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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-10-05 09:42 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-10-05 09:42 pm
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Wednesday is COMIC DAY. ...Today, however, is Friday.
Things Jecca disapproves of: the comic book store's got a new guy making their deliveries (so, okay, UPS has a new guy making deliveries), and he's always late. Last year and even this spring, the store would have their new comics (things arrive on Wednesdays) out for sale by 3 in the afternoon, at the latest. This was good for Jecca, because her Wednesday class got out around three, so she could grab her comics and go home. Now the comics don't even arrive until 3:30.
This is bad for Jecca, because her Wednesday class gets out a bit early, anyway, and she simply cannot justify waiting around two or three hours for the employees to sort out, record, and shelf everything. So now she has to either wait an extra week for her comic fix or make an extra trip into town later in the week. (This week, she went with the later, as she had to go downtown for stuff, anyway.)
So!
The main storyline of the Transformers comics is back! And you thought things were a mess before. Mostly Nonspoilery Comment consists solely of, "Oh, frag."
I don't really like either cover this time around. Is that relevant? Probably not, but I've gone and written it, anyway. (It is unusual, as I usually like both, or at least one.)
The device Verity stole all the way back in Infiltration 0 had a tracking device. Did we know that before? Regardless, it's not very surprising and is how the Machination tracked down the Autobots. Of course, for some reason or another, no one thought to occasionally check the perimeter. Sure, they're underwater, but the lake has a perimeter. ... And, okay, checking the entirely of the edges of Lake Michigan would be quite the task, but not even the nearby shore? Oh, Prowl. You idiot.
In his defense, Nightbeat says "days, perhaps weeks," so it is entirely possible that they do check the area, and that they just haven't checked it recently enough. I really hope that's the case.
Either way, though, their position's obviously known, so they're moving the Ark-19.
I'm very relieved to see that Ironhide's not dead, just stuck in a scrapyard and headed for the compactor. Hot Rod and Wheeljack are going after him, and I'd like to be happy about that, but there's that highly ominous scene at the bottom of the page that shows two arrows (which may be representing our two Autobots) being followed by and heading into a series of (representations of) what I think are supposed to be Machination units. Possibly the Sunstreaker units, which would explain the image of Hot Rod (I keep typing Rodimus, whoops) fighting multiple Sunnys that's been showing up everywhere as the advertisement-of-sorts for Devastation. (Though on those, it always said September, and issue one came out in October, which I found a bit annoying, I admit.)
Megatron's a lunatic. Even Sixshot thinks so, and Sixshot's a lunatic, too.
"KILL! KILL EVERYTHING!"
"Uh, don't we usually hit that step a little later on in things?"
"KIIIIIIIILLLL."
"...'Kay."
The members of Starscream's (canon) brigade agree that Megatron's a lunatic and go to fetch Starscream who is, of course, not actually dead but is in a sort of stasis (probably regeneration) tube.
Ravage has beenhousebroken reconditioned and is... sniffing whatever remains of the battle up in Brasnya. I wonder if they did something similar to Laserbeak. (I'm not really sure what this scene was about. He's got the scents now, are they going to use him to track them? They already know where the Autobots are.
It just felt a little random and out-of-place. I'm sure it's important, and I'm not sure where in this issue they could have placed it so it didn't feel that way, though.)
SIDESWIPE AND HOUND ARE COMING TO EARTH. HOORAY!
Back to the Ark-19's repositioning. They're heading from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. Estimated travel time: ten minutes and sixteen-point-two seconds. Why can't we get around that quickly?
They lift off, and Ratbat (who appears to have a CD-player alt mode) turns up out of nowhere and spies them leaving, and alerts Megatron, who sends out Sixshot.
Anyone thinking that can't possibly end will would, of course, be absolutely right.
The Ark-19's not nearly as maneuverable as Sixshot is, understandable. Ship versus individual mech. We end issue one with the extremely worrying image of the Ark-19, having been blasted by Sixshot, plummeting to the earth towards - of course - human settlements.
Probably Knoxville, Tennessee, since that's where the little text-box says they approximately were when Sixshot turned up.
Why does everyone always end up in Tennessee?
Augh. I need issue two now.
And in the black-and-white preview for issue two we, yes, have Hot Rod and Wheeljack suddenly surrounded by a bunch of cars that look rather a lot like Sunstreaker's alt mode.
So! Oh, frag!
