physical but

I'll get the digital So You know, Windblade and

Optimus are talking about Earth. I like this

whole changeover from Optimus, like in the panel

that they're there, and then it goes to him saying,

with practice, it gets easier to say. And then

the very next panel is almost the exact same

shot, except he's opened the thing in his hand.

I love the quick color change. I like it, though.

I think it's really pretty. No, I do. I like

it. But it's almost like his entire design has

changed. If you look at the first page before

he opens it, his ears, for the lack of a better

term, his antennae are larger. And then when

it's lit up, his entire face kind of changes

because of the lighting. That's true. I like

it. I wasn't expecting it to be that bright.

Bright light! I can't say. So we get a shuttle

shot of them going to Earth and they land. Now,

the Autobots know that Earth is not exactly their

biggest fans anymore. Why would a giant ship

filled with Autobots have a giant Autobot insignia

on it on the outside of it? They like to label

their stuff. They're proud of their workmanship.

I mean, it's just kind of like U .S. Airways

or United. United is horrible airline. And really,

I cannot stand United. But they and a lot of

people feel the same way about them like me.

But they still put their logos on the outside.

So, you know, hey, I should not get on that plane.

Yeah, no, it just it just kind of like it. I

mean, if they want to come to Earth and. You

know, be stealthy about being on Earth. I just

think that the Autobot symbol should be blacked

out on the ship. Yeah, that's true. I just find

it funny as well. Maybe Skylink did that. Sounds

like some kind of BS he would do. You just want

to say bad things about sky like I do like I

do He's that he's that character for me in this

series It's like oh No, go away. I Always have

one in every series So they all scan new alt

modes and everybody except RC and prowl transform

You got cup jazz and optimus. What do you think

of the alt modes? I'm really liking jazz. Jazz

looks cool. Yeah, it's kind of hard to screw

up. Yeah, I mean, Cup is basically Cup. Optimus

is a little round. He's classicized. He's curvy.

Yeah, he's basically a version of the 2008, 2009,

2007. Classics optimus prime toy from Hasbro

is what he looks like to me in the alt mode.

I Like jazz jazz looks really cool. Yeah jazz.

I got a question right here And I don't mean

to sound racist, but it's come out sound race

Jazz he's supposed to be like one of the token

black guys, right? Am I wrong? So why is he like

the most painted white? character on Transformers.

I don't get it. I've always wondered that, like,

if he's supposed to be the black guy, why is

he so white? I think it would be too on the nose

if he was, I mean, that's kind of like, you know,

casting Walter Jones as Zack, the black ranger,

or or Thoi Trang as Trini, the yellow ranger,

you know what I mean? it would be way too on

the nose for jazz and plus jazz eventually has

like silverish gray stealth mode kind of stuff

so i know i i did not mean to that i'm talking

about people who might be listening i i've just

always thought that i'm like huh it's just one

of those anomalies that go in my head and now

it came out and it sounded really wrong and i

apologize Cup looks like an old Bentley to me.

I don't know why but he like if you if you go

to the page or if you go to the panel where I

never wanted to return none of us did but wants

and needs rarely agree when they're talking about

yeah he looks like one of those old timey hot

rod cars that you know they have conventions

for all over the country at this point. They

don't have a Bentley transformer do they? i don't

think so there is not a bentley wow let's change

that yeah let's i mean if we can have rat trap

and tank or and waspinator give me a nice looking

bentley yeah so the autobots are on earth they're

tracking this signal and Cosmos calls in and

says, you know, I've tracked the signal and he

says either he says No new hostiles either. I'm

too small a target to track or they're letting

me be either way You're zeroing in on the target

one warm body inside Cybertronian optimus asks

and just nothing but silence and we get to The

boom, because they realize it's Thundercracker.

Ah, I love Thundercracker. There we go. I'm trying

to see where the hell Buster is in this image,

where Optimus says, wordplay from a Decepticon

seeker? I'm trying to figure out where Buster

would be, lying around, because I can't see her

anywhere. I think there's a little couch in the

back, it looks like. There are some cloths folded

up behind Thundercracker. Do you see that? Yeah,

at the very top. Did the energon colors change,

or is that three different tubes? Sage added

a fourth one, which is yellow. OK. So he likes

the red and yellow, then. He really likes that

yellow one, it looks like. That's gold. Oh god,

he's drinking from the golden lagoon. Where's

my beach cover? Somebody call BeachCover. People

don't know I love BeachCover. I'm one of the

few people that absolutely positively loves BeachCover.

I would love that. I would love that. Yes. Make

it happen. So we get Thundercracker and he says...

