The art (the artist of this issue unlike all the other issues was Gee Dutreix, who has drawn a few of the Sonic IDW covers) & writing (besides the dialogue of the 2nd half of the issue) of issue 5 was such a massive improvement.
Most (not all, but most) of the cuts & changes were hardly noticeable & actually make sense. Other changes felt unnecessary (N being the one to grab onto Uzi) but didn’t overall ruin any scenes.
The pacing & writing issues that come with such extremely fast pacing still needs work, but it felt a lot better this issue (& in issue 4) compared to all the others. The pacing issue is also due to Omni Press. It’s not the writer (Wyatt Kennedy) or Glitch‘s fault so we can give them a pass here especially with the improvement in this issue. The fight scene (although slightly cut) were also so so fun to read.
My main critique however is the dialogue. The dialogue from Mitchell & most of the cast made sense for the first half, but the second half just screams “what if Murder Drones was a Disney IP” with how cliche it is. Like when N says Uzi, I know you’re in there! FIGHT IT!” & Cyn says “IT’S TOO LATE”. This makes sense if we’re going for Murder Drones’s main message being to embrace yourself & to combat your fears no matter how you’re viewed, but the dialogue feels way too unnatural here in a bad way.
Ignoring the dialogue- if we’re viewing it writing & art wise, issue 5 gets a 8.5/10 for me