Don't Forget! Devastation #2 And Megatron Origins #4 In Stores Today!

Reading them as I eat my lunch at work...so far, so good...

Just finished reading both.

Megatron Origins is good.

Devastation I am sorry to say, blows chunks at the moon. When is this regular series going to get good.

I mean they ruined Sunstreaker. Furman's work just seems to get worse with each issue.

Don't even get me started on the art. Don and Josh should be doing the art. E.J.'s art stinks. And that horrible colourist they have Zac, holy crap he stinks. His colours are all way off, off tone and just make EJ's work look worse.

EJ's art could be improved tenfold with a better colourist as can be plainly seen by the un-coloured pages IDW has shown us.

Just finished them both too...

Devastation #2, I thought, was pretty good throughout. Good flow to the story, subplots are continuing (specifically, with Ratchet, Verity, and Jimmy; Dante of the Machination; Hunter and Sunstreaker; the fate of Ark-19; Starscream; Wheeljack and Hot Rod vs. the Sunstreakers), and Furman's scripting remains tight.

Megatron Origin #4--I've enjoyed the series overall, but there's so much going on art-wise that it takes me 2-3 reads to pick up everything I need. That's not a knock on Alex Milne's art (his take on Sentinel Prime in the Apex Armor looks sweet, like bad-ass Gundam), but there's so much in each panel that it gets tricky to follow sometimes.

The coloring in Megatron Origin was somewhat spotty...especially during the battle between Sentinel and Megs. IDW had two colorists working on the issue, and you can tell where they switched off on pages. 21-22 especially have a huge jump in the color palette.

*ye be warned of spoilers*

Megatron: Origins was a great conclusion to the story. Megatron and Starscream working together is crazy, and the showdown with Sentinel Prime was worth the wait. Thundercracker's moment of hesitation was good too. Ratbat's fate was... interesting.

However, it was somewhat hard to follow at points. Soundwave just appears in the Senate Chamber with no indication he was in the room the entire time. At one point Ratbat is speaking, but since his dialogue is coming through an open door, it looks like Ravage is the one talking. And the big final fight is a little hard to follow because of small panels.

I thought Devastation was great. I don't care for the purple on Hot Rod, but I guess it is an homage to his look in the old comics. I also had trouble believing they could pull off that maneuver with the Ark. The difference in design between the Headmaster heads and Sunstreaker's original head is really cool - especially the believable transformation involved. I would still have preferred that Hunter wind up bonded to Nightbeat, but I guess Sunstreaker and Hunter make a more entertaining odd-couple.

Things I know:

1. If Sunstreaker is beaten down enough that he asks to be killed...shit is serious.

2. When Sunstreaker gets out of this jam. Things are going to die ala Butch in Pulp Fiction.

Arrgghhh... Must go home to read these now....

I am off!!!!

I somewhat fear going into the IDW Discussion thread now, so many spoilers...
Who am I kidding, I'll read them all, and I'll get my comics tonight or tomorrow!

I like spoilers.

That headmaster thing totally caught me by suprised, i enjoyed it.

I like seeing hot rod and wheeljack working together. Different personalities, etc, except when hotrod mentioned their similarity of course.

The pleasant surprise for me was seeing a Mosaics peice in the back of the book. Makes me eager to write one on the off chance it might get published.

I have a question. Isn't Ramjet supposed to have landed on Earth by now, given his appearance in the Avengers crossover?

Leonardo wrote:I have a question. Isn't Ramjet supposed to have landed on Earth by now, given his appearance in the Avengers crossover?

I thought they had nothing to do with IDW's G1-verse at all?

Also, fantastic issues. Dev 2# was awesome.

My heart even skipped a beat when I saw what they had done to sunstreaker. Man, I need more!

I can see what people were saying about Megatron #4... Many unclear parts. The Apex armor was cool, but if it was so easily beaten one wonders...why use it?

Starscream was awesome, Thundercracker, Soundwave... I found it funny that Starscream said what he said to Megatron about the arm cannon.

Devastation #2 was cool. How the heck is Ratchet going to do anything against Sixshot? And Poor Sunstreaker and Hunter. It was certainly very interesting to see the headmaster gimmick, and a new way for them to transform. I can't wait to see where this goes.

Ddave wrote:I thought they had nothing to do with IDW's G1-verse at all?

I thought the crossover was supposed to fit in between Infiltration and Escalation (or Escalation and Devastation).

What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

Thanks, I was wondering where he suddenly came from.

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

I still don't see him...

Anybody notice the headline on the newspaper held by the guy in the housecoat in Devastation? Neat little cross-series pop.

Caelus wrote:

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

I still don't see him...

you sure that's not Straxus with big glowy axe in panel 4?

Sloptank wrote:Anybody notice the headline on the newspaper held by the guy in the housecoat in Devastation? Neat little cross-series pop.

Yeah, as well as the Bumblebee flying through the air. Did anyone else notice Botcon Bld or whatever? lol

And Devastation #2 was absolutely delicious.

