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Transformers (2019-) #10 by Bethany McGuire-Smith, Brian Ruckley, Cachet Whitman

rainbowrocky's review

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The characterization of Orion Pax is frankly abhorrent in this issue. I don’t think he would ever label a political group as being “killers” without sufficient evidence to back up his claim (which there is none, the police are still investigating the recent murders with zero leads at the moment). I also didn’t quite understand why Bumblebee and Elita One were so upset about protecting Megatron, the Senator that’s paying them to protect him? That’s literally their job? They should have known what they would be doing?

This issue left a bad taste in my mouth and it’s then that I’d realized I’d wasted all my money on all these brand new series issues. I am deeply disappointed in the characterization, the plot, and the writing. The art is absolutely gorgeous though! Some of the best comic book art I’ve ever seen.

It took me a while to finish this because I had to reformat my reading style from “very serious, looking into it thinking I’m going to enjoy it” to “this is so bad I have to read it for the lolz”. I read this to satisfy the Passion 4 Fashion (read something trendy) prompt for Bratz Readathon 2020 Team Jade, by the way!

Anyways, once I had that mindset, I picked this issue up again. Megatron and Shockwave’s talk was certainly fascinating. I enjoyed that bit, and the surprise arrival of several key characters at the end.
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