I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
Transformers: Spotlight is a comic series that covers one Transformer per issue. Blurr, Jazz, Cliffjumper, Drift, and Metroplex are collected in this volume. I've read about how odd this is, and how this doesn't directly impact the All Hail Megatron storyline. It's true: Metroplex has played no part in AHM as of yet, and even those that do - Jazz for example - well, their stories don't fit into AHM. Jazz is much more confident and optimistic in his spotlight, for example, and the story told about him doesn't have any direction to AHM.
It's just... bizarre that this is volume three. And despite me being, eeeeh, iffy on Cliffjumpers spotlight, particularly the ending, I do really love this volume - enough to give it five stars. Some spectacular writing, although Drift's spotlight is a standout issue for me. (It fills in a little about how he went from the Decepticon named Dreadlock to an Autobot who calls himself Drift.) The art is fabulous, as is most of the IDW art on the Transformers titles. And this would work spectacularly as a volume separate from the AHM storyline, which makes it all the more puzzling why it was shoved into this mini-series. Many of the spotlights volumes aren't tied together by a theme, and this is superior in a way because it is: it's all about what it means and takes to be an Autobot.
Don't let the fact that it's oddly shoved into the AHM take away from the impact of this volume. Because it does have impact. (And there is some impact taken away as I, and others, are left to wonder why this is AHM volume three; the majority of it remains intact, but why, oh, why?)
I considered knocking off half a star, but in the end the integrity of the writing and art held despite the odd placement of this volume. Love, love, love it!