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IvyLB · Jan 28, 2018 at 5:06 AM

The DJD are incredible. I love how ridiculous and over the top they are.

Briar · Jan 29, 2018 at 12:31 AM

plops self down in thread

Hi!! I only recently read these but I went through basically all the comics that have been out since mtmte started, and I am super thrilled to see your liveblog, these are all amazing comics, pls join us in Robot Hell.

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 28, 2018 at 12:02 AM

ONWARD, TO ROBOTS

this guy has a fun head shape! i like it.

oh those are glasses! he's cute, i like his design. the chins are still a lot though.
nothing named "clampdown" is going to be a good idea, i'm just saying

hmmm, i suddenly find myself liking nightbeat more than cool head glasses man
IS IT TIME FOR CRUNCHY FUNCTIONIST LORE?

LEAVE RUNG ALONE
also, quark...oof...

OOF......

OH CRUNCHY FUNCTIONIST LORE. it's terrible. delicious.

i enjoy this comic's sense of humor immensely. GRAPHIC ROBOT GORE. JOKE. ROBOGORE. JOKE. i can dig it!
also ewwww quark drank robot blood

oh my god
this is a ship full of idiots

"domey" is a very cute nickname, chromedome and rewind are extremely fucking good.

that's my boy!
i am very excited to hear this story that definitely absolutely happened.

is the prowl partnered with rewind the prowl everyone talks about? is this That prowl? i am so bad at telling the robots apart and my face identifying muscles have atrophied during this hiatus

OH YES
oh it is That Prowl, hell yeah. also aw rewind is so cute. i'm love him.

oh man, robot drugs. oof oof.

is there shipping potential here? right now i'm just like, hmm, my fave idiots, could be tasty, but who knows!

OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU

alright, i'm at picture upload limit, so i'll continue in another post!

spockandawe · May 28, 2018

Ahhhh, Quark. Quark. That... sure is a boy who will come up again! He's a sweetheart and is highly important to this story!

Nightbeat! DEEP PHASE ONE LORE: he was there right at the beginning of the IDW run annnnnd was promptly killed off. It was part of the shenanigans revolving around Cyclonus's backstory. So he's a little dead, BUT, since you never knew he died, it isn't spoilers to say that he's coming back! He's a mind control zombie trapped in another universe right now, but he'll be making a return in Dark Cybertron around mtmte 22-27 or so. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HE IS ONE OF MY BEST BOYS

PROWL!!! you are correct that this is that boy and he's ridiculous and I love him and flashbacks with him BREAK MY GODDAMN HEART ;n;

And there is definite shipping potential with Swerve! I haven't read as much as I want to, but I wrote a thing with cygate+swerve, and there was loads of cute potential. And there is future shippy material ahead of you! Like swearth (where everybody knows your name). An extremely happy episode issue with nothing sad or dark going on at all (also the issue with Rodimus's humansona)

And! Trivia point! The two thugs who were being arrested there are ALSO the two dipshits who helped Pharma set off the rust plague thing on Delphi. They have.... made a number of poor decisions :T

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 28, 2018 at 12:37 AM

supercop fucking destroyed them. absolutely wrecked.

pretzels..........is the same?

this is a really fun issue so far, i'm liking it a lot.

don't do that! or...do do that, i want that functionist lore so i can Know
ratchet and drift though, oh man. that is some fuckin History.

HE'S SO FUCKING CUTE YOU GUYS. I WOULD DIE FOR HIM.
also yes pls continue acting as a reader stand-in, what is a relinquishment clinic

OH YIKES. body tourism. goddamn! i gotta say, as unnerving as it is i do really enjoy the way they really dig into the sort of like...ways a race of robot people would operate, how their culture would develop, what freaky backalley medical procedures they'd get up to, it's good!

mm, political intrigue.

yeah, that seems like a good idea :')

oh i was so hoping they would show me the robot autopsy. is that weird to say? i dunno, hell yeah, this is super cool. i dig it.

every time they do a face closeup i'm just blown away by the chins. i can't get over it. they're so fucking big.

wait a god damn diddly darn toodlefucking minute. orion pax. orion pax. optimus prime. i should have figured that out like. upon the first appearance of supercop but IN MY DEFENSE. my only prior experience in this franchise is bayverse.