AxiomScion wrote:

Caelus wrote:

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

I still don't see him...

you sure that's not Straxus with big glowy axe in panel 4?

Soundwave is not in the panels before at all. The sudden appearance is just ridiculous. It makes no sense.

bookofjunon wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Caelus wrote:

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

I still don't see him...

you sure that's not Straxus with big glowy axe in panel 4?

Soundwave is not in the panels before at all. The sudden appearance is just ridiculous. It makes no sense.

Regardless of whom it's supposed to be, my brain will translate that guy into Soundwave so it does make sense. Or maybe Starscream just had Soundwave in his pocket.

Counterpunch wrote:Things I know:

1. If Sunstreaker is beaten down enough that he asks to be killed...shit is serious.

2. When Sunstreaker gets out of this jam. Things are going to die ala Butch in Pulp Fiction.

now thats what im looking forward to. i reckon all this is prologue for sunstreaker to have him deliver one massive smackdown. the guy came off as arrogant and egotistical in escalation but thanks to what the machinations inflicted were gonna see psycho in the payback dept soon and i for one am looking forward to it

partholon wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Things I know:

1. If Sunstreaker is beaten down enough that he asks to be killed...shit is serious.

2. When Sunstreaker gets out of this jam. Things are going to die ala Butch in Pulp Fiction.

now thats what im looking forward to. i reckon all this is prologue for sunstreaker to have him deliver one massive smackdown. the guy came off as arrogant and egotistical in escalation but thanks to what the machinations inflicted were gonna see psycho in the payback dept soon and i for one am looking forward to it

I'd like to see Prowl or Prime be juuuuust about to stop him and then turn a blind eye and walk out of the room for the proverbial '5 minutes'.

I also hope Hunter comes out of this ready to kick the shit out of things. I can see his character getting kind of dark and Verity being his lifeline back to what humanity is all about.

who'da thunk humans in TF could actually work. let alone actually have potential

considering how furman handled verity in infiltration im really looking forward to how hunter deals with whats been done to him in and after devestation. most comic writers would just gloss over that but were talking Dr mengler territory here and in the real world people would be freaked. even someone like hunter. looking for alien robots is one thing, being turned into one in effect is quite something else so theres great scope here to develop our little band of humans

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Caelus wrote:

God Magnus wrote:

bookofjunon wrote:What I want to know is, in Megatron Origins #4 when Starscream is being tried, where the hell did Soundwave come from. He's not in the panels before and then WHAMO, there he is in a panel.

He's the security guy standing off to the side in the previous pannel.

I still don't see him...

you sure that's not Straxus with big glowy axe in panel 4?

Soundwave is not in the panels before at all. The sudden appearance is just ridiculous. It makes no sense.

Regardless of whom it's supposed to be, my brain will translate that guy into Soundwave so it does make sense. Or maybe Starscream just had Soundwave in his pocket.

Actually I was thinking that maybe he was carrying him in his cockpit, because they were obviously working on gettign Soundwave his minions in #3, so perhaps Soundwave was also reformatted at that point to transform, and...mass shift to a much smaller device able to fit in Starscream's cockpit.

tigertracks 24 wrote:Actually I was thinking that maybe he was carrying him in his cockpit, because they were obviously working on gettign Soundwave his minions in #3, so perhaps Soundwave was also reformatted at that point to transform, and...mass shift to a much smaller device able to fit in Starscream's cockpit.

Mass shifting take up alot of energy, as Megatron himself could only mass shift when he was powered by Ore 13...

Who knows though...

i_amtrunks wrote:

tigertracks 24 wrote:Actually I was thinking that maybe he was carrying him in his cockpit, because they were obviously working on gettign Soundwave his minions in #3, so perhaps Soundwave was also reformatted at that point to transform, and...mass shift to a much smaller device able to fit in Starscream's cockpit.

Mass shifting take up alot of energy, as Megatron himself could only mass shift when he was powered by Ore 13...

Who knows though...

Optimus only said in Escalation that they hadn't seen mass shifting in a long time, there was no mention of when the Transformers ran out of strong enough energy sources to do it, but this is the end of the "golden age" and the war has just begun, so it is still possible for mass shifting to be common. I really doubt though that Soundwave reformatted from a tank-type of vehicle to something the size of a cassette player before he came to Earth in the SoundWave Spotlight, besides they did let Soundwave go at the end of #3 before Starscream enacted his part of Megatron's plan because he had senator credentials since he was Ratbat's lackey in the senate.

I haven't been able to find Devastation #2 because the comic shops in my area don't order enough Transformers stuff when it first comes out

Well, I would like a proper explanation then...

Perhaps he was just 'camouflaged' as Straxus/guard then?

I agree, there is no explaination and no sign of him previously in the area, it's poor story telling.

I'm thinking it may have been part of a cut panel...

And Soundwave was a Senator's PA, so he was probably able to go wherever the hell he liked. He could've just entered the Council chambers whenever he liked.

Well that could easily be the case, it still doesn't explain how he just "I dream of Genie" his ass next to Starscream though.