Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 1:17PM CDT

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Flamin' Magnificent
(Spoiler free-ish)

Synopsis
All sides converge on Troja Major as the race to unlock the secrets of a unique Cybertronian reaches its desperate, violent conclusion. As old secrets are revealed, Nautica must pay the ultimate price—by resorting to the ultimate currency.

Not sure Ursula looks good as a robot

Story
The other comic released today by IDW Publishing - after the onslaught of news from the weekend, still brimming my newsing cup - is the second part to this interlude arc before we return to the ship proper, with Lost Light #9 ending the stay on Troja Major and opening some proverbial cans of cyberworms, by digging into old soil.

and also death

At the end of last issue, we had split the party in two, with Velocity and Nautica dealing on one side with a more emotional issue for practical gain - and that is pretty much still the case, with some severe manipulation of grief, friendship, and overall being an asshole dragged into looking for solutions, while also enabling bad, even (self)abusive behaviour.

SADISTS I TELL YOU

On the other, we return to new!Lug and Anode, as they face one of the Clans that might finally be driving the story forwards again from before we were stuck in the Functionist universe. That old soil I mentioned? We're going back to Garrus 9, among other things, and the connections you can draw are many, except perhaps where the story ends up leading.

How about The One Perfect Summer kind of old..?

My biggest gripe about the issue, though? The overall story gets shoved forward in the conclusion, with the almost entirety of everything else ending very abruptly for the constraints of the page or the book itself. Plot revolving around any of the four characters was teased, and nothing (allow me the hyperbole) happened. We got character beats, we got some development of relations, but no plot until the last pages. More on this below.

Art

With all that said about the story as writing, I cannot fault the return of Priscilla Tramontano on art to conclude this mini-arc with visual consistency. If there is a particularly heavy reliance of the plot on the emotional side of bargains and grief, Tramontano's art excels in conveying how those operate for the characters personally, and brings the full force of the feeling to the reader - while never losing sight of the composition of the page.

Look at that transformation composition line headed forwards!

Equally, Joana Lafuente helps push what might otherwise be slower action forward, by adding the right touches of accent to the expressions and body language - while keeping coherent and consistent lighting angles, too - for a more rounded and full effect for the readers.

Smashing!

As shown in the image above, the lettering of Tom B. Long is also still at its full dynamic force, working perfectly with the art and incorporating the script nicely into the panels, without ever reducing the space unnecessarily - and rightly so. All covers have been uploaded to our database page for the issue - including the originally TAAO-intended variant by Zero B - and we're re-using the Jack Lawrence / Lafuente main variant for the thumbnail.

Thoughts
Spoilerish ahead

Thinking back on my negative reading of Lost Light #9, I was conferring with other Seibertron.com readers, and we shared some points: the plot that deals with Nautica felt particularly exploitative, of character and reader alike; the conclusion of the issue is where the story picks up again, only to go into entirely unknown (but still anticipated, don't get me wrong) territory next month. It felt jarring, and as if we could've had more space for any of the threads seeded in the past two months.

...I mean..

The emotional tugging that was obviously present in the script is very well handled by Tramontano and Lafuente, of course, as I say above, but in this particular instance it was not enough for me to fully enjoy the book, overwhelmed by the frustration of a recurring writing device in Roberts' approach to 'overstory', if you will. Let's see how he'll Get Away with this one, next month.

½ out of

Credit(s): IDW

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Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910715)
Posted by Randomhero on September 13th, 2017 @ 2:06pm CDT

This is once again a red dwarf/Star Trek knock off story. This is Star Trek 5. It's freaking Star Trek 5!!! A machine(Sybock) that can literally take away your grief and pain.

Seriously a scene jumps with the corner saying "one brisk getaway later" yeah because it wasn't like the scene where they were escaping wasn't anything big. It certainly wasn't a secret cybertronian faction nobody has ever seen before under orders to track down and kill a couple characters that they were able to track and find at a bar in a heavily populated city so honestly tracking them to a space port would be nothing.

This is stupid. This is utterly stupid.

Nice to see scorponok back though. But it wasn't like it was too difficult to figure out it was him.

And the moment they said "we left Skids brain module" it was straight up: okay well skids will be back in a year or two either by the Cog faction or by that chick but Skids will be back

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910725)
Posted by Stormshot_Prime on September 13th, 2017 @ 3:22pm CDT

So it looks like the Skid's revival plot is over for a good while. With the 3 parter coming up on the Lost Light itself I doubt we'll see much of Team Rodimus.