I grabbed Beast Wars: The Ascending issue one (though I'm not sure why. I didn't think The Gathering was really that great) as well as the Sourcebook (finally! Though the art's a little weird for some of them), but those are a lot less interesting to me, and, really, what's one going to say about a Sourcebook? "Character bios." "IT TELL ME"?
Though they have Manterror, who is never not going to delight me, even if my Manterror is completely different from the one present in these books.
This is bad for Jecca, because her Wednesday class gets out a bit early, anyway, and she simply cannot justify waiting around two or three hours for the employees to sort out, record, and shelf everything. So now she has to either wait an extra week for her comic fix or make an extra trip into town later in the week. (This week, she went with the later, as she had to go downtown for stuff, anyway.)
So!
The main storyline of the Transformers comics is back! And you thought things were a mess before. Mostly Nonspoilery Comment consists solely of, "Oh, frag."
I don't really like either cover this time around. Is that relevant? Probably not, but I've gone and written it, anyway. (It is unusual, as I usually like both, or at least one.)
The device Verity stole all the way back in Infiltration 0 had a tracking device. Did we know that before? Regardless, it's not very surprising and is how the Machination tracked down the Autobots. Of course, for some reason or another, no one thought to occasionally check the perimeter. Sure, they're underwater, but the lake has a perimeter. ... And, okay, checking the entirely of the edges of Lake Michigan would be quite the task, but not even the nearby shore? Oh, Prowl. You idiot.
In his defense, Nightbeat says "days, perhaps weeks," so it is entirely possible that they do check the area, and that they just haven't checked it recently enough. I really hope that's the case.
Either way, though, their position's obviously known, so they're moving the Ark-19.
I'm very relieved to see that Ironhide's not dead, just stuck in a scrapyard and headed for the compactor. Hot Rod and Wheeljack are going after him, and I'd like to be happy about that, but there's that highly ominous scene at the bottom of the page that shows two arrows (which may be representing our two Autobots) being followed by and heading into a series of (representations of) what I think are supposed to be Machination units. Possibly the Sunstreaker units, which would explain the image of Hot Rod (I keep typing Rodimus, whoops) fighting multiple Sunnys that's been showing up everywhere as the advertisement-of-sorts for Devastation. (Though on those, it always said September, and issue one came out in October, which I found a bit annoying, I admit.)
Megatron's a lunatic. Even Sixshot thinks so, and Sixshot's a lunatic, too.
"KILL! KILL EVERYTHING!"
"Uh, don't we usually hit that step a little later on in things?"
"KIIIIIIIILLLL."
"...'Kay."
The members of Starscream's (canon) brigade agree that Megatron's a lunatic and go to fetch Starscream who is, of course, not actually dead but is in a sort of stasis (probably regeneration) tube.
Ravage has been
It just felt a little random and out-of-place. I'm sure it's important, and I'm not sure where in this issue they could have placed it so it didn't feel that way, though.)
SIDESWIPE AND HOUND ARE COMING TO EARTH. HOORAY!
Back to the Ark-19's repositioning. They're heading from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. Estimated travel time: ten minutes and sixteen-point-two seconds. Why can't we get around that quickly?
They lift off, and Ratbat (who appears to have a CD-player alt mode) turns up out of nowhere and spies them leaving, and alerts Megatron, who sends out Sixshot.
Anyone thinking that can't possibly end will would, of course, be absolutely right.
The Ark-19's not nearly as maneuverable as Sixshot is, understandable. Ship versus individual mech. We end issue one with the extremely worrying image of the Ark-19, having been blasted by Sixshot, plummeting to the earth towards - of course - human settlements.
Probably Knoxville, Tennessee, since that's where the little text-box says they approximately were when Sixshot turned up.
Why does everyone always end up in Tennessee?
Augh. I need issue two now.
And in the black-and-white preview for issue two we, yes, have Hot Rod and Wheeljack suddenly surrounded by a bunch of cars that look rather a lot like Sunstreaker's alt mode.
So! Oh, frag!
I grabbed Beast Wars: The Ascending issue one (though I'm not sure why. I didn't think The Gathering was really that great) as well as the Sourcebook (finally! Though the art's a little weird for some of them), but those are a lot less interesting to me, and, really, what's one going to say about a Sourcebook? "Character bios." "IT TELL ME"?
Though they have Manterror, who is never not going to delight me, even if my Manterror is completely different from the one present in these books.