He says no this place is fine, but I figured

Autobots were bound to show up eventually I'm

glad you came prime. I never liked you. I Was

worried it would have been that little yellow

guy that guy. I liked I liked hearing that I'm

like, oh like bumblebee He's a fangirl All the

way he writes, yeah He's a bad girl Thunder crackers

basically me He loves dogs. He writes fanfics.

I have a really good fanfic in years. I don't

know if I would go that far. I would say Susan

is kind of like you. Susan? Susan journeyman?

I was reading that. I was like, wow, this sounds

so like Nicole. What? You know, you have the

gruff exterior sometimes, and then, you know...

Are you drunk? No, not yet. You've been drinking

that golden lagoon energy shot? No, no, no, no,

no. Oh, I've got something to say about the artwork

that's on the next page. Oh, go ahead. Okay,

so you see where Optimus is underneath the two

panels of Thundercracker? After Thundercracker's

like it looks like optimus is you know it I know

it's one of his exhaust ports But in his left

hand you looking at it's on your right side.

It looks like he's holding like a McDonald's

cup with a straw It was master shake. He's got

master shake Aquatine hunger force crossover

Oh my God, that is so awesome. Look at it. Look

at it. It looks like Master Shake. I know it's...

I know it's... What if it's pipes? But come on.

Now all I'm picturing is those old McDonald's

commercials. A Big Mac, Large Fry, and a Chocolate

Shake. I'm getting hungry, damn it. So he goes

and tells Thundercracker that Megatron stands

with them You know and he and Thundercracker

is like no it can't be true, but it is Of course,

it's true. Why on earth would we lie to you and

BAM Galvatron shows up. Oh what an entrance I

wonder if he was waiting for the right moment

kind of like Megatron did with Bumblebee back

in Dark Cybertron. That was one of my favorite

parts. He made me wait here for literally 10

minutes or something. I can't remember for the

right entrance. Yep. I wonder if Galvatron would

do the same. I think Galvatron's too impatient

for that. Galvatron's just mad and I love him.

It's just literally insane. Oh man. I really

wish at some point they would do a Galvatron

change. I know it's not practical, but he somehow

Gets his cannon alt mode in some way shape or

form just homage the movie even if it was just

a cover Like one of those 30th anniversary. I

was like sure you still got time. I'm pretty

sure Yeah So we get an all -out fight here and

fun splash page oh yeah it's like red laser blue

laser we'll talk about that a little bit yeah

red laser purple laser i should say and poor

thunder cracker no you said it wouldn't happen

like this get out of my house i just can't picture

a voice in my head for thunder i can't hear a

voice in my head for thunder cracker get off

my lawn i just can't i can't yes he kind of had

that in the g you have the gruffy voice you know

yeah That page is just so beautiful. That artwork

is just amazing. It is. Crime and Jazz coming

out right there. Jazz is slowly becoming a favorite

of mine, too. I've always liked Jazz, but he's

getting up there ever since he had that little

incident with killing someone. Yeah, I, you know,

obviously Scatman has been long gone. Oh, yeah.

Rest in peace. Um, I remember there was a time,

I think it was the first or second time I interviewed

Phil Lamar. And I just asked him in the interim,

like, cause of, oh yeah, it was the first time.

Cause we were talking about transformers animated

and I asked him how, you know, what did the,

you know, producers and people in charge, how

did they, did they want you to approach jazz

from your own thing? Or did they want you to

do scat man? He's like, once you get scat man

in your head, you can't get it out. And I'm like,

okay, well. Can you do jazz as Scatman? He's

like, Megatron, you're going down! Just hearing

Phil Lamar and it sounds just like Scatman Carruthers

for G1 Jazz. Like, I literally freaked out. That

would've been like, I gotta go change my pants.

Yeah, pretty much, yeah. So Optimus wants to

take the fight outside. Don't move, alien. And

we have Marissa in the Earth Defense Command,

who apparently have aligned with the Decepticons

as the closing page here. Thoughts? What, on

the whole thing? Yeah. Okay, it's Thundercracker.

I love the Thundercracker performance, it's awesome.

It was surprising to see Galvatron because we're

just like who's gonna be the baddie because Megs

is now an Autobot. Spoiler! In case, you know,

no one knew yet. So yeah, Galvatron would have

been people's thoughts and so it was a huge surprise

but it was kind of a nice surprise because Galvatron's

insane on all of them. As far as set up for a

new storyline, I think they've done well. The

only thing I just don't care for, and this is

going to sound cruel, but I just don't like Marissa.

She doesn't look good. Her face doesn't look

well in the arts. She looks angry. She looks.

