Around Cybertron

Around Cybertron is a news broadcast in 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 Punch and camera man Sprocket.

• 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

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• The news that Megatron is dead, while an advertisement for Corrostop plays on the left in the written language of the Autobots. Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 28

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.
• The episode included with issue 28 of the Collector's Club magazine 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.