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Transformers: Generation One - "Brothers In Arms"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Lisa Sky Edits - Paul Vromen

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wada sez: Hey, this ain’t a Shattered Glass story! Apparently, Wout Jut wrote it on request from Ackerman. Overkill’s Universe toy was a redeco of Classics Grimlock, so there’s a direct connection between the characters; you may recall “Upgrades” similarly riffed on that idea. Clean inks below.

Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "To The Death"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art, Edits - Mike Ackerman Colours, Edits - Lisa Sky

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wada sez: To recycle his Grimlock/Overkill strip with Ackerman for his Shattered Glass project, Wout Jut had the whole thing recolored to instead cast them as Thrustor/Grimlock! Thrustor is an odd choice for Shattered Glass, selected solely for his saurian alternate mode. Note how the second and last panels were swapped to better suit the new script. Clean colors below.

Transformers: Mosaic #464 - "Fallen Plans"

Originally posted on March 11th, 2010

Story - Martin Fisher Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Matthew Colby Black Letters - Dave Reynolds

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wada sez: The artist has drawn from the Combaticons' appearance in Spotlight: Arcee for their designs, I've tagged the strip accordingly, even though it doesn't really tie into that story otherwise. Clean inks and colors below, along with a look at this comic on the drawing board!

Transformers: Mosaic #629 - "Revenge + Redemption"

Originally posted on December 5th, 2011

Story - Michael Granger Art - Mike Ackerman Colours, Letters - Sam Palmer Alternate colours - Caroline Richard

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wada sez: Part three of four—we’re really skipping ahead to get through this saga, I know! Now, something I’m really boggling over with this one is that Megatron ends up with Shockwave’s decapitated head, which again is just like Fun Publications’ Classics stories... but there’s just no way this one was intended to fit into that continuity, so I guess it’s just a wild coincidence. Apparently there was a miscommunication that led to letterer Sam Palmer not receiving Caroline Richard's coloured version of the strip, leading him to colour it himself! I’ve included Caroline’s version below—you’ll note that it uses the more-traditional Henkei! Henkei! color scheme instead of the Classics one Megatron had appeared with in previous parts of this story. 

Transformers: Mosaic #423 - "Small Wonders"

Originally posted on October 15th, 2009

Story - Curt Lunsford Art - Mike Ackerman Colours, Letters - Timothy Pugh

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Transformers: Mosaic #637 - "Final Mistakes: Rebirth of Galvatron"

Originally posted on February 21st, 2012

Story - Michael Granger Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Caroline Richard Letters - HdE Alternate colours - Lisa Sky

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wada sez: Granger summarised the strip on deviantART: “In a nutshell, the humans gather up Galvatron's, scourge and cyclonus' remains take them back to earth. Galvatron (or something) wakes up and blows up the place.” The strip thus provides an origin for Universe Galvatron with his more Earth-like tank mode. In this amalgamated continuity, (presumably) Marissa Faireborn is working with “J.O.E.”, undoubtedly a reference to G.I. Joe. Faireborn has always been tied to G.I. Joe, as her parents were Flint and Lady Jaye. Bizarrely, there was another mixup that led to two colourists working on the same strip again! This time, Caroline Richard’s colours were used for the final piece, while Lisa Sky’s take (see below) went unused. Genuinely have no idea how they could’ve messed that up so badly. Sky’s interpretation has a few flourishes I enjoy: the human trucks are coloured in Constructicon green, their building is coloured as Metroplex, and Sky has rather literally applied orange at Galvatron’s neck, referenced from the unpainted hinge on the toy!

Transformers: Mosaic #288 - "Watching"

Originally posted on November 11th, 2008

Story - Martin Fisher Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Ian Lea Letters - E.T. Dollman

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wada sez: Buzzsaw was absent during Furman’s early IDW material; this strip spins out from the events of Spotlight: Soundwave. As usual for these throwaway character pieces from Fisher, I have no idea what it is Buzzsaw has found or who it is that finds him in the final panel. Clean art below.