Sins of the Wreckers colorist Josh Burcham is once more teasing this much-anticipated follow-up to the Last Stand of the Wreckers. Josh has shared three panels from the upcoming miniseries from IDW, showing off some of the action in this series – out of context, it’s some fantastic art in a nice gritty (and appropriately Wreckers) style. In context… well, you’ll need to pick up the miniseries to find out!
Until then, enjoy these teaser panels!
wolfx
I still can't like fat Roadbuster. Bring back lean & mean Roadbuster.
DJW107PRIME
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payres
And now missing from next week's Previews list too 🙁
http://www.previewsworld.com/shipping/upcomingreleases.txt
Haywired
Nobody from the team Prime will die. Including Jazz, Cosmos, 'Swipe and Arcee. Or Kup. They're not expendables.
This should be obvious. They're far more likely to die in exRiD than in SoTW. Even then not really, because exRiD has smaller recurring cast than, let's say, MTME.
Though it would be awfully nice if someone offed Prowl, but no luck.
Per usual, you can expect some B-list Redshirts dying.
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But as much as I like IDW Arcee, I don't think she should be in command. She spent her last millions of years tracking and hunting individuals. That's a very good scout or assassin, but not a commander skillset.
Nor should be Sideswipe, who's a soldier.
This should be Jazz (because rank) or Kup (because he's a professional field commander), or Jetfire (because he's a former leader of a scientific unit).
Skeeve
When the person who put her in charge was convicted of crimes against the entire species, you don't just need a good reason to leave her in charge, you also need a good reason not to throw her in jail too. Especially when her crimes involve the assassination of a political leader from a group you are trying to resolve tensions with. Unless, of course, you are being written as a total idiot. Arcee is a walking war crime. That much prime knows.
payres
25th has been the date publicised for sometime but there appears to be an element of doubt on this:
https://pulllist.comixology.com/series/56833/
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I can understand the reasoning. I think under Roche, Arcee could actually be pretty great.
I have to agree with all of this, Arcee leading was a bad idea. Jetfire and every other Autobot n RID who isn't Cosmos has gotten such little focus.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sideswipe ends up kicking the bucket either.
Coffee
Wasn't she made leader because of her relationship as Prowl's right hand bot? Prowl was originally left in charge by Optimus before he left, but then Prowl decided to go after him and who else would he leave in charge but his trusty agent?
I guess Optimus just saw no reason to change the chain of command seeing how Arcee was capable of managing things well enough on earth.
Also she's not really in THAT much. She's sort of a support character in RID and is appearing in Sins for her connection to Prowl. But that's all unless you want to count Combiner Hunters.
Rockdown
What you say is logical but I am tired of Arcee being everywhere. There is normally a high autobot body count in these stories; I can only hope that Arcee is one of the casualties
Skeeve
The only interactions Arcee had with Prime included the usual display of psychopathic tendencies and total lack of restraint, respect, and insight. In fact, she's attacked her own teammates during times of war (twice with Sideswipe!) It's another example of everyone else needing to be a complete idiot in order for Prowl or Arcee to appear the slightest bit competent. Prime had to be depicted as a total idiot in order for her to be "defacto" leader…over people whose own problems are nowhere near as crippling as insanity and overconfidence. I don't mind poor logic in a story, just poor logic that comes at the direct expense of all the other characters.
RID has the best roster in TF history. Every character other than Prowl and Arcee have been mitigated, sidelined, or nerfed to the point that it's no longer a team book. At all. It's a spotlight book. Sometimes Prowl is in the spotlight. Sometimes Arcee. Sometimes the incompetent version of Prime, but because of the writing none of these characters feel like a team. Kup is a drill sergeant…it's in his character to take command. Jetfire is an Air Commander. It's in his character to take command. Arcee is an assassin. It's in her character to be a terrible teammate and a lone wolf.
Barber is playing her against the fabric of her character, archetype, and function.
(I am also pretty confident the death will be Sideswipe, since their "friendship" keeps getting brought up even though it was an out-of-nowhere development with absolutely no payoff so far. His death will make her kill things with a slightly different expression on her face and more cheesy grittiness to the dialogue. That will be the sum total of its effect)
Digilaut
The hype is real.
Pumpkin latte
I think she just leads the Earth team and as a former assassin(who has worked for Prowl for six years at most), the current mission on Earth plays into her skill-set. Once she's calmed down Arcee is not the worst choice, but for whatever reason, I mostly blame Hasbro to be honest, Barber didn't handle the development as well as he could have.
All Hail Optimus interviews say someone is going to die before #50 hits. To make her leadership make more internal sense, Arcee could have become friends with someone other the Prowl during season 2, set that someone up as leader of the Earth team, present the fallout between Arcee and Prowl, proved herself invaluable to that person who is her friend and the rest of the team, have that person die, and give the final order that his second, Arcee, is to replace him, give explicit reason why the experienced members have no desire to see her take command(IE: Jazz has issues to work out on Earth and doesn't trust himself, Kup has Dead universe-related ptsd, Jetfire sees the new technological threat they face as a serious issue and wishes to devote all his energy to combat it, you fill in the reason here, etc)
Optimus trusts Arcee to keep the team on track and he hasn't spent enough time with her to know her. I could imagine him trusting the final orders of -insert dead commander here- and taking the time to make her learn more about her from the source when more pressing matters weren't closing in on him from all sides, but his immediate trust in her, while not misplaced, is a certainly odd. I kind of wish we knew more about how much information is shared with gestalt links. Prowl knew her. If his knowledge was passed on to Prime through their link in Combiner wars and OP felt that the information he'd learned had made her suited to the task, I'd understand it better.
We could use some flashbacks showing Arcee interacting with Prime.
Skeeve
So why in God's name is Prowl's secret murderer for the state the defacto leader of the Autobot army when Prime is fully aware of how closely she worked with Prowl and how backstabbing Prowl turned out to be? That makes no sense. The appearance in this book may make sense, but if it is based off of that conceit, it's already pretty weird, given that an assassin has the exact opposite set of skills you would need to be a leader.
Pumpkin latte
Nick Roche wanted to use Arcee and she shares a connection to Prowl. We saw how worried she was for the recently deposed Autobot SIC during the combiner wars epilogue. As Arcee grows as a character the defacto Earth team commander becomes less likely to break laws for him, and #43 showed she was angry at her compatriot when he took off for Cybertron with the Constructicons, but nothing has suggested that the affection no longer remains. This mini will be about unveiling Prowl's various misdeeds. Arcee is a newly inducted Autobot so it can be safely said that she never belonged to the hierarchy of wartime high command. This would remove her from the lion's share of the potential shared culpability that would make her complicit in his morally dubious actions and potentially distract from whatever message the author may attempt to impart to the readers. Being something of a friend to Prowl, Arcee is in a good position to care about him as a person, give appropriate reactions to whatever war crimes he'd committed during the war, and possibly become disillusioned with them. I'd assume that's part of the reason she may have appealed to the author. Besides, this series is set on Earth, and with Prowl involved I don't see how she could remain in-character and not want to get in on that action. There's nothing wrong with including a character when there's a personality-compliant reason for it to concern her.
Rockdown
Does Arcee have to be in everything?
Newholl
Thank goodness that there's at least one proper Transformers comic book.
Veritas Prime
I just checked previewsworld and it says it'll be out on the 25th of November.
WoundSave
On topic:
I like these panels.
Is this issue out next Wednesday? Perhaps the following?
Fallout
josh you tease, we need more!