Transformers Mosaic: "After the Fall"

I dont get it. Is this an alternate movie time line were powermaster prime came to earth instead of megatron or is this a reference from some other kind of continuity? Comic maybe?

from what i gather from it its some kind of alternate continuity, maybe dreamwave, maybe idw, maybe marvel or the cartoon. The point is its not Earth, its Nebulos. HiQ has had visions of a valiant figure fighting on another planet for an alien race that is not even his own and he's fallen in battle and now HiQ has built his own version of the figure he's pictured as well as a battle suit to control the giant robot because he knows that the enemies that the figure (Op of course) fought against will surely come to Nebulos at some point. Of course since this is all in visions (despite the fact that HiQ's a genius and he's built a working Optimus battlesuit) they think he's crazy and there's nothin to worry about. Thats what I get from the story anyway.... I think its quite good actually, different

Yeah youre right that makes sense if its in the Marvel continuity. The way HiQ speaks of Optimus' death does sound like alot how he first died in the US comics.

After reading the Marvel comic where Prime becomes a powermaster I could never have pictured the nebulans being the green native american race that were in the US series, but so far I like what I see.

I also love the little discussion and the art style in this strip. Very nice

awesome piece, very well done.

Thanks for the comments guys - just to clarify, the germ of the idea was that after the animated movie that Hi-Q was plagued by visions (ergo the title being a riff on "One Shall Fall") and he built it ready for Prime's return... That's why the Nebulons are green in this, it also sort of fits with the current IDW plots at the mo with Prime out of the game for a bit (although Nebulons are mostly a strange off pink for the most part). So it was an alternate branch following the movie. It was Tom (the penciller/inker) who suggested doing a story that was almost incidentally TF related, to do something tonally different to the Mosaics up until that point. A bit of a risk, so I'm pleased most of you guys have dug it!

Let me know if there's interest in getting the last panel as a desktop and I'll see what I can do!

I think this is really really very good indeed. It nicely explains how the Nebulans came up with such a magnificent version of Optimus so quickly. Love it. Very well done indeed.