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Transformers: Lost Light #1 is the first ever variant for Bad Wolf Comics. This cover features art by Sajad Shah and colors by Juan Fernandez

CMI-SillySpringer wrote:So, Megatron's a Decepticon again?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

CMI-SillySpringer wrote:So, Megatron's a Decepticon again?

Nope, it's just an exclusive cover, so it really has no real bearings on the actual comic

Kurona wrote:Yeaaaah, I'm not really fond of this cover. It's pretty bland with nothing really going on, Rodimus' pose is really weird, and instead of representing the Megatron we actually have it basically shows G1 cartoon Megatron with a Fusion Cannon that got shrunk in the wash. Gimme RIPT's movie cover over this any day.

CMI-SillySpringer wrote:So, Megatron's a Decepticon again?

WreckerJack wrote:Man oh man if I had a printer I would color the heck out of these!

Coloring is relaxing, don't judge me!

Transformers: Lost Light #1
James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)
Five years ago, Rodimus and a collection of traumatised, lovelorn and/or sarcastic Autobots set off on a quest to find Cyberutopia. So far, they've made a right hash of it. They've misplaced their map. They've lost their ship, the Lost Light, to a mutinous escapologist. Oh, and they're dead.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99


Bullet points:
The crew from MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE might be dead, but the LOST LIGHT lives on!
Incredible artist Jack Lawrence (Skylanders, Micronauts) makes his Transformers debut with returning writer James Roberts (Transformers: MTMTE)!
Variant covers by Sara Pitre-Durocher, Sonny Liew, and Paul Pope!

Randomhero wrote:How is there a female Autobot on Luna 2 during the war. They didn't exist.

Blozor wrote:I swear to Primus if they made Megatron a Decepticon again just to sell toys and rendered his entire Season Two story arc obsolete and pointless I may be done with this comic.

Ravage's death actually made a 40-year-old man cry over a book about cartoon robots, and what it meant for Megatron was a huge part of that. They better not let Hasbro shard all over it.

There's three incentive covers with him wearing the purple symbol and none in red. Hashtag angry.

Black Bumblebee wrote:This was only 500 years ago. Colony worlds with female Transformers were established millions of years ago.

Kurona wrote:

Blozor wrote:I swear to Primus if they made Megatron a Decepticon again just to sell toys and rendered his entire Season Two story arc obsolete and pointless I may be done with this comic.

Ravage's death actually made a 40-year-old man cry over a book about cartoon robots, and what it meant for Megatron was a huge part of that. They better not let Hasbro shard all over it.

There's three incentive covers with him wearing the purple symbol and none in red. Hashtag angry.

Don't worry, they won't.
This is supposed to be (emphasis on supposed to be) a jumping-on point for new readers. So I guess it makes sense to put a Decepticon Megatron on the cover as he's more recognisable that way.

MrBlack wrote:

Black Bumblebee wrote:This was only 500 years ago. Colony worlds with female Transformers were established millions of years ago.

But the colonies have been out of contact for millions of years, and it has been established that Cybertron had not developed females aside from Arcee (who was...yeah).

The simplest solution is that Anode is male gendered and just has a lithe body. The body style isn't that far removed from, say, Starscream's depiction in TAAO.

MrBlack wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Blozor wrote:I swear to Primus if they made Megatron a Decepticon again just to sell toys and rendered his entire Season Two story arc obsolete and pointless I may be done with this comic.

Ravage's death actually made a 40-year-old man cry over a book about cartoon robots, and what it meant for Megatron was a huge part of that. They better not let Hasbro shard all over it.

There's three incentive covers with him wearing the purple symbol and none in red. Hashtag angry.

Don't worry, they won't.
This is supposed to be (emphasis on supposed to be) a jumping-on point for new readers. So I guess it makes sense to put a Decepticon Megatron on the cover as he's more recognisable that way.

First rule of comics: Never trust the cover.

Especially variant covers.

Kurona wrote:And do remember Thunderclash picked up Windblade, Nautica, Velocity and a whole host of other camiens before Cybertron as a whole new about the colony worlds. This situation isn't quite without precedent.

Big Grim wrote:Lug's face there as he pinches the bridge of his nose is perfect!

