Star Trek: Defiant #25 review

Berlinghoff Rasmussen and Nymira Vondect run a snake oil scam. With the grift completed they move on to the next and we see how the two came together. Rasmussen saved her during the parasite space station debacle. They are out in space having an argument when Lore begins breaking down reality. The planet they were just on vanishes due to a space/time rift. They fly through the rift and emerge near the Defiant. As they try to explain the situation the shockwave entangles both ships.

I have to say I never really cared for Nymira much. I get that Defiant was/is a ship of rogues and renegades on a secret mission. And what we've seen of her past fits that. But I just never formed any attachment to the character. To be honest when I saw her on the first page it was only then that I realized that she had been gone for multiple issues. Also happening as a little vignette is the ongoing mine standoff which concerns Miles O'Brien. We see here a face-off and Ro Laren doing her best Apocalypse Now (1979) homage. This issue leads us directly to Lore War. We'll see how that goes...

six out of ten.

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Void Rivals #17 review

Void Rivals Has Secrets To Reveal! It does and it continues here with issue # 17! Void Rivals is Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s sci-fi comic that tells the tale of two crumbling planets linked by a “Sacred Ring” (it’s not Halo), their peoples at war for generations. When a member of each culture are stranded together, the two find they must put aside their differences if they want to survive. This story takes place in the so-called “Energon Universe”, Skybound Entertainment’s initiative to relaunch properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe within a shared universe that also happens to include the original characters and setting of Void Rivals. In this seventeenth issue, the secret of Zerta Trion is revealed, Darak has a “friendly” chat with his father, and Proximus is on the rampage! Proximus? He was cool. He was! And that continues here as him and his new kid sidekick go on a quest together. It’s unclear exactly what Proximus wishes to get out of it, but he’s clearly no longer...

Transformers #18 (2023) review

Is Shredhead totally in my face? Yup! With Robert Kirkman’s Void Rivals having launched Skybound’s Energon Universe, noted writer/artist rolled-into-one Daniel Warren Johnson takes the reins on the linchpin of this initiative, the flagship Transformers comic series! Well, he maintains the reins on the writing of this series at least, as does Mike Spicer on colors. Jorge Corona has taken over regular penciling duties with a style all his own. In this eighteenth issue, Shredhead kills some guys you may have liked, Ultra Magnus boxes a helicopter, and the Decepticon civil war comes to an end with the return of… well, c’mon, you know. Does Shredhead arrive at the fireworks factory? There’s actually relatively little to do with Shredhead here, aside from an opening fight scene where he showcases how badazz he is by killing some name characters. One of the victims in particular I was kind of annoyed by, considering he just got his first new toy in decades and has always been a fan favorite f...

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