Lively Pursuit: Difference between revisions

	; The legend exists.
	"Lively Pursuit"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	October 4, 2016
By	Jesse Wittenrich
Illustrations	AK Cyrway
Colors	Erika L. Galán
Continuity	Of Masters and Mayhem
Page count	32pp

Revision as of 21:56, 16 October 2016

Wreckage gets a second lease on life after Impactor discovers an unexpected survivor.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons/Predacons	Others
Bluestreak (1) Impactor (3)	Counterpunch (2) Fractyl (4) Toxitron (5)	Cergo (6) Wreckage (7)

"Foundation and Wreckage Part 2" was accidentally left off of the title page.
Characters name-dropped in the story but not seen include *dramatic inhale*: Sonder, Adronitia, Anecdoche, Exulancus, a bot named Wrecker Hook or Tow-Line, Pipes, Alpha Bravo, Offroad, Thunder Mayhem, Optimus Prime, Hound, Mirage, Hoist, Brawn, Gears, Starscream, Boltax/Cybaxx, Megatron, Sideswipe, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, Grimlock, Noumenon, Aporia, Consumma Compersia, Master Aware, Fisitron, Fatale, Blurr, Fabulcon, Ironclad, Rook, Afterburner, Strafe, Scrounge, Computron, Lightspeed, Ratchet, Inferno, Superion, Defensor, Victorion, Medix, Cliffjumper, and Bludgeon.
Impactor describes what sure sounds like, in an out-of-universe sense, an earlier Hasbro plan for a Combiner Wars Computron. This "Ironclad" figure is described as as a "mustard tan and gray" redeco of Rook, using the alternate Brawl head we previously glimpsed in Another Light with a red faceplate. It combines with an "energy-efficient" Afterburner for arm mode, presumably the Legends Class Groove mold.
This story also posits a hypothetical "Project: Firestormer" combiner comprising Bluestreak, Ratchet, Hoist, Sideswipe, and Inferno. Presumably prior to Thunder Mayhem the latter three became "virtual redecoes" of Combiner Wars Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, and Hot Spot.

On Page 3, "The Wrecker commander strode over to blue and black robot who had just unleashed the scathing rant," is missing a "the" between "to" and "blue".
On Page 11, the word "Fractyl's" is at one point misspelled as "Fracty’ls".

The Wreckers picked up Bluestreak's distress signal in the previous prose story, "Deadly Aim".
Thunder Mayhem arrived on Earth in the magazine comic story "Divination".

Bluestreak states that Adronitia had a 65356-9292-346 body-type, at least in her vehicle mode.
Bluestreak makes mention of Corrodia Gravis, the Reverse Evolution virus, and the Rust Plague as diseases which could possibly be brought back by the Teklaans.

Cergo name-drops two planets called Eska and Desna, named after the creepy twins from The Legend of Korra.
The Teklaans are an alternate version of Marvel's Mekkans, a race of servant robots used to terraform the planet Maarin (referred to by name in this story) before their creators perished from a virus. Additionally, Cergo seems to be based upon Torgo, the first Mekkan, although decidedly more evil.

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