MURDER.
MURDER AGAIN.

oh fuck!

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 28, 2018 at 12:41 AM

spockandawe said: ↑

Nightbeat! DEEP PHASE ONE LORE: he was there right at the beginning of the IDW run annnnnd was promptly killed off. It was part of the shenanigans revolving around Cyclonus's backstory. So he's a little dead, BUT, since you never knew he died, it isn't spoilers to say that he's coming back! He's a mind control zombie trapped in another universe right now, but he'll be making a return in Dark Cybertron around mtmte 22-27 or so.
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spockandawe said: ↑

And there is definite shipping potential with Swerve! I haven't read as much as I want to, but I wrote a thing with cygate+swerve, and there was loads of cute potential. And there is future shippy material ahead of you! Like swearth (where everybody knows your name). Am extremely happy episode issue with nothing sad or dark going on at all (also the issue with Rodimus's humansona)
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I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE RODIMUS' HUMANSONA.
also HELL YEAH HELL YEAH SHIPPING POTENTIAL. i knew i smelled something in the air.
is there perhaps going to be DELICIOUS SAD SWERVE LORE IN MY FUTURE???

spockandawe said: ↑

And! Trivia point! The two thugs who were being arrested there are ALSO the two dipshits who helped Pharma set off the rust plague thing on Delphi. They have.... made a number of poor decisions :T
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artistformerlyknownasdave · May 28, 2018 at 12:57 AM

i'm prrrrrrrrrrobably gonna call it for tonight just because i'm getting sleepy and want to be able to process everything, but i will read more tomorrow!
and now that i've said it in this thread, i have to

spockandawe · May 28, 2018 at 1:04 AM

Ahahahaaaaa oh man, in a series PACKED with sad lore, Swerve straight-up breaks my goddamn heart. Rewind made me cry first, but Swerve made me cry second. It is *GOOD* stuff :DDDD

(the chin thing is really funny to me, because I just watched the Lindsay Ellis loose canon on Starscream today, and she covered the 2007 Transformers Animated, or as she calls it, Transformers CHIIIIIINS, so I'd been thinking fondly of how restrained the comics chins are. but yes, it is definitely..... RELATIVE restraint XDDD)

The functionist lore doesn't go too far at this point, but oh MAN does it come back with a vengeance later!!! You get another big infodump across a whole arc in the mid-thirties, then there's even more after the series name changes to Lost Light (mid-fifties). That next arc is just.... GLORIOUS. Some of the best content in the series, honestly. And functionism and cold construction got incorporated across the franchise! The exrid line has had some flashbacks to functionist days now, but they've gripped me less than the mtmte content.

What else. You'll learn more about relinquishment clinics soon, if I'm remembering things right, and it gets darker than what you hear about in this section! And the series goes HARD on robots and death, and their particular experience of it. Both how they've been shaped by the war and how they as a species deal. It ties in a lot with psychological stuff, but it's all played in really fresh and emotionally gripping ways. And, frequently. balancing gore and humor XD

Oh, lmao, I just remembered something. Quark drank blood by accident here. In the Windblade miniseries, there's a mech the size of a city (Metroplex) and one guy goes climbing into his systems to drink some of that tasty free energon. This series gets weird and dark with the characters and I love it XDD

Exohedron · May 28, 2018 at 1:12 AM

Yeah, there is a lot of stuff in this series that would be labeled "body horror" if it happened to a person, or even just anything organic. But that's why we have robots!

