#mach kick

BW Neo Mach Kick

AHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHH

WHAT IS THAT!!!! STOP!!!!! STOP IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!

I'M WITH THE TEAM ON THIS ONE

STOPP

Andrew Griffiths' cover for LBS #2 (x)

Dear Eschatological Equestrian,

As I've discussed in the past, Unicron is not a creative god, and as such it's only natural for him to return to the same ideas on several occasions. One such incarnation of this unit consisted of dimensionally-abducted warriors, who were each claimed at a point in their timeline when they may otherwise have perished, ensuring a seed of loyalty with which Unicron was able to shackle them.

These horsemen consisted of:

...Death, a longtime servant of Unicron who had once been known as Battle Unicorn, and who was responsible for ensuring the Maximal Council were in no state to resist the Dark God's Culling.

...War, a Mach Kick who once followed the Liege Maximo, and who was plucked from battle, saving him from being bisected by Arcee.

...Pestilence, who had been Sir Sire, a noble member of the Maximal Army, only nano-kliks away from being converted into a Vehicon drone when Unicron "rescued" him.

Transformers: Mosaic #587 - "My Little Transformers"

Originally posted on March 10th, 2011

Story, Art - Matt Marshall

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wada sez: In addition to being a longtime Transformers fan, Matt Marshall made something of a name for himself as a fanfiction writer in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom; his most notable work, “The Star In Yellow”, was released a year after this strip. Marshall clearly somewhat struggled to find enough Transformers to make the crossover work; we see Beast Wars Neo Mach Kick (a horse), Beast Machines Battle Unicorn, and Beast Machines Silverbolt (it’s long been theorised that his toy was originally intended to be a griffin, so he’s depicted here as a griffon, using his more show-accurate Beast Wars Returns colors). Also coincidentally, Battle Unicorn served as the basis for one of the better-known unproduced BotCon exclusive figure pitches, Twilight Sparkle Prime. Much of the artwork here is drawn directly from the cartoon, and most of the ponies appear to be generic; I’ve tagged the identifiable ones. I’m surprised that Marshall didn’t go for the low-hanging Unicron/unicorn joke, but that may well have informed his inclusion here in the first place. Dr. Hooves is a multiversal incarnation of the Doctor and I am tagging him accordingly. Marshall’s remastered version of this strip from his Tales From The Matrix Keeper zine is included below.