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Revisitation 24: Car Vs Shuttle.

4/6/2021

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This week, the world's keenest military minds spot something may not be right when the space shuttle joins the battle.

Plus, the Machination couldn't afford a pool full of sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads, so instead come up with an elaborate, slow and easily escaped death trap.

All in my look at Escalation 4!


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Llama God
5/6/2021 11:21:36 am

One of the more interesting things about reading these issues like this, in a much more condensed time frame (and in my case, reading #3 and #4 back to back, since last week kind of got away from me) is how much better they work when read together. This really is the start of writing for the trade, something that's only going to get a lot worse in much later years. But for now it leads to some good storytelling - some of Furman's strongest at the moment, I'd say.

Which just makes Prime's recap at the start of this issue even odder. I've just finished reading through all the G1 comics via the Hachette collection, and the one thing that really sticks out there is just how much of each issue is dedicated to being a recap. Which makes perfect sense, given how the comics were originally released and how they wanted new readers to come on board, and Furman generally does a really good job of framing the recap really well. The downside, of course, is that you could really edit, say, Target:2006 and it'd be at least a whole issue shorter. But it was what it was for valid reasons, so it's not a complaint. Just very odd to get a very throwback bit of recap exposition here.

That said, this is another great issue. The story's rattling along and building up pace by now, as is the tension. There's a great contrast between Verity and Jimmy's investigation and the out-and-out action in Brasnya, which works really well. And Su's doing a phenomenal job on the art. And whilst the endings are perhaps the wrong way around, it definitely leaves me wanting to read what comes next. Which I guess is the point. Can't wait for the next issue.

Shame I'm going to have to. Dammit, IDW...

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Jeremiah Ecks
19/10/2021 07:19:23 pm

Ah, I hate to be *that* person but Roller's last Marvel appearance wasn't Plague of the Insecticons... sorta.

Original Roller does indeed 'die' in Plague and that's the last we see of him one way or another.

However when The Last Autobot gives Optimus his Action Master body, a new Roller comes as part of that! He shows up in Generation 2 IIRC.

I'm going off memory here. I haven't checked my facts and I could be entirely wrong but I'm sure Roller in some variance shows up in Gen 2.

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