Void Rivals (#1ā#28) Part 4: Agorria
I just read LSOTW (as well as the extra context surrounding that story), so Springer getting stranded alone for thousands of years doesnāt look and sound as sad anymore, when heās once in the multiverse had to listen to his fellow suicide squad member confess that heās happy that his older brother figure committed war crimes, while in a coma (due to having his faceplate ripped off) in order to be brought back from it.
Just chill in the shadows Spring Roddyās gonna pull up in an astrosec, Darak just needs to meet up with his boss Elander again, and then have half a conversation with hisā¦āfatherā, first. š
Ah, thereās that magic word again, āworthyā.
As if thatās any sort of excuse, given Darakās thankfully (for you Dulin) easygoing personality (I mean itās not like heās impulsively power hungry like Proximus), to keep extremely important information from not only your son, but apparently the future heir of an entire civilization even tho you seemed perfectly fine with letting him die.
In a āthe needs of the many outweigh the needs of a fewā sort of way, I can respect. You donāt play favorites despite basically being a hereditary monarch.
(And itās totally not like thereās any other family, letās say, an uncle, in the pictureā¦
āWait where the hell did this guy come fromā?ā)
Itās justā¦why not let everyone else in Agorria know? š¤Ø
Cuz now youāve got these Unifiersāwith Elander turning out to be one of themāwho have no idea who Goliant is potentially endangering the entire Sacred Ring.
You still want to maintain some sort of advantage over Zertonia out ofā¦ego?
Like Zaliliakās situation makes sense since his people mightāve considered him blasphemous for trying to warn them, and thus potentially remove him from all his power + privilegesā
(Itās corrupt, yeah, but it computes)
But hey, youāre an explicit monarchy (and maybe Zaliliakās gov is too but I donāt think that was hinted at), and monarchies are stupid, but you gotta distract your citizens from that and electrocute your kids in order to continue conversations about world ending threats.
Meanwhile Springer also demonstrates how Megs has options other than genocide and conquest *coughs* diplomacy.
Makes you wonder how Elita will react to their arrival back to Cybertron. Will she be pissed? Will she consider anything they say worth listening to?
āWill they even really say anything to begin with?ā
I meanā¦they just wanted to leave even after the Zertonians invaded (after Zerta sent Solila to Agorria to meet with Darak), and Goliant almost emerged due to the subsequent unity in progressā
āSuch devastationā Woah is that a Kirkmanismā?
(Sorry I just finished reading Furmanās IDW run, and apparently repeating phrases is a thing with him so much that it gets referenced by James Roberts through Ironfirst and Skyfall)
And interestingly they donāt believe (or rather they donāt seem to want to believe) that Zerta would be someone capable of having any sort of ill intent.
āNo, sheās our speciesā hero!ā
But thatās the thing tho. Your species.
And even then with Alpha Trion being 99% absent/unmentioned for whatever reason (is he considered a legend by this point too?), Iām starting to develop some doubts (not to downplay either of the Trionsā accomplishments, such as liberating Cybertron), although if thereās anything TF Issue #31 has made clear is that we seriously need to learn how exactly this war started, if there have been previous Decepticon leaders (or if war has always been a thing with there just being periods of ceasefire basically. Weāre prob gonna have to rely on seeing how Jetfire reacts to being back on Cybertron for now in terms of providing clues).
Iād say they shouldāve stuck around to at least process everything that happenedā¦but then theyād have to deal with an army of Sharkticons soā
āDang, you spend thousands of years following a legend just to dip out despite the signs everywhere of this legend being true. If only they got to speak with Solilaā
I have a feeling Zerta didnāt want that.
āThen how the hell does that help her speciesāā
I donāt think she wanted them to go through hell reminiscent of LSOTW.
āNgl, their departure, as well as Solila changing her mind about unity seemed to happen rather abruptlyā
Yeah I think I wouldāve preferred an extra page in Issue #23 to really emphasize the destruction and Solilaās reaction to that, to really sell the panic in her backing out of the idea of unity.
Some people might also not be happy that Roddy and Spring kinda just stand around talking for a few issues, but personally I donāt mind. Not at all.
Thatās basically what people have been asking Robert Kirkman to do with the characters in his TF run so far. Not to say that you canāt tell story through action (obviously), but thatās prob a reason why I surprisingly really, really gravitated towards Flaggās scenes.
All he did was talk, but goddammit does his dialogue and his role overall provide so much potential (in terms of angst/animosity/tension) in the wider narrative (particularly for Carly, Spike, Wheeljack and Optimus. I wouldāve included Mags too but, well, uhā).
Then again he might be relocated over to M.A.S.K, which would mean the bitch hopping comics 3 times like dayumā
āTbh, Spring and Roddy so far have seemed more like plot devices than charactersā
So Iām curious to see where heāll take Spring and Roddyās characters going forward. Iām currently reading through IDW (itās said that you donāt have to read Phase 1, and there have been inconsistencies, retcons and the occasional āYikesā momentā*shrugs* but idk must be some completionist thing) by publishing order (most of the time)ātheyāve def stood out. Wreck ān fragginā rule yāall.
It took until, what, 2012 for Roddy to gain enough rare candies to evolve into Rodimus? Thatās 7 years in. Maybe that wonāt even happen at all.
Maybe the Matrix will go on to choose Springer instead.
(You guys Iām tellinā you heās really underrated and badass and I can see why First Aid finds him hotā
