Around Cybertron

Around Cybertron is a news broadcast from the TransTech and "Shattered Glass" continuity families.

For in-depth, hard-hitting news coverage, you look FIRST to Around Cybertron. Host Rook is there with breaking news from the front lines. Whether it's Decepticon malcontents or plush lizards, Rook brings you the news you need, when you need it.

In an alternate dimension, a somewhat different version of Rook brings 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's news crew includes anchor-bot Andromeda.

• Rook reports live from the scene of a Decepticon attack on... a waste fuel depot? Yuck! Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 23
• An expose on the sordid exploits of CEOs Ego and Bulletbike. Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 24

Shattered Glass

Rook's news crew includes his boss Countdown, journalist Punch, camera man Sprocket, and co-anchor Andromeda.

• An energy surge near the abandoned protoform hospital! Could it be the work of those notoriously soft Decepticons? Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25
• Rook reports on an eye witness who recorded two traitorous Autobots. Drill Powerdasher and Skyfall are seen meeting with an unknown Decepticon! Who could it be?! Punch reports on an ABN exclusive! Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 26
• The long-awaited execution of the comic duo Dreadwind and Darkwind! Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 27
• The news that Megatron is dead, while an advertisement for Corrostop presented by a Wireless Automated Sales Person plays on the left in the written language of the Autobots. Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 28
• Andromeda interviews bank robber-turned-Ratchet-experiment Mirage while Rook is "on vacation", but the interview is interrupted when breaking news comes in about a coup against Optimus Prime. Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 29
• 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 and Esmeral at DBN! What will Rook do without his favorite co-anchor? Stay tuned! Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 30

Notes

• Around Cybertron appears as a mini-comic on the back cover of Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club. The events that Rook reports on are generally related to one or another of the club's ongoing storylines.
• The comic title switches to a new Indiana Jones-style font when the locale switches from the TransTech to the Shattered Glass setting, and Rook goes from his original incarnation to a Shattered Glass doppelganger.
• The comic is written by Jesse Wittenrich.
• Around Cybertron #6 included the following text on the bottom, written in the Autobot language:
  • ENERGON PRICES CONTINUE CONTINUE TO RISE.
  • METROPLEX BLIGHTS ANOTHER NEIGHBOR
  • RUB SYMBOLS BECOMING TRENDY, DANGER
  • SWEARING, NOT JUST FOR YOUNG BOTS

External Links

• Jesse Wittenrich's deviantART gallery - contains an archive of Around Cybertron strips, as well as larger versions of some of the character closeups.