If the official synopsis for this issue (which reads as follows: SKUXXOID vs. PYTHONA! The battle you didn’t know you wanted!) leaves you cold, I suspect you’re not alone.

Void Rivals is at its best when it’s doing its own thing, and with a battle between a fairly obscure character from GI Joe, facing off against a similarly little-known character from Transformers being the main focus of this comic, it’s definitely not doing its own thing in issue 16.

That isn’t to say that we don’t get a glimpse of what our two main characters are up to in their respective, current predicaments; however, with so many pages devoted to a fight I really wasn’t invested in one bit, it’s a shame that we barely get anywhere with Darak and Solila.

When the Energon Universe stuff is an addition to the main story, it’s pretty satisfying and even surprisingly enjoyable, but when it completely takes the focus away for the best part of an issue to cover what’s going on between two D-list (at best) characters, it’s a problem.

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