wada sez: Get ready for a four-part Megatron-versus-Shockwave beatdown! I’m pretty sure this doesn’t fit into any existing continuity, and is instead a generic mishmash providing a backstory for the Classics Megatron toy, which notably had orange and purple highlights necessitated by American toy safety laws—here, they’re recontextualised as being leftover Galvatron parts. Megatron was driven mad (well, more mad) by Unicron, but here, the extensive damage to his body purges the worst of the planet eater’s influence. Unicron and Straxus appear tormenting Galvatron in the fourth panel; Straxus appeared solely in the Marvel comics (most notably in the expanded Marvel UK continuity where he was central to a bunch of silly complicated retcons surrounding Megatron) which also formed the basis of Fun Publications’ Classics stories, but the plot here simply can’t fit into the Marvel timeline at all. There’s some distinct movieverse vibes to Megatron’s endoskeleton, I’d say. I’ve included a preview and the higher-resolution versions of all the strip’s panels shared online; in the first one, it’s possible to identify a cameo for Armada Megatron in the background!
