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Revisitation 74: A Normal Man.

22/5/2022

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This week, take the jump into love as Cliffjumper finds the planet of the anime girls.

Plus, who is the scariest Autobot?

Say it with flowers as I look at Spotlight Cliffjumper!


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Snowkatt
22/5/2022 04:34:43 pm

I've been here for 10 years ?
...Good lord.

Okay, not exactly 10 years, but I came in pretty early and while not always commenting I've been hovering around.
...For 10 years.

Ahem.

I also spotted a typo
"even though there are reinforcements comic,"
Shouldn't that be coming ?

As for the comic it self"

It's so light and frothy that it just kinda melts in the background.
Kinda like most of the "grimdark lookit me I'm so mature RGH!" shenanigans and posturing of All Fail Megatron.

This isnt a bad comic but its beat for beat pastiche of Autobot gets a fleshy girlfriend cartoon trope.
Which doesn't win it any favors with me.
It does nothing.
It means nothing.
And i forget it the moment im done with it, Which apparently everybody did.
Even the people working on it.
It's utterly shallow and predictable.

The best Transformer writing McCarthy did was Mars Attacks.
Which was also shallow and predictable, but was at least self aware enough to be funny.
And mercifully short. Not a year long train wreck, spread over 21 comics.

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LiamKav
23/5/2022 05:46:54 pm

The things with the whole "the Autobots are just as bad as the Decepticons" stuff is it seems like McCarthy is making jabs at the Autobots for being so distant and removed from the damage their secret war was causing, when I'm pretty sure that was the actual point... that the Autobots would start off treating the planets they were fighting on as merely battlegrounds and would gradually start to realise that they were actually affecting the lives of the people on the planet.

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Llama God
29/5/2022 10:10:32 am

Certainly an odd one this - I always forget it exists until someone mentions it, and then I forget it again just as quickly. And actually, a couple of weeks before this popped up in the schedule I'd remembered this for some reason, and couldn't remember if we'd actually covered it or not. Which is probably telling.

It's a shame, because this is a good use of the Spotlights format to actually do, well, a spotlight, focussing on one character and doing something different to the type of storytelling that's been done in the main line. And it is a fun little story - it's just a shame that McCarthy couldn't resist the lure of adding "darkness" to the story at the end. If this had remained a fun, frothy story where no-one (good) died then I think it would have been much more fondly remembered. Or remembered at all.

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