Transformers: Mosaic #649 - "Meet Wheelie"
Originally posted on June 18th, 2012
Story, Art - HdE
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wada sez: Weak to not write this whole strip in rhyme, tbh. It’s dated to 2011, so it must’ve been in the can for over six months, which is just nuts to me. No idea who that red/yellow/orange bot is next to Searchlight—any ideas?
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Transformers: Mosaic #648 - "Rich And Spoiled"
Originally posted on June 11th, 2012
Story, Letters - Franco Villa
Art - Felipe Suanes
Colours - Sara Guyon-Gellin, Brenden Oshima
Edits - Greg Donaldson
Thanks to - Peter Istyle
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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception
wada sez: The Circle is a nightclub established in Spotlight: Blurr; a comment on the Seeds of Deception account implies Villa independently came up with the name and this is actually an unrelated location. On the wall, there’s a bas-relief of an “ancient Prime”; see below for a full-size version of that, along with Villa’s usual Italian translation.
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Transformers: Mosaic #647 - "Con."
Originally posted on June 4th, 2012
Story, Art - Chris Vernon
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wada sez: Many people were confused by this one, so Vernon explained it at length on the various sites. I’ll just take his explanation from Seibertron: “The idea is that it wasn't G1 Megs that encrypted the Message on the Golden Disk, but instead it was Soundwave. So if the plan worked, which it almost did in Beast Wars, with BW Megs almost killing Prime, Soundwave would have woken up in 1984 with all the rest of Decepticons to find Optimus dead. The story takes place in a larger Universe I'm writing, a mix of G1/2, Furman's Alignemt Story, and ultimately leads to the Cybertron that we find 300 years after the end of the war and the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. The Autobot/Decepticon Assault on the Hub and the Liege Maximo has occurred not long before this, and in that battle, Megatron was killed. With him, any hope of a Decepticon victory in the war faded. So Soundwave sets out to attempt to rewrite history. He leaves an encrypted message on the disk in the hopes that Megatron's image might inspire a descendant to travel back in time and alter the future. Soundwave knows that his own image wouldn't be enough to convince someone to do it - it had to be Megatron's image and voice. After Soundwave has encrypted the message, he kills himself. I've always seen Soundwave as supremely loyal to Megatron. I know that changes in the different TF media, but with the Decepticons about to loose the war anyway, why would Soundwave want to stick around? But if the plan works, history will be rewritten anyway, so he wouldn't have died!” Or, y’know, maybe Megatron just recorded the message.
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Transformers: Mosaic #646 - "Bounty On Bludgeon"
Originally posted on May 14th, 2012
Story, Art - Mike Prezzato
Colours - Benjamin Sawyer
Letters - Kenny Jeffrey
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wada sez: People didn’t really like this one. Mike said on deviantART: “thanks for digging the art-as for the story, I purposely didn't think too far into it. Lockdown collects a bounty on Bludgeon, frying coneheads in his path. Thats it. Just a fun one pager that just came together as I was drawing it, no more, no less..take it or leave it. Just wanted to draw some Decepticons I like in a simple and short fashion, like a snippet out of a larger tale. Use your imagination and fill in the blanks.” Bludgeon and Lockdown both appear in their toy-only Revenge of the Fallen designs, which people commonly repurposed as the characters’ G1 incarnations.
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Transformers: Mosaic #645 - "Down And Out In Downtown Kaon"
Originally posted on May 8th, 2012
Story, Colours, Letters - HdE
Art - Jason Ho
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wada sez: This strip leads into Megatron Origin issue #2—the irony being that the Constructicons only use Wheezel and his friend as raw material for their building work. The graffiti on the walls reads “WHEELIE WAS HERE” and “REJECT THE PROPGANDA [sic] - BLASTER [...] WRONG”, both in the exact same text, implying maybe Wheelie had a countercultural phase I guess? Other snatches include “BELIEVE IN [...] OF”, “THE WORLD IS ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US”, and “PIT FIGHT HERE TONIGHT”.
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Transformers: Mosaic #644 - "Rock 'N' Roll With Real Rocks"
Originally posted on April 24th, 2012
Story, Art - D.J. Bryant
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wada sez: This strip seems heavily inspired by a scene from the Sunbow cartoon episode “Attack of the Autobots”, in which Jazz tests his new sound system with Spike (and others) in a canyon. Willamette Valley is where Portland is situated in Oregon.
