"GHOSTS OF CYBERTRON", PART 4! The Ghostbusters and their Autobot allies search the greater New York City area for the missing ghost of Starscream-and discover something much worse has been drawn to Earth. Can our heroes overcome this evil ectoplasmic entity before it utterly annihilates everything in order to achieve its ends? Find out in the penultimate chapter of this team up for the ages: TRANSFORMERS/GHOSTBUSTERS "GHOSTS OF CYBERTRON" #4!
Transformers/Ghostbusters continues to be a delightful ride on the nostalgia train of comics. Read Full Review
Dan Schoening delivers some impressive and beautiful art in this issue. Visually stunning, full of detail and fun to look at, this issue is full of exciting moments. Read Full Review
Transformers/Ghostbusters isn't a bad series. I think I would be safe recommending it to anyone that grew up on either franchise. Although I can only give the series a tepid recommendation, the book also highlights some of the biggest problems of the comic book industry, padded stories with bad pacing, poor editing, decompression, and writing a series for the trade paperback.
A good editor could have condensed Ghost of Cybertron down to two or three issues. I'm guessing that IDW padded the mini-series like this in order to push the multiple variant covers and retailer incentives. Because of these publishing schemes, publishers like IDW don't really have any incentive to tell a tight or concise story.
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