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Transformers: Multiverse #26 - "Word Play"

Originally posted on October 15th, 2013

Story - King Wrench Art - Milad H. Taleghani Colours - Brandy Dixon Letters - Franco Villa

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wada sez: Despite Grindcore and Rung both being original characters from the IDW comics, this can’t actually be set in IDW continuity, as both Grindcore and Straxus left Cybertron long before the Decepticons were formed and both died not long after returning from the Dead Universe in the present-day. This makes me think the strip is actually intended to take place in Marvel continuity; Straxus moved to a fortress in Polyhex after the destruction of Darkmount. Or, it’s possible it’s intended to be an entirely original continuity! See below for clean colors.

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shoot the living and pray for the dead (it, vari 71)

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Transformers: Mosaic #574 - "The Thing About Rumors"

Originally posted on January 20th, 2011

Story - Josh van Reyk, Chris Vera Art - Ibai Canales Colours - Franco Villa

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wada sez: This piece is loosely inspired by Nick Roche’s comics for IDW; here, we directly see Kup acting as a mentor to the other Autobots. Ibai Canales has drawn some pretty-distinctive looking generics in the background of the first panel, but I’m pretty sure they’re original designs?

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Transformers: Multiverse #41 - "Left Behind"

Originally posted on November 27th, 2015

Story, Art - Joe Teanby Colours - Esther Pimentel Letters - Franco Villa

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Later revised and annotated for The Transformers: Untold Marvels

wada sez: This is it—the very last Multiverse comic to be published! I feel a little like Quickswitch myself—what a journey this has been.

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Transformers: Mosaic #620 - "It's Alive"

Originally posted on September 26th, 2011

Story - Curt Lunsford, Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Jeremy Tiongson Colours - Tomoko Letters, Edits - Franco Villa

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: This is the first part of the “MonsterQuest” trilogy. Per a comment from the team on deviantART: “This is our version of how the three guys that will eventually become [the Decepticon] headmasters were created, they were already existing decepticons when we first saw them in "The Rebirth". They specifically cited a piece of fanart by James Cox, which depicted the trio as the Universal Monsters—see below for that—as being the main inspiration behind the storyline. To counter them, they introduce a G1 version of Crosswise, the monster hunter from Transformers: Cybertron (indeed, Prime’s line “that’s why I asked you to come from Cybertron” has a meta double-meaning to this effect). Crosswise’s character model (see below) was designed by Juan Pablo Osorio; the process was explained as follows: “He's mostly a Smokescreen repaint but with a new head, rocket lauchers and a leg transformation like the one Jazz had. [...] since the Crosswise toy has repainted into Smokescreen and Jazz, I thought if it'd have been the other way around the Smokescreen mold would have been used in G1, with a tough of Jazz transformation scheme just to add variety to the already overused Fairlady mold. By the way, his color scheme is based on the 10th Anniversary gold/black edition of the car”. Skullcruncher’s origin story is based on Frankenstein’s monster, with Scrapper reusing blueprints from when the Constructicons rebuilt Optimus Prime into an alligator in “City of Steel”. Clean colors below.

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Transformers: Mosaic - "His Name Is... Ginrai"

Originally posted on January 30th, 2013

Story, Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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wada sez: I’ll leave it to Hazama to explain this one, per the deviantART notes: “Transformers: Masterforce means very much to me. Last year was the year Masterforce is said to take place, 2012, and this is the year of Victory. I drew this comic in the summer of last year to celebrate this fact, and to pay a tribute to the series because it does mean so much to me. In particular, always I have looked to Ginrai for inspiration. Ginrai did not choose to become a hero, did not choose to gain the Masterforce. It simply chose him, and what makes him so strong is how he accepted it, even though that was so difficult to do. He struggled with it, and tried to deny that fate, but in the end, he learned that all people needed him to rise, and he needed himself to accept his destiny. Even if you aren't familiar with the series, I hope that you may also draw inspiration from Ginrai, because he is truly the definition of what makes a hero. PS. Although it bears the "Mosaic" name, and was accepted, it never actually got posted before the project closed. Bummer. :shrug:”

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Transformers: Mosaic #503 - "Home Is Where The Laser Core Is"

Originally posted on June 16th, 2010

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Oscar Choquecota Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard Diaclone designs - Benjamin Galley

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: The first of three strips written to bring a Transformers Animated character into Sunbow continuity; I've bumped up the other two, which were originally posted not long after, for a better reading experience. Bulkhead’s group here has a mixture of origins, as explained in the comments on deviantART, but includes a couple of Diaclone bots, who were slightly redesigned by Galley for the sake of variety. The blue bot is actually a Brazilian character, Camaro, who was renamed "Sprint" after Windcharger's preliminary name. In the final panel, the bots present are the main cast of Animated, and to cement the homage Ratchet is seen fixing his forehead chevron, a cheeky reference inserted by Choquecota. Bulkhead’s original design was done by Choquecota, and Osorio wrote the whole story based on it; later, Osorio would create a separate character model for Bulkhead along similar lines for The Lost Seasons, which was widely shared online and seems very likely to have inspired the later official release of the G1-style Legacy Bulkhead. See below for all of this relevant artwork.

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Transformers: Mosaic #640 - "Ragnarok"

Originally posted on March 12th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: See the link above for some commentary! On deviantART, the project team clarified: “Yep, multiple Abominuses (or is it Abomini? :D ), these guys had so little personality in the cartoon that the ones we saw in the show could have very well been different sets of Terrorcons, it's also a nod to the armies of Terrorcons the Quints had in TF:Energon.” They also had this to say about their involvement with Mosaic generally: “this will be most probably one of our last Mosaics as we've been asked to not submit any more thre-part stories.” The evil is defeated!