Review: Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots by Mike Johnson, Mairghread Scott, and Agustin Padilla

Comic PDF eBook, n. pag.
Published 2013 (contents: 2012-13)
Acquired August 2014
Read April 2019

Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots

Written by Mike Johnson and Mairghread Scott
Art by Agustin Padilla
Colors by Thomas Deer
Coloring Assist by Joana Lafuente
Letters by Shawn Lee and Tom Long

This is it! Back in August 2014, I got eighteen Transformers comics out of a Humble Bundle. But thanks to two further Humble Bundles and comiXology and even buying some in hardcopy, the last one in that original Bundle was actually the fifty-ninth Transformers comic that I've read! But at last I finally made it to the end, five years later.

I do like the Aligned design for Shockwave-- it's unsettling un-human, unlike most Transformers-- but boy am I tired of reading all his schemes after IDW's main continuity.
from Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots #4

Rage of the Dinobots picks up from the last book I read, Fall of Cybertron in the so-called "Aligned" continuity. The newly minted Dinobots are providing cover as the Autobots evacuate Cybertron, but when Ultra Magnus is shot down by Decepticon forces, the Dinobots break into a prison to rescue them, and end up captured once again by their old nemesis Shockwave, this time aided by his new minion, Ser-Ket, and her army of Predacons.

Farwell to you too, Ultra Magnus!
from Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots #4

It's pretty generic Transformers action, to be honest, but Agustin Padilla is one of the better Transformers artists. I just think I'm Dinobotted out, and specifically John-Barber-Dinobotted out. He didn't write this, but Johnson and Scott follow his lead from Fall of Cybertron. Kind of a fizzle for the end of my big marathon, but thankfully there's bigger and better to come in still other continuities...

Next Week: Meanwhile, on Earth... it's Transformers vs. G.I. Joe!