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2010-10-17T22:33:09Z

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|image=Sector7issue1 coverA.jpg
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 29]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=September 2010
|writer=[[John Barber]]
|art=[[Joe Suitor]]
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|colors=
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|cover=[[Brian Rood]]<br>[[Joe Suitor]]
|continuity=[[Live-action film series]]
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'''1898: by order of the President, an investigation is undertaken of a blind mental patient's claims of a thirty-six feet tall steel man...'''

==Synopsis==

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==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c2=
*[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (10)
*[[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] (11)
|c3=
*[[Joseph Wells]] (1)
*[[Walter Simmons I]] (2)
*[[Billy North]] (4)
*[[Archibald Witwicky]] (5)
*[[Reginald Danco]] (6)
*[[Jack Arden]] (7)
*[[Phillp Bowen]] (8)
*[[Theodore Grant]] (9)
|c4=*[[Creatures]] (3)
}}

==Quotes==

"Maintaining a ''scientific demeanor'' might have proved the better part of ''valor'', Joseph."<br>
"''They'' made the first move."<br>
"They ''growled'' at you."<br>
"That's a ''first move'', Walter."
:-'''Walter Simmons''' and '''Joseph Wells'''

"I am but a humble servant of progress. Or at least that's what I tell myself when I lie awake at night."
:-'''Simmons'''

"Who ''piloted'' this--or, ''good god'', man! What if this ''is'' the creature itself?"
:-'''Simmons''' is stunned by Megatron

"We killed a ''space-robot!'' Do you ''know'' what a metallurgist ''usually'' does? Lemme tell ya, it ain't as ''fulfilling'' as you musta heard!"
:-'''Arden''' is having fun

==Errors==

*While the art keeps our heroes Joseph and Walter consistent (Joseph has dark hair and mutton chops, silver-haired Walter has a mustache), the script does not do them such favors. On page four, North refers to them as "Joseph Simmons" and "Walter Wells", and on the following page, Joseph mispronounces "Witwicky" as "Wickety", just as [[Seymour Simmons]] did in [[Transformers (2007)|the first movie]], a joke to seemingly prove the two characters' relation. From page eight onward, however, the pair's surnames are switched, and the whole story becomes framed by excerpts from the journal of "Walter Simmons", indicating that ''he'' is actually supposed to be the Simmons in this story.
*Despite the correct design of Megatron being used on the cover, the inside pages depict Megatron's head as it appeared in [[Revenge of the Fallen]].
*John Barber's continuity notes at the end of the issue confirm that Walter is Simmons, but give Wells's name as "Theodore"!

==Items of note==

*The issue has "FIELD NOTES From Agent John Barber": continuity notes and behind-the-scenes info about how the issue was created. Barber says this was editor Andy Schmidt's idea.
*Joseph, Walter and Danco all previously appeared, unnamed, in the [[Movie Prequel issue 2|second issue]] of the [[Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]] comic. A building containing mysterious objects that appeared to be Sector Seven's headquarters appeared in that comic, at a time before the movie itself claimed the organization was supposed to have been founded, but is here [[retcon]]ned away as being Walter and Joseph's trophy collection from the various strange adventures and treasure-hunts they've been on (in his notes, Barber says these guys were presented as adventurers ''in'' the Prequel, which is a bit of a fudge). Barber also says that since the Prequel says [[Seymour Simmons]]' great-grandfather was part of the original Seven, he had to be one of those guys.
**The yet-to-be-named Danco appears in Witwicky's crew and a guy quite like him is seen with Sector Seven's crew later in the Prequel; Barber decided to make them both the same character.
*The human cast are meant to represent "disparate parts" of the era, according to Barber: Simmons and Wells are "Jules Verne/HG Wells gentlemen scientist-adventurers", North is a "cowboy", Bowen is "basically... Oscar Wilde as an explosives expert", Grant is a "rugged hero in the mold [sic] of... fictional colonialist Allan Quatermain", and Arden is a throwback to the vanishing "pre-Industrial Revolution master-apprentice era".
*Walter evidently passes his name on to his son, since another [[Walter Simmons II|Walter Simmons]] appears in the first movie prequel novel, "[[Ghosts of Yesterday]]".
*The ship's manifest seen on page nine is the list of the "[[First Seven]]" released on the internet during the [[Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven alternate reality game]] promotion for the first movie. The names are here established to be aliases for the real men.
*Jetfire's appearance in this issue comes during the time he was wandering the Earth, previously glossed over in the final pages of [[Tales of the Fallen issue 3|''Tales of the Fallen'' #3]].
*Jetfire's maritime accident is a little unclear. It's based around the real-life sinking of the [[wikipedia:USS Maine (ACR-1)|USS ''Maine'']], which started the Spanish-American War. Barber's notes at the end of the issues claim that Jetfire was responsible for accidentally sinking it, but the art itself actually appears to suggest that Jetfire ''was'' the ''Maine'' (observe the anchor chains, masts and gunnery cannons that decorate his robot mode), and that him transforming was mistaken for the ship breaking up and sinking.
*On page fourteen, Bowen is reading ''The War of the Worlds'' by H.G. Wells (for whom Joseph is named).
*Early online solicitations for this issue accidentally claimed it was being written and drawn by the creative team of IDW's ''True Blood'' comic. Copy-paste cock-up!

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Archibald discovers Megatron, sepia version by [[Brian Rood]] of [[:Image:TFSector7 1 coverRI.jpg|art]] originally by [[Josh Nizzi]].
*'''Cover B:''' Sector 7 flotsam and jetsam by [[Joe Suitor]].
*'''Cover RI:''' An incentive cover of the flotsam and jetsam in lovely black borders.

