Tag: James Roberts

Iacon Underground Radio – Episode 12 – Everybody Hates Prowl

This week: Sins of the Wreckers returns and we try to guess who will survive the Dying of the Light. Spoilers ahead for SotW #4 and MTMTE #52!

Iacon Underground Radio – Episode 8 – Moral Quandaries

Spoilers ahoy as we talk More Than Meets the Eye #51!

Iacon Underground Radio – Episode 03 – Lengthwise

The news is thin on the ground this week, but that’s fine, because we’ve got a new issue of More Than Meets the Eye to discuss! Spoilers ahoy!

MTMTE #41 Recap: The Sensuous Frame

Alas, I was dealing with Life Stuff last month and couldn’t get a recap together for #40, but I have returned! Okay, so one person on Twitter asked about it, but that’s pretty much all it takes. The Lost Lights finds the missing Vis Vitalis just in time to learn that its captain Thunderclash, the most …

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In Comic Shops This Week

More Than Meets The Eye Vol. 7 For those who prefer to wait for the trades to pick up MTMTE. Volume 7 includes the Days of Deception storyline that ran through issues #34-38.

MTMTE #39 Recap: The Permanent Revolution

Tarn discovers that Megatron has renounced the Decepticon cause! But will Decepticon rebel and DJD target Deathsaurus be willing to work with him to build a brave new future? How many Japanese G1 characters can you spot aboard his Warworld? And just how sad am I that Hellbat was wasted on Drift: Empire of Stone? …

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MTMTE #38 Recap: Elegant Chaos, Part 3: [Title Redacted]

The Elegant Chaos arc reaches its end here. Five million years in the past Brainstorm stands before a half-finished Megatron, finger on the trigger, as Rodimus and the others rush to save reality as they know it by saving one of the universe’s greatest tyrants. In the present Megatron, Ultra Magnus, and Perceptor can only …

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MTMTE #37 Recap: Elegant Chaos, Part 2: STET

It’s never easy to assess the middle chapter of a story. The potential of a setup is at least somewhat apparent, and a grand conclusion can sweep the audience away, but middle chapters can falter in so many ways that aren’t even apparent until the story reaches that grand conclusion. In the heat of the …

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MTMTE #36 Recap: All our parlous yesterdays – Elegant Chaos part 1

It’s been mentioned elsewhere that sometimes not a whole lot happens in MTMTE. Don’t get me wrong, stuff happens, lots of it, feels and pain and sadness and funny stuff, but the plot, the overarching plot arch that Roberts has all penciled out somewhere is moving at a rather relaxed pace and this felt especially …

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More Than Meets The Eye #35 Recap – The Custom-Made Now: An Elegant Chaos Prologue

Revealed to be a Decepticon sleeper agent, Brainstorm is now loose in the time stream! But what kind of damage does he intend to do four million years in the past? Just what did he do to everyone at Swerve’s bar? And is Trailbreaker Trailcutter really dead or was that just a particularly graphic JRo …

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