But what the hell where did Scorponok come from? Either way, I'm glad that he's there. I feellike he had a lot of story left after not seeing him like 8 years. His role makes a lot of sense considering what we've seen in MTMTE

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910740)
Posted by SureShot18 on September 13th, 2017 @ 5:45pm CDT

I liked this issue quite a bit. It had some of the character stuff I love in this comic and it was entertaining. I will say that it felt like the issue ended way too abruptly though.

About that last page, I've only read MTMTE and Lost Light so it didn't have much weight besides "Oh that's Scorponok, I've heard people say that he's been gone awhile. I'd like to see him appear more in Lost Light for sure.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910749)
Posted by Soundwave902 on September 13th, 2017 @ 6:56pm CDT

My theory for Scorponok is that just before his spark extraction, Overlord invaded and let him out. Afterwards, he fights in the gladiatorial combat arena until his second-to-last bout where he realizes no-one who faces Overlord comes. Scorponok then stole Skyquake's Worldburner (taking Grimlock with him to experiment on a 0.1 Percenter) which brought him to a hub which he has maintained. After becoming brainwashed, Grimlock is shot into space aboard a Worldburner aimed at Clemency, a presumed dead world, to serve as the Infinite's protector.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910750)
Posted by Kurona on September 13th, 2017 @ 7:00pm CDT

Soundwave902 wrote:My theory for Scorponok is that just before his spark extraction, Overlord invaded and let him out. Afterwards, he fights in the gladiatorial combat arena until his second-to-last bout where he realizes no-one who faces Overlord comes. Scorponok then stole Skyquake's Worldburner (taking Grimlock with him to experiment on a 0.1 Percenter) which brought him to a hub which he has maintained. After becoming brainwashed, Grimlock is shot into space aboard a Worldburner aimed at Clemency, a presumed dead world, to serve as the Infinite's protector.

In the original plans for LSotW, Scorponok was originally meant to be Overlord's right-hand man -- this was axed because they wanted to keep a bigger focus on lesser-known characters.
Regardless, I've no doubt his appearance here spins off from a revamped version of those plans or at least has something to do with Garrus-9

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910761)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 13th, 2017 @ 8:31pm CDT

Ooohh we are BACK baby! I defy anyone to read this issue and hark on about "mtmte not being like it used to" [-(

The reveals- both of them- on the final page are very exciting, even if I don't know too much about their backstory having only really read from DOOP onwards

I do feel that wipe-outs line on the last panel in which the main cast feature could have been given a moment to settle. A blank (non-dialogue) panel or something, just to have a beat after it. As it was, I was already reading the next scene before the emotional impact of the line hit me.

Also, given the unique nature of our new friend, this confirms the idea that the symbols reference the Guiding Hand (another one looks exactly like mortilus' face) and cements our current group as those following Adaptus, right? I do so love it when a theory comes together.
An odd choice of faction leader but then I don't know his IDW background much...

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910766)
Posted by Burn on September 13th, 2017 @ 8:55pm CDT

So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910785)
Posted by Daniel Adkins on September 13th, 2017 @ 9:35pm CDT

Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910798)
Posted by ScottyP on September 13th, 2017 @ 10:30pm CDT

Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

The good part about this one is that there's very little to remember. It was one of Furman's plots that got destroyed by AHM so it wouldn't shock me to see Roberts re-explain it or thoroughly retcon it to seem different than past perception would have allowed.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910800)
Posted by Burn on September 13th, 2017 @ 10:40pm CDT

Daniel Adkins wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

I'm well aware of how comics work thank you.

I just find these Transformer comics seem to like to throw back to some small plot point from years ago and we're expected to remember them.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910818)
Posted by Randomhero on September 14th, 2017 @ 12:13am CDT

Burn wrote:
Daniel Adkins wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

I'm well aware of how comics work thank you.

I just find these Transformer comics seem to like to throw back to some small plot point from years ago and we're expected to remember them.

Yes Scorponok certainly was just a small plot point years ago. He totally wasn't the dude who first introduced headmasters in IDW and was the mastermind behind the Machination an organization that was the behind a half the stuff going in the first 5 years of IDWs universe and wasn't the main villain in Maximum dinobots and certainty didn't play the main villain in monstrocity a couple years ago.

