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#mtmteread mate, you do not want to know the shit bee and prowl are going through.
#mtmteread i keep saying a lot of the cygate stuff isn't SUPER my jam, but honestly, this is i think one of the sweetest moments they get bar RiL maybe, made better by the fact cyclonus doing this is FUCKING HILARIOUS. get you a man who will lose his shit to keep your lie intact.
#mtmteread i love him. also yeah that IS often what having ocd is like, can confirm, you get in a vehicle like 'what are the structural weaknesses i need to worry about for the next 30 minutes' unfortunately
#mtmteread pure fanservice, the good kind; gets in the way of nothing, tonally fine for a lighthearted issue, means the teens/kids reading have something easier to draw and cosplay. people who rag on this are haters, tbh, it's the place for it and it's fun.
#mtmteread i love cyclonus as the 'warrior poet of old' guy. he will recite the cyber-iliad to you with tears in his eyes. also, maybe cry about it. and i genuinely love that the series is never less than earnest about it.
#mtmteread this issue seems like classic filler, except of course for the part where it implicitly sets up swerve's entire arc. which is early mtmte in a nutshell.
#mtmteread payoff two: reversing the cause and effect of whirl's guilt induced good deed just has SUCH a different impact. making it a 'hold on a second now' twist stops it feeling trite, despite the in universe events being the same either way, and makes it work better imo.
#mtmteread payoff one: cyclonus saving tailgate with an impromptu fastball special, so now you get why tailgate was so determined to save cyclonus, and give him something, despite him being a dick.
yeet the minibot.
#mtmteread now THIS dynamic. this one's such a long haul for the comic, and man, i eat it up. these two are so good. and they will be so good all the way through. long after i cool on cyclonus and tailgate i will be SO invested in these two.