Yeah, I just don't care. But yeah, it's a good

because it's undercracker. The whole thing with

thundercracker not knowing that makes us switch

sides He's just like wait what? No, that's how

long he's been out of the game The whole this

whole thing is just like okay. What's proud RC

gonna be up to poor jetfire He's just like lingering

somewhere Getting no love So it does give you

some questions it gives you some talking points

like you're talking with other people And plus

there's cosmos so oh, yeah, it's extra awesome

Yeah, there is cosmos I really felt sorry for

cosmos in this because he's having like Chat

with Prowl, but it's like one of those conversations

where one person is talking But the other one

isn't listening and just making their own conversation

and poor cosmos is like it's really lonely where

I've been I've had no one to talk to will you

please listen to me Prowl's like oh, yeah, we

should do this and this come on uh... overall

i like this issue i think it's interesting i

i i like seeing the aftermath of dark cybertron

i'm not sure where the story is going obviously

i know since i've i've read obviously to to current

but uh... you know when i first read this back

when it came out i wasn't really sure you know

what to think and what direction does rain has

always been since the beginning the political

book And other than the fact that Starscream

is now in charge and the people voted him to

rule, there really isn't a hell of a lot of politics

in Writ at this point, because at this point

in the ongoings, it's Windblade that has to deal

with the politics in her miniseries, because

this is dealing with Optimus and Earth and everything

else. So I'm not really sure where... Barbara

is taking this. I like it. I'm just not sure.

I just like that this RID is lightening up. Barbara's

put some jokes in here because like you said,

RID used to be like the real serious one. The

whole quip about Starscream telling Prowl, my

friends think your head's the best part about

you. Oh my gosh. I love that. That was awesome.

The whole screenplay, amazing. The screenplay

was crazy. I just... I can't wait to see the

whole thing. Oh my gosh. You know what they ought

to do? I don't think they'll do this, but I wish

that IDW would do a one shot where it's just

the screenplay. Oh, people have been asking about

that. That would be awesome. I mean, they do

spotlights all the time, so why not do spotlights

Susan Journeyman? Why not? I think it would be

awesome. Yeah, I think it would be too. Overall,

I really enjoyed this one. It was funny. It was

interesting. It was a nice new twist on where

RID is going. I'm going to give it a four and

a half. What about you? That's a I wasn't expecting

ratings. I forgot about that. Oh, let's see I

Will give it a four because like I said the whole

thing with Marissa's drives me nuts and Buster's

changing size as well That's one of those things

that gets me is again. It's transformers. They're

not Great with sizes, but it's a dog Should be

able to dog, right? But I love Buster. So yeah,

I'll give it a nice solid four. Yep, same here.

So we're gonna take a quick break. Come back

with more meets the eye 28 after this coughing

message. Sorry. I thought I'm muted. We'll be

back in a moment. Oh my gosh, this is so great.

All right, folks, it is time to. Read and talk

about not necessarily read but talk about the

soul crushing title that is more than meets the

eye Oh, wow, that's harsh I have the subscription

cover which is Megatron Nautica A whole bunch

of other people night beats night beat. I've

just And a whole bunch of other people. And Megatron

says, want to make something of it? I wish I

had that cover. But I got the standard cover.

The regular cover. I like the regular cover.

I think it's cool. I like the incentive cover

a lot. But I love that so many of my favorite

characters are on the subscription cover. Cuz

I love tailgate swerve. He's just pure awesome

not a cat. She's my girl at heart man, so get

away ah I'm starting to like his little skeet

scandals there. So of course Meg's just folding

his arms like being all gangsta Love it. Yeah,

love it. So we get the previously page here It's

the exact same. It is the exact same. It's set

for it's on the other side right um which is

well they didn't really cheat they didn't they

they did it for a reason which is a good reason

yeah and i love how on comixology how the um

because i'm actually looking at both copies i

have the print and the digital oh because i'm

looking at the print right now so sorry see what

i say we can't do We just flip -flop. I love

in the digital how when it gets down to the singles

for the, it gets down to the character sections

here, you have a single panel for each character.

And then you have the giant six months later.

Oh, did you have that in the digital? Yeah. Oh,

interesting. Yep. so for before I get too far

and forget about this because I kind of forgot

about in law in in the lost light Wow in red

obviously written by James Roberts the art is

by Alex Milne I assume that's how you say his

name right I don't know Milne the line whatever

the colors are done by Josh Birchham letters

Tom B long editorial assistance Rebecca horrid

I don't know And obviously Barbara is the editor.

This is different because we're used to seeing

Josh Perez work with Alex. So I mean, he's working

with Andrew. Yeah. So it's just like, Oh, okay.

