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Transformers #26

By Hervé St-Louis
October 1, 2011 - 11:14

Galvatron and his Decepticon army attack Cybertron and the Autobots scramble to respond to his attack. But is Galvatron really attacking Cybertron or is he trying to convey, albeit clumsily, another message?

Sometimes, a colourist is too powerful for an artist and completely submerge the latter’s work with his “brilliant” colouring. This is what’s happening here and why this book in unreadable. Ramondelli, however, is both the artist and the illustrator. I can’t figure out what’s happening because I have no visual tether to the actual stuff going on because all I can see is one big canvas of pretty colours page after page.

What this does is show how shallow and irrelevant the story ultimately is. If as a reader, I can’t force myself to decipher a comic book, then there’s a problem. It’s actually a problem that as a reader I’d have to force myself to figure out what’s happening. This storyline which is supposed to be important to the world of the Transformers is a non starter for me because of the muddle atmosphere artwork that impede on the actual reading of the comic book. I want to read a comic book, not marvel at the pretty colours on a canvas.

Rating: 3 /10

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