skyshadowprimus wrote:Excellion wrote:Didn't Reflector die in Spotlight: Wheelie? Yeah I remember, Viewfinder is killed when their ship crashes and a piece of the bridge goes through him and then later Wheelie kills Spectro and Spyglass by letting the ship blow up. So... how are they alive and well on Earth terrorizing humans?
I think I have the answer
McCarthy wrote:I do wish people will stop all this nitpicking and being confused when dead characters show up and other characters show up reformatted...why do they need an explanation. Its not my fault you read everything previous by IDW and SF....I didnt and it hasnt ruined my perception of Transformers and stopped me writing a story that Pat Lee would be proud of
Nitpicking? Right... (heavy sarcasm intentional)
It's kind of a big deal when characters die in one story arc and then turn up alive and well in another without any sufficient explanation. Marvel get a hard time for bringing 'dead' characters back all the time but they don't just turn up without there being some extensive explanation.
A classic example of this would be Captain America's old sidekick, Bucky Barnes. Thought dead for over 50 years, Marvel brought him back as the Winter Solider, telling us a story of how the Russians found his body, revived him, brainwashed him, trained him, gave him an artificial arm and kept him in stasis between missions to keep him young. Eventually Cap (Steve Rogers) catches up with him, fights him, reminds him of who he is and Bucky redeems himself. And now he's the new Captain America. Awesome.
What do we as Transformer's fans get? Sunstreaker becomes a headmaster... "oh now he's not, it's ok Ratchet reversed a process that took Scorponok years to perfect." Wheelie kills the Reflector trio to save his new friend... "oh that must have been some 'other' Reflector trio."
It's just a bummer that we can't have an ongoing comic which continues to develop. Where characters stay dead (unless there's a cool explanation for their return from the grave) and events in early issues have far reaching consequences. They may as well bring back Nightbeat and Hardhead now.
(by the way, I love all Transformers comics and I'm still going to buy this and read it- I'm just going to imagine AHM as an alternate timeline/dimension in my head)