Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

So first of all, I don't understand how Chris Wyatt keeps getting these junior novel jobs.   He seems to have a severe misunderstanding of how the Marvel universe works.   Not even the comic universe, because decades of history including retcons, multiverses, series that have had their names reused, convoluted plots, overwriting, and just some deeply problematic shit.  

No, he doesn't seem to understand that Vision wasn't made from the remains of an android but rather built.   Or that if Thor is a god, and Loki was raised as his brother, with godlike powers, then shouldn't Loki also be considered a god?   He seems to get elementary aspects just flat out wrong. 

And don't go talking 'bout my boy if you didn't do basic research.   Add to this the fact that I laughed out loud at a couple points.   Not because the screenplay was funny, but because his writing was simply not good as I've pointed out in at least one update. 

That being said, I was going to pan this and give it a one-half star review, but then Wyatt got his shit together and pulled together for that one spoiler-y scene I did update about. 

Awwww!

The Vision scenes were, for the most part, well done, and that's what I wanted.   There was one line that I missed in a scene near the beginning - of both the movie and book - but I won't even blame Wyatt for that.   He was most likely working from an original script, or lines could have been changed last minute.   Without knowing, I won't cast blame.   I simply liked the line better in the movie, although this was very, very rare: most of this was plucked right out of the movie, which is okay.   Or would be okay if it were better written.   I even knew to expect it to crap out in the middle of the movie, so I'm okay with that, too.

If you only care about certain scenes - the ones with Vision, just in case the title of this review didn't tell you - then this may be a pleasant way to spend an hour or so.   This book isn't the 140whatever pages it says.   It's 110, with 8 pictures, and a preview of Irvine's Winter Soldier novelization.   His books, the tan ones that go over the whole movie, are far superior, and adding his writing at the end only served as a painful reminder of Wyatt's painful writing. 

Here, have a GIF: