Go! Go! issue 42

« Transformers Go! Go! web issue 42
Publisher	Kodansha
Published in	TV Magazine
First published	September 20, 2024
Manga	Haruka Oda
Editor	Minoko

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Wheeljack (1) Bumblebee (2) Elita One (3) Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (4) Arcee (5) Jazz (6) Ironhide (9)	Megatron (7)	Alpha Trion (8)

Notes

• This very special prequel story was published as the September 2024 issue of the web comic and pointedly pushed back from Go! Go!'s usual "15th of the month" publication date to coincide with the Japanese premiere of the year's blockbuster film Transformers One.
• The issue eschewed the usual advertisements with the exception of plugging the comic itself in the form of the Transformers Fan Book 2024 and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.

Transformers references

• Oda largely dispenses with her usual toy-accurate approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:
  • Orion Pax (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "War Dawn," the episode of the original Generation 1 cartoon detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from first bespoke Orion Pax mold in the Thrilling 30 toyline.
  • The young Elita One sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "Ariel" form in "War Dawn" combined with the Arcee-style "earmuffs" specific to the "cog-less" version of her One incarnation, all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her War for Cybertron Trilogy toy.
  • Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "Miner Megatron" retool of his War for Cybertron: Siege toy found in the Legacy: Evolution toyline, now done up in the colors of One D-16.
  • This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor Alpha Trion appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.
  • The one bit of slavish toy accuracy comes to us in the form of the young Ironhide, here drawn as his own Siege toy.
  • Finally, young Jazz comes to us with an interesting character model referencing his appearance in the opening scene of the pilot of the Generation 1 cartoon, but reverse engineered from applying his usual transformation scheme to his pre-Earth vehicle mode rather than using the (bluntly recycled from his Earth character model) robot mode seen in the original story.
• The prank gone wrong that leads to Megatron and Orion's initial falling out in the world of Go! Go! features a brief sight gag wherein Megatron takes on the appearance of cosmic arch-villain the Fallen when inadvertently lit on fire.

External links

• Issue 42 at TV Magazine