The Energon Pub

[D-Maximal_Primal]

That is an amazing cover!!!

It's also kinda sad how many characters on that cover did not live through the series

[Tommy T.]

Who's that orange guy next to the T

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Who's that orange guy next to the T

Rollout, in G1 an Action Master. Milne has drawn him several times for commissions surprisingly, and he has shown up several times, including in alt mode in MTMTE 33 (I think) for the very first time

[Randomhero]

Ah, all of those characters who never did anything but stand in the background.

What purpose did characters like Hound served to the plot?

Yeah I did the same thing on tfw2005 about those guys and no scavengers. Milne actually chimed in and said he added them to fill space and he didn’t add them because they’d be so small in the picture was kind of offended and now I feel bad

[Wireless_Phantom]

Although personally I liked the concept of Autobot Megatron and thought it was well done in the comics, I look forward to seeing what the next comic iteration of him will be like.

[Ironhidensh]

That is an amazing cover!!!

It's also kinda sad how many characters on that cover did not live through the series

The feels..... i gots 'em

[WreckerJack]

Just finished LL24 and I gotta say it was a hell of a good issue. Here is to hoping 25 lives up to the hype.

Can I start reading the Unicron comics now?

[Va'al]

Just finished LL24 and I gotta say it was a hell of a good issue. Here is to hoping 25 lives up to the hype.

Can I start reading the Unicron comics now?

They're almost entirely unconnected so far, so ideally you'd catch up on Optimus Prime before heading into Unicron! Check the chronology that ScottyP is putting together: the-transformers-idwverse-a-chronology-t105238s100.php#p1982662

(obviously Lost Light has so far nothing to do with it, so keep that in mind)

[X3ROhour]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome
if
in this final issue
someone
anyone
Tailgate or Swerve, maybe

puts a blaster behind Megatron's auditory receptor and blows his brains out?

i mean
he still deserves to be punished
for the billions of deaths
and countless suffering
he was
and is
directly
and indirectly
STILL responsible for!

right?


soooo....
wats up widdat?

[Big Grim]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome

Nope. The redemptive arc of Megatron has been entirely enjoyable.

That cover. Absolutely awesome!

[ZeroWolf]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome
if
in this final issue
someone
anyone
Tailgate or Swerve, maybe

puts a blaster behind Megatron's auditory receptor and blows his brains out?

i mean
he still deserves to be punished
for the billions of deaths
and countless suffering
he was
and is
directly
and indirectly
STILL responsible for!

right?


soooo....
wats up widdat?

Punish death with death... nothing would change, an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind

[snavej]

Ah, all of those characters who never did anything but stand in the background.

What purpose did characters like Hound served to the plot?

Someone had to do the chores while popular characters did interesting things! It's all part of the family dynamic.

[Va'al]

Via the official page of the Previews World website, we have one of the many variants due with the last issue of IDW Publishing's Transformers: Lost Light ongoing series - allegedly out at the end of October - by main artist on the series Jack Lawrence, and colours by someone clearly not important enough to include in the solicitations (regular Joana Lafuente is the guess).

Check out below the cast ensemble for one final curtain call, in 'How to Say Goodbye and Mean It, pt II', and join us in the discussion until the book's release!

(W) James Roberts (A/CA) Jack Lawrence
MORE THAN MET THE EYE. The quest is over, the dust has settled, and everything has changed-forever. But before the fond farewells, before the parting of ways, before the unkept promises to stay in touch, there's time-surely, there's time-for one last drink...

Extra-long final issue! Tying together and putting a bow on stories from the last 13 years!
The final fate of the whole Lost Light crew revealed!
From the Death of Optimus Prime to now: 85 issues of the Lost Light cast!
In Shops: Oct 31, 2018
Final Orders Due: Oct 08, 2018

[avarathriul]

this cover is breaking what little i had left of a heart

[X3ROhour]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome

Nope. The redemptive arc of Megatron has been entirely enjoyable.

That cover. Absolutely awesome!

i truly
TRULY
enjoy born-again Megatron.

i do.

but nothing
NO-THING
can
or ever will
be able to remove,
cover
or
lighten
the tarnish
and Inermost Energon
& BLOOD
that this MONSTER
has splashed,
knelt in
and ground his heals upon
in his 4 million year
"misunderstanding"

he is simply
UNREDEEMABLE.
period.

i wish it were not so.

but the quest being concluded
its time to face the music
GUILTY AS CHARGED.

sorry.