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Transformers: Mosaic #643 - "Homecoming"
Originally posted on April 16th, 2012
Story, Letters - HdE
Art - Philip Knott
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wada sez: We’ve had a few strips about Praxus by this point, you should know the deal. Knott based Red Alert’s design on a custom War Within Sideswipe, paired here with Prowl’s canonical design. Clean colors below.
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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "Birth Of The Sixchangers"
Originally posted on May 14th, 2012
Story - Wout Jut
Art - Kei Tomoe
Edits - King Wrench
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wada sez: I think First Aid has been given a Constructicon color scheme here, because the Shattered Glass Constructicons share a white/red medical color scheme? The color schemes for Quickswitch and Sixshot appear to have been created by simply inverting their usual color schemes. Possibly entirely coincidentally, almost ten years later, John-Paul Bove would take exactly the same approach with Sixshot for the official IDW Shattered Glass comic series, arriving at an identical color scheme. I suppose it’s possible Bove just Googled “Shattered Glass Sixshot”, but it seems unlikely he’d lie about doing so! See below for the clean inks and colors for this strip, along with a Japanese translation by Barricade 643!
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Transformers - "Hidden Signal"
Originally posted on May 13th, 2012
Story - Wout Jut
Art - Sören Peeters
Edits - Paul Vromen
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wada sez: This strip ties into the present-day plot of “Chaos”, after Megatron deliberately allows himself to be captured by the Autobots. See below for a Dutch translation.
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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "To The Death"
Originally posted on May 13th, 2012
Story - Wout Jut
Art, Edits - Mike Ackerman
Colours, Edits - Lisa Sky
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wada sez: To recycle his Grimlock/Overkill strip with Ackerman for his Shattered Glass project, Wout Jut had the whole thing recolored to instead cast them as Thrustor/Grimlock! Thrustor is an odd choice for Shattered Glass, selected solely for his saurian alternate mode. Note how the second and last panels were swapped to better suit the new script. Clean colors below.
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Transformers: Generation One - "Brothers In Arms"
Originally posted on May 13th, 2012
Story - Wout Jut
Art - Mike Ackerman
Colours - Lisa Sky
Edits - Paul Vromen
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wada sez: Hey, this ain’t a Shattered Glass story! Apparently, Wout Jut wrote it on request from Ackerman. Overkill’s Universe toy was a redeco of Classics Grimlock, so there’s a direct connection between the characters; you may recall “Upgrades” similarly riffed on that idea. Clean inks below.
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Transformers: Mosaic #642 - "Let's Play Frisbee"
Originally posted on March 26th, 2012
Story - Wout Jut
Art - James Cox
Colours, Letters - Brandy Dixon
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wada sez: In the Shattered Glass universe, the Scrounges are a bunch of disposable, interchangable drones under Blaster’s command; a riff on Scrounge being unique thanks to his “special arm”. This one was actually published as a Mosaic! It was Brandy Dixon’s first ever lettering effort, per a comment on TFW2005.
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Transformers: Mosaic #641 - "The Master"
Originally posted on March 19th, 2012
Story - Martin Fisher
Art - Rui Onishi
Colours - Javier Reyes
Edits - Dave Reynolds
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wada sez: This is Martin Fisher’s penultimate Mosaic strip. As always, having one of the greatest Transformers artists of all time on art duties goes a long way, but this is a remarkably entertaining take on the antipathy between Motormaster and the rest of the Stunticons! While the characters of Wildrider, Dead End, and Breakdown struggle to come through in their brief lines, Drag Strip exclaiming “I always win!” is a great expression of his Budiansky bio. See below for clean inks.
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Transformers: Mosaic #640 - "Ragnarok"
Originally posted on March 12th, 2012
Story - Juan Pablo Osorio
Art - Mitsuko Hazama
Letters, Edits - Franco Villa
Edits - Zac DeBoard
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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons
wada sez: See the link above for some commentary! On deviantART, the project team clarified: “Yep, multiple Abominuses (or is it Abomini? :D ), these guys had so little personality in the cartoon that the ones we saw in the show could have very well been different sets of Terrorcons, it's also a nod to the armies of Terrorcons the Quints had in TF:Energon.” They also had this to say about their involvement with Mosaic generally: “this will be most probably one of our last Mosaics as we've been asked to not submit any more thre-part stories.” The evil is defeated!
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Transformers: Mosaic #639 - "Wrath Of The Gods"
Originally posted on March 5th, 2012
Story - Juan Pablo Osorio
Art - Mitsuko Hazama
Letters, Edits - Franco Villa
Edits - Zac DeBoard
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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons
wada sez: Smash that link above to find out what’s going on here!
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