>>7472137I’ve just started buying and reading them sequentially via kindle after reading/enjoying The Lost Light 1-4, starting from IDW collection #1, currently on #5. Shit’s comfy, yo.
The pacing and multiple/intersecting storylines are keeping me engaged. Expect to follow an individual character’s story arc for maybe 1 to 2 regular-length comic issues, then have the story jump to another character for a while; little bits of old character arcs’ loose ends will come up when you least expect it. It works surprisingly well, and gets you invested in multiple characters’ agendas.
Much later on in the series, IDW starts to tease homosexual relationships between a handful of characters (“conjux endura,” basically marriage between transformers); part of this is because transformers don’t reproduce, and there was originally no concept of gender on cybertron until they encountered other alien races. The way some of the anons carry on about it here, I was expecting a bunch of tumbr-tier speshul snowflake shit, but if you just go into it with the expectation that the occasional pair of nigh-immortal robots decide they want to live together, it’s nowhere near as preachy or intrusive to the story as half the shit in normie media these days.
I’m a bit split on occasional changes in artstyle as the series progresses—sometimes this is because a character’s “Spotlight” comic will be done in a one-off style to set it apart and better fit the tone of the story they’re trying to tell, and sometimes it is because the main storyline has hired new artists. So far it doesn’t seem like negative, though occasionally I’ll find I’ve gotten “used” to one artist’s way of drawing faces just in time for them to switch it up.
