Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Then never finished.   I reread the first half before reviewing.   It's not that it's not interesting; it's that it's a really slow burn including one of my least favorite characters, Verity.   I hated the old stuff on Earth after I started reading Roberts and Barber.    They blow everyone out of the water, so I didn't see a need to keep bringing back inferior characters from inferior plot lines. 

That being said, it really is a shame that it's such a slow start.   The politics that start getting involved later on, as well as what the resistance - to both Autobots and Decepticons - can do is pretty amazing.   Also, Roberts brings in a lot of animal based Transformers, and does so in a believable, fascinating manner, all tied into the resistance.  

It also ties into the part of the plot I wasn't so interested in which was all about screwing over Prowl.   As awful as some of the stuff Prowl does, I have head canon between him and Barricade and this is important because it endears me to Prowl more than it should.  Also, this issue proves via a fantasy that Prowl has that he believes in the means justifies the ends. 

Not that I do believe it justifies many of his questionable means.   I don't even hate him for manipulating Rodimus into taking Overlord on board the Lost Light, because Prowl wasn't in command.   Rodimus was, and while Prowl exploited Rodimus' weakness, the fact that he is so prideful that being called afraid made him bow to Prowl's will... well, the final call was Rodimus' and he failed spectacularly.   I can't seem to shift the blame to Prowl.  If not Prowl, someone else would have goaded Rodimus into acting rashly and that's the point and problem with Rodimus being in command.     

All long ways of saying... I should hate and blame Prowl more than I do and I don't.   (The whole Devastator thing also endears me to Prowl, but that's another matter.  My fascination with Prowliecade is another - and part of the head canon I was talking about earlier.)

Plus, Prowl is put in some pretty terrible situations and people tend to forget that he's literally all logic.    Oh, and he was taken over by a Decepticon at some point and no one noticed.  

But let's go beyond me making excuses for Prowl.   He absolutely deserves everything that happens to him here, and I still managed to feel pretty terrible for him.   But really, it's all the politics and the power plays that are going to keep me coming back.

So, uh, issue four?   I've been waiting for that for a while.  I wonder when it's coming out...