For in-depth, hard-hitting news coverage no matter where you are in the [[universal stream|Positive Polarity universes]], you always look FIRST to '''''Around Cybertron'''''. Your hosts are there for you with breaking news from the front lines. Whether it's [[Decepticon]] malcontents or plush lizards, they bring you the news you need, when you need it.
For in-depth, hard-hitting news coverage no matter where you are in the positive polarity [[universal stream|universes]], you always look FIRST to '''''Around Cybertron'''''. Your hosts are there for you with breaking news from the front lines. Whether it's [[Decepticon]] malcontents or plush lizards, they bring you the news you need, when you need it.
In the [[Negative Polarity universe]]s, however, your hosts bring you the news that your Autobot overlords want you to have, when they want you to have it, via the ABN ([[Autobot]] Broadcast Network, presumably). And you'd ''better'' be watching, if ya knows what's good for ya.
In the negative polarity universes, however, your hosts bring you the news that your Autobot overlords want you to have, when they want you to have it, via the ABN ([[Autobot]] Broadcast Network, presumably). And you'd ''better'' be watching, if ya knows what's good for ya.
==''TransTech''==
[[Rook (TransTech)|Rook]]'s news crew includes anchor-bot [[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]].
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #1}} Rook reports live from the scene of a Decepticon attack on... a waste fuel depot? Yuck! {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 23|Around Cybertron #1}}
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #2}} An expose on the [[I, Lowtech|sordid exploits]] of CEOs [[Ego]] and [[Bulletbike (TransTech)|Bulletbike]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 24|Around Cybertron #2}}
[[Rook (SG)|Rook]]'s news crew includes his boss [[Countdown (SG)|Countdown]], journalist [[Punch (SG)|Punch]], camerabot [[Sprocket (SG)|Sprocket]], and co-anchor [[Andromeda (SG)|Andromeda]].
<div class="list-header">"TransTech"</div>
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #3}} [[Reunification: Part 1|An energy surge]] near the [[Zone Y-AT|abandoned protoform hospital]]! Could it be the work of those notoriously soft Decepticons? {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Around Cybertron #3}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 1|#1]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #4}} Rook reports on an [[Mini Spy (SG)|eye witness]] who recorded two traitorous Autobots. [[Zetar (SG)|Zetar]] and [[Skyfall (SG)|Skyfall]] are seen meeting with an [[Punch (SG)|unknown Decepticon]]! Who could it be?! Punch reports on an ABN exclusive! {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 26|Around Cybertron #4}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 2|#2]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #5}} The long-awaited execution of the comic duo [[Dreadwind (SG)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwind]]! {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 27|Around Cybertron #5}}
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #6}} The news that [[Megatron (SG)| Megatron]] is dead, while an advertisement for [[Corrostop]] presented by a [[Wireless Automated Sales Person]] plays on the left in the [[Cybertronian languages|written language]] of the Autobots. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 28|Around Cybertron #6}}
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #7}} Andromeda interviews bank robber-turned-[[Ratchet (SG)|Ratchet]]-experiment [[Mirage (SG)|Mirage]] while [[Rook (SG)|Rook]] is "on vacation", but the interview is interrupted when breaking news comes in about a coup against [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 29|Around Cybertron #7}}
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #8}} The Decepticons are causing trouble, so Rook turns things over to their resident expert, Punch. Unfortunately, it looks like Punch might have gone native, accepting a better offer from [[Monstructor (SG)|Monstructor]] and [[Esmeral (SG)|Esmeral]] at DBN! What will Rook do without his favorite co-anchor? Stay tuned! {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 30|Around Cybertron #8}}
[[Bishop (Autobot)|Bishop]]'s news crew includes his camerabot [[Spearhead]], and co-anchor [[Cassiopeia]], in the early days of the program.
