"A war that involves death? Preposterous!"
Man, TF fans can get so friggin butthurt over death sometimes, heck even I can be that way. But at least I can admit that Sunstreaker's death was
epic enough that I could let it slide. I was actually disappointed when they brought him back in Transformers: Ironhide.
In fact if there's any Transformers writer I want to be pissed off at, it's probably Mike Costa. Seriously, if Ironhide taking a shot for Hot Rod wasn't meant to piss people off then I don't know what is. Transformers: Ironhide feels like a big convoluted apology (whether or not it was planned from the beginning) with Sunstreaker's revival just thrown in to make himself look better.
Also I dislike Costa for making Transformers Ongoing boring and
stupid as hell.
*edit*
I should point out the fact that while the Mosaic
Hail and Fairwell may have been written by Simon Furman, Mosaic is by no means owned by IDW Publishing and thus any stories told within are
not canon.
On that note, there is a chance that Shane McCarthy was not aware of the existence of said Mosaic while writing All Hail Megatron. It should also be noted that, in general, IDW Publishing (or just about any company that has owned wrights to Transformers) have had a history of terrible communication between their writers and artists.