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The stories in 'Dark Star' should be the crowning glory of the US comic - an apocalyptic epic featuring just about every functioning Transformer introduced until this point, involving ancient Cybertronian history, Decepticon civil war and Starscream becoming an almost unstoppable force of evil. Unfortunately, what results amounts to little more than a cull of Transformers who were no longer a part of the toyline...
See 'End of the Road', already published, to witness how a character cull - which is essentially all that was, too - should work. In Simon Furman's (chronologically later) story, there is a real sense of danger, loss, heroism and sacrifice. Characters die, and the reader cares for them - even when they are Decepticons. With Bob Budianski's Underbase saga, however, there is little of that, although the writer could undoubtedly tell such stories (most notably with 'The Smelting Pool') - unlikely scenarios (the Decepticons running a HOLIDAY DESTINATION as cover for their activities...?) scuppering the story of any chance to suspend the reader's disbelief and become involved in the events unfolding.
The collection begins with the unrelated 'Ca$h and Car-Nage', which introduced another set of human enemies (the Roadjammers) for the Autobots to contend with. This story is unliked by many Transformers fans, but I personally always enjoyed it and found the Roadjammers to be engaging characters - certainly some of Budianski's more interesting human creations. As with The Mechanic from 'Funeral for a Friend' and 'Mechanical Difficulties', there is promise at the end for a continuation, which never came.
Of the four Underbase stories, 'Club Con' features Blaster and Buster Witwicky's girlfriend, Jessie (in her last appearance) investigating the aforementioned Decepticon holiday destination, the rather enjoyable 'The Flames of Boltax' sees Ratbat and Starscream looking back into Cybertron's past for the origins of the Underbase, and features an appearance by a young Optimus Prime, 'Cold War' sees the Decepticon civil war erupt, and 'Dark Star' itself - the massive, extended 50th issue story - is the character cull. Invincible character such as Omega Supreme have a hard time of it against odds which really should be no problem for them, and it's fair to say that readers deserved more.
Still, the storytelling itself is vastly superior to Nel Yomtov's attempts at colouring. He'd always been rather weak (blocks of colour instead of detail, characters constantly painted wrongly) but here he struggles to paint inside the lines on just about every panel. Interestingly, his work would improve somewhat when Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman arrived - maybe at this point, with these stories, he just couldn't be bothered.
Ultimately, the best that can be said about 'Dark Star' is that it's FAR better than Budianski's final stories, which feature in the next volume, and worthy of three stars simply because of its empty ambition.
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