Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

As much as I love some series - Sandman Slim!   Black Jewels! - and as much as I thought I'd love Robots in Disguise for having Bumblebee, and hate More Than Meets the Eye for having Rodiums... 

More Than Meets the Eye.   James Roberts is a wickedly funny writer, his plots are insanely complex, and shed new light on an old fandom.   (Given, IDW continuity, so he has a little more wiggle room than if it were straight Generation 1 continuity.)  He makes me care about characters I haven't cared about before, he makes me laugh and cry - very often in the same episode, or the same scene - and it's torture waiting another month for another issue.  

Hands down, my favorite series.   And even though they left Cybertron of their own volition, seeing as they were fleeing an ended war that seemed to last beyond it's official end, and because Cybertron is alive and trying to kill them, it very much feels like they're refugees, at least to me.   Volume three went beyond intercrew politics and the present timeline to delve into the past; it was all leading up to Dark Cybertron, but as I pointed out yesterday, it was a turning point for me.   Just when I thought I couldn't love this series anymore, it forced me to take it more seriously.    

I'll be talking more about this series, no doubt, but for now, I'll just stand in a puddle of my own drool as I think about, like, everything James Roberts has written.