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News Credits: 26 · Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:55 pm

I don't see either Rewind or Thunderclash, TC would do the whole donate his body to science thing.

Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:11 pm

Why is Prowl here?

Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:11 pm

Could... could it be for Ratchet? I mean, everything in this funeral discourse sounds like something he would do, and don't forget that he was the one who talked to Tailgate about Cybertronians not being immortal and being able to die from "age-related burnout". I feel like the next panel is going to have Drift and/or First Aid and be the person(s) who said that quote while in mourning.

News Credits: 11 · Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:24 pm

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Why is Prowl here?

Not Prowl, Bluestreak.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:40 pm

Why does Brainstorm have a briefcase?

Hmm...

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:17 am

Maybe it's brainstorm looking at his own funeral (hence the briefcase) I think Roberts is having one last bit of fun with a fake out...

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:19 am

So I keep rereading Lost Light and I now know why I didnt register the "ifinite". That story element is dropped faster than a scolding hot potatoe. Its like it had no point at all and only tangentially related to adaptus to the point where it might not be connected at all (since it just ends with Scorponok who couldnt care less about that plot anymore either).

I do still much preffer James Robert's dialogue and pacing to any other TF book I ever read but this was definitely a shortcoming in storytelling. The mederi stuff is fantasic though. Did we ever figure out how Tailgate got there?

Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:40 am

Nexus Knight wrote:
Stormshot_Prime wrote:Why is Prowl here?

Not Prowl, Bluestreak.

But those are definitely Prowl’s colors, Bluestreak has a blue and red color scheme. And ol Bluestreak didn’t seem to survive the whole sparkeater ordeal, it seems Ratchet accidentally killed him.

One explaination could be that this is the functinist universe Prowl, but thats a stretch. The only other explanation I’d have is that this takes place post OP25/Unicron 6, with all the characters from those series settling on what is appropriately dubbed New Cybertron.

Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:11 am

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm calling it as Megatron, his story was finished, and I think this is appropriate

To be fair, the whole continuity is ending so it could be anyone but it's probably someone old and hard-working.

Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:38 am

-Crossfire- wrote:Could... could it be for Ratchet? I mean, everything in this funeral discourse sounds like something he would do, and don't forget that he was the one who talked to Tailgate about Cybertronians not being immortal and being able to die from "age-related burnout". I feel like the next panel is going to have Drift and/or First Aid and be the person(s) who said that quote while in mourning.

That's my guess as well. Not only for the reasons you mentioned but because Ratchet always %$#@ing dies.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:01 am

Animated and Prime Rachet didn't die.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:21 am

william-james88 wrote:So I keep rereading Lost Light and I now know why I didnt register the "ifinite". That story element is dropped faster than a scolding hot potatoe. Its like it had no point at all and only tangentially related to adaptus to the point where it might not be connected at all (since it just ends with Scorponok who couldnt care less about that plot anymore either).

I do still much preffer James Robert's dialogue and pacing to any other TF book I ever read but this was definitely a shortcoming in storytelling. The mederi stuff is fantasic though. Did we ever figure out how Tailgate got there?

Epistemus/The Omega Guardians said they arranged for Tailgate to be teleported to Mederi. Given its ability to see through time, this could have been arranged at some point earlier in history.

News Credits: 388 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:36 pm

william-james88 wrote:So I keep rereading Lost Light and I now know why I didnt register the "ifinite". That story element is dropped faster than a scolding hot potatoe. Its like it had no point at all and only tangentially related to adaptus to the point where it might not be connected at all (since it just ends with Scorponok who couldnt care less about that plot anymore either).

I do still much preffer James Robert's dialogue and pacing to any other TF book I ever read but this was definitely a shortcoming in storytelling. The mederi stuff is fantasic though. Did we ever figure out how Tailgate got there?

The point of the Infinites was to provide troops in Adaptus' plan to fight Functionist Cybertron. That was the end game of that plot thread. They could heal themselves from death, so even if they got killed, they could come back and keep fighting.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:40 pm

Ok,on the bluestreak/prowl question,roberts answered on twitter that it was prowl

News Credits: 3 · Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:59 pm

Given James' love of trolling people over character deaths, I'm guessing it's someone we've never actually heard of (see Tripodeca).

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:15 am

-Crossfire- wrote:Could... could it be for Ratchet? I mean, everything in this funeral discourse sounds like something he would do, and don't forget that he was the one who talked to Tailgate about Cybertronians not being immortal and being able to die from "age-related burnout". I feel like the next panel is going to have Drift and/or First Aid and be the person(s) who said that quote while in mourning.

That's my bet.
And it sucks.

maybe its a fake out for Megatron.
Sohe can go back to the Functionist Verse
without any legal hassels.

or maybe Rung.
He did vanish after making all those Matrixes.
Matrices?
Matrixi?

:-?

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:17 am

MrBlack wrote:Why does Brainstorm have a briefcase?

Hmm...

Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:17 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Animated and Prime Rachet didn't die.

I was being a little sarcastic only because I've seen Ratchet die on 3 separate occasions.

Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:33 pm

Bleak5170 wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Animated and Prime Rachet didn't die.

I was being a little sarcastic only because I've seen Ratchet die on 3 separate occasions.

I count his death in the 86 Movie and in AOE, what’s the third?

News Credits: 1350 · Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:47 pm

Stormshot_Prime wrote:
Bleak5170 wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Animated and Prime Rachet didn't die.

I was being a little sarcastic only because I've seen Ratchet die on 3 separate occasions.

I count his death in the 86 Movie and in AOE, what’s the third?

I was thinking Marvel g1

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:58 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I was thinking Marvel g1

Yeah, but every main cast member died in Marvel G1, or just about. And plus with the IDW universe ending, I am surprised there havent been more casualties.

About the whole James Roberts run, I have been rereading from the begining of MTMTE and it is truly fantastic. Especially rereading it knowing whats up ahead. Like they talk about the leader of the DJD before we see him, just as an example, and when you know who it is (and who it really is) then itmakes it more enjyable the second time around since you are catching on to everything. I truly believe this is thebest piece of TF fiction ever written (if you add the 2 parter Chaos theory as a prelude). What really made me go HOLY ****! was when we were getting flashbacks to Overlord torturing Fort Max. And Overlord talks about seeking what is being hidden underneath aquitas. Like, wow, I had completely forgotten that. I didnt know Overlord was also atfter the magnficence, it felt like a throwaway line but its clearly not that aymore. And now it makes sense as an added reason to take over garrus 9.

This is easily the most rereadable comic I have ever read.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:57 am

We are at the end of an era, with the final book in James Robert's Transformers saga about to be released. Lost Light 25 is an oversized issue coming in a 30 pages, practically double the length of a regular issue. Below is a very spoilery 5 page preview from Graphic Policy, so only read it if you are ok with knowing who died.

James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)

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…

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:06 am

It was Ratchet?

Also I've only ever read 2 comics:The one with centuritron "Into the Abyss"
and the one that came packaged with nightbeat " IDK "

Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:39 am

So at least Prowl, Windblade, and Earth survive Unicron. If this is years after Unicron 6 and Op25, shouldn’t it have been released last?

News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:43 am

Stormshot_Prime wrote:So at least Prowl, Windblade, and Earth survive Unicron. If this is years after Unicron 6 and Op25, shouldn’t it have been released last?

It was always intended to be released first and we still don’t know the entire issue so don’t let this let you draw to conclusions just yet. It is Roberts and he always subverts expectations. If this comic was to ruin the end of OP and unicron than it wouldn’t be first.