Thundercracker

I've never liked the Transformers. The franchise didn't get its hooks into me as a kid, and while I've tried to give it a shot as an adult, it never really clicked. But now, with a recommendation from almost everyone I know and a well-timed Humble Bundle sale that left me with three years worth (and counting) of IDW's More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise comics, I'm going on a quest to see if these comics can turn me from someone who has never cared at all about Optimus Prime into someone who uses words like "Cybertron" and "alt-mode" with alarming regularity. And Primus help me, it's working. This week, it's the last stop before Dark Cybertron as Swerve continues to be better than everyone.

This past fall I got super into Activision and High Moon's Transformers: War For Cybertron and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron games and had a blast rediscovering what I dug about a number of Autobots and Decepticons. I've watched my share of TF cartoons (and, yeah, the Bayformers movies), but these games marked the first time that I thought of guys like Skywarp and Thundercracker as much more tha