Microraptor wrote:I needed some more IDW Bumblebee content! The art style goes great with his personality.
Bounti76 wrote:Great review. I'm glad the Torchbearers are getting some more characterization. Especially Rust Dust. She always gets missed, somehow.
Question: aren't Lancer and Greenlight the first canonical female couple to appear on panel? There was one other mentioned back in MTMTE, but only one of them appeared in that story.
Va'al wrote:Bounti76 wrote:Great review. I'm glad the Torchbearers are getting some more characterization. Especially Rust Dust. She always gets missed, somehow.
Thanks! I really enjoyed the book, and yeah, time for the Twins to get some personality now.Question: aren't Lancer and Greenlight the first canonical female couple to appear on panel? There was one other mentioned back in MTMTE, but only one of them appeared in that story.
I kiiiiinda overlook a couple being shown in a handful of panels as really counting for the title. Proxima and Acceleron get first mention, sure. Lancer and Greenlight show up, yes.
But Dust Up and Jumpstream are <3
Whole lotta Latin lately, or derivatives of it at least. For this particular one, we've got parvus (small) and oppidum (singular form of oppida, explained here.)
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ok, so we got another glaringly obvious sign of Onyx Prime returning and being a big bad. Cool. Give him a toy so I can have the king of the beasts.
I need to go update my list as Atilla appears to be a colony world that rusted out and crumbled. Wonder who the titan was and whose titan he was?
Bee had an influence on Soundwave long ago? cool.
Pyra Magna feels and has felt recently way too stuck up for my tastes, so I'm glad she and Prime are going through the squabble, even if it isn't fully resolved here. Maybe Prime can get her to back down off her high horse just a tad?
And, my biggest thing: is that last page supposed to imply Bee is still alive within the black hole? Cause that sure seems like what it's saying to me
Bounti76 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ok, so we got another glaringly obvious sign of Onyx Prime returning and being a big bad. Cool. Give him a toy so I can have the king of the beasts.
I need to go update my list as Atilla appears to be a colony world that rusted out and crumbled. Wonder who the titan was and whose titan he was?
Bee had an influence on Soundwave long ago? cool.
Pyra Magna feels and has felt recently way too stuck up for my tastes, so I'm glad she and Prime are going through the squabble, even if it isn't fully resolved here. Maybe Prime can get her to back down off her high horse just a tad?
And, my biggest thing: is that last page supposed to imply Bee is still alive within the black hole? Cause that sure seems like what it's saying to me
Primus, I hope not. Let him stay dead! Besides that, being collapsed into a singularity/black hole like that doesn't seem like it would have repaired the damage caused by Shockwave blasting a large hole through Bumblebee's chest. He was shown to have died. I hope it's more metaphorical than anything....that through others' memories of him, he still lives.
Bounti76 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ok, so we got another glaringly obvious sign of Onyx Prime returning and being a big bad. Cool. Give him a toy so I can have the king of the beasts.
I need to go update my list as Atilla appears to be a colony world that rusted out and crumbled. Wonder who the titan was and whose titan he was?
Bee had an influence on Soundwave long ago? cool.
Pyra Magna feels and has felt recently way too stuck up for my tastes, so I'm glad she and Prime are going through the squabble, even if it isn't fully resolved here. Maybe Prime can get her to back down off her high horse just a tad?
And, my biggest thing: is that last page supposed to imply Bee is still alive within the black hole? Cause that sure seems like what it's saying to me
Primus, I hope not. Let him stay dead! Besides that, being collapsed into a singularity/black hole like that doesn't seem like it would have repaired the damage caused by Shockwave blasting a large hole through Bumblebee's chest. He was shown to have died. I hope it's more metaphorical than anything....that through others' memories of him, he still lives.
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Pyra Magna feels and has felt recently way too stuck up for my tastes, so I'm glad she and Prime are going through the squabble, even if it isn't fully resolved here. Maybe Prime can get her to back down off her high horse just a tad?
