Transformers: Ironhide #2
IDW Publishing (June 2010)
WRITER: Mike Costa ARTIST: Casey Coller COLORIST: Joana LaFuente LETTERER: Chris Mowry ASSISTANT EDITOR: Carlos Guzman ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton EDITOR: Andy Schmidt
Ironhide wakes up on Cybertron, now as dead as he’s supposed to be, with no clue how he got there. He flashes back to a time when he was a security guard at a racetrack, and stopped an assassination attempt against Drag Strip. After evading a Swarm attack, he crashes and has a hallucination that’s interrupted by a drone telling him to follow it…to an area of Cybertron that still has power!
What they got right: I always like seeing what pre-war Cybertron was like, since IDW has been the only one to even attempt to explore that, but still in the form of the start of the war. It makes me wonder what the various Transformers we’ve come to know and love would have been doing had the Decepticons never come into existence. I like the Cybertronain designs and the artwork in general.
What they got wrong: I’m still annoyed by this “hey, let’s bring Ironhide back from the dead after killing off so recently” nonsense. It’s like Costa is looking at everything that DC and Marvel are doing wrong in the superhero comics and transferring them to his Transformers story (although Furman did a bit of that during his run as well, which makes this a bad precedence at IDW).
Recommendation: Outside of undoing a shock death, it’s a very good story, so why give it a look?
At least someone's been paying their electric bill.
Up Next: A update on me and the Wall-E comic.
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