[X3ROhour]

no Megatron

[X3ROhour]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome
if
in this final issue
someone
anyone
Tailgate or Swerve, maybe

puts a blaster behind Megatron's auditory receptor and blows his brains out?

i mean
he still deserves to be punished
for the billions of deaths
and countless suffering
he was
and is
directly
and indirectly
STILL responsible for!

right?


soooo....
wats up widdat?

Punish death with death... nothing would change, an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind

then face the darkness
with head held high,
strength of the Spark,
back unbent
and
conviction of morals
and
justice.

Some crimes are beyond flimsy philosophy.

[ZeroWolf]

How would his executioners be any different then him? There's supposed to be a difference between Autobot and cons (though IDW have shown that to be murkier) thus Autobot justice would have execution off the table. If you read the other IDW titles then it suggests that Prime may have charges of his own to answer for, look at Sins of the Wreckers for example where its revealed that Prowl bombed nonaligned areas to boost Autobot recruitment.

[X3ROhour]

How would his executioners be any different then him? There's supposed to be a difference between Autobot and cons (though IDW have shown that to be murkier) thus Autobot justice would have execution off the table. If you read the other IDW titles then it suggests that Prime may have charges of his own to answer for, look at Sins of the Wreckers for example where its revealed that Prowl bombed nonaligned areas to boost Autobot recruitment.

that should be dealt with as well b4 IDW concludes.

i bet Prowl sacrifices himself against Unicron
or somesuch

[Stormshot_Prime]

does anyone
other than me
think it would be awesome
if
in this final issue
someone
anyone
Tailgate or Swerve, maybe

puts a blaster behind Megatron's auditory receptor and blows his brains out?

i mean
he still deserves to be punished
for the billions of deaths
and countless suffering
he was
and is
directly
and indirectly
STILL responsible for!

right?


soooo....
wats up widdat?

Punish death with death... nothing would change, an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind

I mean yeah, you’re right, that’s the Autobot way, but this is Megatron. I mean like he said, I’m also a fan of the redemption arc, but that doesn’t change how things are.

Would we have treated Hitler like his if he suddenly seemed to change his ways last minute, post-war? Some deserve to be put to death.

[ZeroWolf]

Hitler I would have put on trial, and then locked him away for the rest of his life. Autobot Megatron is too good an idea not to pass up, it needs to be written about. If they didn't do it, then he would never have been captured and he would never have been developed as a character. There is other points as well, Hitler wasn't afraid of death, he was afraid of being captured and being forced to answer for his crimes. Megs did answer, and if I remember correctly, it was Prime that inspired him to look for the loophole (again a writer's hook to allow him to disappear from the main storyline involving the colonies and unicron). At first megs would have been content with being locked away.

There is also the risk of making a martyr, especially if killing is against your own beliefs, as then you become a hypocrite and who listens to them? In closing, Megatron didn't deserve death. That is not justice, and that is not how you defeat a political movement.

[Flashwave]

Alright, everyone else on that cover save Whirl is either an outright couple, ot one they have hinted around without exploring.

The heck is going on with Rodimus and Minimus? No. No non no no NO. There's nothing there and doesnt need to be anything there.

[ZeroWolf]

Wouldn't nautica be with skids though?

[Flashwave]

Wouldn't nautica be with skids though?

Maybe, but go back to MTMTE 40 when Brainstorm is on trial. Nautica feels beyond bettayed (implied by her mangled Sonic Wrench and then outright said to Ratchet) and there is a moment where Brainstrom looks where she was in the Jury box with a looks of remorse and regret. Skids May have been a "first love" but that ended when Skids ended.

[Shockwave 8]

First of all, I'd just like to say how much of a fantastic/soul-crushing touch it is that Swerve is holding Rung's glasses. It's a nice way to include him in spirit.

My only problems with this cover have already been mentioned:

no Megatron

The heck is going on with Rodimus and Minimus? No. No no no no NO. There's nothing there and doesn't need to be anything there.

Seriously, why did Lawrence have to draw them like that? Nothing about that makes sense...

Anyway, this is still a great cover, though it doesn't hold a candle to Milne's, in my opinion.