Transformers Mosaic: "The Freelancers"

Brilliant work, though one point: if that is Swindle at the end and this is set in the G1 continuity, then Swindle shouldnt exist yet.

Crosshairs wrote:Brilliant work, though one point: if that is Swindle at the end and this is set in the G1 continuity, then Swindle shouldnt exist.

Maybe I'm missing something, Crosshairs, but how's that? In the cartoon, the 5 sparks Starscream took to activate the Combaticons were Decepticon war criminals who's sparks had been removed and were in a storage facility on Cybertron. That is, unless the comics changed that continuity I don't know about...

Vic wrote:

Crosshairs wrote:Brilliant work, though one point: if that is Swindle at the end and this is set in the G1 continuity, then Swindle shouldnt exist.

Maybe I'm missing something, Crosshairs, but how's that? In the cartoon, the 5 sparks Starscream took to activate the Combaticons were Decepticon war criminals who's sparks had been removed and were in a storage facility on Cybertron. That is, unless the comics changed that continuity I don't know about...

Were they sparks? I only watched The Combaticons' first episode once and there was a lot of background noise (thank you AA 2011) so i couldnt really hear much at all. Thanks for that info though, ive learned something new

Their sparks or brain modules had been extracted. However Starscream stole them brought them back to Earth, and installed them into the forms that we know and love.

Blahblah whining. Cool comic. Period.

a nicely done bit of art for the newest mosaic.

I often wonder however, when someone places a character (swindle) that was post arrival from earth in the G1 cartoon its instantly disagreeable, yet when the same portrayal of another character movie and post movie (ultra magnus) no one bats an eyelid.

need minds be refreshed that this follows comic continuity and whilst officially recognised by Hasbro and idw, it is not taken into consideration when it comes to the entire story arc of transformers. (its like Lucas and star wars novels - a wealth of information at his fingertips, but he has the official right to totally disregard any and ever bit of history/lore brought in by the novels)

anyway - mallets aside - I really love the art in this comic, and the story arc has a nice twist at the end, and definitely rare to see swindle with a very happy look on his face without having his arm twisted (or something blown up)

Nicely done mosaic. I love the expression on Wheeljack and Ratchet's faces after the explosion. Very nice work.

Sabrblade wrote:

Crosshairs wrote:Brilliant work, though one point: if that is Swindle at the end and this is set in the G1 continuity, then Swindle shouldnt exist.

There are well more than one G1 continuity. The cartoon does not take precedence over any of the other G1 worlds.

Crosshairs wrote:

Vic wrote:

Crosshairs wrote:Brilliant work, though one point: if that is Swindle at the end and this is set in the G1 continuity, then Swindle shouldnt exist.

Maybe I'm missing something, Crosshairs, but how's that? In the cartoon, the 5 sparks Starscream took to activate the Combaticons were Decepticon war criminals who's sparks had been removed and were in a storage facility on Cybertron. That is, unless the comics changed that continuity I don't know about...

Were they sparks? I only watched The Combaticons' first episode once and there was a lot of background noise (thank you AA 2011) so i couldnt really hear much at all. Thanks for that info though, ive learned something new

Vectorshot wrote:Their sparks or brain modules had been extracted. However Starscream stole them brought them back to Earth, and installed them into the forms that we know and love.

Not sparks. Personality Components.

Plus, who says this has to take place in the cartoon continuity? Can't it be seen as its own continuity without needing to fit anywhere into canon? It is a fan work, after all.

Also: in the G1 Cartoon, Ratchet's helmet is white, not red. So it could just as easily be from the comic's continuity, and even then, there are several different comic continuities, so... I dunno.... pick one.

I think this fits in with G1 and/or fan theories about G1 just fine. Nowhere does it actually say it's a CR chamber. Hell, the only thing we do know about it is it didn't work, having blown up on Wheeljack and Ratchet. It could be a very promising prototype or design that just never was perfected and implemented during the Great War. And as for my boy Swindle: there has long been a theory about him having started as an Autobot. There's pretty much a straight line down the center of Cybertronians: blue eyes means Autobot, red eyes means Decepticons and Swindle always had purple eyes. This has lead some to believe that he was a deserter, a traitor or at the very least switched sides. And here his eyes are very, very blue. And the Combaticons were part of the war on Cybertron and evidently went AWOL or just plain disobeyed orders enough to be considered war criminals by the Decepticons (which I always figured was due to Swindle playing both sides anyway.) As an IRL bonus, history has plenty of stories of a traitor not being trusted by the side he defected to with the primary case being the way the British treated Benedict Arnold once he left the colonies for England. One who betrays his own is never truly trusted by either side afterwards.

Still, enough dissecting. I liked it!

Sabrblade wrote:Long story short, this is a G1 story, but does not have to be with the G1 cartoon. The G1 cartoon is not G1 gospel. This is its own G1 story.

In fact, why single this mosaic out of all of them? There's plenty that told their own stories without being related to any existing continuity. Why are people nitpicking about this one when its no more special than any others?

that's just people being people...