Transformers: Monstrosity #4

by Chris Metzen

12 CHAPTER DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE SERIES! SHOWDOWN! A rage-fueled battle between the AUTOBOTS, DECEPTICONS, and DINOBOTS at an energon refinery endangers CYBERTRON and reveals GRIMLOCK's secret! Meanwhile, beneath the surface of JUNKION's shore, MEGATRON is hunted-by the SHARKTICONS!

10 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 20, 2013

Reviews

[Mintaikk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Personal quote-on-quote "regular and well formatted" review: I like these issues a lot, but I don't like the way things are paced. It cuts from one scene to another very quickly and it can be a bit jarring at times. A couple pages will focus on the Autobots and Scorponok and what they're doing, but the next page is Megatron and Pentius, but then it's back to the Autobots. It's not overly distracting, but it can be jarring at times. I wish they made it so once the action dies down, THEN it switches over to the other characters. Or maybe one half is one character and the other half is the other character. Smthn like that.

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-Does Sky Lynx even have a Cybertronian form...? The only continuity that I can find where he did was in Transformers Prime. What the hell would his regular form even look like with an alt mode like that? I bet he'd be MASSIVE (TFP made him sexy tho)

-Grimlock just peacing out once the Autobots show up, lmao

-Apparently, despite fighting alongside the Autobots in Autocracy, Grimlock doesn't have much loyalty to them. When Slag asks if they should go back to help the Autobots, Grimlock says, "This ain't our fight. Never was. They can all blow each other to hell for all I care!" Interesting. (They've been saying 'hell' this whole time. Do Cybertronians have an equivalent to Hell? Whatever. It's my headcanon that they're speaking in some kind of robot language and it's just being translated for the reader)

-"Hiding behind your big guns, Scorponok? I see you've lost your bearings since our arena days" BOTH of them fought in the arena??? Like, together or against each other??? Also, Megatron had Grimlock 'marked for greatness' apparently as well

-Didn't know this at first, but apparently the thing that's attacking Megatron and Pentius is a sharkticon (though, they act more like piranhas).

-Scorponok is worse than Megatron bcuz, while Megatron does hold grudges, he at least has PRIORITIES when it comes to his enemies. He wouldn't abandon the fights with the Autobots to go fight Optimus, would he? (In this continuity, he wouldn't). Scorponok abandons the fight with the Autobots to go chase after Grimlock just bcuz he's mad at him 💀

-Never in my life did I think that Grimlock's basic T-rex alt mode would look cool. I was wrong. I bully this art style a lot, but they did a good job at actually making the slow and murderous transformation to a dinosaur look scary

-"Son... get a hold of yourself." That lines just really funny to me. Also, Grimlock's probably older than Optimus

-Sadly, Coptimus Prime makes an appearance when he tries to arrest Grimlock. I understand why he did but come on. He did it so he wouldn't have to endanger everyone else. Dai Atlas even points this out to him. Coptimus Prime still has much character development to go through I fear

-Grimlock is reasonaly upsets and snaps and starts attacking Coptimus Prime. He threatens to set off the fusion regulator, but he doesn't because he doesn't want to hurt anyone (bless his spark).

-Scorponok decides to press it for him and kill thousands. How fucking kind