I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
I like it, but it's not my favorite of the IDW Transformers series. See, there are interesting aspects, but it's long, drawn out, and I feel like it's trying to be so big, and you can tell its trying. I think that's the difference between this and the other two ongoings: you can tell. I can't in the others, and well, that makes all the difference.
There is a Maximal reference - although so far this seems more like Predacon business - but I'm loving what they're doing on that count. It makes sense, it's got a creepy aspect, and it's a little politicized, which makes sense given where the politics in the Cybertornian world are at this point in time.
It's been about three months since this issue came out with no sign of four. I'm not even sorry.