#Human Component

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #396 - "Human Component: Giga"

Originally posted on July 3rd, 2009

Story, Art - Iván Mas Thanks to - Carlos Oliveros

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wada sez: As previously stated, Lord Giga is the other commander of the Overlord Transtector, alongside Lady Mega. So far as I can tell, the Eisenhüttenstadt castle is neither a real place nor something from Masterforce, but presumably it’s the same location as in Lady Mega’s strip? I’m not sure that the defeat of Buster and Hydra is a particular one from the cartoon; Super Ginrai first appears in the appropriately-named “Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai”, while Overlord would finally show up in the appropriately-named “Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?” Mas’s usual commentary and extra fanart below.

Well... while waiting for the "normal" mosaics, that is to say the non "human component" ones to be finished.... the truth is that I have 4 or 5 scattered all over the place for half a year or more....

We continue with those of Masterforce, which serve as a way of introduction for people who have not followed this series.

Today is the turn of the Decepticon Emperor.

Someone was saying that he’s reminiscent of Mister Sinister from X-men.... it’s true, he recalls that character, although surely it will be because it is in black and white... generally I don't paint in color these mosaics... because with the volume that there is to produce and adapt all masterforce if I had to paint them myself or distribute them all around the world to be painted, the thing would take too long, so I prefer to leave them in black and white, even so I think that this somewhat minimalist touch suits him well, besides being quicker... also I try to keep a chromatic range for each of the groups.

What I have modified have been the eyes, in the series appears with normal eyes but I prefer to leave them white or keeping that reflection or robotic glow, to somehow identify with the character or faction.

The story as all of this type intends to focus on the character, logically, and reveal small details of his personality, his position, location, etc ... we could continue further, but it is as always, ... a page can only do so much .... however I think that all the Human component have the ability to "combine" creating a continuous storyline ...

I hope you enjoy it... we will see how is the next one... in a few hours we will show the "making off".

Thanks for looking or reading.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[radiantmists]

the whole "it would be kinder to kill them" exchange re-contextualizes murderbot's initial willingness-- even eagerness-- to kill other SecUnits in an interesting way, doesn't it.

[autistic-katara]

ppl on the internet’ll fail history or chemistry or something and think they discovered a government conspiracy everytime they come across something they were asleep in class for

[gideonisms]

I literally don't know why we have convinced ourselves that the best way to develop feelings for one another is to fill out a questionnaire then send in a request to interact. feels like all of this could be an email. does anyone have a human heart around here? Hello??

[marcusrobertobaq]

Androids don't feel physical pain but ugh this shit must be hella ANNOYING.

[stoat-party]

Hey, all. It’s your friendly neighborhood synth biology expert,* here to remind you of the horrifying reality that Gen 3 synths can canonically glitch out.

*this user is not a biology expert, synth or otherwise

Update: The primary drive message is confirmed in dialogue to be about early-Gen synths. Which means that A#-## designations do apply to them, meaning J2-84 could have also been a robo-synth.

[mintypsii]

the way he laughs while saying this . brook my sad sad man i would die for him

[modularmedia]

Art's unfunded Musical Talents - Modular Components Episode One Hundred and Fourteen

In which the bois do their best to stay entertaining without Cody.

[hikari-ni-naritai]

Aw fuck why am I realising that dehumanisation is a key factor in the more fucked up shit I'm interested in

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #392 - "Human Component: Clouder"

Originally posted on June 18th, 2009

Story - Jim Sorenson Art - Iván Mas Letters - Carlos Oliveros

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wada sez: Holy smokes, it’s Jim! Jim Sorenson is best known as the guy behind The AllSpark Almanac, Ask Vector Prime, Beast Wars Uprising, and a bunch of insanely cool and stupefyingly dorky stuff like that. A longtime fan of Mas’s artwork, Jim would regularly share pieces on his own blog, Disciples of Boltax, resulting in the partnership for this strip. For this strip’s release, he would give his own commentary, which I’ve archived below; sadly, this would be the only Mosaic strip Sorenson would write, although Mas evidently enjoyed their collaboration. As for the strip’s contents—Clouder is a young man who pilots the “Doubleclouder” Transtector, better known in the west as Doubledealer.

My first Mosaic piece went out today. As long-time readers of this blog no doubt know, I'm a big fan of the art of fan artist Iván Mas. That's why I decided to collaborate with Iván and Synapse (AKA Carlos Oliveros) on their ongoing 'Human Component' series of mosaics. The first piece in the series was Minerva; look for more in the future.

Basically, 'Human Component' seeks to get into the heads of the 15 men and women of the Masterforce conflict. With Clouder, I felt that the core of his character was his moral dilemma and wanted to touch on why he might choose, initially, to side with the Destrons without hitting the reader over the head.

It's also interesting that, of the folks in Masterforce, he's the only character who actively seeks to get involved in the conflict. Everyone else was recruited by outside forces. I think there is a reason for that, too. Note that the Masterforce Bracelets come pre-adorned with a faction sigil on them. Basically, the Road King transtector was always destined to fall into the hands of someone noble of heart and pure of spirit. Likewise, the Overlord transtector, a pair of Destron bodies, needed to find people ruthless enough to use it. But the Clouder transtector has within it the potential to serve with either side. I think, in a sense, this Transtector needed to fall into the hands of someone outside of the conflict, someone who could approach both sides and then choose for himself.

On a side note, I've seen some evidence recently that suggests that early drafts of Masterforce had TWO humans for Doubleclouder, just as Overlord does. Certainly, with two Godmaster figures, that would have been the more obvious direction to go. I suppose that the human Godmaster components would have battled it out for Doubleclouder's spark. That could have been fun, but putting both sets of armor in one person's hands I think allowed them to tell some interesting stories and explore some interesting themes.