*[[Around Cybertron issue 3|#3]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #9}} Bishop is here with your top stories for tonight... once a few technical difficulties get ironed out, that is. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 31|Around Cybertron #9}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 4|#4]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #10}} An exclusive interview with leading entomologist [[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]] on the origin of the [[Virulent Clone|giant bugs]] that have been terrorizing [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian cities. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 32|Around Cybertron #10}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 5|#5]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #11}} Cassiopeia reports on the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]]'s twentieth mission without a casualty. Just ignore the [[Slamdance (G1)|competing anchormech]] over there claiming that the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s were captured... {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 33|Around Cybertron #11}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 6|#6]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #12}} "[[Doc (G1)|Doc]]" and [[Centrifuge]] give Bishop an exclusive demonstration of their new [[Centurion droid]]s. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 34|Around Cybertron #12}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 7|#7]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #13}} Cassiopeia is live on the scene of the latest [[The Coming Storm: Part 5|Decepticon attack in Iacon]]. It's... not pretty. At all. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 35|Around Cybertron #13}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 8|#8]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #14}} Viewers at home can rest assured that the ''Around Cybertron'' crew feels their pain at this horrible, horrible tragedy. ...really, honest, they do! {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 36|Around Cybertron #14}}
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #15}} Rook presents a highly-enlightening interview with the [[Custodiobot]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 37|Around Cybertron #15}}
<br/><div class="list-header">"Wingsverse"</div>
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #16}} In the second interview with highly influential bots, Rook interviews [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], who is certainly not Bishop with a new paint job. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 38|Around Cybertron #16}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 9|#9]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #17}} Cassiopeia's report on a battle is interrupted by Rook with the much more important news that they've won the [[Running Cogs Award for Captivating Journalism]] for their Alpha Trion interview. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 39|Around Cybertron #17}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 10|#10]]
* {{anchor|Around Cybertron #18}} [[Andromeda (G1)|Andromeda]] finishes her first turn co-hosting the show with Rook, and confesses she had been a bit nervous. Bishop and Cassiopeia join them and Rook says goodnight. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 40|Around Cybertron #18}}
*[[Around Cybertron issue 11|#11]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 12|#12]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 13|#13]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 14|#14]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 15|#15]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 16|#16]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 17|#17]]
*[[Around Cybertron issue 18|#18]]
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* It then switched again to a more classic "nuts and bolts" look when the locale changed to the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'', and we see Rook's mentor Bishop, back in the early days of the program.
* It then switched again to a more classic "nuts and bolts" look when the locale changed to the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'', and we see Rook's mentor Bishop, back in the early days of the program.
**On top of Bishop and Rook, [http://comments.deviantart.com/5/29916343/1353759393 Wittenrich almost named the camera system] the "'''P'''rimary '''A'''utorecording '''W'''orld-'''W'''ide '''N'''etwork". Groan.
**On top of Bishop and Rook, [http://comments.deviantart.com/5/29916343/1353759393 Wittenrich almost named the camera system] the "'''P'''rimary '''A'''utorecording '''W'''orld-'''W'''ide '''N'''etwork". Groan.
* Several examples of the Autobot language pop up now and then:
**[[#Around Cybertron #6|Around Cybertron #6]] included the following text on the bottom, written in the Autobot language:
*** [[Energon|ENERGON]] PRICES CONTINUE TO RISE.
*** [[Metroplex (SG)|METROPLEX]] BLIGHTS ANOTHER NEIGHBOR
** Cassiopeia has "PRESS" written on both her helmet and the side of her "newstank" altmode.
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 9 July 2019
For in-depth, hard-hitting news coverage no matter where you are in the positive polarity universes, you always look FIRST to Around Cybertron. Your hosts are there for you with breaking news from the front lines. Whether it's Decepticon malcontents or plush lizards, they bring you the news you need, when you need it.
In the negative polarity universes, however, your hosts bring you the news that your Autobot overlords want you to have, when they want you to have it, via the ABN (Autobot Broadcast Network, presumably). And you'd better be watching, if ya knows what's good for ya.
Around Cybertron is a mini-comic written and drawn by Jesse Wittenrich that appears on the back cover of the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club magazine. The events that the host reports on are generally related to one or another of the club's ongoing storylines.
The comic title switched to a new Indiana Jones-style font when the locale switched from the TransTech to the Shattered Glass setting, and Rook went from his original incarnation to a Shattered Glass doppelganger.
It then switched again to a more classic "nuts and bolts" look when the locale changed to the Wings Universe, and we see Rook's mentor Bishop, back in the early days of the program.
