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 willing to be left in the dark as to what he was awakened to do. Again… wouldn’t mind an action figure of this guy! He looks so cool.
The other cool thing in this issue is Solila meeting Zerta Trion and learning her origin, which is tied in to Sunbow Transformers lore. I admit, her true identity is a pretty neat idea and makes perfect sense, and I enjoy Kirkman mining old episodes of the cartoon for his source material here.
Any other Transformers stuff? Or G.I. Joe stuff?
Yes, Hot Rod and Springer get a scene to catch up and we check in on Pythona and her crew briefly. It’s mostly just a look-in and not much plot progression, but if they’re what you’re here for, at least they’re present!
Along with the aforementioned lore stuff about Zerta Trion, we learn about Goliant and its looming threat, and it kinda seems quite familiar in terms of Transformers-type menaces. I don’t know exactly where Kirkman is going with this, but I’m suitably intrigued still!
Cube?
Plot progression is still kind of sluggish, but the loredump here makes this a better issue than usual. De Felici’s art lend a real sense of upcoming doom centering around the Goliant stuff.
Buy Void Rivals # 17 this week because Forever is a Long Time Coming.
