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The only real qualm is Nightbeat gets a call from Optimus Prime who, because of the colouring, doesn’t look like Prime. At All.

In WWZ Brooks sets himself up (or at least, sets the book’s fictional author up) as someone originally put in charge of interviewing survivors for the United Nations Post-war Commission Report. The material that was collected was however, deemed too personal.

Issue One begins the story with a plane that partially explodes and then crashes into the ocean, killing over one hundred and fifty people. Twelve hours later, when a team of divers manages to reach the crash site and get down to the wreck, they discover the impossible..

I’ll explain my reasons why I would rather perform a lobotomy on myself than have to read this again. In fact, I am mentally torturing myself just writing this review. I hope you’re happy that you’re all making me do this.

The rest of the books’ 20 pages cover the ground of how Eric O’Grady lived his life as a low level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Needless to say there are no signs that he has a heroic bone in his body.

I missed the original Transformers movie on its’ theatrical release, and had to make do with learning the story via the UK version of the comics adaptation.

Many of the characters are still rendered in that old Image/Horror style so that instead of looking new and fresh, it is instantly old and potentially stale.

Picking up on the story begun in issue 0, this issue sees Starbuck face to face with a dead man, Adama faced with an impossible decision and the fleet apparently on the receiving end of a miracle. The dead have returned..

The story opens with the Frightful Four being forcibly invited to Doom’s castle. The first half is a tall tale of the best sort, as the Wizard tells the story of their journey across the edge of the world to an audience of disbelieving inn customers.

In this post-Buffy, post-Anita Blake world the supernatural thriller is a massively popular genre and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do something new with it.