I have been a huge Transformers fan for many years, and with having read up to the last story arc, Dark Cybertron, I couldn’t have been happier. With having read the first two chapters of Dawn of the Autobots, this third chapter has followed suit with leaving me with a headache.
This issue starts off with a quick flashback of page turning action involving Galvatron, Transformer fodder, and Alpha Trion. Those two to three pages were extremely exciting but short lived. Leaving the rest of the comic to jump into with almost nonstop boredom. Then we moved right back to where we left off, with the New United States/Deceptacon force, chasing down the Autobots. Now this is where things get tricky. We are given another glimpse of promising action and art work, only to be thrown into another flashback. In order to understand some of the flashbacks properly, I felt like you would have had to read all of the previous comics. There was simply too much going on with Autobot, Deceptacon, and human banter involving the present, and the past. Barber then switches you back to another brief moment of action in the present, where he decides is a good place to give another flashback of why some characters decided to come on this particular mission. On top of that, the issue ends with a weak twist,and an anti-climactic ending.
The artwork by Griffith, Coller, and Cahill was as always, great to see. In reguards to the rest of the issue, Sideswipe said it best. “I miss the old days…find a Deceptacon, blast a Deceptacon.”
