ScottyP wrote:It's now Kick/Counterkick to me unless someone knows the intended name, which could be written there but I don't read a lick of Japanese.
No names given. The part about the two forms just says that the left one is the Destron and the right one is the Cybertron.
ScottyP wrote:The comic was cool, but man, I'll never stop saying let's just not worry about trying to make all continuities mesh together. Those parts are such a convoluted mess (in my opinion) I just skip right over them. So much stuff it's inaccessible without spending a huge time investment with it that I'm not inclined to do. Of course, maybe the start of this one was a "reset" of sorts on that? Anyway, I just choose to space out when singularities and multiverses come up, and just go on to the meat of things.
Yeah, the whole point of that scene was to get rid of the Multiversal Singularity concept for good, meaning that the likes of Unicron, Primus, the Thirteen, etc. are no longer now all the same guy in every universe, thus now allowing for the existence of SG Unicron and SG Primus as seen in this comic.
However, this process also did something else that I and others really don't think was necessary: It put up a blockade on all multiversal travel, meaning that dimension-hopping is no longer as feasible as it once was. But, this is Transformers. Like any other science fiction, there's still going to be some dimension-hopping whenever the next fiction writer wants there to be (be it in IDW, Fun Pub, cartoon, movie, video game, or whatever fiction comes to pass). So that means Fun Pub will have to come up with yet another explanation to allow dimensional travel to be a thing again, which they wouldn't have to do if they hadn't closed off dimensional travel in this comic in the first place.
Even their current TransTech fiction on Facebook is acknowledging how this was a bad idea since the TransTech city of Axiom Nexus is full of Transformers from other worlds and now that the city is taking notice of the other universes going dark, many of the Offworlders are upset that they may not be able to go back to their homes ever again.
So this a fine mess that the Club has gotten itself into and will have to sort out eventually, which, again, they wouldn't have to fix if they hadn't done this. Unless this is part of some bigger plan they have in store for later. But right now, it seems to be doing more harm than good.
ScottyP wrote:Are the reformatted guys at the end a hint of some club toys later, or one of those things where the designs have been tossed around and the comic appearance is a litmus test for interest?
Probably just something done for fun. I wouldn't expect to see toys of SG X-Brawn, SG Checkpoint, or the SG Autotroopers unless there becomes a big enough demand for them.
Then again, the Beast Wars: Uprising designs seen in the "Alone Together" prologue and the various text stories garnered fan appeal but haven't been made either.
