Some thoughts about Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #55

The end of the Lost Light as we know is about to happen.

Megatron will have to face the DJD and the rest of the Decepticons by himself and he might not be ready unless he's decided to give up all what he has learned about himself.

Okay, first of all. I'm talking full SPOILERS here so I would highly recommend you to not read this unless you want to know exactly what happened.

James Roberts concludes his storyline The Dying of the Light by focusing mainly on Megatron and how he has to confront his enemies in a final fight. The execution of some aspects of this fight is a bit clumsy since characters like Overlord leave a little too easily simply because Megatron is apparently not willing to fight and that mostly seems like a quick excuse to put Overlord out of the way. Aside from that, this worked nicely with Megatron's character growth clashing with his true nature and is forced to put an end to the DJD.

Is a pretty emotional and impactful moment, particularly with some of the ramifications like the death of Ravage and how that affects both Megatron and obviously, Soundwave who appears in a brief but strong scene.

HOWEVER, here comes the disappointments.

Remember how it was heavily implied that the true identity of the leader of the DJD, Tarn was actually Optimus Prime's missing friend, Roller?

Well, that's not the case since Roller appears suddenly with barely any explanation in front of the Lost Light crew.

Who was actually Tarn?

Glitch.

You know, that character who appeared briefly in the Shadowplay arc several issues ago who we knew very little about and thus wasn't really important?

Underwhelming is an understatement.

In hindsight, this makes sense since it was explained that Glitch's powers were about manipulation and how they were supposedly growing which connects him to Tarn's ability to make a spark die but speaking purely in terms of character, investment and plot this is a complete waste of potential and time.

We were lead to believe that Tarn's identity was something really important and it wasn't at all, he was a nobody and don't tell me that Tarn himself was a character already and that's what is important because a huge part of him was the mystery about who he was. This just seems like a cop-out due that Roberts didn't want to go for a predictable route and wanted to be surprising without understanding that such "surprise" is worse than going for the predictable route.

Other than that, the chapter ends with a lot of interesting plot-points being created and I hope they're nicely developed.

Alex Milne handles the artwork and is pretty good looking as usual with expressive characters and a vibrant style.

This is not bad per se but is a big letdown indeed. At this point I think Roberts can't deliver a satisfying conclusion.