Rage of the Dinobots

[Jim]

I almost forgot about this and found it in my reading pile on Friday (well, rather my daughter did who insisted on pulling it out and my reading it to her, which was a bit of an odd experience).

It's okay; art and plot are serviceable, but it's some levels below what we've come to expect from IDW over the past year. Autocracy at least had distinctive art, and the Fall of Cybertron comic which preceded this was also interestingly written if a bit flawed in my opinion.

I'll probably wait to see reviews of issue 2 before picking it up; maybe it will have more value to people who watch Prime as I understand it's filling in background for season 3.

[Andy Turnbull]

Picked this up (detailed thoughts are on an upcoming episode of The Underbase podcast) but I really enjoyed it. A frenetic first issue, (pushing MTME and RID out of my frame of reference as they are ongoings, this is a mini) and great artwork. Like the FOC comic, for all it's in the Aligned continuity the characters feel very much like their classic Marvel incarnations. It's a quick read, not because it's decompressed but because events move at a fair tilt.

Andy

[Andy Turnbull]

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Andy

[legios]

I had completely forgotten that Rage of the Dinobots even existed. Might be worth my picking it up to add to my reading pile for my upcoming long train journey.

Karl

[Andy Turnbull]

Rather annoyingly, I have a horrible feeling we are getting the setup for an "epic" confrontation between Grimlock and Shockwave. I hope not.

Art is still fantastic, some nice character touches but we are getting into yawn, been here before territory.

Andy

[primenova]

I just need to find #1 - got all the other issues for 50p each.