Such a nothing character to be forced to remember.

Real reason:
Because he's getting a new toy in a year or two and it's time to bring him back to build on it. There's your actual explanation.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910844)
Posted by Kurona on September 14th, 2017 @ 6:37am CDT

ScottyP wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?
The good part about this one is that there's very little to remember. It was one of Furman's plots that got destroyed by AHM so it wouldn't shock me to see Roberts re-explain it or thoroughly retcon it to seem different than past perception would have allowed.

Heck, is there anything to remember? We learned little to nothing about the Magnificence during Furman's run, nor did we see Scorponok having any interest in it; only focusing on his Headmaster stuff. This is just bringing in past elements in a new way that doesn't actually require you to remember anything but is a great nod to fans who have followed this long nonetheless. If anything, so far it's looking like a perfect example of how to bring something back.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910853)
Posted by Va'al on September 14th, 2017 @ 7:19am CDT

Randomhero wrote:
Burn wrote:
Daniel Adkins wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

I'm well aware of how comics work thank you.

I just find these Transformer comics seem to like to throw back to some small plot point from years ago and we're expected to remember them.

Yes Scorponok certainly was just a small plot point years ago. He totally wasn't the dude who first introduced headmasters in IDW and was the mastermind behind the Machination an organization that was the behind a half the stuff going in the first 5 years of IDWs universe and wasn't the main villain in Maximum dinobots and certainty didn't play the main villain in monstrocity a couple years ago.

Such a nothing character to be forced to remember.

Real reason:
Because he's getting a new toy in a year or two and it's time to bring him back to build on it. There's your actual explanation.

All of that happened, at the latest, in 2009. That's 8 years ago.
Burn's complaint here is legitimate, and I don't understand why people are so annoyed about it.

I share the exact same thoughts as him on this issue, and I've been conductin research with non-TF readers to confirm my suspicions - and lo! if you weren't in at the ground floor, you simply don't care for most 'twists' or 'reveals'. I understand this is how comics work, I know IDW TF is not the only narrative that does it, but

It's A Legitimate Complaint.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910885)
Posted by ricemazter on September 14th, 2017 @ 8:59am CDT

Randomhero wrote:
Burn wrote:
Daniel Adkins wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

I'm well aware of how comics work thank you.

I just find these Transformer comics seem to like to throw back to some small plot point from years ago and we're expected to remember them.

Yes Scorponok certainly was just a small plot point years ago. He totally wasn't the dude who first introduced headmasters in IDW and was the mastermind behind the Machination an organization that was the behind a half the stuff going in the first 5 years of IDWs universe and wasn't the main villain in Maximum dinobots and certainty didn't play the main villain in monstrocity a couple years ago.

Such a nothing character to be forced to remember.

Real reason:
Because he's getting a new toy in a year or two and it's time to bring him back to build on it. There's your actual explanation.

Well, since AHM happened and forced everything Furman had built up to that point on the back burner, I can't blame anyone who doesn't remember him or care. (Even the whole introduction of headmasters thing has been retconned) I'd wager a sizeable portion of readers have only been reading since the beginning of phase 2, so they might only remember Scorponok from Monstrosity.

I haven't read the last two issues, but isn't this the second in a row that has ended on the reveal of a somewhat well known character we haven't seen in years being revealed as a big gasp moment?

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910888)
Posted by Kurona on September 14th, 2017 @ 9:02am CDT

Nah. Flame showed up last issue as a sort-of-kind-of gasp moment, but only a few pages before the end and in a way that there was more going on to gasp about than just his being there. Instead, last issue ended on the revelation that Nautica had Skids' brain.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910890)
Posted by ScottyP on September 14th, 2017 @ 9:08am CDT

Not to mention Flame and Scorponok are miles apart on a scale of being recognizable to the average TF reader, even for Marvel UK fans that would more readily even know who the hell Flame is.

Wrestling analogy: LL 8 had Sandman return at the end, LL 9 had Kevin Nash show up.

If that doesn't register, Marvel analogy: LL 8 had Mr. Sinister show up, LL 9 had Juggernaut

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910891)
Posted by Kurona on September 14th, 2017 @ 9:18am CDT

Ooh, this game is fun!