So they did a little switcheroo there. Yep. And

we're back. Open up with the lost light and the

lost light just from this opening panel. Looks

like it's seen better days. Last light. Yeah.

It's kind of like the enterprise meeting up with

Vulcan worship, you know. It's not looking too

good. Yeah, no. Not at all. And we're back. And

we have Brainstorm, who is a complainer in this

series. Yeah. You were ages. Sorry, Brainstorm.

I had to pump down to the fuel furnace. And this

is your newest favorite character or new. Favorite

character. Well, not because just pure awesome

and she's got you know, a sonic wrench. It's

a song screwdriver Lord is she's such a top.

She's a talkie talker and she kind of reminds

me myself a little bit in that way Well, you

did do a six -hour podcast this year this year

that was just two weeks ago and This is the first

time I did it I've done stuff like that before.

That was John Paul's fault. So we have Nautica

and Brainstorm in conversation and he's giving

her a situation and I love this. I just... she's

saying that you're telling me about your new

CC gun okay so imagine you're in battle but everything's

happening so fast you can't make out anyone's

insignia you're badge -blind good grief I didn't

even think I knew that was a thing I think it's

awesome I can't believe James threw in a Charlie

Brown line. Good grief. And Brainstorm is lying

to us, oh my god. That would be so... I love

how excited though Brainstorm is explaining this

to Nautica. His briefcase goes flying. But it's

still attached to his hand though. So he's talking

about color -coded guns and color -coded lasers.

Red if you're an Autobot, purple if you're a

Decepticon, and this is the best bit. The color

changes depending on who's firing the gun. Okay,

as I was reading this issue to refresh myself

before doing the recording, he's talking about

the mother -friggin' lawgiver from Judge Dredd.

That's he's making a Transformers version of

the lawgiver. Well, someone must be a Judge Dredd

fan because of the newest comic that's out I

want a figure of that And then you know, so she

goes on and says, you know goes on and say it

kind of talks about the moral Absolutism and

whatever else he says it doesn't have to be red

and purple. I know I just it's Because she just

keeps it talking. It's like you got this. He's

just like wait It doesn't yeah, it's just so

simple to him. It was such a simple thing and

then she's going on all the statistics So So

we get to What's happening over there? All this

I can think of is friggin cup from the movie.

What's going on there in the cell? What's going

on over there? Does the party Oh God, I can't

I can't remember. Oh guilty or innocent Oh, I

just noticed that's Mirage. Is that Mirage? That

is. I didn't even know he was on the Lost Light.

Yep, that's Mirage. Ah. Mirage and... That's

uh, uh... Oh, God, I just lost his name! Hot

Shot? Is that Hot Shot? Fire Engine? Yeah, yeah.

Oh no, that's Inferno. Inferno, my gosh! That's

what I was thinking. I was just like, no... They're

like, oh, I forgot you intellectual types don't

read The Lost Light Insider, do you? That's another

thing we need in a one -shot. We need issue,

we need pages and pages of The Lost Light Insider.

That would be so cool. So we get to the next

panel and it is Rung, basically psychoanalyzing

Megatron. World Shut Your Mouth Part 1. I don't

blame those other guys being on the outside,

because hello. I would just love to be in this

room. Alright, so Dark Cybertron's over. What

do you think of Megatron? Switching sides and

be like his whole thing of becoming an Autobot.

What do you think of that whole? You what? It's

after four million years or six million. I forgot

how 10 million 20 million millions of years time

that we don't understand. I think it was eventually

about ready to happen. You know, most people

was they've done so many horrific things. that

are mentally stable, some of people that look

back and like, oh, wait, you know, people that

have been reformed, they go back and they think

of their crimes and they get to that point where

they've just break down. And yeah, I could see

this happening. I don't know why not. The thing

is, after this issue, once we talk, you know,

Meg's become such a He's always been a good leader.

But now he's playing for the Autobots and he's

like an awesome leader. I'm like, I so want to

see him lead. Again, I love Rodimus. No, you

don't. I really do. I really do love Rodimus.

He's such a fun guy to hang out with. But I just

love seeing Megs lead the Autobots. It's awesome.

