And yet, what an ending.   Roberts leaves open the Whirl/Cyclonus/Tailgate threesome, forges ahead with new surprising bonds that make sense and leaves this tale open for so many more stories - stories that will never get told and that he never planned to tell. 

But he certainly leaves it up to my mind to continue telling them.   Fabulous!

And yet, I put off finishing this, I am desperately sad.   No more Roberts MTMtE.  No more Roberts Lost Light.   No more of his Whirl, or Cyclonus, or Swerve.   Or any of the others.   And this, my friends, is a dark, dark day for me. 

Does it help that Barber's going to continue on the IDW Transformers universe?  A little, as he'll be involved in rebooting next year.   But I'm being cautiously skeptical until I see what Hasbro included in 'must do' in their universe, and with what Barber comes up with.   It certainly won't be the same without Roberts there. 

Sighs.   Now I'm just sad again :(

And I'm not sure I really buy any of this.   And yet, I love the character interaction and I continue to love Viv. 

In Canada, the Master of the World may be trying to save the world.   Y'know, so he can rule it in the future.   How good is he?  How bad?  And is working with him wroth fixing climate change?  Can the Champions pass off the responsibility to the future - like a couple hundred years in the future?   

Also, his defense systems injured Nova and then he saved Nova.   And yet he might be hiding another girl in his factory.   Furthermore, the locals don't want him building there.  Do they have a right to land and to decide what to do with it - or does the Master of the World's good intentions cancel out anyone's rights?

The Champions are struggling with all these questions - and maybe they'll continue after they finish fighting Captain Marvel and Alpha Flight who just showed up.   (Alpha Flight is a Canadian super hero team although from what I remember from some Captain Marvel, Alpha Flight has been in space for a while/)

It was nice to see him before he'd been imprisoned in the Black Cradle, and inside someone else's head: he was much freer in so many ways, and it almost felt like a guilty pleasure, especially knowing what would happen to him later. 

I will devour anything this author writes in this universe, pretty much.

I still love this series, and this universe.  I'm crush that it's all going to be imploded, or exploded, or... well, it's going away.   But I'm especially crushed by this issue. 

They're all what now?  My heart may not be able to take this to the end because of all the feels.   I'm afraid I'll wallow and get spoiler-y, so that's that.

And to be honest, I love the art more in this, too.