Doctor Who analogy:-

LL8 had the Macra, LL9 had The Rani. :lol:

Either way, yeah, I totally get ya. Anyone who only read post-DOOP - heck, that's where I recommend to start reading - will have no clue who this is unless they're at least Level 2 of Transformers nerdery. I'm really looking forward to him running into Rodimus, Ultra Magnus and Grimlock again though

Now, where the hell is Sixshot?

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910908)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on September 14th, 2017 @ 10:44am CDT

Randomhero wrote:
Burn wrote:
Daniel Adkins wrote:
Burn wrote:So once again I am expected to remember stuff that happened years ago?

WELCOME TO COMICS!

I'm well aware of how comics work thank you.

I just find these Transformer comics seem to like to throw back to some small plot point from years ago and we're expected to remember them.

Yes Scorponok certainly was just a small plot point years ago. He totally wasn't the dude who first introduced headmasters in IDW and was the mastermind behind the Machination an organization that was the behind a half the stuff going in the first 5 years of IDWs universe and wasn't the main villain in Maximum dinobots and certainty didn't play the main villain in monstrocity a couple years ago.

Such a nothing character to be forced to remember.

That's not what Burn was talking about. Of course it's easy to remember Scorponok. But like Va'al said, the last time he was in IDW was nearly a decade ago. That's a long time in the comics world and we can't be expected to remember every little detail regarding the character, especially if the last main story he was in got just kinda pushed to the side by AHM. So just because you remember better than others, doesn't mean you should be condescending.

Real reason:
Because he's getting a new toy in a year or two and it's time to bring him back to build on it. There's your actual explanation.

I agree with this 100%.

I would love to see a Maximus-Scorponok story.

And yes, where is Sixshot?

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910927)
Posted by ScottyP on September 14th, 2017 @ 12:01pm CDT

Rodimus Prime wrote:And yes, where is Sixshot?

With the Throttlebots set to return in Optimus Prime #13, I imagine we'll get at least some hint of this soon!

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910935)
Posted by Chibi Starscream on September 14th, 2017 @ 12:52pm CDT

I just started reading this and I'm really enjoying it.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910939)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 14th, 2017 @ 1:16pm CDT

Very much agree with Rod that a max/scorp story would be delightful
Those two as faction leaders makes me nostalgic for the good old days of... reading marvel TBPs in the local library, over a decade after the issues were first published :oops:

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910941)
Posted by Kurona on September 14th, 2017 @ 1:29pm CDT

Considering Maximus' rival in this is Overlord and considering we've now got the expanded universe going... throw Ginrai into MASK, give him an Optimus Prime suit and shoot him into space to kick Scorponok's ass!

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910967)
Posted by ScottyP on September 14th, 2017 @ 4:51pm CDT

Kurona wrote:Considering Maximus' rival in this is Overlord and considering we've now got the expanded universe going... throw Ginrai into MASK, give him an Optimus Prime suit and shoot him into space to kick Scorponok's ass!

Masterforce is such a natural fit for the Hasbroverse at this point, the lack of it could make you think it was Funpub writing these books.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910968)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on September 14th, 2017 @ 4:57pm CDT

Maximus/Overlord never felt right to me. Especially since it's been so one-sided. In LSoTW Overlord tortured and mutilated Maximus, and Max has never gotten revenge, even though it's been 6 years. Yeah, he got a couple of shots in on the Lost Light when Overlord escaped, but it nowhere near what Overlord did to him. So unless Max gets to rip Overlord apart (which I don't see happening, unless Max gets a huge upgrade, due to Overlord being a Phase 6-er) it's not a rivalry. Maximus and Scorponok go together much better.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1910973)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 14th, 2017 @ 5:10pm CDT

A huge upgrade you say?

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911011)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on September 14th, 2017 @ 7:05pm CDT

Yeah, but that was temporary. :-P

It would be pretty cool to see Overlord take on a Maximus-driven Titan, even if the fight made Overlord look like the ultimate badass. But I guess it would be fair, since Overlord is a Phase-6-er.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911086)
Posted by Va'al on September 15th, 2017 @ 9:21am CDT

Some fanning:

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/165 ... at-tfcon-i

Original Milne sketch:

Final version:

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911088)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 15th, 2017 @ 9:28am CDT

Ooh Va'al you do know how to spoil a man.
Honestly though I'd be almost tempted not to think too much into it. I feel like the symbols/guiding hand/clans thing has been a long-term plan of Roberts', in this case he likely just said "draw a mysterious faction symbol" without giving much detail until later in the process.
Which, now that I say it, doesnt at all sound like Roberts' MO, he's well known for having intricately detailed scripts. The thick plottens...

