Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

So, yeah, I read four comics while in a cafe with my family.   They wanted to go to museum gift stores, because we're going to drive my aunt and uncle to the airport later today.   (My cousins are staying a little longer, however.)

I bring reading material with me wherever I go, however, so while they were drinking their coffees and smoothies, I saved mine for outside - hot, so, hot, so ice cream in a drink form helps - and read.  I read in the car there and back. 

Robocop 11: 

Five stars

I think that things are coming to their conclusion.  I think the next issue concludes this series, but if not?   Well, it concludes the first story arc.   Killian, the old man's brother, is getting in deeper, trying to take down OCP.   Robocop and Lewis aren't the only ones in the middle.   There's the rest of the police force, as well as the civilians who live in Detroit.  

And while Detective Lewis fits all the clues together, Robocop tries to keep the city going and tries to get to the heart of the problem: Killian.   He tries to find Killian, to bring him in, before anyone else can do anything that puts Detroit at more of a risk than she already is.  

Loved it.   It feels true to the original: there's a lack of political satire, but the corporate power plays, and twists, and police officers who are trying to make a living, and protect the city between it all, it has some of the same feel.   Not to mention, this is pretty violent.   Not gratuitously, but given how the police officers are treated as pawns, they're forced to take up arms to protect themselves at points. 

Robocop 12: 

Five stars: 

The conclusion to Killian's story arc.   It all ends perfectly, with the Old Man fucking with things so that he can come out on top.   Lewis has turned stone cold, and learned to protect herself and her partner above all else.   And that scene where she makes sure both she and Murphy - and, yeah, their precinct - are taken care of?   Yes.   I ship Murphy/Lewis.   Shamelessly.   

This is the perfect conclusion, and maybe that's why I think - even hope - that this won't continue.   I'm afraid going further will meddle with this. 

Windblade #5:

Five stars. 

Windblade a delegation go to Velocitron to try and get them to come to Cybertron, to help rebuild the planet and race by at the very least being on good terms with the Velocitronians.   At best, Cybertron would like to fold all the colonies back in, with at least the individuals from the colonies trekking to Cybertron via Spacebridge occasionally.   Although I suspect many would like to see more immigrants. 

Velocitron's ruler will only see them if Blurr can win a benefit: the fastest one has the most need, because the single most important thing on Velocitron is speed.   Will they make it?   Well, first Windblade wants to talk to the Titan on which Velocitran's capital has been built on top of, in the hopes that she can reawaken him if he's asleep.   Or fix him if he's broken. 

Top notch.  Once again, I love the characters, I love the plot, and I love this whole continuity.   Win, win, win. 

Bloodshot Reborn #2: 

Bloodshot realizes that the nanites are alive, in others, and the rash of murders popping up with the men with the red circle on their chest?  They have to do with the vanities .  Kay, his dead ex-girlfriend who he thinks he might be hallucinating, is telling him what to do.   Well, him and Bloodsquirt, a tiny version of Bloodshot that I'm pretty sure he's hallucinating. 

I don't like the way Bloodsquirt is drawn.  I know it's intentionally cartoonish to contrast with the realism of most of the art, but the art is so gorgeous.   Bloodsquirt is annoying in how he contrasts with it all.  

Between that, and me liking 'Ray' more as Bloodshot, well, I'm not crazy about this one.   There's the promise in this - and in the descriptions I read of further issues - that he might become Bloodshot later, but I want it to happen sooner than later.   Frustrating!   

Still, I think I'll continue with this series.   I found this in a one dollar bin, and may wait for sales/this again, before I continue however.    The art and storyline are perfect for what they are, they just aren't what I want them to be, thus the knocking off of one star.