#pre-botcon box set

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Transformers: Mosaic #384 - "-Syndrome!"

Originally posted on May 22nd, 2009

Story, Art - Iván Mas Thanks to - Carlos Oliveros

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wada sez: Gasp—yesterday’s strip was actually only half a comic strip, with the right half revealing that the whole fight actually took place in Multi-World! See below for a machine translation of Mas’ usual commentary.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrggrggggghhhhhhhhhhh.... and as Scrapper said in the last panel of the "Constructicons" mosaic that was not the end.

The idea is simple, two mosaics that work independently and when joined together create a third mosaic.

I think the title "Constructicon Syndrome" is funny , because of the theme of coming together and forming something else.

And as a link we have the battle with the Dinobots, but the conjunction is nice, if we look at a first mosaic, apparently the Constructicons lose, but later we see that in reality everything is inside Multiworld, so ... it was not real.

Perhaps it could have been intuited because if you look, the panels that belong to Multiworld have a "strange" border, the corners are finished off with shapes very similar to the ones in the original comic, if you have the comic handy, you will realize that the panels where they are in multiworld are also like that.

What we can agree on is that the reading order can be confusing and that the dialogue is not the most fluid in the world, but it is logical on the other hand, keep in mind that what I tried to do is not easy, and depending on the type of story the thing can be more or less complicated, I knew from the beginning that the weak point would be the narrative, so I tried to compensate with the graphic section, which I think is good.

Let's see if soon I can do a "Making off" of this.

I hope you liked the idea, I think it is one more option and a more or less original and fun proposal.

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Transformers: Mosaic #386 - "Human Component: Lady Mega"

Originally posted on May 22nd, 2009

Story - Carlos Oliveros Story, Art - Iván Mas

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wada sez: Lady Mega are Lord Giga are the Godmasters that command the Overlord Transtector. If you’ve never played pool before, the first panel shows Lady Mega having just put chalk on the end of her cue, to make better contact with the cue ball. The billiards metaphor here is interesting, illustrating the unpredictability that can ensue from a simple action, but can you imagine cutting about in your castle or whatever dressed like THAT? Mas’s usual commentary plus some extra fanart below—including a panel of Mega in armor which was intended for one of his Mosaic strips (perhaps this one), but ultimately cut.

Here .... one of the Decepticons leaders of Masterforce, I have not emphasised that part of her personality... it did not fit, it was one thing or another, and here I have preferred to give more importance to the leadership skills and the plan or the idea that she has about how to win the battle against the autobots.

I have tried to make a kind of simile between the billiard balls, and the society or the city in which they are going to attack, mostly because I remember that in the series there was something similar, this mosaic, could somehow link with the Masterforce that I did some time ago...

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Transformers: Mosaic #385 - "Human Component: Road King"

Originally posted on May 22nd, 2009

Story, Art - Iván Mas Thanks to - Carlos Oliveros

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wada sez: This strip takes place during “Assemble! The Four Godmaster Gunmen”, in which the fourth Godmaster, Road King (better known in the West as Slapdash) is discovered. “Slap”, curiously, is his Spanish name, explaining where Mas got it. In a fun easter egg, Road King’s racing suit has the IDW logo on it. See below for Mas’s usual commentary, which is a bit light this time. No, I’m sorry, there isn’t a pin-up for Road King, but there is a pretty cool preview showing a map of the circuit.

Well.... an introduction to Roadking, the last Godmaster, who was a Formula 1 racer you can see .... nothing much... a simple thing, but it was fun to add the logos on the driver's suit and so on.

Anyway... next ones are to come and I hope you like them more or enjoy them more....

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Transformers: Mosaic #387 - "Human Component: Bullhorn"

Originally posted on May 22nd, 2009

Story, Art - Iván Mas Thanks to - Carlos Oliveros

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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.