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911090)
Posted by Kurona on September 15th, 2017 @ 9:31am CDT

Could also easily be early plans before he decided on something else.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911117)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 15th, 2017 @ 11:04am CDT

Ok, so first, a recap of the stuff I had dug up on the mystery bots I posted last week (Skip through if you've already read)

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:So I wanted to make this post in regards to the mysterious bots from issue 46 of MTMTE and that showed up again in LL #8. It's sort of a "track them through the issues" thing.

So:

First little thing was MTMTE 19's reveal of the constructed cold trials with Tyrest. Flame is on trial, and includes the desecration of bodies and other related crimes.

Story first really starts in Last Stand of the Wreckers. Overlord takes over the prison for over 3 years, and during that time Grimlock disappears and Flame must've disappeared too, as he was an Autobot and Overlord ordered all bots to be killed at the end (and they were), so he had to have been spirited away too. MTMTE issue 6 would also state that when Overlord was interrogating Fort Max, he stated that he didn't want Aequitus, he wanted what it was built to hide. We thought nothing of it at the time, but what if there was something, and that's where Grimlock and Flame went?

Forward to MTMTE 7 and 8 with the Scavengers. They find a symbol ship with aborted protoforms and a wooden robot (sound familiar LL 8 coffin bot?) along with Grimlock, who is brain damaged and basically doesn't even know who he is. He was used for something that damaged him internally, whether it be by actual surgical procedures or a case of Skids where his experiences damaged him emotionally/psychologically.

Potentially related but uncertain at this point: MTMTE 21. Skids sees through Tyrest's portal to cyberutopia. A spark that speaks in pictures, and the pictures include a bot and con symbol and the Lost Light, along with the "symbol" and 5 planets/moons, and the setting of cyberutopia is even 5 planets/moons. Pharma, who was already found by Tyrest, has his headless corpse pulled through by tentacles before it closes. Tyrest also disappears ala Magnus hand trick style. Star Saber teleports away half blinded and hasn't been seen or heard from since.

MTMTE 42 shows Thunderclash's map and the "symbol" again, and as it uses plug outlets for the symbol, it would appear to indicate that this is something related to power potentially.

MTMTE 46 shows the mysterious bots for the first time. More protoforms hidden by standard transformers practice who are protected by the mystery bots in exchange for hiding whatever operation is happening. Mention is made of another location, which is visited by the bots in issues 8 and 9 of LL. Also shows Grimlock drawing the symbol and writing a phrase that Drift would later see in his LL1 vision.

MTMTE 50 shows the bots discussing the symbol and the things they have learned about their quest. Indication is made that these symbol guys are part of one of the 5 clans of the Knights. we have also seen 5 planets/moons related to the symbol that is most prevalent.

MTMTE 54: Skids, the one bot who saw the other side of the portal and thus what the spark said, dies.

LL1: Drift has his vision that includes himself, Rodimus, and Grimlock facing off against Pharma and an army of Sparkeaters and symbol ships, with the message Grim was writing etched into the ground and it is raining those crystal things that in

LL5: we find out Rung's true purpose is to create these crystals, which is crucial in the process of birthing new cybertronians.

LL6: Anode is shown to be a blacksmith who crafts the crystals from Rung to allow for new cybertronians to be born.

LL8: mystery bots show up again, led by Flame, and they are still using a symbol ship and they are after blacksmiths who craft life while they are at a location where protoforms are being grown. There is also a robot who turns into a wooden coffin, killed by the black block consortia.

If I missed anything, please add to this!

And now, updated with the stuff we learned this issue, complete with thoughts:

Well, ok, so this issue has me torn in 2 very different fronts. For one thing, I have similar complaints to when we were dealing with the personality ticks: we are dealing with very outlandish stuff that to me really didn't work. That whole process felt sort of half-hearted and I wasn't that impressed with the whole bring Skids back to life thing. And then now Nautica doesn't even care about him, which kinda really sucks. It felt like yet another filler issue, and the same was said for Anode and Lugs part. There really wasn't too much weight behind it, and I felt like we got very little for what could have been.

