The End of All Hail Megatron

[The Doctor]

That should be the pull-quote for the back of the trade paperback.

-Ralph

[KnightBeat]

Jun 24, 2009 7:43:22 GMT @grahamthomson said:

It's like enduring the pain of having one testicle waxed only to realise there's still another one to do.

You've seen the 'pay for one, get the other done free' offer as well?

[charlesrocketboy]

According to TF Wiki, AHM #12 ends with

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Hunter O'Nion dying. Bog off.

[blueshift]

Haha. He has so far appeared in the comic a grand total of one panel.

That's kinda a horrid way to treat a character, you know?

[charlesrocketboy]

I wouldn't mind so much if he'd actually done stuff, and if the other human cast weren't crap. Do we actually want to follow Bridge, Sarah and the Witwickies over Hunter?

[The Doctor]

Oh dear.

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

Jun 24, 2009 7:43:22 GMT @grahamthomson said:

It's like enduring the pain of having one testicle waxed only to realise there's still another one to do.

So close, so close to making red wine come out of my nose, old boy. Thankfully I'd swallowed that particular mouthfull just seconds before I read your post (you swine!).


I am totally deflated with the TF comic-story-arch-whatever, thanks to AHM. It just hasn't delivered for me. Issue 12 will be the last TF comic I get untill they sort out the story arch stuff, well, 'till they do a Spotlight: Prowl anyway......

Oh, I do plan to get Maximum Dinobot TPB n'all.

[Shockprowl]

Oh, and I do think the art has been good on AHM, 'cept the freaky stand-ins, who remembers those biiiiiizar panels of Soundwave coupla issue back?

[dinogrrl]

This was just as disappointing an issue as I'd expected it to be. I picked it up in a store, read it in three minutes and put it back. Not worth buying.

Let's see, beyond the five page preview material, it falls into super predictable mode with Prime and Megatron fighting and yapping at each other in classic stereotypical style. Kup pops up out of the water (whence he was dropped courtesy of Skywarp) to off Dropshot who was still trying to kill the army guys. Back to Prime and Megs - GI Spike uses his wonder gun to pop Megs in the face, and down he goes.

Starscream saves Megatron, gives a bullshit talk about how he's doing what he should do in rescuing Megatron as "leadership of the Decepticons must be taken not given" and buggers off with most of the Decepticons.

Now it's OH NOES WHAT ABOUT THE NUKE?!?!?! tiem, which manages to pull out the one surprise of the issue, that being Thundercracker volunteering to get rid of it, because he thought that Megatron's plan was bollocks and lacked the sort of honor that Decepticons should have. He totally disses Daft, er, Drift who tries to buddy up to him about 'seeing the light' and tells Daft that he's no pussy traitor. So off he goes, catches the nuke and flies it up into the outer atmosphere and blows it up. Everybody cheers (no, really, everybody cheers). Then he gets shot in the head/buttocks (? - it was, wait for it, off-panel) by Skywarp for being a traitor.

Prime burps out platitudes about helping humans rebuild and GI Spike goes WTFBBQ GTFO, saying that after all that has happened, he can't be serious about humans and Autobots being allies and that humans will never trust them. One cute panel in the comic was that of Kup and Gen. Witwicky sitting next to one another on the body of Dropshot, having a stunted conversation:

Witwicky: So, outer space, huh?
Kup: Yup.
Witwicky: What's with the cigar?
Kup: What's a cigar?

The end is tied up with Sideswipe searching out and finding what's left of Hunter, who has no legs in addition to all his other damage. Sideswipe decides to put him out of his misery by shutting off the support machinery.

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Opinion: What a fucking drag. Both this issue and the whole damn series. Nothing but a grind to read, and a depressing conclusion. If this is the set-up for the next string of minis/ongooing/readers' digest postcards then I'm less than whelmed.

I don't envy whoever has to pick up the pieces from this. Decepticons essentially win, as they still have the Matrix, and the Autobots are now on Earth with humans who will never trust them. GOOD TIMES. At least they still have Omega Supreme, so they can all pile in him and bugger off somewhere else when the humans inevitably tell them to.

Because where the hell else do you go from here? The downer ending, plus the complete lack of information coming from IDW about what is next, means I have zero interest in what they're planning on doing with the G1 property. AHM CODA isn't going to help there either, as all the stories so far announced are either about past events (Kup, Sunstreaker and Percy) or are taking place off-Earth (Starscream, Galvatron). Maybe the Prime/Ironhide one will have something, but the snippets I've seen of that indicate that at least part of the story takes place partly in flashbacks on Ironhides' behalf.

This has been the biggest pile of bollocks to befall Transformers comics since Pat Lee.

[blueshift]

It wasn't an awful issue, but after 11 issues of practically no plot, it would need a fantastic finale to justify it all.

The treatment of Hunter, basically getting horrifically mutilated and tortured to death for no conceivable reason left a horrid taste in my mouth

[charlesrocketboy]

Jun 29, 2009 0:45:20 GMT dinogrrl said:

lacked the sort of honor that Decepticons should have.

So Thundercracker forgot they formed out of disgruntled pit-fighters and that his work involved manipulating humans into killing each other.

[The Doctor]

Not seeing much chatter about the ending of AHM on-line. Perhaps coming out the same day ROTF opened in US cinemas was not a smart move.

-Ralph

[Deleted]

Another turgid issue in the AHM series by the sounds of it. Eleven issues in and its just been one five-page story after another padded out by about 200+ pages of rubbish to make up the page count in the series.

[grahamthomson]

There's probably not much chatter as usually the series' writer comes along on the forums to inform naysayers that they misread his script and AHM is far superior than they realise, but their lacking intelligence limits their enjoyment.

[Fortmax2020]

Well, they can't be too thick if they've finally got the message and have stopped complaining!

[blueshift]

I think its more that the final issue wasn't great, nor was it as bad as the rest. It is easy to talk for ages about how bad something is, or how good something it, but it is more difficult when something is just very average.

[Shockprowl]

Just read issue 12. The Thundercracker bit was almost good, in a way, not done that well. The Hunter bit was awefull. No need for that. The Prime/Megatron fight was yawn yawn yawn. And the whole thing was just a massive let down for me. I'm gunna give it a few weeks, then read all 12 issues backtoback (I like pain!) see how that goes, prob try and sell the lot of 'em (or freakin' given 'em away). I'm just terribly disapointed with the whole damn thing. That's it for me folkes. Marvel all the way from now on.

[grahamthomson]

Well bless you for sticking with it to the end.

[Deleted]

I'm also going to stick with it to the end. I think its the hot weather we're having at the moment thats sending me a bit doolally!

[Shockprowl]

Jun 30, 2009 14:10:05 GMT @grahamthomson said:

Well bless you for sticking with it to the end.

Thanks, man. It was rough. Although I gotta say, Nige made me realise something after reading his post in the other AHM thread. At times, the individual characterisation was interesting, just it took place in a story arch so dull it'd put Pilget to sleep after six cans of Red Bulls.

[karla]

still waiting for the trade *crunches up sheet of paper slowly* still waiting...

I don't think it will EVER end, the beginning didn't feel like the beginning, sort of mid-way then it drifted and got stuck.
like sausage on custard!