Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #13 – Review

By: James Roberts (Writer) Guido Giudi (Artist), Josh Burcham, Joana Lafuente (Colorists)

The Story: Some members of the Lost Light take a shore leave on Hedonia, wishing to relax in a bar.

The Review: Sometimes, a series need to take a little break once in a while, stopping the constant plot twists and huge action to deliver a small tale, something a bit mundane that focus more on the various characters and their relations. It can be humorous or analytic, yet those chapters are usually here to give a break to the readers or the usual artist of the series.

This issue is one of those and it unfortunately does not deliver the same complexity and creativity that the previous issues did, breaking the streak that had been set on this quality series by giving us a so-and-so issue. Here, James Roberts tries to give us a funny tale of some of the crew member going to a bar on a planet called Hedonia, where Swerve and some of the other cast members tries to make Ultra Magnus, the resident rule-freak, relax a little bit. Some scenes here are actually quite funny, but most of them seems a little bit forced and hinder on the whole thing, mainly for one reason: Swerve. As the loud-mouthed and funny character, Swerve is better in small doses, giving him a line here and there to add some humor to some otherwise dark or tense movements. Giving him a whole issue is a bit much, as his charms wanders off after a while, making him a little bit annoying as a result.