I like it. It's strange to me. I don't dislike

it It's just strange Of course, it's because

you're not used to it. You're used to seeing

him, you know want to take over the world and

destroy everything and make everything his and

then He like like a dark side of Tron. He had

that moment of realization. This is not how it's

supposed to be And they I mean he's Even Rung's

getting into his head right here. And you could

see where Meg's has come from in the past. And

to tell you the truth, I understand where he's

coming from and where he's been and stuff because

of these sessions that they're having. And I

love the panel with Rodimus when he says, the

lost light is refueled, the quantum engines are

purring like a turbo fox in heat, and Perceptor

says he can use magic to get us back to the galactic

rim in one single epic jump. Magic equals science

that Rodimus doesn't understand. See, this is

why I love Rodimus. He is wanting to go out on

an adventure. He wants to just go out and have

fun. This is why I like Rodimus. He just wants

to have adventures. He doesn't care if he gets

hit every now and then. Okay, maybe he does,

but he still just wants... I mean, he has a Rod

Pod. Hello? Yeah, I love the Rod Pod. We'll get

to the Rod Pod in the next couple of podcasts.

Yeah, love the Rod Pod. Oh, and then that quote

with Rung and Megs right there, that's a true

honest quote. It is yeah, that was a nice little

touch there. Yeah I think it's really weird seeing

I like it, but I think it's really weird seeing

Optimus and Rodimus shake hands. Optimus and

Rodimus? Yeah. Why? I don't know it's just The

way that it's here in this issue. It just It

looks really strange. It kind of oh God, I know

why it looks strange to me It reminds me of the

animated opening to Batman 66. Optimus is Batman,

Rodimus is Dick Grayson. Oh my god. Oh, gawd.

So who's Starscream lurking in the background?

No, that's not Starscream, that's Ratchet. Ratchet

could be the commission. That's Starscream in

the background right there. No, it's not. Oh,

I'm looking at the panel below you. Okay. Sorry.

Yeah, that's yeah, that's the other way around.

Yeah, no, no, no the panel where goodbye optimus

I'll call you when we get to cyber tropia or

cyber topia utopia, whatever the hell it's called

Yeah, rats just looks really uncomfortable. There's

like are you guys done holding hands now? Yeah,

I love ratchets yeah, see here's another Autobot.

I just absolutely adore Yeah, Ratchet in this

entire series has been amazing. With or without

his or anyone else's hands. Rodimus is like,

us since when is Starscream one of us? All I

can think of is that old geek chant, one of us,

one of us, one of us. So the juxtaposition of

this whole issue here is the fact that they need

to decide what in the hell they're gonna do with

Megatron and they all start arguing over the

fact of there needs to be a trial. A trial for

Megatron, really? Well, yeah, well, I... Again,

you're seeing all sides here. Rodimus, you know,

Prowl thinks he should just be executed. Rodimus

is... I mean, they're doing what... most politicians

would do. And Prouse little thing about his true

choice. I love it. It's I mean, an ultramagnus

is there. Of course, ultramagnus is going to

be like, no, this is what needs to be going down.

You know, as much as I hate the guy, we got to

do things. You said public execution twice. Yeah.

Well, Prowl says, we have two options. Public

execution, indefinite spark containment, or public

execution. You said public execution twice. Cognitive

bias. Look it up. Prowl made a funny. Prowl made

a funny, people. Well, you know, he flips tables

all the time. It was bound to happen. That's

why his masterpiece is missing. He needs a table.

I can just imagine one of the third -party companies

coming up with a little miniature table for Prowl

to flip. Oh my god, who would Prowl be if he

was in the WWE for table flipping? Oh my god.

So Prowl is going to be the prosecutor. Ultra

Magnus is going to be the defense attorney. And

then we get to Optimus and Rodimus and talking

about you seem very eager to return to your quest.

And well, of course, nobody likes politics. Nobody

wants to be around for Megatron's trial. And

we get Rodimus giving Optimus an update and...

facepalm for days when it comes to thunderclash.

Oh my gosh, I love that facepalm that Prime's

giving. That's awesome. He just looks like he's

punching himself. He probably is. He's talking

to Rodimus. Like I said, I like Rodimus, but

he could go on for days and days. I mean, look

at that explanation he's giving right there.

Yeah, that's true. So we get back to today and

we get back to rung rung and Megatron rung says

if it would help it would help if you weren't

so evasive if you're worried about people listening

in don't be the offices soundproofed No one can

hear us, sure. That's why Ravage is laying under

the couch. Oh, I'm so glad to see Ravage. He's

so cute. Look at him. He's just sitting there.