Now mind you, the last 2 pages are where things really hit. At first, it was like the end of Sweath, where there is a huge reveal calling back to something really far back in IDW that elevated an otherwise lackluster story. But then, this is more than that. Think about it related to that large "overall bad guys post" that I posted in the LL thread last week. This isn't just finding the Necrobot, this is tying in a story that could be said to start back in Devastation era times. And it makes so much more sense that Scorponok, who was really missing and it was weird he was, being in G9 with all that stuff, and now he is the glue holding this entire story together. His rivalry with Grimlock is why Grim is involved. Scorp knew of Flame and his moral ambiguity and thus employed him. Scorponok has always tampered with life, and the Magnificence being involved with a story that has Hot Rod/Rodimus in it again, and it having been missing and being so much more than was thought. That last page was Swearth done right. It was a reveal that really sets things up for the rest of the series, tied so many over-arcing things together, and pulls strings dating back what 10,12 years? This is what Roberts is good at, and it is finally showing through. The last page got me back, pulled me back into that story. We are finally getting the payoff with thousands of clues that have been riddled in for over a decade.

IN SHORT OF LONG ASS POST

Things are falling in place, this is the sort of thing I like, Lost Light may be getting back on track. It just needs to stop the really strange stuff distracting us from the major things that only get a page or 2 dedicated to them

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911155)
Posted by snavej on September 15th, 2017 @ 12:44pm CDT

So, if Mengel removed most or all of Nautica's feelings for Skids, surely that will have a knock-on effect in her mind. All thoughts in a mind are connected, sometimes in obvious ways and sometimes more subtly. I reckon that Nautica will be faced with further problems due to this memory deletion: a slow unravelling of the mind. She may find it harder to feel love/friendship for others in her circle. Of course, that will affect some characters around her. It all depends how much effect Mengel's machine had on her brain: how deep were the cuts, so to speak. :-s

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911835)
Posted by Big Grim on September 19th, 2017 @ 12:33pm CDT

Kurona wrote:Considering Maximus' rival in this is Overlord and considering we've now got the expanded universe going... throw Ginrai into MASK, give him an Optimus Prime suit and shoot him into space to kick Scorponok's ass!

That is a bitchin' idea! Love it!

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911908)
Posted by ScottyP on September 19th, 2017 @ 10:14pm CDT

Rounding out the new covers seen on PreviewsWorld today are three covers for the upcoming and presumably delayed until October Lost Light #10. This first chapter in "The Mutineers Trilogy" will have a main cover available by Jack Lawrence, being seen here in color for the first time. Additionally, variant covers by Nick Roche and Marcelo Matere will also be available, the latter being a 10-copy Retailer Incentive cover. While covers don't always indicate the events to come, some readers may not be surprised by one of these new covers' depictions of the latest captain of the Lost Light as he deals with another famous Autobot! Check them all out mirrored below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest news on IDW's Transformers and Hasbro Universe comics.

(W) James Roberts (A/CA) Jack Lawrence
HOMECOMING! FIRST AID, the Autobots' Chief Medical Officer, returns to the Lost Light to find that everything has changed: the ship is now under the command of the treacherous GETAWAY, half of his closest friends are missing, and - most shocking of all - the crew is actually making progress...

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911921)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 20th, 2017 @ 2:30am CDT

Okay, I seriously adore that Lawrence cove. Are we up to... 4 now? Season one with Rod, season two with Megs, Swearth and this one?

Also, for anyone (myself included) worried about Thunderclash's moral scrupulousness and whether he'd actually go along with the mutiny? As Scotty highlights, I think cover 2 gives you your answer

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Posted by Big Grim on September 20th, 2017 @ 5:35am CDT

All of those covers are great!

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1911946)
Posted by Windsweeper on September 20th, 2017 @ 8:18am CDT

Those covers look great especially the group one. I'm just disappointed Bluestreak and Hound would go along with the mutiny. Along with Trailbreaker, they were always the nice bots of the G1 Ark crew.

Of course, as I type this I remember Bluestreak's tech spec motto, "I never met a Decepticon I didn't dislike".

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 20th, 2017 @ 11:26am CDT

Every one of those covers are really sweet!

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Posted by william-james88 on September 20th, 2017 @ 11:27am CDT

Alex Milne is synonymous with the Lost Light crew, the team of Transformers found in the IDW More than Meets the Eye and Lost Light series. Even Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus is based on his designs. While he left when the book changed its name to Lost Light, James Roberts, the author, has now revealed that Alex Milne will be drawing this team again in Lost Light number 13. After that, he come back at a later date for a longer run on the book.

