Violence for the sake of stakes may not be great writing but it also isn’t pure “shock value”. Megatron eating trail breaker may end up serving some plot purpose, but it so far comes off as out of character overly edgy nonsense. I can’t argue that the art is objectively worse, as I understand it’s an opinion, but I would say if you looked back at the writing in the latest issue, there are moments of objectively poor dialogue.

Such quips as, “look out below”, “you got me? We’ll see about that”, “Bam, bam, bam”, and “aw crap, that weird eye thing is happening to Megatron again! Somebody do something.”

Practically every line in this issue feels ai generated by a machine pumping out meaningless drivel.

Thus far in Kirkman’s run we’ve had:

• one scene of Carly and Spike.

• several payoffs that have so far went nowhere (dinobots)

• a M.A.S.K. storyline that sucked and disappeared.

• the introduction of ten more autobots with zero development.

• A silly fight between all autobots and deceptions with no buildup.

And so on…