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 28, 2018 at 1:17 AM

spockandawe said: ↑

Ahahahaaaaa oh man, in a series PACKED with sad lore, Swerve straight-up breaks my goddamn heart. Rewind made me cry first, but Swerve made me cry second. It is *GOOD* stuff :DDDD
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I KNEW I PICKED A GOOD FAVE. i thought i smelled a tragic past, Fuck Yes
i'm ready to suffer >:3

spockandawe said: ↑

(the chin thing is really funny to me, because I just watched the Lindsay Ellis loose canon on Starscream today, and she covered the 2007 Transformers Animated, or as she calls it, Transformers CHIIIIIINS, so I'd been thinking fondly of how restrained the comics chins are. but yes, it is definitely..... RELATIVE restraint XDDD)
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oh no!!!! oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how much more chin can they fit on their faces?!

spockandawe said: ↑

The functionist lore doesn't go too far at this point, but oh MAN does it come back with a vengeance later!!! You get another big infodump across a whole arc in the mid-thirties, then there's even more after the series name changes to Lost Light (mid-fifties). That next arc is just.... GLORIOUS. Some of the best content in the series, honestly. And functionism and cold construction got incorporated across the franchise! The exrid line has had some flashbacks to functionist days now, but they've gripped me less than the mtmte content.
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oh man, i'm so fucking excited >:D /chinhands
and! oh!! the series changes to lost light! i see posts marked that when i poke my head occasionally into the robots thread and was wondering what it was, hell ye

spockandawe said: ↑

What else. You'll learn more about relinquishment clinics soon, if I'm remembering things right, and it gets darker than what you hear about in this section! And the series goes HARD on robots and death, and their particular experience of it. Both how they've been shaped by the war and how they as a species deal. It ties in a lot with psychological stuff, but it's all played in really fresh and emotionally gripping ways. And, frequently. balancing gore and humor XD
Click to expand...

SOON. i love what psychological stuff i've gotten so far, i'm really excited to see where it goes! ngl ngl one of the big reasons i decided to read it is because y'all lured me in with promises of well-handled trauma and such, and so far it has done really excellently. i'm looking forward to getting my heart ripped out

spockandawe said: ↑

Oh, lmao, I just remembered something. Quark drank blood by accident here. In the Windblade miniseries, there's a mech the size of a city (Metroplex) and one guy goes climbing into his systems to drink some of that tasty free energon. This series gets weird and dark with the characters and I love it XDD
Click to expand...

*just swims around in some dude's fucking artery*

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 30, 2018 at 1:16 AM

so i lied about making it in time yesterday (technically two days ago but SHH i haven't slept yet it doesn't count)
BUT NOW. IT IS TIME.

artistformerlyknownasdave · May 30, 2018 at 3:29 AM

i was waylaid by a migraine but i WILL NOT BE STOPPED. ROBOTS WILL BE HAD

oh, what could go wrong!

chromedome is really good, i like him a lot. i love his kitty ears

this comic good

mmm i'm really enjoying this storyline so far, political drama, murder plots, joaks, very good stuff.

hooray for unkillable robots!

rodimus is an idiot. normally i am a big fan of idiot characters, but he is an idiot in ways that make me want to duel him

PROWL.

yikes but also tell me everything right now immediately

i love seeing him whenever he shows up because he has such a good good design
i am playing the pronoun game because i've forgotten his fucking name. ...whirl?
WHIRL. thank you comic for giving me the names as i read

:C

~*~i don't know what any of those are~*~

now THAT is an exciting name.
also. curvy robot, spicy

ohh does he have those mnemosurgeon fingers? with hands like that and a name like trepan...gee, subtle.

