The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:56 pm

Cool... Is there a thread that has all of these archived so far?

Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:06 pm

Very Deep. Shows Thundercracker in an interesting way. Love the cg style drawing too. Almost Energon/cybertron like.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:14 pm

Skywarp and Thundercracker are like the Decepticon equivilant to Sunstreaker and Sideswipe if you think about it. Compared to the 'three Fairlady' (Prowl, Smokescreen, and Bluestreak) the three Seekers were always somewhere with the odd man out on Starscream.

Good Mosaic!

Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:24 pm

I really like the colors on this piece

News Credits: 11 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:38 pm

Thundercracker's lines don't sound right if you imagine his G1 cartoon actor saying them. The lines are more suited to someone softer spoken. Perhaps the gruff voice is just an act and he's free to talk as he wants to here, saying things that he normally wouldn't ever say around anybody else.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:02 pm

If he said "Skywarp's a brother" instead of "Skywarp's a friend," I think it would have gone a long way in removing the homoerotic vibes people are getting from this.

Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:04 pm

Love the art style and the delving a little deeper into a character that was never really fleshed out too much beyond his tech spec card. Nice work!

Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:02 pm

I personally love it! I think it really delved down into the core of indecision that Thundercracker feels. Him worrying about Skywarp is exactly the sort of thing I feel he would do. This is some wonderful work!

Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:16 pm

I never really thought Thundercracker had so many isssues of being a Decepticon. I just love these things, they add so much more to the stories I already know & love & just make them that much better for me.

News Credits: 5 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:32 pm

Thundercracker = Emo-con.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:40 pm

A neat little fleshing out of Thundercracker's character. He rarely gets any characterization now that I think about it, and wasn't in Infultration/Escalation much either(haven't picked up Devastation yet).

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:03 pm

Homoerotic? It's not like Thundercracker is crying, "I wish I knew how to quit you, Skywarp!"

I liked it.

News Credits: 430 · Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:26 pm

Thanks everyone, looks like we picked the right piece to kick-off the twice-a-week fun!

Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:28 am

Fantastic portrayal of hints of pacifism amongst the warmongering ranks of the Decepticons. I'm pleased to see some genuine feelings from these sentient metal beings surfaced beyond the standard duty, honor, and other such nonsense that usually is attributed to military thinking. As a lifelong Transformers fan and lifelong homosexual, I'm a little irritated at a few of the comments posted here. If you want feeling and free-thinking robots, rather than dull drones, you have to accept all the feelings and all the thoughts, not just the conventional ones. Not all six year olds who play with red big-rig trucks grow up to be macho.

News Credits: 129 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:57 pm

Southwake wrote:As a lifelong Transformers fan and lifelong homosexual, I'm a little irritated at a few of the comments posted here. If you want feeling and free-thinking robots, rather than dull drones, you have to accept all the feelings and all the thoughts, not just the conventional ones. Not all six year olds who play with red big-rig trucks grow up to be macho.

No one, well wait, let me put it this way, I am not expressing any intolerance over the potential of homosexual characters.

I personally do not like when some parts of the fandom attempt to turn the seekers into somekind of yaoi or slash club. Even if they were all somehow together in an intimate fashion, it would be bad story telling in how obvious it was to turn a group of 'pretty boys' gay.

At any rate, my point is that I do not have a problem with any kind of homosexual concept in a character or even a Transformers character. I just don't like it applied to this particular character in this particular relationship. It seems unfounded if indeed it was what the author intended (which he may or may not have).

News Credits: 2 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:16 pm

Bass X0 wrote:Not really. Mirage is an Autobot through and through - he just wishes to return to the good life he had back on Cybertron.

but at the same time he does not wish to participate in a war that he considers beneath himself

Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:24 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
Southwake wrote:As a lifelong Transformers fan and lifelong homosexual, I'm a little irritated at a few of the comments posted here. If you want feeling and free-thinking robots, rather than dull drones, you have to accept all the feelings and all the thoughts, not just the conventional ones. Not all six year olds who play with red big-rig trucks grow up to be macho.

Southwake wrote:As a lifelong Transformers fan and lifelong homosexual, I'm a little irritated at a few of the comments posted here. If you want feeling and free-thinking robots, rather than dull drones, you have to accept all the feelings and all the thoughts, not just the conventional ones. Not all six year olds who play with red big-rig trucks grow up to be macho.

No one, well wait, let me put it this way, I am not expressing any intolerance over the potential of homosexual characters.

I personally do not like when some parts of the fandom attempt to turn the seekers into somekind of yaoi or slash club. Even if they were all somehow together in an intimate fashion, it would be bad story telling in how obvious it was to turn a group of 'pretty boys' gay.

At any rate, my point is that I do not have a problem with any kind of homosexual concept in a character or even a Transformers character. I just don't like it applied to this particular character in this particular relationship. It seems unfounded if indeed it was what the author intended (which he may or may not have).

Agreed on that last bit. Thundercracker and Skywarp have always been, basically, jerks with wings. Skywarp's a little crueler, but more upbeat than TC.

If I were writin' this, TC would come off as more bored than concerned, more frustrated than thoughtful, and would most likely be waiting around on a flight deck instead of wasting his time in the CR Chamber. The charisma on both of these guys is low, low, low, especially Thundercracker. When Skywarp shows up after the repairs, TC might say something like "what kept you?"

To me, concern is the opposite of Thundercracker. He may be undecided about the Decepticon cause, but it feels more motivated from apathy and lack of direction that from serious, philosophical monologue. Not how he feels about Skywarp, but how he doesn't really feel that much about anybody, I suppose.

he's an interesting chaacter int hat he's undecided and kinda emo, but he's no hero waiting to happen and really, just a jerk with wings.

Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:23 am

Southwake wrote: If you want feeling and free-thinking robots, rather than dull drones, you have to accept all the feelings and all the thoughts, not just the conventional ones.

You say what I think my friend. It thrills me when I find out or read something that helps flesh out a character. It's inconceivable that Starscream is just a back-stabbing jerk who is a coward. Sentient beings are not two dimensional like this. There is ALWAYS something more. That's just how sentient beings are. Comics like these show it and just make the characters richer.

Just for the record though, I don't think Starscream is a coward. I think he just likes living a bit too much to risk premature death.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:26 pm

Is there any thread that has all these "Mosiac"s archived? I'd love to read them all, but finding it hard to search through so much...

B-)

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:19 pm

csusandman: I think your best bet is to go to their DeviantArt page:

http://transformers-mosaic.deviantart.com/gallery/

They post previews there, too, so it's a neat place to see everything at once. (Can't wait for that Perceptor one, for instance.

) Although I hope they make a proper website one day.