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I’m so happy I went through the whole thing today. It does not disappoint.

BOOK! BOOK!!!!!!!!

You draw enough TF commissions you see these details in fan characters a lot. Girl-seeker, badass loner, ninjabot with sword… or some combination.

Windblade is none of those.  Zero.

She’s not a seeker.  She’s got friends.  She’s not a ninja.  

(Also, as if there were any doubt that you were using “fanfictiony” as an insult, your bit here clears that up.)

And for the record, no, I don’t recall having been asked to draw a Transformers fancharacter for probably half a decade.  Plenty of canonical ones, sure.  The closest I’ve gotten is “Optimus Prime as a Green Lantern.”  But being asked to draw ladyseeker ninja loners is not a trend I can vouch for.   

Also David, not sure why you are having fun insulting me. The one time I’ve met you (maybe twice?) you seemed very polite.

I’m not really having that much fun.  I would have been super ecstatic to see a comic from you celebrating a new female character, rather than playing into how our society mocks and denigrates them merely for existing.  I am WEARY of this.  And I am pushing back against it because it’s stupid and it’s damaging and I don’t want to see any more of it.  The best thing I can say about it is that maybe you didn’t think through the implications of what you were saying very well and, in the service of making an easy joke, have regurgitated the script culture has given us regarding how women characters are strongly suggested to be viewed.

Besides that I just felt like drawing some robots people were tweeting about Windblade that day,  I made the comic because... she is undeniably VERY TF FANFICTIONY. I literally know nothing about this character beside the facts she states about herself in the strip. Samurai theme, sword, girl, jet. It's all I found out about her online two weeks ago (as far as I know she hasn't been in an media yet?)

Just google image search "Tranformers OC" and you will find a huge amount of them are female characters. And tons of them are jets. And plenty of times they are both. Other than that it's a pretty common that Mary Sue's are badass loners. The ninja/samurai/martial arts theme is also very common, as is giving your original bot or mary sue a sword.

There's nothing wrong with female Transformers characters. Arcee's kind of basic and doesn't have much personality, but Black Arachnia is one of the greatest Transformers characters ever. 

Seems you're way overreacting to the fact she a female transformer, that if anyone make any kind of fun of her, it must be sexist. Gender is not that important.

The right amount of female transformers is... however many Hasbro decides to make. It really doesn't matter. If they make only one female Transformer character this year, so what? If they change it up and make 100% female Transformers characters next year, so what? MLP has mostly girl characters and that's fine, just as it would be find if they decide to make a new MLP line that has mostly boy characters. (either of those changeups would probably not be very profitable... but they are not morally wrong)

I didn’t know it was PLANNED but I guess it makes sense. It’s cool to see all the concluding comics happen (especially Bravoman, that’s the BEST fourth wall usage I’ve seen in a while). I guess I’ll look forward to print.