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Transformers: Mosaic #659 - "The First Combiners"

Originally posted on September 3rd, 2012

Story, Art - Sterling Gee

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wada sez: Per Gee on deviantART: “So this comic was inspired by a dream I had of the Aerialbots building a "battle scaffold" in mid-air while falling (it was MUCH cruder than the one shown here). I didn't remember much else from the dream, but the idea grew in my brain into this Transformers fan comic. This ended up "chibi" style partly because of the goofy plot I came up with, and partly because I wanted to cram every American G1 combiner team (in combined form) into the first panel. Seeing as each of them are made of 5-6 other robots, I could have have taken forever just with the first panel alone if it were not for the chibi style.” The giant robot reminds me of some of the larger Cyberverse playsets, in particular Optimus Maximus. It’s cute how the “Combinatrons” are all doing different activities related to their actual characters! Gee has one more strip to be included in this archive, so keep an eye out for that.

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Spotlight: Stunticons - Menasor (Pages 21 & 22)

Originally posted on January 28th, 2012

Story - Josh van Reyk Art - Sterling Gee Letters - HdE

wada sez: At last, the big reveal! The Stunticons are trapped in their own minds, thanks to the inhibitor programs installed by the Contructicons. With the force of will needed to dominate, Motormaster has ended up commanding the gestalt, overcoming the usual self-doubt that cripples combiners. The Autobots fighting Drag Strip are revealed to be some aspect of the minds of his teammates, with the specific identities matching up with the cartoon episode “Masquerade”, where the Autobots posed as the Stunticons. The voice heard by Breakdown is revealed to be that of the Constructicons, discussing the experiment from the outside. Evidently, Sterling Gee did not get the memo that Marshall was using the Generation 2 color scheme for Sideswipe. Note that in the second part HdE has rendered Menasor’s dialogue boxes using little squares with the team members’ colors, in contrast to Motormaster’s normal speech boxes; I wonder if this is meant to imply that the other team members have influenced the combiner after all? I also wonder if the idea is that the name “Menasor” is a portmanteau of the insults “Menace” and “Monster” heard by Motormaster in his pages.

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Transformers: Mosaic - "Clean Get Away?"

Originally posted on December 25th, 2012

Story, Art - Sterling Gee

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wada sez: This strip was originally conceived for Mosaic and teased under the initials "CGA", but wasn't finished before the project shuttered. Nonetheless, Gee later completed the strip and posted it! Here, we learn the grim fate of Dispensor, an AllSpark mutation from the climax of the first live-action film.

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Transformers: Mosaic #271 - "McMegatron's"

Originally posted on October 17th, 2008

Story, Art - Sterling Gee

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wada sez: This strip humorously bridges the gap between the end of the Sunbow cartoon’s second season, and The Transformers: The Movie; the opening narration box homages the opening narration of the film. Previews below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #167 - "Brotherhood Lost"

Originally posted on May 26th, 2008

Story - Sterling Gee Art, Letters - Anastasiya Goertz

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wada sez: An offbeat little fan-theory positing that Soundwave was once a brother to Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus; evidently riffing on a few vaguely similar elements to their designs. Prime and Magnus being brothers is, itself, ascended fanon. Very Dreamwave-inspired art here, with all the rounded rectangles.

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Transformers: Mosaic #267 - "The Moment"

Originally posted on October 8th, 2008

Story - Claude Springer Art - Jennifer Delk Colours, Letters - Sterling Gee

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wada sez: Although Arcee’s narration mentions the Wreckers, I nonetheless would place this strip as a reaction to the Sunbow cartoon. In The Transformers: The Movie, Arcee and Hot Rod clearly share something of a romance. But in the third season, with Hot Rod having become Rodimus Prime, there was a sudden shift where Arcee and Springer were instead presented as a couple! Insofar as the movie pulls from Star Wars, this plays into the Hot Rod/Luke Arcee/Leia Springer/Han parallels. Previews below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #230 - "Judgement"

Originally posted on August 22nd, 2008

Story - Josh van Reyk Art, Letters - Sterling Gee

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wada sez: The defendant here is Jhiaxus, main antagonist of the Generation 2 comic! The G2 Decepticon insignia is seen shattering the Quintesson insignia, apparently one of several created for the decal sheet included with the e-HOBBY release Overcharge. Clean art and extras below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #70 - "Genius"

Originally posted on January 25th, 2008

Story - Daniel Worsley Art - Sterling Gee Edits - Josh van Reyk

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wada sez: A little spotlight on Perceptor here, carrying his iconic verbose speech from the cartoon into narration. The two Decepticons are the Headmaster Horrorcons. The ship he escapes in is drawn to look like the “tetrajet” Cybertronian form of the Seekers, but is presumably non-sentient. See below for clean art and a teaser poster from Sterling Gee.