Via newsarama we have got IDW Transformers: Lost Light #11 Full Preview.
This 5-page preview brings the return of the Greatest Autobot Of All Time: Thunderclash to the story. While the Lost Light is now under treacherous Getaway command, it’s time for Thunderclash to decide what to do next. One of the most loyal Autobots makes a hard decision.
Transformers: Lost Light #11
James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)
Success? The crew of the Lost Light, led by the mutinous Getaway, is now only weeks away from completing their quest. But such remarkable progress comes at a price. Just how far is their new captain prepared to go to find Cyberutopia? Unfortunately for the likes of Riptide and First Aid, it turns out the answer is “very far indeed.”
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
– Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!
You can check the mirrored preview pages after the jump and then sound off at the 2005 Boards!
fishpop
I had a feeling it was Froid he was talking to.
victoryconvoy
I agree wholeheartedly with you but that is now the slippery slope your on when you cross a line like getaway did. Getaway is now in a position where he would be the one people want to get rid of and is now doing what he can to keep his power. power corrupts weather you had noble intentions or not
maltesefalcon
hopefully theres a few games in his future! (huge reboot fan!)
JaidenRoda
Is 12 coming out tomorrow as well?
optimusmegas
Well they already say "arse"….
victoryconvoy
very good point but in getaways mind he feels what he is doing is also justified. The dude worked for prowl
victoryconvoy
im somewhat disturbed you weigh 8 lives against billions and billions. megatron is responsible for the deaths of WORLDS
WilyMech
Getaway, who he really betrayed was Megatron or the Decepticons but his whole goal was protecting the Autobots and that twisted him. I don't think Getaway could ever had been a good captain at least this verse concerned with. In this Universe Getaway role model was Prowl in the beginning which was substituted for Tyrest. The problem is Getaway is this the dissenters are Autobots and he can not kill them so he instead keeps them alive in a mind loop which is probably form of Torture and abuse. The essence Getaway can say to anyone those he dissented he did not kill because they are not dead. It is a form a madness and Hound or Bluestreak are caught in place where the Lost Light will become hell because Getaway would keep them in a memory cycle. In essence Getaway would never allow anyone to leave his command so the crew of Rodimus will be rescuing their fellow Autobots from another Autobot. Right now as a Good Captain is lost for Getaway because now impossible to write him as such. Unfortunately Getaway feels like his expendable and most likely he will not survive this arc.
Not mention what made Rodimus a better Captain was Megatron. Basically Megatron provoked Rodimus to become a better Captain.
Oneiros
Just wanted to second barry's thought here. I could completely understand why most of the Autobots would support a mutiny, and why Getaway would want to kill and/or get rid of Megatron and his "entourage". But by making Getaway into a sadistic @$$hole, he has lost the opportunity to tell a nuanced story and give a fair shake to the entirely reasonable view that Megatron should be punished for his role in the deaths of billions (and also that Rodimus is not a great captain). Had Getaway been a sympathetic character and good Autobot/captain, that would have also made his inevitable defeat all the more poignant and complex.
Still reading the series, but it has lost a lot of its appeal for me since the early days of MTMTE …
barry
Rather ironically, this is far from the most mature response, or indeed contribution to this thread.
That aside, I think there's a fundamental misreading of the comics on your part. While we've yet to see the story conclude, it would appear we're well past the point of the moral ambiguity you refer to. Rather than being simply a pragmatic individual frustrated by Rodimus's poor leadership and a moralist appalled by the grace being given to Megatron, Getaway is being written as a sadistic bastard and unambiguous villain that's prepared to mentally incapacitate dissenters either by putting them in the sort of loop/coma that The Protectobots, Mirage, and Thunderclash find themselves in, or by removing brain modules/life cords from, presumably 25, bodies and leaving them saturated in enegex and locked up in a sealed off 'Swerve's' with bite marks all over them. I imagine that's not even the worst of what he's done. Getaway is out for himself and, like any good egomaniac, seems to resent anyone that might be perceived as being greater than he is. Just look at his petulant response to Atomiser pointing out Thunderclash carried the Matrix.
How much more complex and fascinating that story might have been if Getaway, even after all the nastiness with Tailgate, had been a 'good' captain. After seeing how Getaway is treating 'his' Lost Light crew it's now much, much harder to say 'Getaway was right' and to see the mutineers as anything other than incredibly misguided. And, perhaps unintentionally, it vindicates the 'Rod Squad' and their judgement around Megatron.
They stopped many, many times to help people, as shown in MTMTE #12 and 50. That wasn't about the quest for the Knights of Cybertron, but about saving lives. I think that's a really important part of the narrative, which Hound even remarked on in Lost Light#10. Shallow and impulsive as Rodimus was he prioritised savings lives 'today'.
Spartan Prime
You're not even arguing semantics. You're arguing that they can (and they have) used one word, but they aren't using it right or to your liking. The use of the term "god" as both an exclamation and a title have been used in the past. It's nonsense nitpicking.
Yes. I do. Thanks for proving the point I was already making, though.
ThePendulum
ah…. ReBoot reference. Though, i disagree. Early season 3 Enzo was way mature and more clever than Rodimus
TargetmasterJoe
I think I recall that that "weakened by poison" bit was established as being bogus. Ratchet admitted to Megatron in MTMTE #54 that the "Fool's Energon" was just a placebo.
