#nick roche

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ES Prowl head turnaround from Nick Roche just dropped!

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Went to Bluesky for cross stitch, am positively eating as a Transformer fan.

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Strongarm, Rodimus, and Gritter - The Last Autobots | Transformers: Last Bot Standing (2022) | #2 | Lineart by Nick Roche | Colours by Rebecca Nalty

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Blood & Thunder #16 (Skybound, August 2026) variant cover by Nick Roche, Josh Burcham

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Masters of the Universe: Genesis Delves into History of Eternia

Dark Horse Comics and Mattel have announced Masters of the Universe: Genesis, a 12-issue comic book series that will delve into the history of Eternia and its heroes and villains with Issue #1 focusing on Skeletor. The first three-issue arc is written by Rich Bouek, drawn by Gavin Smith, colored by Fabi Marques, lettered by AndWorld Design. Future arcs will feature works by Cavan Scott, Nick Roche, John Harris Dunning, Giovanna La Pietra, Tiffany Smith, and more.

Masters of the Universe: Genesis #1 (of 12), sporting a cover by Mark Buckingham and a variant cover by Lee Bermejo, goes on sale on August 5, 2026.

(Image via Dark Horse - Mark Buckingham's Cover of Masters of the Universe: Genesis #1)

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I haven't been able to find this online anywhere, so decided to type it up to have a copy to-hand, because I think it's very interesting

FOREWORD FOR LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERS

By Nick Roche and James Roberts (2011)

"It was never going to be Perceptor, was it? Or Springer or Impactor or Kup, if they were here. No, it was always going to be one of us - the second stringers."

"Yeah, just because we're not famous - not Ark-worthy - one of us has to bite the bullet."

Last Stand of the Wreckers is a story about redshirts.

A redshirt (not that anyone reading this needs it spelt out) is a "character" - and here the term is used reservedly - who arrives on the scene without baggage or backstory, and who tags along with the lead cast until their inevitable death. From the moment this one-dimensional nobody joins an established team of much-loved characters one thing is obvious to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with genre conventions: this person will die early on, in a sudden but perfunctory manner, laying down their barely there life in service to the story.

More than canon fodder , they are on narrative fodder: They exist purely to show what fate might await the characters you actually care about.

Pyro, Ironfist, Rotorstorm, and Guzzle are redshirts - or at least that's how they're presented to begin with. Painfully obscure (non-) characters (the first three are based on action figures that were released in Europe in the early '90s), the only one with any past form, in terms of comic book appearances, is Guzzle, the 'Sparkler Mino-bot' who appeared in a handful of Transformers comics. When the most famous of your rookies is Guzzle , you know you're in for a challenge.

That challenge, specifically, was to help these four new recruits transcend their redshirt status; to make them rounded, three-dimensional characters who are just as worthy of page-time (I.e. 'life') as Springer, Kup, Perceptor and the rest. In short, the challenge was to make readers care when one of them died.

When the Wrecker's roster was announced with the unveiling of the cover for issue one, many fans were quick to predict the deaths of the four nobodies: The established characters would make it out alive and the newbies would bite the bullet, sacrificed so that the series lived up to its name. In response, we set ourselves a goal: by the end of issue four, we wanted readers to care about the redshirts so much that they were hoping that they would be spared at the expense of the A-Listers. In other words, "I don't care if Springer dies, so long as Ironfist lives."

Did we succeed? Who knows. But hopefully Ironfirst the fanboy, Prime-obsessed Pyro, gun-loving Guzzle and the braggart Rotorstorm touched a chord with readers. It was certainly satisfying to see that the figure given free to attendees of Botcon 2011 was Fisitron, in his Transformers Animated guise. And who'd have thought that a Sparkler Mini-bot from 1988 would be reborn as a Dark of the Moon Cyberverse figure? Take a bow, Commander Class Guzzle.

So yes, let's hope that the last of the Wreckers live on in some shape or form. Guzzle's out there with Impactor, righting wrongs, but what of Ironfist, Rotorstorm or Pyro? For them, the war is over- but since when has being dead gotten in the way of telling a good story? There's always what went before...

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HAWKEYE - Kate Bishop with Hulkling, Wiccan & Death's Head

Death's Head (2019) #4 Cover by Nick Roche & Felipe Sobreiro

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At thought bubble atm and I managed to bag these signed mtmte prints by Nick Roche!! Look at all my lil guys!!