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Primal Major

2010-08-22T06:16:08Z

96.251.93.153: /* Notes */

{{disambig3|Primal}}

:''Primal Major is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Primalmajor.jpg|right|thumb|125px|And ''he's'' the same guy as [[Sideswipe (ROTF)|''ROTF'' Sideswipe]]!]]

'''Primal Major''' was assigned to the [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinel]] [[Alpha Supreme]], codename designated [[Axalon (Animated)|''Axalon'']]. Unfortunately, Primal's ship was the first Omega Sentinel to be lost. Only a few dozen [[Units of time|stellar cycle]]s after Alpha Supreme's creation, Primal's crew was instrumental in the [[Silvart Wars]] and managed to capture the [[Decepticon]] General [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]]. En route to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the prisoner, Sideways managed to [[trans-phase mode|break free]] and sabotage the engines. Primal, his crew, Sideways, and the ''Axalon'' disappeared into a black hole, never to be seen again.

They may be stuck in some kind of time loop. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2|AllSpark Almanac Volume 2}}

==Notes==
* Surprise, Primal Major is based on [[Optimus Primal]]. His ship is the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']] and the "BLKJCK" and "ODIM" shown on Alpha Supreme's [[Tech Spec]] cards reference Optimus Primal's European market and Cantonese names. And plus, y'know, he gets lost in space.
* At 2010's [[Auto Assembly]], [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] said Primal would've been in an episode of season four entitled "[[Trukk not munky|Trukk vs. Munky]]", and been a failed cloning experiment by [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-general-discussion/304784-mr-wyatt-has-answered-some-more-questions-about-animated-8.html#post5121157]

[[Category: Almanac-only characters]]
[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category: Autobots]]

Irineo Maramba

2010-07-24T01:08:35Z

96.251.93.153: /* Character designer */

[[Image:IrineoMaramba.jpg|right|300px|thumb|¡Ay Maramba!]]
'''Irineo Maramba''' is a storyboard artist and animation director. On ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', he serves as a character designer (primarily for [[Detroit]]'s background extras) and episode director.

His name is pretty awesome.

==Director==
{{collist|3|
* [[Blast from the Past]]
* [[Along Came a Spider]]
* [[Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found]]
* [[Survival of the Fittest]]
* [[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]
* [[The Elite Guard]]
* [[Mission Accomplished]]
* [[Velocity]]
* [[Rise of the Constructicons]]
* [[A Fistful of Energon]]
* [[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]
* [[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]
* [[Sari, No One's Home]]
* [[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]
|}}

==Character designer==
* Kindergarten teacher and class ("[[Transform and Roll Out!]]")
* Argumentative old man ("[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]")
*''Animated'' [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]]
*''Animated'' [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]]
*''Animated'' [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]]
*''Animated'' [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (animation model)
*''Animated'' [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]
*''Animated'' [[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]]
*''Animated'' [[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]]
*''Animated'' [[Straxus (Animated)|Lord High Governor Straxus]]

==Character design credits==
* [[Transform and Roll Out!]]
* [[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]
* [[Along Came a Spider]]

==Trivia==
* For some reason, [[Chris Ryall|Chris Ryall's]] blog-announcement that Maramba would be doing the cover to the second issue of IDW's ''Transformers Animated'' limited series listed his name as "Maramba Myrberg", until it was pointed out that no such person existed (whereas Irineo, obviously, did). The announcement was subsequently changed, but by then the majority of the fandoms' news sites were no longer paying attention.[http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/06/idws-new-releases-postponed-for-one.html]
* Irineo has an [[animation model]], and as such periodically appears in ''Animated'' as a background extra. One such appearance is in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", where he appears in the background of a newscast as a citizen angry with the Detroit garbage problem.

== External links ==
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544812/ Irineo Maramba] at the Internet Movie Database

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Irineo Maramba

2010-06-04T00:11:57Z

96.251.93.153: /* Character designer */

[[Image:IrineoMaramba.jpg|right|300px|thumb|¡Ay Maramba!]]
'''Irineo Maramba''' is a storyboard artist and animation director. On ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', he serves as a character designer (primarily for [[Detroit]]'s background extras) and episode director.

His name is pretty awesome.

==Director==
{{collist|3|
* [[Blast from the Past]]
* [[Along Came a Spider]]
* [[Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found]]
* [[Survival of the Fittest]]
* [[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]
* [[The Elite Guard]]
* [[Mission Accomplished]]
* [[Velocity]]
* [[Rise of the Constructicons]]
* [[A Fistful of Energon]]
* [[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]
* [[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]
* [[Sari, No One's Home]]
* [[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]
|}}

==Character designer==
* Kindergarten teacher and class ("[[Transform and Roll Out!]]")
* Argumentative old man ("[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]")
*''Animated'' [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]]
*''Animated'' [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]]
*''Animated'' [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]]
*''Animated'' [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (animation model)
*''Animated'' [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]
*''Animated'' [[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]]
*''Animated'' [[Cosmos (Animated)|Cosmos]]

==Character design credits==
* [[Transform and Roll Out!]]
* [[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]
* [[Along Came a Spider]]

==Trivia==
* For some reason, [[Chris Ryall|Chris Ryall's]] blog-announcement that Maramba would be doing the cover to the second issue of IDW's ''Transformers Animated'' limited series listed his name as "Maramba Myrberg", until it was pointed out that no such person existed (whereas Irineo, obviously, did). The announcement was subsequently changed, but by then the majority of the fandoms' news sites were no longer paying attention.[http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/06/idws-new-releases-postponed-for-one.html]
* Irineo has an [[animation model]], and as such periodically appears in ''Animated'' as a background extra. One such appearance is in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", where he appears in the background of a newscast as a citizen angry with the Detroit garbage problem.

== External links ==
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544812/ Irineo Maramba] at the Internet Movie Database

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