im sure this dynamic won't get weird at all

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and now we get the start of where this comic really gears itself up.

this worldbuilding will be VERY important later. in particular though, that second panel will get a very meaningful parallel with the functionist universe later, a looong time from now.

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god, this miscommunication moment too. these are two characters who WOULD get each other, and that it goes like this is both perfect and infuriating (in a good way). the bittersweetness on a very funny issue for two characters it WILL pay off for. mwah.

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i love this. it's what mtmte does best: those moments of absolute sincerity, fully earned. nothing big. but it matters that they have it. the larger stakes undercut by what the little moments that really count bring.

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mate, you do not want to know the shit bee and prowl are going through.

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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.

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love rung getting to be a liiiiittle bitchy at swerve.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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not sure how well the pseudo-cinematography works tbh. But this is seeding a relationship which... it’s wild to think was originally only planned to go as far as RiL.

Like, til he sat down to write its last issue.

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this feels like the moment the nonlinear storytelling was built for: the reversing of the 'whirl ain't so bad really' moment's cause and effect is what this issue builds to.

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swerve is god's perfect schmuck. i do love the payoff being 'he was just being a dumbass', only for us to find out this is a bit of a misdirect and what happened to the others is a lot more pertinent.

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'god i can't believe my husband worries so much' *immediately does insane shit as an unarmed noncombatant*

i love him.

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i LOVE this. tailgate committing so hard to the bit he won't give up faced with a bomb, and his sneaky use of rewind being the trivia guy who loves to explain shit to make it work. it's that very weird tailgate combo of anxiety and arrogance that makes him neat!

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one of the more horrifying LSotW concepts returns! (I should have kept a tally for Last Stand s1 callbacks.)

Rewind's little aside is pretty funny, especially as it turns out Rewind actually wasn't around for a chunk of the war and is a noncombatant.

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