Chris Ryall challenges you to guess who the Spotlight is focusing on

Wheelie?

Spotlight: Wheelie, how daring.

Yup!

Looks like his recent award is getting him some notice.

-stupid award-

Holy crap! The world will now end. Wheelie gets a spotlight.



I will be in the corner, sobbing over such a nightmare.

bloody crap

i hate welie. thought in one of the sketches ultramagnus can clearly be seen

Looks like Wheelie is going to be more of a survivalist like his G1 techspec painted him as.

Haha! If this is true, then kudos to mr. Ryall for having the balls to actually do this! I'm looking forward to seeing how this will actually be executed, with an idea this bizarre, he's got to be on to something...

Wheelie is the worst possible choice for a spotlight, so you KNOW it's going to be good!

Ackk! Ryall iz inside my hed, readin ma thotz!

Or he's been readin my posts.

Or it's a coincidence.

My previously stated opinions of Wheelie:

zodconvoy wrote:I never understand the general hatred for Wheelie. I like him! As a concept anyway. Think about it...

He's the only person he knows living in the wilds of Quinntessa, dodging Sharkticons and Allicons all day but clearly unafraid. After all, the first thing he does is look for a opening to attack Grimlock and take over the Dinobot "pack". That's like a 10 year old picking a fight with MechaGodzilla. By his actions, he is accepted by the most xenophobic group of Autobots and even gets them to follow him! Before that? Who knows where he even came from? I always figured he was a Junkion kid or at least TV taught like them...

He's not the lame retarded kid they depicted in Season 3.

He's Mowgli from the Jungle Book!

Here's Counter Punch backing me up:

Counterpunch wrote:Ok, ok...

Let's get this straight here about Wheelie.

When Galvatron attacks, what do most Transformers do?

They run. They run away like little girls.

What does Wheelie do when Galvatron attacks him in "The Five Faces of Darkness"?

He shoots Galvatron in the face.

That, my friends is harsh.

F' with Wheelie, get shot in the face Dick Cheney style.

Wheelie will kick any bodies ass and they won't even see it coming.

CAN YOU DIG IT!

WHEELIE!
Remind me to hug the TF comic crew the next time I see them!

I didn't think there could be any IDW TF title worse than Beast Wars: The Ascending. Looks like I was wrong.

Then again, I thought the same about Ramjet. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised again.

Wheelie! Yes! I'm sick of this "Wheelie SUX!" crap. I so want to love this character. Hid ryming will be more taunting to his enemies than annoying to us. Maybe they can do something with his alt mode, 'cause that is really what sucks most about him.

Wheelie!

The character was done a great injustice in the movie, show, and figure.

May Wheelie finally get his due - and stop talking in rhyme.

now i know alot of people say wheelie but when you see the robot stand there it looks like now please dont discourge me but it looks like ultra maguns, because wheelie has a slingshot as a weapons not guns and i think its a solider onthe last page not a robot.

Wheelie!

Bold move, but a good one IMHO. I loved the G1 kids book about him: "Wheelie, Wild Boy of Quintessa."

If you haven't seen it, check it out. It focuses on the survivalist part of his bio. It is his story of crashing on Quintessa with his family. Only Wheelie survived.

frakin' wheelie.. did he have to come into the idw universe?

SPOILER:

Chuck Norris is Wheelie's Headmaster.

i was too afraid to say wheelie, but someone's already done the hard part for us.

Why WHEELIE!! WHY

Well we knew it was only a matter of time, since he had a cameo in Spotlight Prime, Wonder if his issue will tie directly into that appearance.

I'm looking forward to it, hoping that Roche gets a go with the art, as he did some awesome work with Spotlight: Kup, I fully expect this to be a dark and sombre Spotlight like Kup.

wheelie is prooly a tolerable guy if u dont have to hear him speak

kuzzy wrote:now i know alot of people say wheelie but when you see the robot stand there it looks like now please dont discourge me but it looks like ultra maguns, because wheelie has a slingshot as a weapons not guns and i think its a solider onthe last page not a robot.

While Ultra Magnus is in one panel, it is clearly Wheelie on the splash page with the title "Survival Run" adding extra emphasis to it being the Wild Boy of Quintessa.

The spotlight is on Wheelie and I couldn't tell you who the artist would be. Wouldn't this be the first time to see Wheelie in the comics outside of the Animated Movie?

Stupid little rhyming robot...

I was just going to come on here and like and be the annoying person to say "Wheelie!"..... but I guess there is a consensus here. Hmmm. Who is the lucky artist that is taking this challenge?

NuclearConvoy wrote:

kuzzy wrote:now i know alot of people say wheelie but when you see the robot stand there it looks like now please dont discourge me but it looks like ultra maguns, because wheelie has a slingshot as a weapons not guns and i think its a solider onthe last page not a robot.

