I know I'm late to the party but I went in with honest intentions, only to be met with these listed grievances and more, as well as an accompanying image to help illustrate my point: >bitchy women (I actually like strong action women but some writers assume bitchy equals strong and independent) >massive disrespect to legacy characters >gay haircuts and gayer millenial/gen x dialogue >mass character tags (I get why they do this but it just makes it feel so much less epic when the only worth most characters have is their tag, so why even bother noting who they are? plus some tags like "lizard guy" shows how little they care) >IDW OC worship especially for the boring fembots, they even end the story with one of them monologuing >the gayest, most retarded defeat of any Unicron. Even Bayformers sidestepping the end of Last Knight was a better defeat for Unicron >every other line is this white guilt garbage with some cybertronian feeling bad because of what their ancestors did or getting chewed out because of it which is more understandable but just makes the point drag on >didn't include it but that one combiner chick's arc of hating Optimus until he kills himself, would have saved pics of it but really it's just more hating on legacy characters and that's already in a couple times here >not up to date on IDW but there is a character in this story who to me looks like and is called Soundwave but acts like another person entirely >the body language is notably effeminate, this may be nitpicking but still >writing around what feels like the main event, like focusing on everything BUT what would be cool to see, then taking anything cool that actually does happen and blasting through it in one or two panels to get back to gay melodrama and quips >again- the dialogue is ATROCIOUS at least half the time I read a few IDW stories over the years like some All Hail and Dark Cybertron, I'd heard about Starscream leading Cybertron at one point and about Optimus being treated like a villain but I kind of assumed that last one would be over before the final arc here. I'm not going to pretend like my opinion should have as much weight as longtime readers but in my defense it does state you don't need to have read all of IDW to understand this arc (which I know is marketing for "please buy this even though you won't totally understand it) and there is plenty of expositional dialogue so people like me don't get lost, but there are certain aspects that I've already talked about that are universally understood regardless that stop this from being everything it feels like it should have been. My opinion is just my opinion, I state it like it's a universal truth but this post is just to vent and not to say that my personal tastes are fact especially for a story I skipped most of, I just want to know what other people thought of it both to see some other sides to it and also to confirm my biases.