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Terry ([personal profile] terrykun) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2012-07-21 05:23 pm

Transformers: MTMTE 07 preview - "But the war's over..."

In the next issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, the much alluded to and dread Decepticon Justice Division finally appears.

And what an appearance they make...









Possible trigger warning: torture against robots






















The first page of the issue has Tarn, leader of the DJD, discussing the illustrious career of Black Shadow, one of Megatron's Phase Sixers. Decepticons who are sent in to completely sterilize an already destabilized planet of any remaining potential resistance, and possibly all life, prior to cyberforming.

Three killed in a confrontation with the Wreckers' 11th incarnation.

Three thousand and three when taking on the 13th Autobot Battalion, personally repelling Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus in direct combat.

Three BILLION executed when fighting the entire population of Rigel IV.

Black Shadow was all but guaranteed a seat on Megatron's conclave... until he accepted half a billion shanix in exchange for blowing up a fleet of Decepticon warworlds.

Enter the DJD. Five Decepticons renamed for the first five cities to fall in the war with the Autobots.







I love the exposition of Megatron's doctrines here, after the glimpses we received of it during the pre-war issues of Transformers.



ETA: If his power is the ability to talk people to death, I see only one way for the crew of The Lost Light to survive this....


Set him against Swerve. :D

 
Possible trigger warning would be spoilery. I've spaced out the start of the entry below the cut to explain a little.
arbre_rieur: (Default)

Re: I haven't been reading these books, but...

[personal profile] arbre_rieur 2012-07-22 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you mean Transformers in general or this series (MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE) specifically? If the former, I think there's traditionally been more focus on villains than in your typical boys' action-adventure series because of the need to sell their toys. If you mean the latter, I wouldn't say so. There's been a very small villain presence in the series so far. As I recall, save for the mindless, literally personality-less beast/drone kind, there weren't any villains at all in the first three issues. (And we're not talking decompressed writing here, either. Each was a self-contained story.)
bewareofgeek: (Default)

Re: I haven't been reading these books, but...

[personal profile] bewareofgeek 2012-07-22 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not entirely sure which series is which. So let's just say "currently published IDW books".