wada sez: As previously stated, Lord Giga is the other commander of the Overlord Transtector, alongside Lady Mega. So far as I can tell, the Eisenhüttenstadt castle is neither a real place nor something from Masterforce, but presumably it’s the same location as in Lady Mega’s strip? I’m not sure that the defeat of Buster and Hydra is a particular one from the cartoon; Super Ginrai first appears in the appropriately-named “Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai”, while Overlord would finally show up in the appropriately-named “Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?” Mas’s usual commentary and extra fanart below.
Well... while waiting for the "normal" mosaics, that is to say the non "human component" ones to be finished.... the truth is that I have 4 or 5 scattered all over the place for half a year or more....
We continue with those of Masterforce, which serve as a way of introduction for people who have not followed this series.
Today is the turn of the Decepticon Emperor.
Someone was saying that he’s reminiscent of Mister Sinister from X-men.... it’s true, he recalls that character, although surely it will be because it is in black and white... generally I don't paint in color these mosaics... because with the volume that there is to produce and adapt all masterforce if I had to paint them myself or distribute them all around the world to be painted, the thing would take too long, so I prefer to leave them in black and white, even so I think that this somewhat minimalist touch suits him well, besides being quicker... also I try to keep a chromatic range for each of the groups.
What I have modified have been the eyes, in the series appears with normal eyes but I prefer to leave them white or keeping that reflection or robotic glow, to somehow identify with the character or faction.
The story as all of this type intends to focus on the character, logically, and reveal small details of his personality, his position, location, etc ... we could continue further, but it is as always, ... a page can only do so much .... however I think that all the Human component have the ability to "combine" creating a continuous storyline ...
I hope you enjoy it... we will see how is the next one... in a few hours we will show the "making off".
wada sez: Cancer is named for the astrological sign associated with the crab. His backstory was revealed in the late Masterforce episode “God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?”.
Well, carrying on with this theme.... today it's Cancer's turn...
I wanted to recall the look he had in the animation, so it is easier to understand that some time has passed, compared to what we saw in the original series, and that is why, like Minerva, we see him with more age.
I intend to add little by little more mechanical or robotic elements, so here we can see a complete masterforce armor.
I am also completely aware that there will be many people that this does not call their attention, do not like it or do not understand it, well, if they want to get into the subject cool, if not, that’s fine too, they already have what IDW publishes and without belittling the rest, the other Mosaics, so they are already well served, although there is always one that says - this is not transformers...- well, it depends how, it doesn’t even deserve an answer...
Even so, I didn't want to pigeonhole myself with this topic, I mean, the last mosaics of mine that have come out are about this topic .... is due to a small coordination error, I made 7 mosaics, that should have been finished some time ago, the idea was to intersperse those seven, with these of Human component, unfortunately, we are pending to finish those 7. . we already have a delay of a year.... bad thing, I did my work, but it seems that the colorist(s) doesn’t have much time, and incomprehensingly the thing is taking forever,... among other things, that is one of the reasons why I painted or gave color myself to the Human component, so that it did not take me much time.
wada sez: The siblings Buster & Hydra pilot the Transtectors known in the west as Dreadwind & Darkwing. I believe this strip leads roughly into the events of “Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers”. While it’s evident that Mas had plans for further “Human Component” strips, they never came to be; I’m unsure what I’ll do with the various bits of preview art that were shared for those unrealised strips, but I plan to cover unpublished material like that at some point in the future. See below for extra art and commentary by Mas.
Buster and Hydra.... great characters, tremendously expensive figures, they were always one of my favorites.
In this case I wanted to give the feeling that it is an evolution of the normal Headmasters and that they are not like the Pretenders... didn’t turn out too bad, for an introduction, don’t think there’s much more that could be done with it.
wada sez: As I stated prior, Mas was evidently producing more of these strips than the Mosaic team knew what to do with, so they dumped three of them at once under the flimsiest pretext of a “Pre-BotCon Box Set”. As with some bits of "The End of the Beginning...", the Box Set was numbered in reverse order on Seibertron's archive, and I’ve decided to serialise them in the order used everywhere else. Bullhorn was a street fighter whose Transtector was better known in the west as Horri-Bull. See Mas’s usual commentary below, where he reveals that he modified Bullhorn’s design a bit to evoke X-Men character Sabretooth.
Well... a mosaic about Bullhorn....
The idea is that nobody’s ever justified the fact that someone is evil and intends to destroy his own species, which is a very absurd concept.
But in this way it’s explained taking into account if the individual himself over the years, either by a trauma or whatever, generates an animosity towards his own species to such an extent that he comes to hate it.... and what would happen if that being, received powers....
That’s all....
A detail.... the character reminds me of Sabretooth..... in the animated series was a clumsy character with a "belly" so I have modified it a little.
