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Transformers: Mosaic #589 - "Sermon"

Originally posted on March 17th, 2011

Story - Shaun Flaherty Art - Waseem Bashar Colours - Caroline Richard Letters - E&C

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wada sez: Set after Lugnut’s incarceration at the end of the third season of Transformers Animated. Note the candy Trypticon in the background of his dream sequence! Clean inks and colors below. Check back tomorrow for an unpublished strip by most of this creative team.

Transformers: Mosaic #604 - "Just Like In The Movies"

Originally posted on May 30th, 2011

Story, Art - Waseem Bashar Script - Juan Pablo Osorio Letters, Edits - Franco Villa

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wada sez: Now, according to the Transformers: The Lost Seasons deviantART account in the comments for this strip: “This is just the start of our bigger "Girls' Night Out" saga; there should be one more coming soon from Mosaic, the others are still in the making.” This was Bashar’s final Mosaic contribution; the two followups, focused on Road Rage and Chromia, were instead written solely by Juan Pablo Osorio. Weirdly, all of these strips are completely absent from the actual deviantART gallery for The Lost Seasons. Presumably, had further strips materialised, they would have followed a similar formula for other female characters, such as the rest of the “Female Autobots” from “The Search for Alpha Trion”. In that episode, Moonracer was paired up with Powerglide (presumably a last-minute toy-selling substitute for her namesake Sunstreaker); in this strip, it’s implied that Powerglide is busy with Astoria Carlton-Ritz, “The Girl Who Love Powerglide”. Tracks had a turn as a movie star in “Hoist Goes Hollywood”, where he wore the alien mask seen here. The Marvel Comics story “Monstercon from Mars!” is also cited as an influence. Moonracer’s disdainful description of the movie’s events is an oblique reference to the much-maligned Revenge of the Fallen. See below for Moonracer’s character model, transformation, and clean inks for the whole strip. Now, just to give one final piece of notice before tomorrow’s strip: you may want to block the tag “cw transphobia” to avoid it, if you’d rather not see content of that nature; speaking personally, I find it upsetting and wish I hadn’t read it, but I’m a slave to this archive, so I had no choice!

Transformers: Mosaic #402 - "Bring Da Noise"

Originally posted on July 24th, 2009

Story, Letters - Waseem Bashar Art - Dane Eichinger

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wada sez: This strip, which introduces Animated versions of Rumble and Frenzy to go along with Soundwave’s other tape pals, was inspired by an earlier piece of fanart by Bashar, which you can find below the break. The script homages the Public Enemy track “Bring The Noise”, particularly in the first panel.

Transformers: Mosaic #521 - "Secret Shame"

Originally posted on July 26th, 2010

Story, Letters - Franco Villa Art - Waseem Bashar Colours - Lau Edits - Greg Donaldson Insecticon color schemes - Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: The Deluxe Insecticons never appeared in classic media, as their toys were licensed from a non-Takara toy manufacturer, causing rights issues. Clean inks below, together with a preview of tomorrow’s strip...

Transformers: Mosaic #443 - "Complex Human Terms"

Originally posted on December 28th, 2009

Story, Letters - Waseem Bashar Art - John Philip Valmeo Edits - Franco Villa

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Transformers: Mosaic #523 - "Focused"

Originally posted on July 30th, 2010

Story, Art - Waseem Bashar Letters - Franco Villa

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wada sez: This strip serves to introduce live-action incarnations of Sunstreaker and Ultra Magnus (though you’d be forgiven for mistaking the latter for Optimus at a glance). The grandstand is full of easter eggs: Blackrock, Shibuya, Kremzeek, TORQ Systems, Prime’s Combat Deck, Kiss Players Marissa Faireborn, and for some reason, Makka Pakka from In the Night Garden... Preview, character models and clean art below. The Revenge of the Fallen-inspired Wheeljack character model I’ve included is probably unrelated to the strip, but was shared around the same time as the other material, so I figured I’d throw it in.

Transformers: Mosaic #510 - "How I Met The Autobots"

Originally posted on June 30th, 2010

Story, Letters - Waseem Bashar Art - Roy Stiffey Edits - Franco Villa

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wada sez: This strip serves to introduce a live-action counterpart to Shockwave and his Autobot persona Longarm from Transformers Animated. The concept is paired up with a similar idea from G1, the Double Spy Punch/Counterpunch. By stealing Punch’s rectifier, Shockwave is able to gain a similar ability. Punch’s alt-mode here is apparently a 2011 Audi R8 Spyder. Some fans disliked this strip for disregarding the prior canon existence of Longarm in the movieverse—but when has two characters sharing a name ever stopped the movieverse doing anything? See below for a metric ton of behind-the-scenes material by Stiffey.

Transformers: Mosaic #478 - "The Ultimate Weapon"

Originally posted on April 25th, 2010

Story - Waseem Bashar Script, Art, Letters - Dane Eichinger Colours - Roy Stiffey

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wada sez: This strip had the preliminary title of "The Gimmick". The Autobots appear in their humanized designs from the “Human Error” two-parter, though things escalate into incorporating tons of weird gimmicks from the franchise’s history. Safeguard is namedropped in dialogue, the combined form of twins Jetfire and Jetstorm, and the only combiner to appear in Animated. Clean colors below.