Ricky Church reviews Transformers Vol 1: The World in Your Eyes…IDW’s relaunch of its Transformers series takes fans back to a pre-war Cybertron where Optimus Prime is still Orion Pax and Megatron is a popular but troublesome politician as writer Brian Ruckley weaves a complex tale leading up to Cybertron’s Great War. There are certainly several intriguing […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers #3
Ricky Church reviews Transformers #3…The central mystery of Brainstorm’s murder takes a backseat as Transformers #3 features a lot of exposition as other characters are introduced. There’s a lack of tension given the way the second issue ended with an apparent assassination attempt on Megatron’s life, but in place of that is more world-building from Brian […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers #2
Ricky Church reviews Transformers #2…After setting up an intriguing new world in IDW’s reboot of Transformers, Brian Ruckley delivers a nice follow-up in the series’ second issue. Picking up almost immediately after the first issue’s discovery of Cybertron’s first murder in millions of years, Transformers #2 builds off that development in some interesting ways as the newly […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers #1
Ricky Church reviews Transformers #1…For the first time in nearly 15 years, IDW has begun a new continuity for its Transformers comic book franchise. Beginning in the pre-war days of Cybertron, Brian Ruckely sets out to examine the start of the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons with fresh eyes in both a literal and figurative sense. Not […]
