REVIEW: Transformers Lost Light #1

And the mega mythology of a toy line over thirty years old grows and grows. I love what they’ve done with Megatron. This is the story of Rodimus Prime looking for his spaceship with a collection of transformers rescued from different points in time as they all either learn to get on or hatch plots and nefarious schemes. You honestly forget that they look like a collection of cereal boxes tipped into a skip.

Not that the art is bad, in fact it’s really good but you can’t just dip into this universe without feeling a bit out of your depth. All the transformers look distinctive but get more than two in a panel and it starts to look like Tetris came home drunk and passed out in a pile of Lego, to the unaccustomed eye.

The writing moves without giving you pause to breathe and winds up in a place that’s probably going to add a new layer of lore to the colourful jenga pile that is TF cannon. I hope they can wrap up at least one storyline.

Transformer comics are always above average to excellent, this is closer to excellent.

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Written by James Roberts, art by Jack Laurence, published by IDW