IDW - Transformers (2019) #4

Title: The World In Your Eyes, Part Four

Written by: Brian Ruckley

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher, Angel Hernandez & Andrew Griffith

Colours by: Joana LaFuente & Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Windblade, Chromia and Geomotus investigate the area around the Transmission Station, where Geomotus notices that the land has been disturbed lately, but isn't sure if it was natural, or caused by a device. Windblade sees someone nearby, and Chromia recognizes him as Cyclonus, she sends Windblade after him.

Windblade pounces on Cyclonus, and Chromia knocks him over too, and they convinces him that they just want to talk. Cyclonus confirms that he saw Brainstorm arrive a while ago, but saw nothing else. Chromia orders him to come to Iacon to discuss this properly, but he's stand-offish about it. After they leave, Cyclonus talks with the ghosts from his past, and they ask him why he didn't mention the other bot who was with Brainstorm before his death...

Elsewhere, Rubble and Bumblebee join a large crowd in welcoming another new Cybertronian into the world, which is unprecedented due to the closeness to Rubble's own forging, and the proximity to Brainstorm's death.

They watch as the new female Cybertronian is introduced to Arcee, her mentor and Rubble reminisces on his few memories of his own first day.

The two of them leave after the ceremony, but Bee comes across an Autobot officer and a Rise member arguing about the Rise being suspected of killing Brainstorm, and Bee breaks it apart. Prowl soon arrives and is clearly stressed out from the investigation, even dismissing Rubble's offers to help identify the Voin Scavenger who may have been involved due to him seeing it before, and he sends them on their way.

Bee says goodbye to Rubble on his way home again, as he is going to attend Brainstorm's funeral that night, but also apologizes for being a bit flaky as a mentor recently.

Later, several high ranking individuals, as well as friends and cohorts attend the funeral for Brainstorm, which is being presided over by a Revertionist, despite Brainstorm's atheism. Orion explains that this was to appease them, as the council were worried that they may join the Ascenticons if they weren't allowed this high profile ceremony.

Megatron gets into a short argument with Ironhide about not using the funeral to try and discuss politics, after Orion asks Megatron to get Termagax to denounce the recent riots and violence by Megatron's faction.

As Brainstorm's body is placed into a furnace for incineration, all in attendance are silent and mourn for their fallen friend....

Characters

Autobot/Security Forces

Orion Pax - Truck

Ironhide - Van

Chromia - Car

Windblade - VTOL Jet

Prowl - Police Vehicle

Barricade - Police Vehicle

Green Officer

Ascenticon

Megatron - Treaded Vehicle

Soundwave - Hovercraft

Termagax (Mentioned) In Seclusion

Other Cybertronian

Bumblebee - Winged Hovercraft

Rubble

Cyclonus - Jet

Geomotus - Radar Mounted Rover

Perceptor

Wheeljack - Car

Ratchet - Ambulance

Arcee - Car 

Greenlight - Car

Newly Forged Cybertronian

Two Senators

Reversionist Funeral Director

Reversionist Followers

Rise Member

Funeral Attendees 

Welcoming Ceremony Crowd

Cyclonus' Ghost Friends Dead, Visions

Brainstorm - Jet (Mentioned) Body Incinerated

Sentinel Prime (Mentioned)

Starscream (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

"Blue-ish Bot" (Mentioned)

Other

Aliens in Welcoming Ceremony Crowd

Unlicensed Voin Scavenger (Mentioned) 

Notes

• The art duties this issue have been shifted around a bit. Hernandez is still doing the Rubble story-line, but Sara Pitre-Durocher (Till All Are One) provides the art for the opening scenes, and Andrew Griffith (Robots in Disguise 2012) does the final scene.
• After his brief cameo last issue, we see Cyclonus is full here, and he is indeed based on his Combiner Wars counterpart, but with sharper nails to match his MTMTE counterpart.
• The ghosts we see with Cyclonus are most likely victims of the war with the Threefold Spark that was mentioned last issue.
• The ghosts mention a blue-ish bot that was with Brainstorm before he died, this is clearly trying to hint towards Rubble being the killer, but there are other blue/blue-ish bots in the series so far
• The building that the new Cybertronians come out of and are shown off is referred to as "the Pyramid"....it doesn't really look like a Pyramid to me...
• Greenlight is clearly using her upcoming Siege toy design (you can tell from the backpack) but Arcee is too far away and lacks enough detail to identify her body design, but I would assume she is based on either her Thrilling Thirty design or the new one made for the Synergy one shot.
• Judging from the dialogue and their proximity it is assumed that Arcee and Greenlight are in a relationship.
• Rubble comments that his first thoughts about Bee was that he was very yellow, which Bee seems to be a bit offended by. Whilst he was likely referring to his colour scheme, being "yellow" is often a euphemism for cowardice...perhaps this is a hint to why he left the security forces?
• With Orion Pax meeting the new Cybertronian are two larger robots, whom we can assume are Senators, maybe my thoughts on older Cybertronians just being larger is true after all?
• This issue confirms that the Voin Scavengers are just the brain module thing, with the organic creatures being enslaved creatures.
• Interestingly, the dialogue suggests that Termagax is still alive, but in seclusion somewhere, so I guess she wasn't the prisoner Froid was forbidden from meeting after all!
• Perceptor is shown using a classic looking design, rather than his now usual sniper redesign...I'm kind of glad about this reversion!
• Ratchet makes a cameo showing his new Siege toyline deign off as well :)