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Jeysie, Prowl and Magnus both come back into their own at the end of Wreckers.

WE already know Prowl was involved, but #5 (out next week), is going to wrap the series up quite well for everyone, and maybe restore some faith in IDW's TF comics.

I dig LSOTW. It takes a set of obscure, or unused characters and builds them up.

Characterization is great, we know a lot about many of the characters that we did not know earlier. The art is good, it goes into the realm of too cartoon-y at times (especially in facial expressions), but I still find it excellent.

I've read a draft of Ongoing 7, 8. I think the new arc is going to, unfortunately, support more of Jeysie's rehash idea. I'm not going to give too much of anything away, but there are missing cons after AHM and CODA wrapped, and we start to find out about them... the ones not trapped on Earth in Swindle's group.

tigertracks 24 wrote:Jeysie, Prowl and Magnus both come back into their own at the end of Wreckers.

WE already know Prowl was involved, but #5 (out next week), is going to wrap the series up quite well for everyone, and maybe restore some faith in IDW's TF comics.

Well, it'll continue my faith in Roche's ability to pay attention to and build off existing continuity in interesting ways.

But the only thing that will restore my faith in IDW comics at large is when every other writer learns how to do that. Because, in the grand scheme of things, what Roche does with given characters means precisely jack outside of that mini if the other writers simply ignore/retcon it like they've been doing lately.

That's not to say Roche's writing isn't still deeply appreciated; it just means that I think of Wreckers as just being a self-contained bit of enjoyment that will have little to no real impact on anything else, based on IDW's current track record. Wreckers being good really means nothing about the rest of IDW's output, sadly.

Certainly Costa felt free to ignore and/or retcon Roche's last attempt at interesting characterization, and Ongoing Magnus and Prowl act pretty much nothing like Wreckers Magnus and Prowl (or, -ations Magnus and Prowl, for that matter).