#lost light 10

[crissiti]

Mirage being savage af

[tenthdynasty]

In case anyone hasn’t done this yet. The song and story go too perfectly together.

Lost Light #10: Hotel California Edition.

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air.

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim - I had to stop for the night.

There she stood in the doorway;

I heard the mission bell. And I was thinking to myself, “This could be Heaven or this could be Hell.”

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor,

I thought I heard them say…

Welcome to the Hotel California!

Such a lovely place.

(Such a lovely place.)

Such a lovely face.

Plenty of room at the Hotel California!

Any time of year, (Any time of year,)

You can find it here.

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz.

She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, she calls friends.

How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.

Some dance to remember,

some dance to forget.

So I called up the Captain, “Please bring me my wine.”

He said, “We haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine.”

And still those voices are calling from far away,

Wake you up in the middle of the night, just to hear them say…

Welcome to the Hotel California!

Such a lovely place.

(Such a lovely place.)

Such a lovely face.

They livin’ it up at the Hotel California!

What a nice surprise,

(what a nice surprise,)

Bring your alibis.

Mirrors on the ceiling,

The pink champagne on ice.

And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.”

And in the master’s chambers, they gathered for the feast.

They stab it with their steely knives,

But they just can’t kill the beast!

Last thing I remember, I was

Running for the door.

I had to find the passage back

To the place I was before.

“Relax, ” said the night man,

“We are programmed to receive.

You can check-out any time you like,

But you can never leave! ”

[watchdogz]

1-800-AREYOUGLASSIN

[decepticon-spydrone]

Concerning Getaway

Getaway. I’ve hated him since long before Dying of the Light. Even before The Broken Triangle. But we’re not going to talk about him in those today. We’re going to talk about what we found out about him in Lost Light #10.

Let’s start with the obvious stuff: the lies and the manipulation. I mean, let’s be honest, he’s been an expert at this since he joined the ship. But here, he’s in rare form.

Look at how artfully he dodges any question concerning anything that’s obviously wrong or out of place with the ship. Is it just me, or has he gotten BETTER at this? That is an extremely disturbing thought.

As a side note, A+ to Atomizer for keeping up so effectively with him. He gets a Getaway Star.

Then comes the point where he can’t avoid it anymore, and he lies so casually you almost want to believe him:

The lie he (and the rest of the crew) tells is so ridiculous, so OBVIOUSLY out of character for the people he’s telling it about, that it’s no wonder that First Aid is already getting super suspicious. I’m more concerned with the fact that despite his efforts he doesn’t look upset AT ALL about any of it. Not a shred of guilt to be found.

At first I thought maybe it’s because he’s convinced they’re safe, so there’s nothing to be concerned about. And then this happens:

Riptide has no reason to know about the DJD having been involved. Unless it was actually part of the plan.

I was among the people who thought the Galactic Council was the only ones Getaway dealt with. But the only way Riptide could have ever known about them having shown up on Necroworld was if it had been part of Getaway’s plan. Meaning despite what we thought all this time, Getaway really WAS responsible for the DJD’s involvement.

And even if we may think that it’s just a big misunderstanding, two new developments pop up.

What he did with Thunderclash for one. This one I suppose can be at least a little forgiven. Better Thunderclash be stuck in a Memory Loop than dead, right? Not as bad of mind-fuckery as some of the others in this series have suffered.

AND THEN THIS HAPPENS:

WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK. GETAWAY?!

I don’t see how this can possibly be rationalized in a way that will make Getaway sympathetic. At all. He hid it away in Swerve’s bar, presumably from the rest of the crew. We know several people are missing other than Rodimus’s team, so this is presumably the others that are missing. Until we know what’s going on, though, it’s impossible to know what’s up with this exactly. All I know is it’s sick and wrong.

So, let’s recap. He’s lying, manipulating, usurped the last person in charge so he could lead, turned a crew of loyal Autobots into liars as well, hiding what can be assumed to be horrific experiments, and he used the DJD as AT LEAST the executioners for Megatron. So... anyone else see a bit of a parallel of him becoming the person he rationalized doing all of this to get rid of specifically? Hint: I’ve already mentioned the person’s name once in this paragraph.

On one hand, I’m glad this finally proved something I’ve said before. That Getaway doing all this had nothing to do with Megatron. It was proven by Atomizer presenting Rodimus with the “list of people who voted him off” (which we know was bull) BEFORE Megatron was announced to become a member of the crew. Getaway has always had plans to usurp Rodimus and take over. He’s not a noble mech who did the wrong things for the right reasons. He’s an awful person who just wants to prove he’s better than Rodimus.

On the other, I kind of wanted him to be a more morally grey villain. Someone who DID do the wrong thing for the right reason. It would have made him an interesting and dynamic villain for this series. But, alas, it seems he’s leaning more towards the mustache-twirling variety.

In conclusion, let’s watch Mirage hit him with a glass to the face again, because this lying asshat deserves it:

[thatonemomfriend-blog]

Getting to that one page in Lost Light 10 like 

[honeycat]

He kept a Rodimus star on him this entire time. Rodimus is the best captain, in his own terrible, dysfunctional way.

[herzspalter]

Lost Light #10!

Some rambles and opinions, heavy spoilers, do not read if you haven’t read the issue!

This issue was fucking great.

I am so happy :’D 

Okay okay first things first, I liked the pacing in this one, really liked how First Aid etc reacted to everything (that careful approach to what he obviously knows is a fishy situation, oh man, right in the gut), and it was good to be reunited with the Mutineers through the eyes of another group that hasn’t been with them for a while. It was great to take in the situation with a bunch of people who have no idea what’s going on.

I said it before, but I really like Jack’s artwork, and it was lovely in this issue as well, I think his best work on LL so far! Some great revealing shots and it all carried what was happening wonderfully.

I think my favorite scene were the mutineers talking about the “deserters” and counted who left, there’s something incredibly frustrating about hearing these fuckers lie to First Aid’s face like that, but it also says so much about the whole atmosphere on the ship. I really liked that scene, fantastic!

The horror elements are so juicy too, mmhh, I missed this, I hope we get to learn a bit more about this frightening concept!

Also, Getaway. I’m glad we finally got a confirmation that he DID call the DJD on purpose, he DID send out a bunch of killers after the Rod Squad, because this whole thing was a huge core point during the “just how much wrong DID Getaway do” discussion, and while most of it was in good humor, there were some very rude, condescending people who took it a bit too far and called people names for their interpretation of the situation, so I hope this settles this and we can move on! Just don’t be rude to people over reading a comic :’)

so in short: Great issue, cool art, Getaway is a smarmy asshole and I love him as a villain, someone save First Aid 

[shavothehusky]

Lost light #10 ensured me that i’m still very very mad at getaway