Right there. He is so cute. Anytime else, he's

just... I love... I like Ravage. You know, don't

get me wrong. I like Ravage. I think he's a cool

character. I just wish people would... I wish

the artists would... pick a design for him and

stick with that, and I know different artists

are going to draw him differently, but I've seen

Ravage so many different times. At this point,

Alex's design here, he looks like a cat like

he's supposed to. Other designs, it's kind of

really movie, Revenge of the Fallen influence,

and he looks like a rabid dog. I mean, there's

just certain things about Ravage when, you know,

I can't even pinpoint who. An artist would be

that does this but it just there just certain

times were especially a dark cyberjohn with all

those artists Like no one knew how to do ravage,

right? No, I like I uh, is it the next issue

with this? They have the megatron and ravage

Yeah dialogue awesome. Yeah And of course mcfeely

did that So we get to um We get to rung in Megatron

here, and they're going back and forth back and

forth and they eventually bring up Towards pieces

Megatron's autobiography don't call it that you

make it sound small you make me sound small I

was writing a Pole mic it was going to change

the world you did I suppose so but not for the

better I Love that panel of Megatron It looks

so sad right there. It's beautiful. I mean, Alex

really knows how to capture expressions, especially

in these are supposed to be metal creatures.

But yet he does such a great job with these expressions.

And I love it. I mean, Megs has got some great

just in these two this two page spread. He's

got some great looks on him. Absolutely. and

wrung ever the Inquisitor. So silly. So, you

know, we get down to the point of who is Terminus,

and we get to another flashback. I like how Alex

did the kind of movie -style thing here with,

um, by the pious pools! We're under attack! That's...

Kind of a design of where, when Unicron changed

Megatron. That's kind of cool. I really like

that that is so cool. Yeah, that is really a

cool, cool design set. I wonder what he came

up with, if that was his idea or if that was

James' thing. It might have been. I really like

it, I really like it, it's really cool. Yeah,

it is very awesome. So we get to after Megatron

and rung and all that stuff we get down to six

months ago and it's getaway and swerve and Riptide

and Riptide, okay, and then nightbeat is there

I swear, Nightbeat is just like Ryan. Well, that's

what he has for us. I know, I know, but it's

like, ever since I've been reading Dark Cybertron

when we did that giant coverage and, you know,

seeing Nightbeat again, it's like, I see why

Nightbeat is Ryan's avatar. I like the whole

Blue Streak doesn't get on board because he looks

too much like Prowl. Yeah. It's very true. I

mean... I like Blue Streak too. So we have Nautica

come in and she kind of stirs the pot with everything

and... She's got a big wrench she can stir what

she wants. I love her exchange with Swerve. Anything

with Swerve honestly. Uh huh. The first time

I ever heard about... the character of Swerve

in general was, I think it was one of the TFCon

or one of the BotCon, like, customization classes.

I'm like, who the hell is Swerve? And then I

didn't realize or find out what kind of character

he was until, well, version of his character,

until I started reading this and I'm like, Swerve

is awesome. Swerve is the guy that everyone likes.

It's hard to believe he doesn't have any friends

or a bunkmate. And then he gets bunked up with

Megatron. Have you seen that little fan cartoon?

Yeah, that's so silly. One of my favorites. Oh,

that's why he's talking to her, duh, because

they're having auditions. They're having cruditions.

That's right. That's right. I forgot about the

cruditions. That's simply amazing. Well, I just

love Nightbeat here. He's like, thirdly, Ultra

Magnus would not allow you to advertise these

interviews as cruditions. I told you it wasn't

a real word. That's so awesome. It is just so

awesome and I love I love him pointing at it

cruditions The point in the smirk So optimus

comes in this is chrome dome he's a Nemo surgeon

he no no get him out of here Oh Megatron is pretty

fearful of this guy And if you've read the RAD35,

you understand why. Yeah. Oh yeah. So we have

Optimus and Megatron and Chromedome and then

we get Rodimus of all people. What's wrong with

Rodimus? No, it's not. I thought you liked him.

I do, I love Rodimus, but it's just strange to

me, because I'm... I don't really section myself

into strict continuity of what character needs

to have what rival, but I'm so used to purple

Galvatron versus Rodimus in the movie and whatever

else, and it's just... It's a little strange

to me to see Rodimus facing off against G1 Megatron.

Oh, yeah, so G1. Yeah, I know, right? But I do

love what Rodimus says. He says, Optimus has

to watch what he says. I don't. And Megatron

asks him for a favor, which is interesting. And

we get to Night Beats and a bunch of other...

I will continue to say a bunch of other bots,

people, because half the time... There's so many,

like... I said this last time, the damn colors.

There's so many damn bots that are the same damn

color. It's not that hard. That's Skids. Skids

is awesome. And then you got Chromedome. Yep.

Chrome dome. Poor guy. Yeah, he's still grieving.

