Revisitation 76: Metrosexual.

4/6/2022

This week, meet the Throttlebots! Six guys with one personality, who take on Sixshot, one guy with six times the personality.

Plus, what is the unguessable secret of the mystery abandoned city?

Find out as I look at Spotlight: Metroplex!

5 Comments

Jules

6/6/2022 03:57:29 am

All these years I misremembered this as being Mike Costa’s first issue, probably because it ties into the Ironhide mini - in which similarly almost nothing happens in a single issue. Shame nothing of Bove’s unused but far more interesting Metroplex pitch made it in, but then that wouldve been totally at odds with Barber’s & Roberts’ take on the “Titans”… On the other hand Matere’s art here is a nice send-off as his final interior work on the 2005 IDW continuity.

Snowkatt

11/6/2022 11:08:38 am

This spotlight is the perfect companion to AHM.
A story so light, it nearly floats away.
It ads nothing, beyond introducing massive plotholes, Which it then handwaves away, while explaining nothing.
And ignores previous continuity.

So yeah AHM in short.
That is it's only saving grace.
It's mercifully short.

Llama God

11/6/2022 02:58:40 pm

This is, indeed, an enjoyable piece of fluff. And one that doesn't suffer from not focussing on the titular character because it's been a while since Spotlights did that anyway. (Okay, that's a lie, we only just covered Cliffjumper, but who remembers that anyway?)

There isn't a lot to say about it, really. It's well drawn, and for all its scriptual faults it is fun. It doesn't feel like it particular fits in with either Furman's or McCarthy's worlds, but it doesn't seem to matter since it's over so quickly. And as to the mystery, I remember not particularly caring at the time, since by then I was resigned to the fact that IDW would probably end up just ignoring any long-running threads they were going to set up anyway. So well done there, editorial.

Still, better than the last few issues of AHM, anyway, since despite being just as inconsequential, it's also only one issue. Which is a positive.

LiamKav

3/7/2022 10:52:01 pm

On the whole "Furman edited himself" argument... wasn't there a script page from Space Pirates (maybe?) that surfaced recently that showed that Starkings actually gave Furman a lot more editors notes than we all believed?

Stuart

3/7/2022 11:09:29 pm

Yep, good point.

Revisitation 76: Metrosexual.

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