"Spotlight: Arcee"
COMICS REVIEW
They say the Pit has no fury like a woman scorned, and
with that in mind, IDW Publishing unleash the
ever-controversial Arcee into their world.
The once kind token female Autobot baby-sitter has been reinvented with an almighty microchip on her shoulder. She's pink and she's pissed, and let's face it, she's arsey.
It seemed like the unauthorised appearance of "female" Transformers in "Megatron: Origin" threw a double-X-chromosomed spanner in the works, and, not one to shy from a challenge, writer Simon Furman decided to make the female of the species official with "Spotlight: Arcee".
The details of how and why Arcee is a "she" and the rest of the Transformers are, apparently, a "he" is touched on briefly, yet intelligently, but the rest of the story reads more like a stepping stone for the rest of the all-encompassing IDW storyline. And maybe that's the point? Should we not be concerning ourselves more with the bigger picture, rather than the trivial matter of a Jhiaxus-spawned experimental he-be-she-be?
The plot delivers a tightly-paced quest for revenge (which, irritatingly isn't concluded in-issue; it seems like we're building up to something here) with a few moral dilemmas and metadecisions to ramp up the tension. While dark and very high contrast colouring distracts from the artwork, Alex Milne provides some very kinetic and thick-of-the-action visuals.
Depending on where your opinion falls on the issue of "female" Transformers, this Spotlight issue is worth looking up, just don't sweat the details too much and let the larger story continue to unfold.
"Spotlight: Arcee" (22 pp) was originally
published by IDW Publishing
in Transformers: Spotlight #12 (February 2008)
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Alex Milne | Colours by Josh Perez & Kris Carter
Letters by Chris Mowry | Edits by Andrew Steven Harris
The once kind token female Autobot baby-sitter has been reinvented with an almighty microchip on her shoulder. She's pink and she's pissed, and let's face it, she's arsey.
It seemed like the unauthorised appearance of "female" Transformers in "Megatron: Origin" threw a double-X-chromosomed spanner in the works, and, not one to shy from a challenge, writer Simon Furman decided to make the female of the species official with "Spotlight: Arcee".
The details of how and why Arcee is a "she" and the rest of the Transformers are, apparently, a "he" is touched on briefly, yet intelligently, but the rest of the story reads more like a stepping stone for the rest of the all-encompassing IDW storyline. And maybe that's the point? Should we not be concerning ourselves more with the bigger picture, rather than the trivial matter of a Jhiaxus-spawned experimental he-be-she-be?
The plot delivers a tightly-paced quest for revenge (which, irritatingly isn't concluded in-issue; it seems like we're building up to something here) with a few moral dilemmas and metadecisions to ramp up the tension. While dark and very high contrast colouring distracts from the artwork, Alex Milne provides some very kinetic and thick-of-the-action visuals.
Depending on where your opinion falls on the issue of "female" Transformers, this Spotlight issue is worth looking up, just don't sweat the details too much and let the larger story continue to unfold.
VERDICT:
in Transformers: Spotlight #12 (February 2008)
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Alex Milne | Colours by Josh Perez & Kris Carter
Letters by Chris Mowry | Edits by Andrew Steven Harris