i like rewind's glowy bits, very pleasing to look at

Loq · May 30, 2018 at 4:56 AM

IvyLB · May 30, 2018 at 5:15 AM

TREPAN IS MAXIMUM SPICY

artistformerlyknownasdave · Jun 20, 2018 at 3:01 AM

sorry in advance for any weirdness in this liveblog, it's three in the fucking morning

i fucking LOVE shadowplay so far, it's just, a total delight and i don't want the storyline to end
it's also helping me understand a lot of stuff that was thrown out earlier, that's had me like ??? the whole time
i don't have any prior experience with robots, pls mtmte hold my hand thru the worldbuilding

you know i think i like prowl
also lol at stealthy recap
but also yes please i can't remember shit

he's...calling him hot here, right. he's definitely calling him hot.
Orion Pax, Cybertron's Most Beguiling Temptress

hogwarts hogwarts hoggy warty hogwarts teach us something please

swerve: [exists]
me: [bangs fists on table, cheers]

kin
ngl half the reason i'm doing this exclusively via liveblog is because it forces me to slow down and make sure i'm parsing everything, and because i can solicit the thread for explanations and meta
i'm pro-vacationist too tho

is rung the one that gets the cult
i feel like he could totally have a cult and i'm pretty sure someone said cult back when i was being lured into this fandom

i swear like every issue introduces three new characters i've never heard of and it's a toss-up as to whether or not they're gonna be plot-relevant and i'm just like ????????????????????????????
ironfist (sgjfskjgsf), delta magnus, whoever the dudes at the academy were i've already forgotten
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE

AW

i keep wanting to say "chromedome and rewind should kiss" and then i get an image of the wall-e and eve like face clink in my head and i come to my senses
they should...do whatever it is they do to smooch

hmm..reading ironfist's dialoge in angus mcdonald's voice, i guess that's how my brain is going to be today

dare i say...gay

i really like first aid! there's something about him and tailgate's like, facial design that's super cute. i love it.
damn though, red alert. poor fucking dude. i'm not sure i agree entirely with the decision to put him in storage but it's also not a 1:1 analogue of any human stuff and i can see where they're coming from.

part two coming when it's not three in the goddamn morning

Verily · Jun 20, 2018 at 3:46 AM

Ironfist was a major character in Last Stand of the Wreckers, aka An Extremely Violent History of Why the Lost Light is So Damn Haunted.

Some of the academy people will come up again but I wouldn’t worry about it too much for now.

spockandawe · Jun 20, 2018 at 6:54 AM

In the cameos, it can be hard to tell who matters for future plot, and who's just a nod and wink to the old-school superfans who'll recognize a cameo by a minor character, and the shadowplay arc was pretty bad for that. The academy folks are some relevant, but you don't have to remember who everyone you meet is going forward! Skids is around pretty consistently and Trailbreaker/Trailcutter has been popping up on the regular on the LL, but the story is pretty good about reminding you about his deal whenever he shows up.

But oh man, Ironfist, MY BOY, MY SON. He is an incredible sweetheart and a total sperg and a weapons engineer and I love him with a burning passion. LSOTW is a QUALITY, quality miniseries that I highly recommend. It's about propaganda and redshirts and has some relevant history for the next major arc to follow the shadowplay one, and VERITY CARLO aka the best human character to ever share the stage with these silly robots. She's... not at her best art-wise in LSOTW, but I love the story to pieces and it's just fascinating universe flavor. And it's relevant to a couple plot points moving forward from here, but not critically so.

artistformerlyknownasdave · Jun 20, 2018 at 11:44 AM

ooooooo
would it make sense to take a break on mtmte after shadowplay to read lsotw before the next arc? i love me some redshirts

spockandawe · Jun 20, 2018 at 11:56 AM

I think you can read up through issue 13 without any problems, whichever way the urge takes you! It's issue 14 where things become plot-relevant to mtmte. And there are some prose stories that go with the comics in a few places, and if you can find them, lsotw has some GOOD SHIT. I think they've been posted in the main tf thread before, but I'd have to dig to find where

Loq · Jun 20, 2018 at 1:00 PM

I have the MTMTE prose on Google docs, I can link em for ya when I'm done work (~3 hours?). Dunno about lsotw tho

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