Recordicons

Recordicons is a series of comic strips by David Willis, showcasing the adventures of Shattered Glass Ravage and other Mini-Cassettes. It is published as back up strips in the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club starting with issue #34.

Comics

• Ravage pounces on a slumbering Steeljaw but is unable to elicit a reaction until he confesses that Steeljaw is his best friend. Recordicons #1
• Ravage encounters Ratbat in a dark alley, and is knocked out when they're surrounded by ne'er-do-wells. When he recovers, the criminals are all tied up, and he cheerfully gives an interview to Slamdance. Recordicons #2
• Ravage recounts the battle which he has dubbed Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction to Buzzsaw, who disputes the accuracy of the title. Recordicons #3
• Ravage tells Steeljaw that the Autobot is his friend because "the enemy of enemy is my friend". When Steeljaw suggests he's got the saying wrong, Ravage reminds him of the time he ate Enemy's body. Recordicons #4
• Commissioner Garboil and Howlback meet with the mysterious vigilante known as Batbot, and inform him that the arch criminal Blackcat has escaped from G9. Recordicons #5
• While hiding behind a Taco Horn, Soundwave tells Ravage to keep quiet and no Yattering. Unfortunately he doesn't specify no updates to Boxball, and they are consequently found by Blaster. Recordicons #6
• Ravage's future self travels back in time to warn himself not to waste his life on the Internet. This goes about as well as could be expected. Recordicons #7
• Hipster Laserbeak is listening to a song by an obscure artist, but when Ravage turns out to not only have Rosanna friended on Yatter, but to have contributed to the song in question, Laserbeak can't enjoy it as much any more. Recordicons #8
• Slamdance interviews Ratbat on the subject of Batbot. Ratbat is disturbed when Slamdance puts up an image of Batbot next to him, but Slamdance turns out to merely be pointing out how hideous Batbot is. Recordicons #9
• Positive universe Ravage tracks down his negative universe twin, who seems quite placid until the first Ravage denies him use of Yatter. Recordicons #10
• Negative Universe Ratbat comes across positive universe Rumble and Frenzy, demanding to find his counterpart. They tell him he was killed by Scorponok, who apparently is also dead. When Ratbat offers to deal with any unfinished business that his counterpart left behind, it turns out to be office paperwork.Recordicons #11

Notes

• Like Around Cybertron #6, Recordicons #9 features a news ticker along the bottom of the panels using the Ancient Autobot font first seen in "Cosmic Rust". It reads "-LTIVERSAL TRAVELER VECTOR PRIME ALWAYS LIES ABOUT FIVE FACES OF DARKNE-", no doubt a reference to an "Ask Vector Prime" segment from The AllSpark Almanac II in which Vector Prime named the previous leaders seen in Rodimus Prime's Matrix flashback in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4".