Dundeey's art blog

I'm going to use this opportunity to talk about something that i "noticed" but never bothered to point out because it's meaningless and nobody cares: Prowl is shown with a hand on someone's arm or shoulder while he's telling them something pretty consistently throughout the IDW comics, and by consistently I mean maybe like only 5 times but that's still 5 times more often than anyone else did. I imagine that Prowl uses touch as a kind of (failed) attempt at persuasion; it's like he's being very pushy or insistent. I'd even argue that he only does this because he's used to not being able to reach people.

I figure that the only reason this happens on several occasions is not because the writers (or artists, depending on whose input it was) were all in on this very specific thing, but because they all had the right idea about Prowl being the type of guy who might do that sometimes. That kind of behavior is more like a symptom than anything (in my honest and unprofessional opinion).

And since I couldn't just drop this random lore without at least showing some evidence:

Death of Optimus Prime

MTMTE #27

Optimus Prime #3

This is just what was already in my folder... Who knows what more is out there lol

... So yeah I could get behind Prowl being handsy 😁