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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eyes #15 – Review

TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #15

By: James Roberts (Writer), Alex Milne (Artist), Josh Burcham (Colorist)

The Story: Overlord is free to be the psychopath he has always been on the Lost Light. Hilarity and carnage ensues.

The Review: James Roberts does not pull any punches, does he? Just when he made me like and care about all those transforming robots, he goes ahead and do things like this. He unleash the big bad right in their midst and let us see the chaos and violence that soon follows. If this sounds like the beginning of a rant, I do apologize, as it is the very opposite of such a concept that I am trying to bring here.
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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eyes #14 – Review

TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #14

By: James Roberts (Writer) Alex Milne (Artist) Josh Burcham (Colorist)

The Story: Chromedome investigates the whole memory of Overlord as he tries to understand some things about the psychopathic ex-Decepticon.

The Review: This is a tough one to grade and to properly review. For a very simple reason, some people will probably enjoy this issue a lot more than others and it is due to a single thing: whether or not you have read Last Stand Of The Wreckers or not. It is a splendid miniseries that showed for the first time what kind of wonder James Roberts could do with the Transformers universe, but if you haven’t read it before picking up this issue, you’ll get a lot less from this issue.

The main reason for that is due to Overlord, the big bad of said miniseries being the very focus of this issue alongside Chromedome, a regular member from the cast of this book. Overlord, an actually very interesting villain in his own right, works much better in this context if you really know who he is. While they make quite a lot of efforts to provide the necessary background here for other people to follow just what kind of person he is, it is just much more efficient if you have read the mini in question; doubling the impact of everything he does and says.
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