I think an important part of this little arc is that...If you're Optimus Prime, it's impossible to not be Optimus Prime. He might have changed his name back, but he's still in his big-ass upgraded body, and he's still the former leader of the entire Autobot faction. He can't be the guy he was before all this, because he's not that guy anymore.JT wrote:While it's nice to have "Orion Pax" in stories from time to time, I find the writing with him predictable enough that I prefer they more aggressively distance OP from Optimus Prime or they just leave him out altogether.
Having not read it, it's hard for me to comment whole-heartedly, but that might be a consequence of an obvious plot twist looming. Which, like you say, kind of begs the question of why it's necessary in the first place.Rattrap's behavior is a bit heavy-handed and obvious, the reveal in the same issue makes it feel inconsequential.
Again, not having read it--how "well" is Wheeljack? Is he in stasis lock/a coma? Or is he just kind of handcuffed to a wall in Starscream's dungeon, muttering about how he'll never get away with this? Because if it's the former, IDW has a pretty decent track record of keeping characters "in a coma" for years until some writer finally decides to make them useful again. (Kup was out of commission for years after Spotlight Kup, and I really don't see Springer popping back up for a long while now.)Dom wrote:I like Wheeljack as much as anybody else. But, he worked better dead. (Think about it. KIlling the most stable and competent member of any/either regime is a good way to make sure that the story is ripe for discord.) There is also the whole "he was dead but got better" problem that is common in comics....
Plus, IDW TFs are shown to survive practically anything. (Although it often makes me wonder about other characters, like Skyquake, who are unceremoniously offed and then never turn up again.)
