|
|
Post by killer on Sept 14, 2009 0:48:57 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by sentinelprime2006 on Sept 14, 2009 19:39:57 GMT
No fair! Thought I had beat people to the post, although yours is better as you have the pics there. I couldn't seem to do that. How did you do it? Loving the new Springer, rather than the old wisecracking one from the cartoons.
|
|
|
|
Post by Omega Steve on Sept 16, 2009 14:54:20 GMT
Thanks for posting. i'm really looking forward to this one, and the idea of a space station where new weapons and tech are developed bodes well for upcoming stories. Does anyone else read into this that Kup's new body is not really Kup at all but a shell being controlled by old, frazzled Kup?
|
|
|
|
Post by sentinelprime2006 on Sept 16, 2009 19:53:21 GMT
Yeah not sure if he is inside this new body a la normal Pretenders (maybe just his mind), or whether he is a head somewhere like Sunstreaker was! BTW Steve, GI Joe #'s 7 and 8 turned up, cheers!
|
|
|
|
Post by killer on Sept 17, 2009 8:12:42 GMT
I like the idea of a Kup Pretender if he gets a nice robot and shell design.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dr Headache Rushing on Sept 18, 2009 11:42:18 GMT
Maybe the "real" cup resides in the cigar?
|
|
|
|
Post by sentinelprime2006 on Sept 18, 2009 19:45:50 GMT
That would be a new take on the pretender process. Maybe the cigar is an aerial like an rc car! Seriously though, as Prowl says there's no real inner robot per se, maybe Kup's original cerebro cortex is inside the cigar.
|
|
|
|
Post by Omega Steve on Sept 20, 2009 6:19:37 GMT
The cigar - or cy-gar as they're calling it - has some significance, but I won't spoil the surprise. I see that Nick had some assistance with the writing from James Roberts, author of the ultimate work of fan fiction, Eugenesis.
|
|
|
|
Post by zedebo on Sept 20, 2009 18:17:23 GMT
Don't want to give away any spoilers until I'm sure most of you have it.
This has to be the 2 best stories to have appeared under the AHM banner. Kup's story (really more like a mini Prowl Spotlight) packs a hell of a lot storyline into 11 pages, probably more than in the first 6 issues of AHM. Perceptor's change of character in his tale is well written. Both Nick Roche and Denton Tipton should be applauded, you can tell they've took the time to make sure what happened under Simon Furman got linked in to the AHM stories more clearly.
|
|
|
|
Post by s2h6 on Sept 22, 2009 20:43:48 GMT
Read it last night and loved it. The Kup story is really setting up things for the future. It nice to see Prowl developed too as until now he has just come across as some one who has been put in charge but no one seems to respect.
|
|
|
|
Post by zedebo on Sept 23, 2009 17:31:49 GMT
Prowl seemed very much like the Autobot equivelent of Shockwave with his prediction probabilities. Like the fact that they call Kup's cigar a Cy-Gar and that he needs it for the hit from the crystals he got addicted to on that planet. The story also shows why Prowl has so much respect for Kup and why Kup ended up taking control of the autobots on Cybertron in AHM until Prime returned.
As for the Perceptor story, I noticed a few little hidden bits in the artwork. The first being Hot Rod's spacecraft, which was nicely coloured in his style, I'm pretty sure that he stole the craft from the Decepticon's way back in his Spotlight (it was a greyish blue colour then.) The other thing I noticed was that Roadbuster had his shoulder mounted gun before the Monstructor battle and when he gets hit it flies off and during AHM until they get revived by Energon it's missing.
I feel as though Hot Rod was being chased because he had the Magnificence or so Bludgeon thought, I would guess he'd already hidden it with Metroplex (maybe) by this stage.
|
|
|
|
Post by wheeljack on Oct 4, 2009 13:53:29 GMT
I really enjoyed All Hail Megatron, mainly for the terrific characterisations, especially Kup. This issue was in my view the best issue published by IDW so far (the only exception being Spotlight:Shockwave, one of my all-time favourite issues of any TF era). A great new take on Prowl and the revelations around Kup's backstory since his spotlight really makes me want to go back and re-read AHM all over again, something I rarely do these days.
Hopefully this won't be the last time we see James Roberts being consulted on a storyline, it really shines through.
I very much hope that the new ongoing series keeps this level of characterisation. AHM and Coda for me blows the likes of Maximum Dinobots out of the water. (Sorry, Simon...)
|
|
