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News Credits: 6188 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:59 pm

Courtesy of entertainment and comics news website Newsarama, we get a full preview of the first issue of Dawn of the Autobots, the aftermath of IDW Publishing's Transformers event Dark Cybertron, in Robots in Disguise #28 - featuring Thundercracker back on Earth! Check out the strangely early full preview below, including the subscription cover by Andrew Griffith and Joana Lafuente.

News Credits: 20 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:43 pm

Sweet! More Thundercracker!

Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:56 pm

This is incredible. :lol:

News Credits: 7 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:14 pm

Oh god, puppy-owning terrible-screenwriting Thundercracker! He might just dethrone stair-pusher-downer Skywarp as my favorite Seeker now.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:17 pm

Thundercracker has a dog. I love it! :lol:

News Credits: 20 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:23 pm

"who is handsome like an F-22 fighter jet."

MY SIDES! XD

Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:38 pm

sure am happy i didn't threaten to keep my breath until they give thundercracker some panels again...
sure feel like i went and did it all the same...

claps exitedly

News Credits: 20 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:53 pm

So yeah, new pic for my signature

Artwork is from a dude named Skydive1588 on DA.

http://skydive1588.deviantart.com/art/Pre-Earth-IDW-Thundercracker-210912384

News Credits: 1 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:22 pm

I'm not particularly familiar with writing styles, but I get the impression that there are a whole heap being used all across the board of Transformers comics, and I'm very impressed.

Also, Thundercracker's awesome.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:27 pm

i am so sold on this issue because of this preview, that i logged in for the first time in years

Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:35 pm

I really want to get those incentive covers.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:51 pm

No one's mentioned this yet, so it falls to me to point out the obvious...

Is that supposed to be Marissa Fairborne in an EDC uniform?

News Credits: 3 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:49 pm

I REALLY hope this is the Generations Arcee toy coming out in September. She FINALLY looks like a car.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:15 pm

I'm almost touched...

Fortunately such moments pass quickly.

Quickstrike, scrap him.

Er, I mean, I'm really digging this. Best Thundercracker ever.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:18 pm

He named his dog "Buster."

Nice. Next Witwicky name checked off the list.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:28 pm

Doesn't the cover look kind of familiar?

News Credits: 335 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:32 pm

This looks amazing! Well Thundercracker looks amazing.

News Credits: 62 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:34 pm

OH GOSH THAT IS AWESOME.

I mean, that is awesome. I can't put into words how much I love Thundercracker more than I used to. I mean, I would totally hang out with this guy.

"Your ease of communication is rather off-putting to me, yet deep down I hope that our casual acquaintance will blossom into something more romantic in nature."

I gotta use that one.

"sleek/attractive/snazzy/hot like an F-22 fighter jet"

This one too.

News Credits: 60 · Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:38 pm

Why does TT keep on changing alt modes? Isn't that going to put a strain on his superstructure?

Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:02 am

This is absolutely wonderful. I love Thundercracker the best out of all the seekers. Not only have they given him intelligence and introspection, but integrity and independence! OY ALLITERATION!! Seriously though, I love how this scene builds. It's so much juicier than a lot of the contrived story they've come up with just to try and include certain bots for the sake of it and to feel like it needs to go somewhere. Seriously! Seinfeld was successful! It goes to show that you can just have hilarious situations with characters once you have actually built them into something relatable and memorable. Then you can let the feels ensue. Well done well done.

:APPLAUSE:

Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:07 am

Thundercracker is a pathetic idiot AND he's been on Earth too long. He's starting to use words like "actually" and "literally" like a friggin' Hipster ... I can't stand it :BOOM:

News Credits: 20 · Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:15 am

Mah, the more I read Thundercrackers story over and over, the more I see it as the actual writer's little jab at fanfiction writers. Right down to the crap names of the OC's. I'm loving this! XD

84forever wrote:Thundercracker is a pathetic idiot AND he's been on Earth too long. He's starting to use words like "actually" and "literally" like a friggin' Hipster ... I can't stand it

Thundercracker was not much more than a goon in G1 anyway, seeing him characterized like this makes me smile.

Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:57 am

looks good... but do I smell Hasbro's Arcee's figure in that sub cover?

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:25 am

Cyborgraptor wrote:Doesn't the cover look kind of familiar?

Almost as if it's intentionally mirroring it, huh?

Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:37 pm

I love that 'Cracker is back in his F-22 body. He looks good!

Although, I have been enjoying the general lack of Earth-based stories, but at least Costa is out of the picture right now. I mean, he's a pretty decent writer - just not for Transformers. His work on G.I. Joe is actually pretty good.

But this looks interesting.