While Ultra Magnus is in one panel, it is clearly Wheelie on the splash page with the title "Survival Run" adding extra emphasis to it being the Wild Boy of Quintessa.

oh ok thanks nowi understand

NOT WHEELIE!!! WHAT'S NEXT, SPOTLIGHT: WHEELIMUS PRIME?

Unicron94 wrote:NOT WHEELIE!!! WHAT'S NEXT, SPOTLIGHT: WHEELIMUS PRIME?

Yes Please!

Wheelie. Wow. Now that was unexpectrd.

Ya'll are haters.

Wheelie busts rhymes, lives in the Cybertron Ghetto, picks fights with Dinosaurs, and lives life wearing safety-orange.

He is in effect, daring people to shoot at him.

Wheelie is all like, "Camouflage? F' that. Let them suckas see my stylin', profiln' ass. I'll bust a rock upside their head. F' with Wheelie and you get dead."

It's got my attention. IDW has done some very interesting things with their treatment of these characters; let's see how this one plays out. If you think about it, Wheelie has plenty of cool bits to his story that could really make for a swell read. I'm rather intrigued, to be quite honest.

Counterpunch wrote:Ok, ok...

Let's get this straight here about Wheelie.

When Galvatron attacks, what do most Transformers do?

They run. They run away like little girls.

What does Wheelie do when Galvatron attacks him in "The Five Faces of Darkness"?

He shoots Galvatron in the face.

That, my friends is harsh.

F' with Wheelie, get shot in the face Dick Cheney style.

He didn't shoot Galvatron in the face, he shot a Sweep in the face.

Cyberstrike wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Ok, ok...

Let's get this straight here about Wheelie.

When Galvatron attacks, what do most Transformers do?

They run. They run away like little girls.

What does Wheelie do when Galvatron attacks him in "The Five Faces of Darkness"?

He shoots Galvatron in the face.

That, my friends is harsh.

F' with Wheelie, get shot in the face Dick Cheney style.

He didn't shoot Galvatron in the face, he shot a Sweep in the face.

He shot Galvatron in the face.

WHELLIE the bad boy of quentessa so going to get the spotlight when it comes out...on an unrelated subject has grimlock gotten a spotlight?if not is he ever going to?

As long as he's not the rhyming, squawky sped-up tape voiced annoyance he was in the original series, I'll be fine, if this does turn out to be a Wheelie Spotlight. Never saw enough of the post 1986 movie series to care for him one way or another.

trilobitepictures wrote:Simon Furman told us about this back in August on his blog. He said two more characters from the (1986) movie would be getting spotlights (Ultra Magnus, Kup and Hot Rod already out). Spotlight: Galvatron came out not long after that and they showed Prime listening to a call from Wheelie in the Optimus Spotlight on page 1.

Anyone with basic brain functions should not be one bit surprised by this announcement.

You forgot to mention Ultra Magnus and Arcee, both of whom have had Spotlights as well. I'd love to see a Springer Spotlight, quite frankly. He was always the coolest character from the movie, tied with Kup.

personally i dont mind wheelie if he doesnt rhyime like he did in the seires and the movie as long they make his persoanlity differnt from his animation counterpart it fine by me think of this it could be worse spotlight could have been made with the character perceptor, or just lazorbeak alone fighting everyone.

i would like to see a soundwave spotlight i havnt been fowling spotlight issues ti much just bying tpb mostly blaster had one it be fair that soundwave gets one, or one of the transformer combiners, transformer city ( could be bad idea but intersting to see who they fight ), megatron

To quote one of my favorite movies of all time:

"Run away! Run away!"

I don't see what the fuss is all about. grimlock talks like he's a retarded hulk because off a glitch in his vocal unit. so why can't wheelie be like that?

Darkstrad wrote:I don't see what the fuss is all about. grimlock talks like he's a retarded hulk because off a glitch in his vocal unit. so why can't wheelie be like that?

Well, when you do not like either character, there are no good excuses for their stupidity!

"Suck" is still, and always will be, "Suck"!

I seem to recall a Wheelie Spotlight being hinted at previously, and my stance remains the same: I'm totally and completely cool with it, on one condition: He dies at the conclusion.

Or, give us his backstory and end the issue with him alone on Quintessa, crying like a little bitch.

No, seriously though, this actually has potential. As noted earlier in this thread, Wheelie's bio information actually makes him pretty cool: stranded survivalist on an alien world.

All I ask of IDW is to do one of two things:
1- Kill Wheelie.
or
2- Make him a survivalist loner badass and not some whiny rhyming bitch.

Character, character, character. That's the key, kids.

Counterpunch wrote:Ya'll are haters.

Wheelie busts rhymes, lives in the Cybertron Ghetto, picks fights with Dinosaurs, and lives life wearing safety-orange.

He is in effect, daring people to shoot at him.

Wheelie is all like, "Camouflage? F' that. Let them suckas see my stylin', profiln' ass. I'll bust a rock upside their head. F' with Wheelie and you get dead."

