…the gestalt’s diagnostic scans, the history, Hook being Hook – all signs pointed to failure.
Catastrophe and failure.
Keep reading for a review of Transformers: Galaxies #3.
(Some spoilers below, you might want to shelve this review until after you’ve read the issue.)
If last issue’s theme was “fear” then this issue’s theme might be “mistrust or misplaced trust.”
Wheeljack has been against the idea of the Constructicons using the Enigma of Combination from day one. He’s never liked them, never trusted them, and in the end I don’t think he’s exactly “gleeful” that they screwed up, but I’ll bet he feels vindicated.
We do get to see the incident that got them exiled from Cybertron, and I won’t spoil what it was, except to say it was a much smaller moment than I’d been expecting. I was surprised, but then I figured it made sense. Sometimes people give up on somebody because of some horrific catastrophe, but I think a lot of times it doesn’t take much for people to lose trust.
It also sets up the Constructicons to feel completely betrayed. What happened wasn’t great, but it really wasn’t a tragedy, I’m sure they thought it’d be easily forgiven. The Constructicons are young enough to think that everyone who deserves a second chance is going to get one.
Plus, they trust Termagax. I’d say “she tries to do well by them,” but she was the person who convinced them to use the Enigma, without giving them all the information. Now I don’t know if she was fighting for them because she cares, or because she feels guilty, or if she just doesn’t want to give up a resource.
But the Constructicons seem to believe everything they’re told: that the Enigma is a good idea, that they’ll be rewarded for all their hard work, forgiven for their mistakes, and that the seventh personality that appears when they combine is No Big Deal and that everything Will Be Just Fine.
As it turns out, none of those things are true.
My favorite part of Livio Ramondelli’s art this issue was the two pages where Nominus Prime is talking to the Constructicons (the lights in the distance and the way they reflected off him was particularly lovely) and the two-page spread of Devastator lowering the dome on the building, it really gave you an idea of the scale we’re working with here.