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Mindmaster wrote:Hey, look! A comic I can't read because most of the English lettering is too damn small to read, even with my glasses on.

Mindmaster wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Hey, look! A comic I can't read because most of the English lettering is too damn small to read, even with my glasses on.

Here's some bigger scans - http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/97023-ehobby-magnificus-badlands-scans-online/

Much better. Still had to squint some, but it was much better.

T-Macksimus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Huh, did not expect this comic to be scanned, since the last one with SG Soundwave & SG Blaster wasn't.

Also, despite what the text says, that's NOT Skyquake. Magnificus just thinks it is.

The take that I had on it was that Hawk/Eagle Eye had gotten his orders from Skyquake and that just came through on the scan so I wasn't at all confused about the green guy being Skyquake. However, if I'm wrong about the interpretation of it all then I may just have to go back to (or at least start) being confused just so I'm on the same page as everyone else who is already confused.
That didn't make a lick of sense, did it?

TFwiki.net wrote:

• This story takes place one year prior to Operation Combination and United EX. Understanding that is key to fathoming the implications of the story's final page!
• The being that Magnificus believes to be Skyquake is actually the Decepticon High Regent Scrash, who was shown to resemble Skyquake in the third United EX chapter, "Prelude to the Siege" (though later chapters added a dash of mystery to his true nature). In one year's time, Scrash will be leading a splinter faction of Decepticons who launch new attacks on the Autobots in the Operation Combination and United EX stories; this is the approaching "new war" Hawk speaks of.
• As the final panel tells us, "Hawk" is the Generation 2 Skyscorcher Eagle Eye, using the alternate name his toy was released under in Europe as an alias. However!! There are enough clues in the story to expose his true identity: he's really the Generation 1 Micromaster also named Eagle Eye! While the psychometric vision Magnificus has shows the character drawn to the specifications of the Generation 2 toy, in the rest of the comic, he's got the G2 toy's body, but the head of his Micromaster self.
• Why is this important? Because Eagle Eye was conspicuous by his absence from the United EX storyline, in which all three of his team-mates on the Micromaster Air Patrol appeared in new upgraded Master Class forms. Now we know that this is because he had defected to Scrash's Decepticons at least a year prior—and obviously took the secrets of the Master Class and Power Core Combination with him, given that Scrash's forces had all already been upgraded to corresponding complimentary forms before the story even started!
• Whatever decision Magnificus and Ga'mede make regarding Hawk's offer, note that when we next see Ga'mede, he'll be working with the Autobots to help create Eldedroids in the post-Generation 2 era.