All Hail Megatron #7- Five Page Preview

..The hell is that guy? Breakdown? Armada Wheeljack?

Roadbuster's alt mode is HUGE!!!!!

And did you guys see the Soundwave light in the upper right corner of the bot page? Man that had to be the suckiest disguise ever.

Wow... no wonder Thundercracker's been so surly lately. Looking at Bombshell's design (the missile pods on his shoulders) and what look like a couple mutated coneheads in the mob, it suddenly clicked that all these experiments might have been carried out on seekers.

Down_Shift wrote:..The hell is that guy? Breakdown? Armada Wheeljack?

someone on the 2005 boards realized who it was. it's g2 deluge

http://tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Deluge/deluge.htm

pretty cool to see an obscure g2 con.

*edit. looks like firebird beat me too it. good job

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Wait... sudden sinking feeling here:

Doesn't this totally invalidate Spotlight: Blaster? Beachcomber was injected with a cerebro-shell from Bombshell.

I think the Insecticons and The Swarm were the results of trying to turn little insentient bots (Spotlight: Blaster) into big sentient bots and Thundercracker is upset that apparently many Decepticons were guinea pigs for the process and not put out of their misery.
(Just continuing to try and shoehorn this thing into continuity)

I think the Soundwave lamppost was just a nod to the first episode of the cartoon. We know that Soundwave is on Earth.

Jazz must have been ground zero for the first or major assault. Since the attack was galaxy wide it is safe to assume that many Autobots didnt know what hit them. Kup and Co. must have just been trying to survive the attack and find other Autobots to regroup and figure out what happened.

MYoung23 wrote:I think the Soundwave lamppost was just a nod to the first episode of the cartoon. We know that Soundwave is on Earth.

Oh yeah, it ws total fanwankery, I was not trying to imply that it was Soundwave in that pic, just the object that he stole his disguise from. I believe it has been done before in comics, but it's just cool to see.

Retroqqq wrote:what are those insect looking guys in the second page ?

The Swarm, the experiments that did not work.

On the surface it does indeed seem to feck continutiy out the window. and i'll admit i was angry at that as spotlight blaster was a lovely little read.

BUT.

we dont know whats going on. at first i thought if they were in their WW forms you could easily explain it as being set before spotlight blaster and maintain that we just didnt see the swarm till now. but the fact their in their escalation forms means that these scenes have to be set at least in the last year or so.

so i thought "thats it , complete pissing on whats gone before and glaring continuity gaff"

THEN i got to thinking. why am i assuming that im seeing bombshell creation? what if its his RE creation?

what if megs deliberatly experimented on thousands of his own troops to resurect a bombshell and the insecticons who couldve been offed AFTER spotlight blaster who got payback on em!

it'd certainly explain why he's asking him who he is and where he is. im thinking that how this whole thing came about now is this resurected bombshell, using his abiiity to controll others, implanted a bot with a crebro shell. and the bots, who thought this ability was dead and gone, didnt look out for it and got sucker punched by a "Traitor".

at least thats my theory.

in fact to further tie it to continuity you could say the process was extrapolated from jhiaxus's tech involving the monstercons or indeed the fallen dead universe TFs .

it mightnt be the cluster fuck we think it is.