Sabrblade wrote:Being dead doesn't mean he never existed. He did previously, until he was damaged beyond repair in Superion's last fight with Devastator.shockblast2 wrote:Aerialbot Slingshot is not part of the combiner team because Aerialbot Slingshot is DEAD. Doesn't exist. Kaput. Gone. Bye-bye.Yeah they are. It's been one long-running series since then and even current issues flashback to those events from time to time. The big Dark Cybertron event from last year dealt with the Dead Universe that Simon Furman introduced during his term in writing the comic.shockblast2 wrote:2. Even if it were, the storyline and characters that began in 2005 are NOT the same as the RID series that runs now.
Also, it's been established that since barber and Roberts took over, it's been a soft reboot of itself so that they can fix all the plot holes created during the Furman fun run. His slow, measured storyline was eventually abandoned in an attempt to bring in more casual fans with a more G1 Cartoon-inspired revamp in All Hail Megatron. This failed to have the desired effect both in terms of sales and fan-response, so another revamp was attempted with the start of The Transformers ongoing series. It was met with sharp fan criticism as well. Yet another revamp was attempted with two concurrent ongoing series, More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise. Positive fan response came at last.