Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Why four and a half stars when the last volume garnered a flat four?   Well, I didn't feel as much of the insane plots and metaphysical shit flying around, like in issue zero in which Rodimus becomes Rodimus Prime.   Or how Grimlock is resurrected.   Volume two had some really good plot twists I didn't see coming, but this took it a step further, partly because all those things - the grand, sweeping plans including and/or messed up by wonky science - just weren't there.   And I gotta admit, I love the craziness of those zany plots.   They just totally make Furman's work better!   

Why not five stars then?   Because, as I said before, Roberts and Barber do it with a little more: a little more flair, a little more humor, and it makes a little more sense to me in the end.   Just enough so that I enjoy them a bit more than Furman's work now, and thus the docking of a half star.   

But, really, if you're in for convoluted plots, with a writer who understands the G1 characters?   Furman is your go-to guy.   

Bludgeon vs. Rodimus Prime?   Rodimus going through time?  Grimlock cowing and leading a primordial army?   How do you not enjoy this?  It's fun, plain and simple, and I'm only happy that the Dinobots had a hefty role in this, and a significant one once again.  Very exciting!  

That being said, I will most definitely read the next volume.   I hope the science gets weirder, the plots get even more convoluted, and the characters are as magnificently in character as they are here.

PS - also hoping Galvatron gets his ass handed to him after what he did to Magnus.   Boo, Galvatron, boo!

PPS - Optimus Prime: "...the being we know as Galvatron.  Deep in my spark, I know... he is Megatron reborn."

Also, one of the Dinobots says of Grimlock: "Except we'd know.   If he was dead, that is.  We'd just know.  It's-"

The same thing as Optimus Prime has with Megatron, who is part of Prime and Prime dies a little when Megatron does?   Now try to convince me that the Dinobots aren't having orgies off panel.