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#mtmteread i like the idea a surgeon is useful because it's wired into a body. that's great.
#mtmteread they really sell me on these two. i do 100% believe in the dynamic set up here, with the little affectionate asides earlier and the confidence it's presented with.
#mtmteread yes yes foreshadowing, but also, rewind and rung come up surprisingly often in little ways, and i think that potential was a little untapped for story opportunities. that bit where rewind reacts to rung's transformation noise in LL 23(?) is in the *notebooks*!
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#mtmteread yeah i bet he will
also, bless. not quite on the cards for you buddy, but i feel ya.
#mtmteread the outlier thing never quite gets used in a way that justifies how much work goes into it imo. but look. i read a lot of xmen comics back in the day, I'm not immune.
#mtmteread jesus christ i still have an issue to go I'm SO sorry. this is why i don't usually do this LMAO
but look, the heist bit's starting!!! tf needs more HEISTS.
#mtmteread yeah, there it is. nobody SAYS it, but try coming up with a plausible explanation for this if cdrw aren't married.
also, callback to "death of". i think the last time prowl's failed defection comes up til the 'Peaceful Revolution' callback barber does YEARS later.
#mtmteread THIS IS SO FUNNY
...astute readers of this overlong livetweet may have picked up on one reason i enjoy this arc so much.
#mtmteread why DOES this mirror the overlord-megatron fight..? i feel like there's a reason I'm missing.
but also, cyclonus is very much the real deal to drift's bluff. I like that, hah. these two characters feeling so distinct despite sharing a lot of conceptual stuff is cool.
#mtmteread this seems like kiiiind of OTT foreshadowing given this will pay off in a side story of no HUGE importance, but at the time i assume it was also supposed to link to rewind's fake 'uv allergy' coming up in #12.
#mtmteread notably cd is going to go through this whole big heist story revealing the conspiracy of the institute and what it does... and THEN join it.
he's not got a great moral compass, that one. it's ok tho he has rewind for that now. proooobably best he dumped prowl.
#mtmteread chromedome has always been a morbid weirdo. hears about the 'digging around dead brains' department and perked right up. god bless. you're gonna do SO many war crimes.
#mtmteread when we talk about marvel influence on idw, it surprises me that the ongoing thing of 'making it the creation matrix' tends not to get brought up. it being a whole meta Thing that they've misunderstood it in-fiction seems worth poking at.
#mtmteread the relinquishment clinics somehow getting from hyper-dystopian pawn shop to wartime suicide clinics is something that always feels like maybe a potential thread got dropped.
#mtmteread i love drift being an annoying little shit here lmao, the deliberate needling is fun. also ratchet getting paint all over his face.
#mtmteread op is physically incapable of not making speeches, it's the only way he knows how to communicate