I feel sorry for him. Yeah, and then Megatron

walks back to his hab suite. 113 die. And is

basically graffitied all over. Murderer die,

pariah kill die, murderer psychopath, killer

die, spawn die. Yeah, it's nothing pretty on

there. I don't know if you've... Are you a Boy

Meets World fan at all? I haven't watched in

years. There's an episode close to the end of

the series called They're Killing Us. It's Cory

and Topanga recounting the nightmare that was

their wedding to get it together. Uh... At one

point in the episode Topanga wants to see the

bridesmaids dresses. So it's Rachel Angela and

Morgan Corey's sister in these really awful gaudy

Southern Belle Worst bridesmaids dresses ever

Rachel and Angela walk out and you know Sepanga

says where's Morgan? I want to see my new sister

and Morgan comes out. What are you psycho? That's

all I can think of when I see that word psycho

and I know it's a psychopath But when I just

see the psycho on his door and then somebody

shoots an arrow through his hand And supposedly

it was Amy. Hmm. Yeah, I guess she doesn't like

Megatron Well, she's the Autobot fan So we have

Whirl, and they have a face -off, and we also

go into a now flashback of what happened. This

is a flashback, right? Yeah. Well, no, wait.

No, this is right now. OK. Because Whirl kicks

them into the fuel furnace, and then they go

flying into the furnace there. OK, that's why.

See, I thought it turned into a flashback. But

no, OK, this is current. Yeah. You know Megatron

says you have me to thank for that thank for

all the times you've been on the ropes and not

Not the wreckers. I mean you personally but your

attackers have backed down. That was me That

was my influence. Let him live the second order.

I gave after declaring war And it's them going

back and forth back and forth and I love world.

Where's my freaking arm? You know, I really would

I mean this is hilarious, but I think it would

have been funny. Where's my freaking real face?

I Think well, I think at one point they said

something like world likes the way that he is

because of some kind of Really odd way something

How are you liking Alex's art and stuff? Not

the art changes, but the color changes and just

the palette and stuff like that. The color at

first was kind of hard for me to read at first

because it goes from one extreme to the other.

Definitely the bigger pictures are easier to

read. It took me a while to see that Whirl was

kneeing Megatron, but besides that, I think that's

the only panel we had a problem with. You can

tell that they're underwater. They're not...

They're not doing too well, so... Yeah, no. They're

not doing too well. Well, I guess they're not

underwater. They're in the furnace room. I apologize.

The other way. They're in a hot, heated room.

Where I can get the water thing. Sorry. So we

get the end of this fight and Megatron walks

away and Rung comes up. Why did you want to talk

to me? What's this all about? People never stop

changing, Rung. We're all of us, works in progress.

We're the sum of our experiences. Even if we

edit those experiences to suit. Selective memory

denial post justification or rewrite history

our own history to keep us sane to stop us giving

us to stop us giving up every day we do it and

Then we get chromedome Yeah, that's chromed up

I think I'll never see you again one more thing

one last thing because I don't say it enough.

Oh, he's This is what's been going on. He's been

playing the tape the last eight seconds that

rewind was alive He met up with the overlord

and and Excuse me. That's what he's been doing

is we're just putting this on repeat eight seconds

and repeat and repeat No wonder he's so freaking

depressed, you know hearing your ultimate love

Say their last words, of course, he's gonna be

depressed but then If we go back to what Rung

said to Megatron about editing, it tells a lot

about people about what they take out of their

writing. It tells more about them. And this is

where Chromedome changes the message. So, poor

Chromedome. I really do feel sorry for him. But

he'll get some version of Rewind back in the

future. What? Spoiler! Ah, these issues have

been out for a while. So we get to Whirl again,

it's me, bad news, he didn't bite. Who the hell

is he talking to? It's after the page, it's after

the page with, it's after the panel with Chrome

Dome. Oh, he's just talking, Whirl's just talking

to himself. No, no, no, he's he's talking to

somebody on his com link. It's me That's right.

Bye. Oh We find out and I think the next issue

Yeah, you we find out Oh DJ D probably most likely

he's buddies of the DJ D. Oh You never know allegiances

can change Regardless if they made him one -eyed

and claw like I Bet you world's an excellent

skier though So we get so wrong So we get to

Luna to six months ago the trial of Megatron

everyone's there Optimus is wearing a crown for

some odd reason. I mean, I know he's the judge

of the thing, but... Well, it's kind of like

still over in Britain, they still wear the judge's

wigs. Over here in America, they don't wear the

wigs, but they still wear the robes. So this

is kind of like saying, hey, I'm in charge here.

I'm just waiting for Starscream to run up and

grab it off his head. Well, it looks like Tyrus'

crown. It does, yeah. You no longer needs it,

you know so So Megatron in this flashback pleads

guilty to all the charges And we get back to

the present -day captain on the bridge It it's

still weirding me out that he's the captain of

a lot like why would Rodimus ever agree to this

because Pretty much prime put him up to it So...