OP's been made out as quite agnostic over time, so in one sense it could be thought of as a parallel to Autobot Megatron. Pyra's reactions aren't so different from that of much of the Lost Light crew. "Who is this big shot coming in to lead us that knows nothing about who we are?"Kurona wrote:Pyra Magna's been completely justified in her actions. Even though I'm not religious and can't even pretend to relate, I kind of have to imagine that using your belief system and everything you look up to as a tool of control is not something that would sit well.
ScottyP wrote:OP's been made out as quite agnostic over time, so in one sense it could be thought of as a parallel to Autobot Megatron. Pyra's reactions aren't so different from that of much of the Lost Light crew. "Who is this big shot coming in to lead us that knows nothing about who we are?"Kurona wrote:Pyra Magna's been completely justified in her actions. Even though I'm not religious and can't even pretend to relate, I kind of have to imagine that using your belief system and everything you look up to as a tool of control is not something that would sit well.
Randomhero wrote:ScottyP wrote:OP's been made out as quite agnostic over time, so in one sense it could be thought of as a parallel to Autobot Megatron. Pyra's reactions aren't so different from that of much of the Lost Light crew. "Who is this big shot coming in to lead us that knows nothing about who we are?"Kurona wrote:Pyra Magna's been completely justified in her actions. Even though I'm not religious and can't even pretend to relate, I kind of have to imagine that using your belief system and everything you look up to as a tool of control is not something that would sit well.
He's not agnostic, Optimus is a full blown atheist. He sees the matrix and calls is a piece of technology
Randomhero wrote:ScottyP wrote:OP's been made out as quite agnostic over time, so in one sense it could be thought of as a parallel to Autobot Megatron. Pyra's reactions aren't so different from that of much of the Lost Light crew. "Who is this big shot coming in to lead us that knows nothing about who we are?"Kurona wrote:Pyra Magna's been completely justified in her actions. Even though I'm not religious and can't even pretend to relate, I kind of have to imagine that using your belief system and everything you look up to as a tool of control is not something that would sit well.
He's not agnostic, Optimus is a full blown atheist. He sees the matrix and calls is a piece of technology
Flashwave wrote:Randomhero wrote:ScottyP wrote:OP's been made out as quite agnostic over time, so in one sense it could be thought of as a parallel to Autobot Megatron. Pyra's reactions aren't so different from that of much of the Lost Light crew. "Who is this big shot coming in to lead us that knows nothing about who we are?"Kurona wrote:Pyra Magna's been completely justified in her actions. Even though I'm not religious and can't even pretend to relate, I kind of have to imagine that using your belief system and everything you look up to as a tool of control is not something that would sit well.
He's not agnostic, Optimus is a full blown atheist. He sees the matrix and calls is a piece of technology
But its not just Prime, its most of Cybertron. How many times have we seen the Matrix as something to be worshipped? How many Autobots actually Worshipped Prime? Its like, I don't know, showing a Caveman a Bic Lighter. He thinks you are Lord of Fire, but to you this thing you are carrying is just a thing. The Matrix is quite a bit more rare than a Bic, admittedly, but its not been painted as this wholly religious Grail or anything. Not by Prime, not by Nova, not by Zeta
ScottyP wrote:After taking some time to reflect on it, I'm gonna say that this might serve as some closure to the Bee death rather than as a portent to his resurrection. Gets the character in the comics a bit for fans of Bumblebee (and maybe some Hasbro appeasement) but helps progress the story forward for some others like Starscream by expanding on the context of his continued influence after death. Guess we'll see when the second arc of Optimus Prime kicks off with #7!
Nik Hero wrote:ScottyP wrote:After taking some time to reflect on it, I'm gonna say that this might serve as some closure to the Bee death rather than as a portent to his resurrection. Gets the character in the comics a bit for fans of Bumblebee (and maybe some Hasbro appeasement) but helps progress the story forward for some others like Starscream by expanding on the context of his continued influence after death. Guess we'll see when the second arc of Optimus Prime kicks off with #7!
I don't think Bee's story continues there. It continues in TAAO, I believe.
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