Around Cybertron issue 12

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Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #34
First published	August/September 2010
Script	Jesse Wittenrich
Art	Jesse Wittenrich
Continuity	Wings Universe

Bishop interviews a guest whose demonstration goes wrong.

Synopsis

Bishop greets his evening viewers, telling them that tonight they have a very special guest: Doc, foremost expert on the Guardian robots. With the Guardians starting to age and run down, Doc has begun creating Centurion droids to replace them. Bishop states that drones are infamously hard to control, but Doc assures him that his new models had worked out those kinks and has his assistant, Centrifuge, demonstrate the droids' abilities. Unfortunately, the Centurions regard the lab assistant as a threat, and proceed to beat Centrifuge. Bishop is speechless, as Doc reassures the viewers that they'll work out the kinks before selling them.

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Others
Bishop (1) Doc (2) Centrifuge (4)	Centurion droids (3)

Notes

• Mentioned characters include: Guardian robots.

Continuity notes

• Doc was a generic seen in Transformers episode "The Secret of Omega Supreme", where he gave a check-up to Omega Supreme. Omega was one of the Guardian robots, which is why Doc is noted to be an expert on them. Centrifuge, meanwhile, is an all new character.
• Centurion droids appeared in the Transformers two-parter, "The Key to Vector Sigma." The Centurion droids in those episode were ancient robots who guarded Vector Sigma; the Centurion droids here are new robots based on them. Like their predecessors, they are highly aggressive.

Transformers references

• Doc calls the Guardian robots GADEPs, the Japanese name for the robots in the dub of the Transformers cartoon, which was reused for the e-HOBBY exclusive GADEP toy.

External links

• The strip on Jesse Wittenrich's DeviantArt