Randomhero wrote:I love the subtle jab at the fandom with what anode found on Alina 2

Big Grim wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I love the subtle jab at the fandom with what anode found on Alina 2

You mean the special snowflake?

MrBlack wrote:I find it interesting that most of the crew is sporting a grey Autobrand to honor Skids except for Tailgate, Brainstorm, and Megatron. I can see Brainstorm and Megatron not doing it because it smacks of sentiment and spirituality, but Tailgate?

Oddly enough, Tailgate's sporting a consistently black Autobot symbol like most others during the beginning of the issue,



But after his rest it's consistently red. Maybe it's a side effect of him resting but I'm more tempted to say error.

Randomhero wrote:Wasn't a bad issue at all the only thing I'd say I felt disappointed with was the reveal of what happened in remain in Light. That was a hell of an ending and the reveal of what the Geo Bomb did felt like it took away that climactic ending.

ScottyP wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Wasn't a bad issue at all the only thing I'd say I felt disappointed with was the reveal of what happened in remain in Light. That was a hell of an ending and the reveal of what the Geo Bomb did felt like it took away that climactic ending.

I still think that it wasn't a Geobomb, and that it was something else. The kind of something else that caused their transport into the Functionist Universe. The coordinates for Cybertron were right, they just won't ever get to the one they were expecting because they've been 'sploded through the fabric of spacetime.

On an unrelated note, that splash page with Pharma facing down Grimlock, Rodimus, and Drift, coupled with the "Prepare, Confront, Repel" message scratched into something. Holy crap. I can't wait for more.

Kurona wrote:

MrBlack wrote:I find it interesting that most of the crew is sporting a grey Autobrand to honor Skids except for Tailgate, Brainstorm, and Megatron. I can see Brainstorm and Megatron not doing it because it smacks of sentiment and spirituality, but Tailgate?

Oddly enough, Tailgate's sporting a consistently black Autobot symbol like most others during the beginning of the issue,



But after his rest it's consistently red. Maybe it's a side effect of him resting but I'm more tempted to say error.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Wild theory: what if the geobomb did go off and the planet did seemingly die to those in the regular universe, but in reality it just transported the planet to another dimension?

Bounti76 wrote:I suspect I'm not the only one, but I found Anode completely and thoroughly annoying. Almost every line she spoke was a "witty" quip of some sort that only served to make me hate her more with every panel she appeared in. I was glad when Swerve told her off and she seemed to feel some tiny bit of remorse. It was the only thing in the issue she did that gave her any sort of depth.

ScottyP wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Wild theory: what if the geobomb did go off and the planet did seemingly die to those in the regular universe, but in reality it just transported the planet to another dimension?

That's uh, kinda what my post on the last page said. Or at least what I was trying to say

Kurona wrote:It could be any number of things, really. IIRC Dying of the Light didn't explicitly say the Galactic Council did have a Geobomb - only that some of the characters had heard they did, and that Nightbeat and Rung recognized the object they ran into as a Geobomb.
Doesn't mean it IS a Geobomb. Whatever it actually is may have in fact functioned as it was supposed to.
And, of course, little wonder characters would have heard rumours of the council owning a Geobomb if what they actually did own looked exactly like a Geobomb.

Bit confused that everyone's calling it an anticlimax with no payoff as if the object being a Geobomb was the only possibility and as if a Geobomb fizzling out is indeed what happened. Might have been what happened, but we really don't know yet.


I personally loved Anode. I suppose there's an argument to be made that she's too quirky and one-linery, but hey; Swerve started off just like that and he's wonderful. And there's already some pretty interesting set-up with her and Velocity, as well as her (apparently) doing something to Drift... I find her intriguing already.

Randomhero wrote:Roberts confirmed it was a geobomb in a interview he did in September.

RevTibe wrote:Now, call me crazy (DO IT), but has anyone noticed how, after prominently not quite reaching Anode's hand for the time-jump, no cast member besides Anode directly interacts with Lug? He makes plenty of comments, but every other character just seems to react to/look at Anode. Are we going to discover that Bruce Willis is a ghost, again?

Randomhero wrote:Roberts confirmed it was a geobomb in a interview he did in September.

Hasn't he twisted the truth before, when answering a question to which "I won't answer that one right now!" would be too telling? (Didn't he say Getaway knew the DJD would be on the Necroworld, when it's later revealed he didn't?)