Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #25 – Review

by James Roberts, John Barber (Writers), James Raiz, Atilio Rojo, Livio Ramondelli (Artists), Josh Perez (Colorist)

The Story: The many mysteries of the titans are marching on as Nova Prime comes to gloat to the captive Orion Pax and other Cybertronians with him.

The Review: With the Dark Cybertron crossover having now reached its middle-point, it seems that fans might have a deal of reasons to be rather wary. Incorporating many previous subplots and other threads from both the two ongoing and previous titles into its narrative, there seemed to be a lot of ground in need of exploration here. This unfortunately did result in some chapters that aren’t exactly full of events, which did not make the huge story that much exciting altogether.

With the sixth chapter now being released, there seems to be some progress in terms of quality, with a certain evolution toward how the story is told and what some players might actually do to in the conflict at the heart of this whole thing. Sure, there are still some problems plaguing the book, but any general positive enhancement in some key aspect is always rather enjoyable.

The first thing that seems to be a lot more fun is what happens with the robots from the Lost Light as they explore the Titan underwater. Permeating their scene with the general lack of cohesion of the crew, the humor that is at the heart of their respective book and a good deal of pseudo-science that is always enjoyable, there are many things that are fun here. The way Ultra Magnus follows the law despite what happened to him, the attitude of Whirl, the intelligence and promptness of Brainstorm and other such traits are welcome in an issue where not everything is actually satisfying.