i_amtrunks wrote:Hopefully IDW will release some kind of Timeline in an upcoming Trade, or some other easy to access medium...
It should clear up all these minor niggles.
Personally Im waiting to see what part Dealer/DoubleDealer will have to play. And I am sure that Omega and Jetfire still have large parts to play in upcoming arcs, after a few more readings I really feel as if the re-introduction of Jetfire was done for a reason.
Anyone want to place bets that Computron is not all that far away?
I was just thinking about that last night. The only Spotlight that hasn't begun to tie in yet is Hot Rods', everyone else has been at least mentioned in some other story arc.
As for Monstructor, maybe the Dead Universe is tied into his energy drain abilities, pardon me if someone else has already brought this up. From the Galvatron spotlight we learn that Galvatron is a herald for someone, or something, and that that entity is tied to Thunderwing in some way. Perhaps Galvatron, Thunderwing, and Monstructor and some yet undisclosed being are a four horsemen style group of heralds a la the last issuses of Armada and the timeline crossovers. Bludgeon and the Pretenders are sort of religious-cultish in nature and so the 4 horsemen comparison would fit.
As far as Monstructor, does this mean he was the first combiner? So Devastator would have been the second.....the two physically at least are similar in that they are comprised of 6 bots instead of the later day standard of 5. Maybe, if Monstructor is from the Dead Universe or is thusly affected, Devastator is a reverse engineering job, which might be used to explain why the combiners tend to be so dumb. The Cons tried to harness the power at the expense of intellect. Plus, Monstructor is made up of the Monster Pretenders, thus drawing a line to Thunderwing. I know the Pretender process is dangerous and largely untested, but could it be somehow also related to the Dead Universe like Bludgeon and co. are trying to revive Thunderwing to retrieve a piece of 'home'?