Let me know what you think! If you like it, I've got a few more one-page stories to tell ...

[grimark]

the thing about golden kamuy is that if you took basically any of the characters and slotted them into another series they would be the most batshit insane character in that series. but you line them all up together and they’re just one of the boys.

[oh-warizoro]

When ch 1044 and 1045 were released and all the chaos was unleashed, I remember having a very obvious question

"How come the power of human human no mi: model Nika is connected to rubber?"

How is a gomu gomu fruit's awakening the power to turn imagination into reality?

I mean... This awakening grants the user freedom, not just of spirit but freedom of how to use power too. Luffy's ability to manipulate reality while in gear 5 seems to show that.

So??? Why rubber? Why does the fruit give the user a rubber-like body? What does that have to do with anything?

I was totally not re reading Skypiea when I noticed this.

Of course it's white they're in a cloud sky instead of a water ocean, but it's the fact that they use "pure white". White would've been enough to get the point across, right?

Guess where else have we seen that exact expression!? Oda's drafts of Gear 5!!

And the chapter after that? Guess what?!

We learn island clouds in Skypiea bounce just like rubber.

There's no need for Oda to make them bounce, but they do! Exactly like when Luffy turns the environment around him to rubber due to the awakening.

Let's not forget that Skypiea is where we first hear about the "Sun God" and we see Luffy's sirouette resembling the "Sun God Nika" transformation.

So would it be insane to think whatever Luffy has going on during his gear 5 is clouds?!! More specifically island clouds just like the ones found in sky islands.

Think about it.

Rubber was unknown to the people in Skypiea, and sea clouds/island clouds don't survive in the blue sea under natural conditions. Most likely 99% of the blue sea population has no idea what an island cloud is or what their properties are.

For all intents and purposes rubber was the best description blue sea people could give to the power of the fruit. If the fruit hasn't awaken in 800 years, it means no one has seen that transformation (which clearly is not just a “rubber fruit” awakening) EVER?! since the end of the void history gap. You would have no way of knowing. You would just think it’s rubber.

Now what does clouds have to do with the Sun God?

Well other than "they're in the sky" I'm not sure 😂 but someone that dreams a lot is said "to have their head in the clouds". The same way imagination and thoughts in manga are depicted with a floating cloud above the character's head.

It seems to be a perfect physical and symbolic representation of dreams! That's the theme of skypiea and the true pinnacle of piracy - dreams and freedom. It’s what the whole story is about!

[mueritos]

I am begging for u to make a trans guide book for sex or sex Ed cuz like please help. I feel like I can’t talk to anyone about things.

I am actually working on that rn! Im doing a research project for uni that includes making a trans handbook for sex and sexual health ^-^ the first volume will be transmasc centered, but this is something im very interested in and hope to do more of in the future. In the meantime, you can look thru my trans sexual health tag for more advice and insight!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

every time I get a litte too specific with gamedev stuff in here I start becoming paranoid ;;

hell of my "100% me I did this to myself nobody made me" own making smh u_u

[cybernightart]

Some may say that genji being able to summon a dragon with his sword is the most insane and unbelievable part of his kit, but in actuality his entire kit is bloody insane!

(this video is 6 years old btw so just a heads up!)

Like he says in the video, Genji can move at the speed of a F1 racing car, stop for moving that quickly almost immediately, deflect an entire team of bastions in turret form, and not just stop the bullets but the fact he's deflecting them means he's not only meeting the bullets at the forced air traveling with but hitting them with double that force as to send them back with the same force, and he's deflecting with his human arm (which is something that isn't mentioned in the video but just makes it even more insane).

The fact he can summon a dragon, is just insane and unheard of, but even if he isn't actually summoning a dragon and it is some sort of hard light thing, he's still doing everything else on top of being able to do all of that while wielding an ōdachi (which at its length of around five and a half feet, ways approximately just shy of 5 lbs or 2.2 kg, as compared to the roughly 1-2ft long wakizashi weighing in at roughly 1 lbs)

And technically speaking, can't just deflect 6/5 (depending if we're talking about OverWatch 1 or OverWatch 2) bastions, but he can deflect 10. If you would have, in OverWatch 1, a team consisting of five bastions and one Genji each, both of those genjis would be deflecting the rounds of the 10 bastions!!!

And this is just the stuff he's capable of in game which is nothing compared to what he's capable of in lore, which makes it even more insane!!! Who knows what he's fully capable of in lore at this point, because if this is the way they have to have him so that he's balanced and adjust in a good enough state to play in game, just imagine what he would be capable of in the actual story. And it's not like these are things you can only do in game because we see him do this stuff in cinematics, we see him dash, deflect, and do seemingly impossible things without even breaking a sweat. Like his dash having a range of 15 m in game, who knows if he has that limitation in "the real world", maybe he can go as far as he would like at those speeds, with the only limitation being it would be really exhausting to move that fast all the time so he only uses it sparingly.

I just love examining small details of OverWatch, it's characters ,and its story. And if it isn't obvious I especially love when things are broken down mathematically and just put into perspective, like there's another video by this guy explaining how when Reinhardt hammers down, the sound would be so loud it would be deafening to say the very least.

Additionally this video just provided further evidence that Genji needs a baseball skin, so he can match zenyatta. That and also the fact his voice actor used to be a professional baseball player so it would be a kind of cool nod to that, and baseball is the biggest sport in Japan.

if you think about it he would be genuinely so good at playing baseball, keep the incredible at batting being able to hit the ball at such speeds that just for him to stop a bullet he's already moving so many times faster than some of the best batters in the world, but he would also be an incredible pitcher, and also when he's running to the bases you would barely be able to make him out he's going so fast. He would have to limit himself so hard to play with people at least a little fairly XD