Hey, watch the stereotype charicatures. Dont turn this into Don Murphy's board.

MYoung23 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Ya'll are haters.

Wheelie busts rhymes, lives in the Cybertron Ghetto, picks fights with Dinosaurs, and lives life wearing safety-orange.

He is in effect, daring people to shoot at him.

Wheelie is all like, "Camouflage? F' that. Let them suckas see my stylin', profiln' ass. I'll bust a rock upside their head. F' with Wheelie and you get dead."

Hey, watch the stereotype charicatures. Dont turn this into Don Murphy's board.

Chill out.

Some of my best friends are white.

This settles it. I am now in the market for a MOSC Wheelie.

AND CP I can't stop laughing at that!

Well, if you think about how different IDW versions of characters are when compared to what we've seen before, I'm looking forward to a Wheelie Spotlight.

Think about Megatron. G1 Megatron was a shmuck that made lots of wild plans, but had no follow through. Which is just like most of the villians of the `80s, to be honest, so its not really his fault.

But IDW Megatron is a hardcore badass that almost killed Prime in their very first meeting on Earth.

IDW's take on G1 characters is so new and fresh that you really don't know what to expect. Which is a good thing.

Wheelie...Duh!
Unless it's a trick.

trilobitepictures wrote:

Blozor wrote:You forgot to mention Ultra Magnus and Arcee, both of whom have had Spotlights as well. I'd love to see a Springer Spotlight, quite frankly. He was always the coolest character from the movie, tied with Kup.

I appended my post to add Ultra Magnus. Probably at the same time you were posting to say I didn't. No biggie.

Arcee's Spotlight isn't out yet and as far as Furman was concerned (at the time of said announcement), Fembots were not part of the IDW universe. The Megatron: Origin, which contradicted that, was produced after his statement was out and he had nothing to do with that series. Fembots in the IDW-verse are the fault of either/both Eric Holmes (story) or/and Alex Milne (art).

Sorry, it took me a day to get back to this. Yeah, I included Arcee's just based on the announcement. I thought about appending it to say something about Arcee's being forthcoming, but then I'm sort of lazy about it to. Or apathetic, whichever.

I do remember Furman later on saying that he was working on a way to include Fembots in the continuity, which probably has something to do with Jhiaxus' experiments. I don't think any plot points go on in the IDW-verse without Furman's approval, even if it is written by someone else, which means that the Arcee story has to be something completely removed from the continuity, like Kup's, or Furman is in on it. Furman promised Kup is coming into play later on, and he's already hinted that Arcee's spotlight is going to affect the continuity, which means that he's now on board for female Transformers.

Blozor wrote:

trilobitepictures wrote:

Blozor wrote:You forgot to mention Ultra Magnus and Arcee, both of whom have had Spotlights as well. I'd love to see a Springer Spotlight, quite frankly. He was always the coolest character from the movie, tied with Kup.

I appended my post to add Ultra Magnus. Probably at the same time you were posting to say I didn't. No biggie.

Arcee's Spotlight isn't out yet and as far as Furman was concerned (at the time of said announcement), Fembots were not part of the IDW universe. The Megatron: Origin, which contradicted that, was produced after his statement was out and he had nothing to do with that series. Fembots in the IDW-verse are the fault of either/both Eric Holmes (story) or/and Alex Milne (art).

Sorry, it took me a day to get back to this. Yeah, I included Arcee's just based on the announcement. I thought about appending it to say something about Arcee's being forthcoming, but then I'm sort of lazy about it to. Or apathetic, whichever.

I do remember Furman later on saying that he was working on a way to include Fembots in the continuity, which probably has something to do with Jhiaxus' experiments. I don't think any plot points go on in the IDW-verse without Furman's approval, even if it is written by someone else, which means that the Arcee story has to be something completely removed from the continuity, like Kup's, or Furman is in on it. Furman promised Kup is coming into play later on, and he's already hinted that Arcee's spotlight is going to affect the continuity, which means that he's now on board for female Transformers.

i have seen the cover for spotlight arcee and another transformer so i expected someone else, also i thought it was ultra magnus, as posted in the thread earlier. also ill try and find the other tansformer spotlight thing because i found it in either a transfromers or beastwars comic book a few weeks back

There already is a Spotlight: Ultra Magnus

dragons wrote:
i would like to see a soundwave spotlight i havnt been fowling spotlight issues ti much just bying tpb mostly blaster had one it be fair that soundwave gets one

Soundwave already had one. It came out before Spotlights: Kup, Galvatron, Optimus Prime, and Ramjet as the first of the second wave of Spotlights that came after Shockwave, Nightbeat, Sixshot, Hot Rod, and Ultra Magnus. It explains how Ravage and Laserbeak got to Earth in the first place for their appearance in Devastation under Skywatch's control and answers when Bludgeon came to Earth to find Ore 13 to power Thunderwing in Strombringer.