A Skids, a Chromedome, and a Brainstorm walk into a bar. What happens next is drama that only today's Transformers comics can pull off. Used to be that they'd pout and overcompensate for a few minutes, go kick some Decepticon afterburner, roll credits, and start the new episode like nothing ever happened. Skids really wants to open that Pandora's box in his head against Chromedome's urging to leave better off alone, they have a bit of a bicker, and finally Skids walks off-- to be horribly scrapped in a later issue. Sheesh, how is Hasbro going to sell super-power upgrade toys with arm-jacking, pizza-throwing action when they keep killing off the characters? Oh, start a new noncontinuitous series, right!
Anyway, welcome to Swerve's, the Lost Light watering hole. Used to be energon only came in purple, but now they have soda, OJ, purple stuff, and Sunny E, which is what Brainstorm is drinking. Look at all the bots on page two. Look at them! I see Grapple, Hoist, Smokescreen, Mirage, Hound... Off screen is Jack Nicholson regretting his life choices. I do like the colorful casts that the energon dispensers provide. Note how the yellow one just happens to shine on the shrine to Trailcutter, Trailbreaker, or NORM as I like to call him. Happy accident. Can anyone name that tune?
Can you believe I've never done an art collab with my own wife until now? @cavalierconvoy finished the inks in November of last year, and it took me all this time to realize that I didn't like my own coloring on it. Finally after Halloween, I scrapped it, made a deal with our local crossroads demon, and started over with a more fine art technique with pencils, and what originally took weeks took only hours this time. Happy birthday, Memories!