Blue Big Convoy comic

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Publisher	TakaraTomy Mall
First published	September 26, 2018
Art by	Shin Sasaki
Colors by	Kazumasa Yasukuni

In the days of the Primus Vanguard, the group is attacked by mysterious enemies.

Synopsis

Faced with semi-corporeal enemies that are unaffected by his attacks, Straxus, chief engineer of the Primus Vanguard, concludes that only the power of the Matrix can defeat them. This is proven true when his leader arrives and effortlessly slashes through the beings with his Matrix Sword, joking that Straxus's usual pompous attitude is nowhere to be found before, to Straxus's shock, lending him the sword. Revealing that his entire body is infused with Matrix energy thanks to the α Matrix in his chest, the leader battles the enemies with a variety of other weapons while declaring that himself to be "Blue", the Matrix-chosen great commander—the Big Convoy—of the Primus Vanguard. The entities fade away when struck by Convoy's Blue Pèlerinage, a powerful Matrix-powered blast from his cannon, but not without delivering cryptic whispers stating that they are retreating in the face of the "blue apostle" and that they will return "when the seven are divided".

In the aftermath, Straxus realizes the attackers must have been the Specters mentioned by the Vanguard's previous leader, Brightes. Combining the α Matrix and Matrix Sword into a beacon that summons their comrades, Convoy simply responds that their identity is of no concern: no matter the enemy, the duty of the Primus Vanguard is to defend spacetime.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Primus Vanguard
Straxus (1) Blue (2)

Notes

• This untitled story was written to tie into the Legends release of Blue Big Convoy, though unlike previous chapters of the e-HOBBY Primus Vanguard storyline, it is published by TakaraTomy directly.
• Following the release of this story, TakaraTomy and Hasbro unified the Transformers brand, leaving the future of the e-HOBBY Primus Vanguard project uncertain. TakaraTomy would begin directly publishing online comics for the occasional Generations Selects line, which would include appearances of the Vanguard earlier in their history.

Continuity notes

• This comic is evidently set before Straxus's betrayal of the Primus Vanguard, which was detailed in the previous chapters of this storyline. Straxus is colored based on his TakaraTomy United toy, marking this as the "scientist" version of the character who would later be reduced to a disembodied head, as opposed to the more brutish Generations-colored Straxus he would go on to work with, and who would die in "Cybertron Magna Convoy."
• The Primus Vanguard ship seen in previous chapters appears among the ships in the last panel.

Transformers references

• The Specters are based on Thunderwing, Heatwave, and Reverse Convoy. Whether this has any meaning is not yet clear.

Trivia

• Straxus refers to other Vanguard members known as "The Three Musketeers" and "Master Black Lion".
• "Pèlerinage" is French for "pilgrimage".
• "Brightes" (ブライテス) may be a shortening of "Brightest", but the intention behind the name is unclear in the comic.

External links

• Blue Big Convoy comic