Transformers: Unicron

Firstly the positives - The art is leagues above some recent issues, they've clearly spent time on this one. Which is nice but not enough to outweigh the bad stuff. Another good thing is it's definitely the end and we should get a new start from here. I want to say something else that's good as I've really enjoyed some of these comics over the past 10 years or so but I can't think of anything.Bad Stuff - The story sadly throws in all the stupid side characters from other brands, even if you like these by themselves you wont have liked them being thrown into the Transformers universe. I'm surprised no one in the story room thought after all the bad reviews of the cross-overs that maybe for the last one they'd win some hearts and minds by just writing a story fans would at least back if not fully love.I like to think everyone supports the idea of more girl transformers or LGBTQ transformers etc, personally I love the Arcee backstory; but recently it seems to be the rule meaning old characters...well character has been altered. It rolls into the humanising of too many characters, OP being the worst example. Frankly making Megatron an autobot in hindsight is more believable.It's very rushed for an ending, considering they wasted whole volumes on filler stuff its odd this end is so rushed. The bad guys are a bit rubbish aside from Monstructor, maybe a few more evil primes could of been working with Unicron or the Quintessons lured him out of retirement. I was genuinely expecting one of the humans to kill Unicron and OP to cry about his insecurities after half way through.Two starts for the amazing artwork and Arcee/Shockwave/Prowl have been well written in most books, this continues here.

I have been an avid IDW Transformers fan for over 10 years and own almost all the GNs.I gave up on the Optimus Prime series at number 3, because it was terrible and, despite having followed the series four over a decade, I largely didn't have a clue what the hell was going on, who any of the characters were and what they were all talking about, making it virtually unreadable.Now, I'm half way through reading what is supposed to be the grand finale of the whole universe and once again, I find myself not having a clue what the hell is going on and having to wade through pages of nonsense short stories featuring MASK, GI Joe and all other manner of pointless crap that I have no interest in - which is why I'm reading Transformers and not GI Joe!So, yeah, after being a loyal fan for a very long time, I feel that IDW has left me behind and no longer seems to want to tell Transformer stories, instead preferring tacky, cash grab cross overs and tie ins.The artwork is really good (For which I gave an extra star, it probably doesn't really deserve) but the story is a massive disappointment to the continuity which started so amazingly with Infiltration, all those years ago.Buy it for a sake of completness if you must but be prepared to be disappointed. I'm now really wishing, I'd just left the Transformers saga at the conclusion of The Lost Light.

I am certain it will provide some entertainment to those who read IDW's Transformers series and the Hasbro universe but for many Transformers fans, this comic event has been squandered.Unicron is known as a giant planet eating robot to the G1 cartoon fans, to the Marvel comic fans he is a fallen God seeking to annihilate all creation and end his opposite which happens to be the core of Cybertron. In the Unicron Trilogy anime series he was a creator destroyer, the antagonist which was beyond good and evil. Recently he's been planet Earth in both Prime and the movie series and despite all this somebody thought it'd be a good idea to have this event tethered to pre existing comics.It's not a bad story but maybe during the brainstorming sessions they could have considered a soft reboot, have the mainline comics wrap up their stories and start fresh here after some time passed allowing both old and new readers to get a grip on the characters and situation.

Fell apart almost right away