(Potential spoilers in "What they got wrong" if you have avoided the previews.)
What they got right: Despite what I'm about to complain about, the story itself is well crafted. This is Costa's first trip into the TFU, having been chosen due to his work in the G.I. Joe comics for IDW. He makes the situation believable. I also enjoy much of Figueroa's art (as usual), and his mechanical designs are up to his usual talent.
What they got wrong: On the other hand, I don't understand why he's bringing in the movie style faces. It really doesn't work on Hot Rod, and many of the other mechs don't fair much better. However, my biggest gripe is a situation I'm pretty much tired of. While I don't expect the humans as a whole to start trusting all robots, even the Autobots, shouldn't the military realize that there are two factions? At the end of All Hail Megatron (before we got into the nightmare "Coda" issues), Sparkplug was sitting and talking to Kup, and Spike wasn't exactly using the "Shockwave gun" on the Autobots. He was warning them that the Autobots were going to have a tough time making friends. You know what I liked about Animated and one of the few things they DID get right in the second movie? Autobots and humans united against a common foe–the Decepticons. We never seem to get that in the comics, and I've pretty much had it with the Autobots being hunted like their Decepticons while the ‘Cons get away because they actually fight back or are able to get away in the confusion. This trend in the comics version has to stop!
Recommendation: It's OK thus far, but I'll have to check further issues to see where Costa goes with this storyline. I also wish Don would get back to the normal Transformer faces, or at least tell us who to blame for it.
