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Transformers: Mosaic #570 - "Value"

Originally posted on January 6th, 2011

Story - Josh van Reyk Art, Letters - Xavier Basa Colours - Caroline Richard

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wada sez: This strip bridges the events of Spotlight: Kup with Last Stand of the Wreckers, covering a plot thread that wound up being mostly dropped from the final miniseries: namely, Guzzle’s vendetta against Kup. Clean colors below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #411 - "Reboot"

Originally posted on September 3rd, 2009

Story - Joel Cook Art, Letters - Xavier Basa Colours - Joana Lafuente

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wada sez: Cook had this to say on the strip: “I know it deviates a small bit from the Headmasters cartoon, but I always thought it was cheesy (among other things)how Soundblaster debuted in the cartoon... this gives more of a plausible transition, as well as an opportunity for Galvatron to let Soundwave know just whose bitch he really is.” Soundwave blew up in the second episode of Headmasters, “The Mystery of Planet Master”, leading to him being rebuilt as Soundblaster in “The Great Cassette Operation”, with the Autobots similarly rebuilding Blaster as Twincast.

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Transformers: Mosaic #489 - "Primitive To The Core"

Originally posted on June 2nd, 2010

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Script - Franco Villa Art, Letters - Xavier Basa Colours - Brian Valeza

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: In the Sunbow cartoon, the Dinobots were created by Wheeljack and Ratchet, taking inspiration from dinosaur fossils as seen in S.O.S. Dinobots. The later episode “Call of the Primitives” established that all animalistic Transformers, including the Dinobots, belonged to a shared “Primitives” category, as referenced in the title here. The first panel here is presumably depicting the events of “Dinobot Island, Part 2″, where the Dinobots rally the island’s living dinosaurs to fight the Decepticons. The third panel shows their original Cybertronian modes, taken from The War Within. The big retcon here is the idea that the Dinobots were actually rebuilt from “laser cores” of existing Transformers from Cybertron, more in line with the Marvel Comics origin for the characters, rather than from scratch by Wheeljack and Ratchet as the cartoon itself established. Now, what on Earth is the “organic mimicking virus” they’re infected with, and what connection does that have to the concept of the Primitives? I’unno. Over a decade later, Villa returned to comment on the strip congratulating himself: “10 years after this comics, Simon Furman came up with the same idea in his Secrets & Lies!” Clean art below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #493 - "Logic And War"

Originally posted on June 6th, 2010

Story - Michael Granger Art - Xavier Basa Colours, Thanks to - Sumit Sarkar

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wada sez: We’re following on from yesterday’s strip here, though I should note that as originally published, these comics were released months apart. Dead End’s miserably pessimistic outlook was the basis for some iconic lines from him in the Sunbow cartoon, informing his characterisation here.

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Transformers: Mosaic #176 - "Recruits"

Originally posted on June 2nd, 2008

Story - Joel Cook Art, Letters - Xavier Basa Colours - Joana Lafuente

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wada sez: An origin for the Recordicons Overkill and Slugfest—they would ultimately only appear once in cameo in IDW canon, in More than Meets the Eye issue #12. The Autobot here is a generic, just a very cool-looking one. Colours from later-official IDW colourist Joana Lafuente.