I still... Is it the next cover where Roddus

is handing over the keys? Mm -hmm. I love that

one. Oh, I love that one, too. So they, um...

So they're on, you know, on the bridge and still

no response from Thunder Clash, but we're on

course to reach the Viz Vitalis within days.

Quantum engines are 72 hours away from full recharge.

And the UFO we've been tracking is now within

visual range. Right now, what do we think it

is? We're not sure. What do we think it is? Well,

right now, we've given the size and the shape

and the absence of any means of propulsion. Right

now, we think it's a coffin. Is it we will find

out yes, we will find out and I I Know the artists

are you know prone to license of different things,

but I was really hoping this would be an homage

to Zombie Prime in G cartoon. Of course. You're

such a G1er. Oh, yeah, but like i was kind of

hoping that it would be like this giant silver

and black ship that they had to basically park

the lot lost light on and walk up to the autobot

insignia walk inside the thing uh... uh... such

she won and it's you know uh... overall i like

more than meets the eye twenty eight uh... i

think it's an interesting aftermath of dark cyber

tron It's an interesting way to take the book

I will say that for me I miss all the shenanigans

with swerve and ultra Magnus and and Just the

crew in general like the whole cast change that's

going on. I I just particularly don't like it

I Understand it's you know there that they're

needing to do it to kind of freshen the book

up and that's all well and good I just personally

There's too many characters I have to keep track

of. To me, it's not a problem. It's not a big

deal for me. I personally like change. I like

switching things up. Hey look, there's even Blaster

there on that last page. I haven't seen Blaster

forever. Know this will never happen because

blasters on the lost light and sound waves on

Cybertron But I still really want a blaster sound

wave fight Still the best sound wave blaster

would mash up is on Mars attacks. They were nipple

clamped together Yeah, you're right you're right

still I I Just still want you know What do you

want Mike? What do you want? I want something

that sadly G1 could never give us. I want the

true, because I'm sorry, I don't count Headmasters.

I just don't count. I just don't count it. It's

not the best. No, not at all. Um, so I think

that's it. What would you give 28 for more than

meets the eye? I would give this a 4 .5. I've

enjoyed so much. Almost every panel was just

amazing. I loved it. Introducing, see me, I love

introducing the new crew with Nautica. I love

the moments with Megs and Run together. Of course,

you got Rodimus trying to cover his butt with

Prime. Love that. And then the art, Milne, Alex

amazes me. I mean, the details he puts in his.

I mean, look at the background when they're carrying

Megs to trial. I mean, the details is just amazing.

But it's not like so overly detailed that you

get lost in something. Like I said, there's only

that one panel where I kind of got confused,

but it's one panel. It's not going to ruin the

whole book for me. It's there's so many what

if I mean Meg's got in a fight with world. Hello.

This is really good. So good Yeah, Meg's got

in a fight with worlds to where I've had his

traditions I think might be was sarcastic as

all hell Optimus and Rodimus just seeing them

in the same book Like I I'm telling you Batman

and Robin from 60s. It's what it is. I can see

that. I can see that. For me, I'm gonna give

it a four and a half. I really really enjoyed

it. There's just certain things. I mean it's

just certain things like with the color changes

like you were saying and it's very it really

is Even looking at the print issue. I have problems

with color change I don't I assume it's just

me and how my eyes are but in the In the digital

issues. I still have the same problems I have

them even more so because I read it panel by

panel in the digital issues But I mean this this

no fault of the creative team at all The story

is interesting in this issue. It's an interesting

first part to world shut your mouth and I just

as we go along and I remember I'll have to make

new judgments obviously as I read this for whenever

we do another one of these it's I Just I remember

when I first read this. I'm like a trial of Megatron.

It should only last two issues it just Uh, for

me, it dragged on the first time I read through

it. I mean, this issue was fine, but I don't

know. I want to go back and figure it out. You

figure it out. You figure out the correct answer.

Right. Uh, where can the people interact with

you online? Uh, go find me at Twitter at Beatles

Dima. That's Beatles like the band, not the bug.

Basically, you could Google that and that's me.

Or I'm Hale Storm on pretty much any Transformers

form. Find me at TF2 and Mike. Next time around

I think we're either doing a back issue classics

or we're doing episode 98. If we're doing episode

98 it's going to be another IDW title from a

while ago actually. We're gonna be doing the

comic adaptation of Angel's Smile Time. What

is that? I don't remember that. I'll send you

the stuff. I'll tell you about it over. Make

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