Essentially, Ratchet, Optimus and Rodimus were naturally skeptical about Megatron turning a new leaf. However, Shockwave screwed with Megatron's insides so much that giving Megs an actual sedative chemical would've killed him. So they came up with "Fool's Energon" as a secret test of character for Megatron. If Megatron kept drinking the placebo while thinking it was genuinely hampering his fighting capabilities (when he's actually just restraining himself), that would be the clue to them that yes, Megatron was serious about converting into an Autobot.
BB Shockwave
Huh… is that Froid or whatever his name was (Sigmund Freud
-analog to Rung\'s Jung?) to whom Getaway is talking to? I thought after his little incident (namely, freeing a demented maniac and letting him almost kill the whole crew) they would bring him to a prison somewhere and throw away the keys…
Y'd think after what, 5 years of MTMTE and Roberts writing, you guys would be a tad more mature and understand that this comic, much like LIFE ITSELF is not morally black or white. Yes, Getaway used a lot of morally dubious and rather dirty tricks to get what he wants… yet in his mind, and in many of the other Autobots' mind, this was acceptable given that from their POV, what did Rodimus achieve about the quest? A fat load of nothing, except getting a lot of them killed, and being also implicit in the Overlord debacle and THEN bringing on the Cybertronian equivalent of Hitler as co-captain and being all chummy with him. Yeah… Getaway is no saint, but it is perfectly understandable why some people said "let's get rid of these guys" when he came up with his plan. Of course, only he and maybe Atomizer knew that he would also sic the DJD on them… most Autobots would not have been OK with that addendum.
There is a Marvel UK annual text story where he is kidnapped by Scorponok while spying on him and uses his escape artists skills to stop his doomsday weapon… which was probably the closest he got to character development anywhere. Other memorable things he did was to fight Scourge to the death (of them both) in an alternate future (Rythms of Darkness).
You DO know Cybertron has a whole pantheon of gods, the Guiding hand, right? Cyclonus and Tailgate both talked about it in one of the Annuals. So yeah, why not call them what they are, gods? They were worshiped, even. Heck, even in Marvel, Unicron has a cult that worshiped him as a god.
Getaway did what he did because of WHO he is. He is a secret agent, a spook, a spy… he is not super strong or has a fusion cannon. He had a task – kill the strongest Decepticon ever, who even weakened by poison, was a match for anyone on the ship, and had millions of years of survival experience – and he hatched a plan to have others do it for him. It was a heartless, brutal plan that played upon the naivity of a Bot, but that is exactly what spies and secret agents do… they USE people. Without moral scruples. To Getaway, this was a job, and he never batted an optic about who will get hurt. He is millions of years old, don't you think he has not done such a thing before?
primalxconvoy
No. There have been explanations for BB, including:
– It's a codename/translation from Cybertronian into native EArth languages (i.e., Universal Translator shenanigans/mcguffin).
– biological life existed in Cybertron before G1 (Beast Machines) and/or TFs have already encountered biological lifeforms.
– BB turns into a YELLOW BUG, so the name makes sense.
"A god" and "God" are different in their context and use. Thus "By God", "By Primus" and "By the gods" differ in meaning.
TargetmasterJoe
Okay, so it was Froid Getaway was talking to.
And god, do I want someone to kick Getaway's butt already.
primalxconvoy
Considering that "bollocks" is very rude in the UK, I'm amazed he used it. If it was reserved for Action Man, he could have gone tongue in cheek and used "bullocks".
I don't buy his explanations of "making it accessible for younger/newer readers". Most readers of comics are not that young and even if they were 12 year olds reading TF comics for the first time, I'm sure they could use some critical thinking skills and discern meaning from context.
When I was 12, and new to Warhammer 40k, I loved looking up and checking all the jargon. It was a constant slew of Easter Eggs and helped me learn the mythos. So to with TFs.
ultramagnus1
I'm going to make a special trip to my LCS tomorrow to get this. I don't normally go on release day.
Rotorstorm
To be fair, Primus is a god, as the transformers creator it makes sense for them to refer to them as such, I get what you mean though, no reason he couldn't have name dropped one of the 13 or the name of one of the guiding hand though.
Roberts has recently explained this on Twitter saying that its to make the language more accessable for those who may not have been reading the comic for years or had less than a passing interest in the franchise. They're comics for humans by humans is the jist
At least he just said god, if he had gone further and used the name of a human profit though, then we'd have a serious problem. I do find it less jarring than Revolutionaries overuse of the word 'bollocks' though which is well out of place in a comic with younger readers, at least Slag has more than one meaning, bollocks is just straight up balls.
Anyway, the preview, Very disappointed in Thunderclash, Blaster and Hoist, but what if they only thought the mutiny was going to maroon Rodimus, Megatron etc until they found the Knights and turned on Getaway when they found out about the plan being Overlord and the DJD?
I'm looking forward to finding out tomorrow.
WilyMech
Rodimus couldn't take the blame and Drift did but the thing is Prowl brought Overload aboard and certainly the former team mates knew about it. Doubts were started there and once Ratchet went to find Drift and he was respected by most of Lost Light. Getaway saw the cracks of doubts he exploited it and like he said he miscalculated with Tailgate on the character popularity with the crew. I don't think crew is particularly loyal to him in the sense they are more afraid of Getaway than they like him per se.