If you’re wondering what happened to the comic review yesterday…I forgot. I think I needed a goof-off day, anyway.

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Transformers: Heart of Darkness #2

IDW Publishing (April 2011)

WRITER: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
ARTIST: Ulises Farinas
COLORIST: Andrew Crossley
ALTERNATE COVER: Casey Coller (art) & Joana Lafuerte (colors)
LETTERER: Shawn Lee
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Carlos Guzman
EDITOR: Andy Scmidt

Arcee and Hardhead attack the Decepticons, but by tapping into the Dead Universe with his “Anti-Matrix” Galvatron turns Arcee away (sending Cyclonus and Scourge after her) and taps Hardhead’s memories to learned what happened on Gorlam Prime. After passing through the portal into the Dead Universe, Galvatron barely escapes an entity called D-Void and decides that only a team-up of Autobots and Decepticons can stop D-Void from doing to this universe what it did to that one. Arcee, however, escapes and prepares to warn the Autobots that he’s gone mad.

What they got right: Somewhere in all of the action they still find a way to push the story forward, learning the fate of the Dead Universe and Gorlam Prime. Also, while Galvatron is powerful, he isn’t the indestructible lunatic of previous incarnations. This may be my favorite Galvatron since the animated movie.

What they got wrong: To be honest I can’t think of anything.

Recommendation: When Mike Costa finishes his run on the main comic (which I hope is soon), put these two on there.

Galvatron is protective of his action figures.

Tomorrow’s Comic> Young Justice #3

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  1. pedestrian's avatar pedestrian says:
    May 14, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    This wasn’t a bad comic. The good is they revisited Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge – the more interesting characters of Transformers IDW universe. The bad – the Marvel writers Abnett and Lanning have put together a predictable plot with the whole “greater evil is control all” plot line. This will tie ultimately into the Chaos event and IDW’s publicity stunt to renumber the monthly Transformers title to issue #125 by end of the year. Once Abnett and Lanning leave this miniseries, Mike Costa takes over with his pedestrian writing and random decisions to kill off certain characters while eventually breaking them back for no real reason.

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