Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25

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"Shatteredverse"? Is that like a cracked Bible or something?
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	mid-February 2009
Cover date	Feb/March09

RETURN TO THE SHATTEREDVERSE

CRINGE AT THE CONTINUED USE OF THE WORD "SHATTEREDVERSE"

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #25

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Columnist: Scott Marble
Columnist: R.M. Eljay
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Cartoonist: Jesse Wittenrich
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop
Featured Artists: John Flores, Evan Gauntt, Jake Isenberg, Greg Sepelak, and Drew Eiden

Contents

• On the cover: artwork for "Do Over", the second Shattered Glass prose story, by Kiss Play artist Yuki Oshima (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• Animated "Bots vs Cons" Tech Specs: (p. 3)
  • Wheeljack
  • Laserbeak
• "Transformers: How It All Began," an interview with former Hasbro VP of Boy's Toys Marketing Bob Prupis (p. 3)
• "Hasbro Flashback!" an interview where Hasbro employees reminisce about their experiences with the brand (pp. 4-5)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • TransTech Blackarachnia (p. 6)
  • Classics Topspin (p. 7)
  • Shattered Glass Whisper (p. 8)
• "The Transformers Club Comic Years 1-4: Our Story So Far..." a 1-page text recap of Balancing Act, Revelations, Crossing Over, and Transcendent (p. 9)
• "Reunification: Part 1" - comic story (pp. 10-15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Around Cybertron
  • "Rob's Hot Pick! Cyclonus is Here!"
  • Mini Mayhem!

Notes

• Characters mentioned in the Animated bios include: Perceptor, Project Omega, Safeguard, and Soundwave.
• Characters mentioned in Blackarachnia's bio include: Alpha Trion, Nightscream, Scavenger, Immorticon, Silverbolt, Rattrap, Rhinox, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor.
  • Blackarachnia's bio introduces the framework for the eventual Beast Wars: Uprising storyline; a world in which the Autobots and Decepticons, their functionality long gone, create the Maximals and Predacons for the purposes of a "proxy war". The language in Blackarachnia's bio seems to indicate she was involved in actual combat, and it almost certainly was meant to be; later stories would retcon that the "proxy war" was more akin to the gladiatorial combat seen in various pieces of Transformers fiction.
  • Rattrap is mentioned along with Rhinox and Silverbolt as having been killed in combat, but "Alone Together" would eventually show he managed to survive.
  • Blackarachnia and the rest are noted to have been put into TransTech bodies, much like Bulletbike in "I, Lowtech".
  • Blackarachnia's TransTech body can make webs of Energon Z, the fuel source seen in the Zone franchise.
• Characters mentioned in Topspin's bio include: Jhiaxus, Alpha Trion, and Skyfall.
  • Topspin is noted to have served under Jhiaxus in his home dimension; exactly which Jhiaxus is unknown, but it seems likely to be a variant of the Marvel Generation 2 comics version.
• Characters mentioned in Whisper's bio include: Optimus Prime, Nightflight, Storm Cloud, Tailwind, Megatron, and Sideswipe.
  • Whisper is noted to be the brother of Nightflight, Storm Cloud, and Tailwind; their positive universe counterparts are all teammates in the Air Strike Patrol.
  • Sideswipe has nicknamed Whisper "Mini-Con".
• Art used in the recap includes Skyfall (from "Balancing Act, Part 2"), Classics Megatron (from "Crossing Over, Part 1"), Breakaway (from "Crossing Over: Part 4"), and Topspin (from "Transcendent: Part 4").
• The first four issues of this year each feature a whopping three MTMTE profiles. This is the only one in which all three are full-size - in issues #26-28, the second profile (a combiner of some sort) is extended while the third one (a Recordicon) takes up less than half the page.
• Around Cybertron moves to the, ahem, 'Shatteredverse' with this issue.