AHHHHHH GOD I MISSED THIS I DIDN’T REALISE YOU’D DONE IT! ❤
This is PERFECTION. Seriously, the work-song rhythm is perfect, the melody is perfect, you’ve got a great voice and it suits this song down to the ground. I can absolutely picture this as part of my story.
THANK YOU!
Me: I could do something productive.
Brain: …
Me: Or I could sit here and stare at the last panel of Lost Light 25 again and feel all the emotions I possess simultaneously.
Brain: That one, I pick that one.
Honestly, the fact that jro made his start in fanfic makes that ‘over to you’ feel really, really important.
Cause idk, a lot of authors say something similar when a thing they wrote comes to a close but… Roberts full-on created a parallel universe where the adventures of the Lost Light never stop, and are infinite in possibility, and it really does feel, because of that, like he’s genuinely given us one last gift. Anything we write or draw or create taking place in that universe may as well have happened. Why shouldn’t it?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before, where a creator has gone: Here’s your very own universe, where anything goes. Have fun!
I love your Rung thoughts. When I first read the issue I was really struggling with no one remembering Rung but, like you, I saw how he lives on in his “children” and his friends words and deeds. Heck, judging by that Guards expression when Whirl hands the hands back, there might be more of Rung in his kids than first assumed.It’s a comforting thought.
Thank you. ❤ I also struggled with it at first – hearing the reference to “something called Rung” was like a punch in the gut. It just seemed so counter to the message at the end of the last issue: DON’T FORGET ME. But then when I saw the guard’s face, and thought about what made up that message – all the sparks, all the hotspots lighting up – I thought, “Of course: the universe hasn’t forgotten him. This is how he’s remembered.” And I think you’re right; there’s a softness and a kind of joy in the guard’s expression that makes me think, too, that there’s something of Rung in his children. (That and the reference to how remarkably easily these new kids are blending in… almost like they have some talent for going unnoticed…)
All of which also makes me hope that perhaps the pilot of Rodimus’s shuttle might be very good company for him to have around right now…
My regular comic write-ups for TFWiki will be coming to an end with this month’s Unicron #6 and Optimus Prime #25, but this December, I get to do it all over again from the start in TRANSFORMERS: HISTORIA, the official history of the IDW universe! Written by me, published by IDW, with a new cover by Sara Pitre-Durocher (@spewpew) – available wherever comics are sold!
for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you.
thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional.
YET MORE SPOILERS as I answer some spoilery asks under the cut – some of these are anonymous, so please check here if you sent me an anon ask about LL25, as you won’t get a notification that I’ve answered it!
Anonymous said: You know…I was really unhappy with the ending of LL, but your review miraculously pulled me out of that a bit. I’m extremely behind, but I decided to spoil the ending for myself anyway and I was so depressed with how things turned out for most of the crew I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep buying/reading the comics I have yet to get to. You’ve changed my mind.
Thank you so much, Anon – I’m really pleased that I was able to change your mind. It’s certainly a tear-jerking ending in some ways, but I found so much hope in it, and I’m happy I was able to get that across. I hope that you find the rest of the series satisfying. Thank you for stopping by to tell me this. ❤
Anonymous said: I think it would make the end of the series both sadder and happier if Rung pulled a Madoka. His physical form was erased, and everyone lost their memories, but he was still there, guiding and protecting the crew for all time. When they return to the Well of Allsparks, he’ll be there to personally escort them. (And since Primus is a Multiversal entity, he can support and protect both versions of the Lost Light crew.)
In fairness, we don’t know that’s not what happened. I think it’s fair to say that Rung is watching over them – whether that’s in a metaphorical/emotional sense or a more literal sense isn’t really determined in canon, so it’s open to interpretation. I also really love the idea of Primus looking after and protecting both crews. (Also, I think it’s fair to say that Multiversal Primus is pretty much confirmed in IDW, since Rung wasn’t duplicated on the LL2…)
Anonymous said: I’m happy that Ratchet dying happened years in the future after he and Drift had had a long, happy marriage. Ngl, if he had died straight after they’d got together I would have been piiisssed
Oh, me, too! I’m so happy they had a real life together; that’s exactly what I wanted for them.
I hope you don’t mind my piggybacking off this comment to add that, in a wider sense, I think it’s important for all of us to remember that the ending is a snapshot (very much by design). We only get hints of what’s happened in the (hundreds or thousands or even millions of) years between the immediate aftermath of the quest and Ratchet’s funeral. We see Rewind stuck in memory stick mode, Brainstorm on life support, Swerve having had to close a huge string of businesses – but we don’t see all the life they’ve lived in between. We don’t know if Rewind went on to travel the galaxy and make films. We don’t see all the people we can assume Chromedome helped as a grief counselor. We don’t see Brainstorm’s adventures (and did he and Perceptor get together?); we don’t see Swerve building a business and a life for himself (and it must have been pretty successful, at least at first, to be franchised out like that). And, perhaps more importantly, we don’t see what happens afterwards. We see Rodimus being a mess, but we don’t see whether reconnecting with his best friend might be a first step towards something better. We can only imagine how living with Cyclonus and Tailgate will help Whirl (though I think it certainly will).
And that’s deliberate, of course it is. It vividly conveys the real sense of loss that happens when a group of friends – a family – who’ve been living in each other’s pockets has to break up. Some people stay in each other’s lives, but for others, you may only ever see each other in again in brief snapshots. But it doesn’t mean that because a particular character’s snapshot looks grim, their life has been nothing but bleak. We can infer a lot of happiness and a lot of healing between the lines we see.
abucketofprotons said: YOUR BOY IS LOOKING VERY GOOD SPORTING HIS ‘ONE EYE RIPPED OUT/MISSING’ LOOK.
Ah, yes, the truly important part of the last issue of Lost Light: how fucking smoking Prowl looks in Jack Lawrence’s art style. 😉 (Has Jack actually drawn Prowl before? I mean, apart from the time I paid him to because I have a minor fixation…)
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