Courtesy of iTunes, we have the brief, three-page preview for Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #51, the second part of The Dying of the Light:
“Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #51
“If you want to break someone—mentally, physically, emotionally—wait until they’re happy. Let them live and love and thrive. Once they recognize the value of a life well lived… THAT’S when you move in for the kill. Because you can’t take anything from someone who has nothing to lose.” –Tarn”
The full issue will be out in about two weeks on March 30th, but you can check out the preview after the break! Tread carefully, though, for potential spoilers lie within.
Bass X0
I like this quote.
Star Saber
I hope so, as much as I love MTMTE, I've felt the resolutions for several storyarcs already being far too simple or lacking. Probably the only ones that ended well for me was the ending to Season 1 and the Senator Shockwave storyline.
Nez Pierce
Ten is the key. I'm
Not sure how yet, but he is the key. Otherwise why have a panel with him in it.
optimusmegas
yea really…i gotta side with you on this. if he never came back would there really be a 'missing piece' in this series?
necrobot can stay necro. i doubt we'd notice.
Autovolt 127
Is their really a need to bring back the Necrobot?
SPLIT LIP
I think we're just kinda numb to it at this point.
I've learned to not take stock in any cliffhanger in MTMTE.
Susha
but its getaway that says it, and we're assuming he called them. aren't we?
also in the alt. multiverse where the djd killed the crew of the LL, they had also pre-emptively agreed (with Brainstorm <does this make getaway a sleeper agent too?>) not to hurt anyone other than Overlord, but then they met drift and things went sideways.
doesn't seem like Tarn word is worth much.
Mort
Sure, but they haven't told the people inside the building that or that they're going to spare the others if they bring Megatron out (like they did with the Scavengers and like Getaway said they would do).
Bass X0
Megatron has been moved to the top of the list. I forget which issue Tarn said it in though.
Mort
Hmmm, just realised that the DJD haven't specifically asked for Megatron.
Susha
Tbh honest, it dawned me (not that long ago tbh) that expectings things from J.R.s narrative is the wrong way to go about it. Hes about the unexpected, about getting these characters (that we've seen in every salsa) do something new, like what if megatron found himself in charlie browns shoes, what if theres a bad decpticon gestapo devision out there, what if not all decepts are bad, what if transformers can feel love, etc etc etc.. Just go with what he chucks at us
Focksbot
I'm surprised no one has made the obvious criticism of this preview – last issue's cliffhanger led us to believe that shit was about to get real. The first plot point of this issue is basically going back on that. "The DJD are here! Oh, no, wait, they're going to come back in another two issues."
optimusmegas
oh i'm not saying he survives by redemption or anything. i think he gets his ass handed to him and he slips away in the chaos barely alive or skids gets his hands on him and it is revealed he's roller. skids,obviously, is taken back by it and tarn uses that to blast skids off him and escape.
but i still think he's the only djd that would live in the end. i think everyone goes down except tarn and deathsaurus…and hopefully leozack since he's a personal favorite of mine…
Mort
Not sure I'd want anyone else to write the DJD, so if they die that's fine by me, but chances are they'll make it, unless we have loads of casualties. All the baddies in RIL made it (Pharma is tbc) and even Overlord is potentially out there.
Personally, I'd like some of the DJD to stick around, but I don't see how this arc can end without them at least being disbanded.
Susha
Tarn is beyond redemption, if he is Roller, and imo unlikely to survive. Deathsaurus seemed such an agreeable folk on the other hand.
and about loose ends, I bet Ratchet and Drift will be coming back soon. Possibly (and I would love to see it happen) to deliver some well deserved spanking to Getaway (yay we have a new typo, the douche-villan)!
about Rung. when we saw the alternate functionist future where RUng was being detained and studied for his alt mode. Rung must've known why the Functionists wanted him (well they did, cos they didn't know what he trsfrmd into) so, even if Rung doesn't know what he turns into he has some cognition of the importance this may have.
Haywired
That would be epic because it would be sooo Whirl.
Also, to pay evil unto evil.
WilyMech
It will be nice to see who is prominent in the Mutiny. I would like see some of the crew who are gone return
optimusmegas
that would be amazing….not because of tarn's death but nickel's..i think if anything though tarn will be the only one to live but barely.
i just want nickel to die…and never be mentioned again.
Negativedark
I kinda see a heavily damaged Tarn laying on the ground about to be finished off, when Nickel rushes in, plants herself in front of him, starts going off on an impassioned speech about what the DJD are truly about, and how they saved her… And then Whirl shoots through her killing both Nickel and Tarn.
"What? She was talking about how the tourture happy psycho killers where the good guys. She was obviously evil too."