The Truth We Make

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"The Truth We Make"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	May 9, 2016
By	Justin Severson
Illustrations by	Paul Vroman
Colors by	Jesse Wittenrich
Continuity	Of Masters and Mayhem
Page count	17pp

The story of Punch...or is it the story of Counterpunch?

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Punch (1) Firecracker (2) Supressor (3) Lifeline (10) Impactor (11)	Counterpunch (4) Crash Test (5) Skyfire (6) Wind Sheer (7) Rotorbolt (8) Killswitch/Hexadeathimal (9)

Notes

• Scorponok and Thunder Mayhem are mentioned but do not appear.

Errors

• Suppressor's name is misspelt "Supressor" throughout.
• On page 10, in Counterpunch's line beginning "“First of all", "that’s doesn’t really" should be "that doesn't really".

Transformers references

• The concept of Counterpunch having his own agenda and working against Punch was first introduced in his Universe profile in issue #71 of the Marvel comics; up until this story, the idea had never been expanded on in fiction.
• Punch claims to have originally lived in Harmonex and references Cybertronians being "constructed cold after the war broke out". Both concepts debuted in the IDW Generation 1 continuity.
• Three of Counterpunch's rescuers debut in this story as characters based on unmade toys: Crash Test is based on the "GTP Racer" Go-Bot, Rotorbolt is the Diaclone jet-helicopter Triple Changer that Fumes was based on, in the toy's blue colors; and Kill-hexa-switch-deathimal is an unused Decepticon deco for Quickswitch shown in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging. The other two members of the team are G1-continuity imports Wind Sheer and Skyfire, originally from the 2001 Robots in Disguise toyline.
• Killswitch/Hexadeathimal mentions the latter name being given to him by the Clan of Six.

External links

• "The Truth We Make" at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club