Here are the tweets from Roberts:

At last it can be revealed! @markerguru makes his Lost Light debut (interiors) with issue #13!

Just for this standalone issue, but he'll be back for a longer run.

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Posted by WreckerJack on September 20th, 2017 @ 3:46pm CDT

Alex Milne is awesome and I am so glad he is returning. I wish we had more of the crew from MTMTE.

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Posted by Prime Nova on September 20th, 2017 @ 3:58pm CDT

So that's #12,13 - unless the listing for #12 was wrong

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Posted by SureShot18 on September 20th, 2017 @ 4:04pm CDT

Sweet! Milne's art is fantastic and it's been my phone wallpaper many times. However I hope this isn't just because of what people (myself included, albeit to a lesser extent) have been saying about Lawrence's art.

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Posted by Kurona on September 20th, 2017 @ 4:06pm CDT

I personally can't wait to see Anode and Lug drawn by Milne

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Posted by Bounti76 on September 20th, 2017 @ 4:34pm CDT

Kurona wrote:I personally can't wait to see Anode and Lug drawn by Milne

No need to wait! They're between Rodimus' right arm and leg, unless Milne didn't draw that cover.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1912069)
Posted by Kurona on September 20th, 2017 @ 4:38pm CDT

Bounti76 wrote:
Kurona wrote:I personally can't wait to see Anode and Lug drawn by Milne

No need to wait! They're between Rodimus' right arm and leg, unless Milne didn't draw that cover.

True, but as a part of the story

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Posted by Deadput on September 20th, 2017 @ 7:25pm CDT

Windsweeper wrote:Those covers look great especially the group one. I'm just disappointed Bluestreak and Hound would go along with the mutiny. Along with Trailbreaker, they were always the nice bots of the G1 Ark crew.

Of course, as I type this I remember Bluestreak's tech spec motto, "I never met a Decepticon I didn't dislike".

This ain't G1, there was never an Ark crew in IDW and 95 percent of the Autobots are edgy douche bags so personality means nothing unless their sarcastic or snarky meme spewing or Ratchet.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1912134)
Posted by Quint on September 21st, 2017 @ 2:21am CDT

Ooh, Milne's back, excellent.

I'll actually give this series another shot and start buying it again if they make his return permanent.

Hopefully Slim Jim has realised what's best for the comic now.

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1912184)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 21st, 2017 @ 10:35am CDT

Yknow much as in excited for Milne on LL, I think it was really for the best that we switched. Not only have I grown to love Lawrence's art but it's well known that Robert's style of very detailed scripts doesn't gel well with Milne's desire for creative freedom. I don't think for a minute there's any bad blood between the two, but I feel a break can have only been a good thing.
Also agreed windsweeper (though about different characters, riptide I kinda expected but percy?), though in gonna assume that all is not sunshine and rainbows aboard the LL. By these covers thunders clearly ain't too keen, and First Aid almost certainly won't be either- I wonder who else is gonna be on their side when push comes to shove. It might be we have a full fledged mutiny...iny. Mutinutiny? Hmmmm, I don't wanna go for the obvious "mutinception" but nothing else works quite as well :lol:

Re: Review of IDW Transformers: Lost Light #9 (1912206)
Posted by DeadCaL on September 21st, 2017 @ 1:56pm CDT

I'd really like to see him continue to do things other than Lost Light. You can tell he's having alot of fun on Shining Armour

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Posted by Mugshot on September 21st, 2017 @ 2:23pm CDT

I love the cover!

Never thought in 4 million years you could make a 'bot like Hoist look mean lol

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Posted by Va'al on October 4th, 2017 @ 4:24pm CDT

And finally, in our iTunes previews of upcoming IDW Publishing comics today, we have the first three pages of the series featuring the actual ship after which the series itself is titled: Lost Light #10, and the return of Getaway's crew (for three issues at least)! Check it out below, and head back here in a couple of weeks for more.

HOMECOMING! FIRST AID, the Autobots' Chief Medical Officer, returns to the Lost Light to find that everything has changed: the ship is now under the command of the treacherous GETAWAY, half of his closest friends are missing, and—most shocking of all—the crew is actually making progress...