Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm already upset it will only be five issues, to be honest.  I'm really enjoying this, and I've been critical of a lot of art, and I'm pretty sure I've been critical of Roche's art at some point.   While I'm sure the colorist, Josh Burcham, helped give this a stylized feel, I'm also pretty sure that I'm simply falling in love with how Roche's art style is evolving.  He still does a lot of human-looking Cybertronians, more so than other artists.   Arcee and her lips are very evocative of humans, for example, but enough else was stylized enough for me to really enjoy this much more than I normally do with Roche's art. 

That being said, I've loved a lot of Burcham's work.    i have no doubt that he is a large part of why I love this so much. 

Although the truth is that Roche is a very good writer, and he does write, as well as illustrate, this, and I'm loving where it's going, how it's connected to Last Stand of the Wreckers, and the little moments of humor.   Characters have changed after Last Stand, and even since then.    Let me clarify: the events in Last Stand changed a lot of characters, how they look at the world, what they want, but in addition a good deal of time has passed.   Enough that some of these characters have changed since then in addition, and it's nice to see this acknowledged in the banter between characters.   Verity and Stakeout come to mind, as they speak of what happened, how they've changed, and yet it's not an info dump so much as them trying to hash this out because it's been hard on them both. 

And Prowl has a lot to answer for, and it's not only Verity and Stakeout who think so.   Arcee convinced Kup of this, and Kup goes straight to the source: Prowl's quarters.   Prowl's quarters that he shouldn't be able to get into, except he does.   The information they need?  Well, Kup intuitively knows where to get it, and Arcee constantly questions how he knows all this.    Kup may call her paranoid, but I think Prowl has shown that he's not quite right.   

I don't know what got to him, but something has.   The pressure, most likely, as he does put himself under constant, unrelenting pressure.   That kind of internal pressure needs release, although Prowl never allows himself any kind of release, to any degree.   I'm certainly not surprised to find that I think he may have compromised Kup to get what he needs should Prowl himself become compromised.   His morals tend to stretch when he thinks the means justify the ends, and that seems to happen more and more often lately. 

What's up with Kup?   Will Arcee find Prowl before Verity and Stakeout do?   How do Verity and Stakeout plan to bring him to justice if they don't kill him, like I suspect Arcee will?   Did Kup really yell a comatose patient into waking up?

So many delicious questions.  I hope they'll all be answered in the next four issues.