*hyperventilating* *talking too fast*
We’ve only got a few more issues (seven counting this one) of Lost Light and that’s plenty of time to answer a lot of questions except we’ve been waiting for the resolution of the Getway thing for a year now GO FASTER.
Sorry. See below for a spoiler-free review of Transformers Lost Light #19.
First of all, the art: E.J. Su did a great job of channeling Jack Lawrence’s style, and I say this because I was halfway through the issue before I realized it wasn’t Jack Lawrence. Joana Lafuente’s colors help to make everything familiar, the difference is in the little details, oddly enough most noticeable in the mouths (Rodimus’ isn’t usually so square when he’s frowning: that’s not a bad thing, just different.) There were some shortcuts taken in a few faces, but all in all very solid work this issue.
As for the story (and I’ve gotta be pretty vague to stay spoiler-free) remember last issue when I said I was pretty sure I recognized who showed up at the end? Well I was right, and I now know who it is, and what it is. The problem is I don’t know how they got where they are, or ended up in the condition they’re in. I also don’t know how the ship found them, or what they meant by drilling, or what that particular hallucination (…if it is one…) is all about. I can’t tell if I’ve missed an issue (unlikely) forgotten a plot point (totally likely) or if James Roberts dropped us into the middle of a situation and we’ll hear the explanation later (…which is not as likely as me forgetting a plot point, but it’s still possible.) Weigh in at the comments (designated Spoiler Zone) if you have thoughts, I’ll be heading to the TF Wiki for some research..
And just in case you think I missed it, the quick moment between our-most-recently-made-canon couple was adorable.
We did get a hilariously meta moment in the form of an info dump: even the characters recognize it. The conversations between Misfire and Swerve (both in the page-two intro and several pages later) are a thing of beauty.
I feel like some of the characters are so self-aware of their fictional status they’re practically glaring out of the pages straight at the artist and writer. We’re practically in a Bugs Bunny cartoon at this point. I’m not kidding: seven issues from now if all our favorite Cybertronians literally climb out of the pages of the comic book, wreak havoc in the IDW offices and then ride off into the San Diego sunset, I will not be surprised. Or disappointed. That’d be a perfect way to end it.
The comments, as usual, are an official Spoiler Zone, so if you’d like to tell me where I missed that last turn at Albuquerque, I’m all ears.