"They're not DOLLS! They're ACTION FIGURES!"
Transformers #16
IDW Publishing (February 2011)
WRITER: Mike Costa ARTIST: Alex Milne COLORIST: Andrew Dalhouse LETTERER: Chris Mowry ASSISTANT EDITOR: Carlos Guzman EDITOR: Andy Schmidt COVERS “A” and RI ARTIST: Marcelo Matere COVER “B” (shown): Nick Roche (artist) and J. Brown (colorist)
Attempting to get Bumblebee to safety, the Autobots and Skywatch are attacked by anti-Transformer people who are themselves attacked. Meanwhile Starscream attempts to bring Thundercracker back into the fold, but meets up with Brawn’s fist. Meanwhile, the other Autobots are back.
What they got right: Things actually happened this issue. Does this mean we’re finally done with exposition flashbacks? I’m getting really tired of those. The action was good and the scene with Starscream and Thundercracker worked well. Starscream’s motivations make better sense here than some other Starscreams and he’s a more interesting character because of them.
What they got wrong: I really want to see this comic move to Autobots and humans getting along and I really hope this storyline goes in that direction. I’m really tired of comics where humans hate Autobots–because it’s all of them!
Recommendation: You may want to wait and see the arc as a whole. This story has been working on a “hit or miss” basis, although admittedly this was as close to “hit” as this series seems capable thus far. That in itself is still kind of sad.
Oooh, burn!
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