Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts
Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts is a short-lived back cover feature of the Collectors' Club magazine written by David Willis, starting with issue #61 and ending with issue #63. It consisted of a series of interviews of characters from other parts of the Multiverse, conducted by Armada Hot Shot.
Fiction
Hot Shot first begins interviewing Kup, and almost immediately decides to retitle his interview series Hot Shot's Jam Sessions. When Kup insists Hot Shot get around to asking him an actual question, Hot Shot asks about Kup's freaky vehicle mode eye headlights. Kup inquires whether Hot Shot knows how his vehicle mode works, Hot Shot admits ignorance of some driving claws he once discovered he had, and introduces Kup to Jolt. Issue 61
The next interview is with Shockwave, who brings up the fact that he once possessed the Autobot Creation Matrix. Hot Shot asserts that it's not particularly difficult to get hold of the Matrix, and proves it by obtaining the Matrix from Optimus via the "your shoelaces are untied" gambit. Now that Hot Shot is upgraded into Shotimus Prime, he redubs the feature Shotimus Prime's Interviewy Times. Issue 62
Shotimus Prime's final interview is with Tarantulas, and the host immediately redubs the column Shotimus Prime's Spider Insider. Conversation turns to whether Tarantulas is actually Sideways, as both he and Sideways turn into purple and yellow motorcycles and tend to play the sides. Tarantulas grows increasingly impatient as Shotimus forms a theory that Tarantulas will become Sideways sometime in the future, and the interviewee finally snaps, ripping out Hot Shot's Matrix and beating him with it. Issue 63
Notes
- Kup is specifically from the "Primax whatever Zeta" universal stream (The Big Looker Storybook continuity), Shockwave is from Primax 984.0 Gamma (the Marvel Comics continuity) and Tarantulas is from Primax 509.28 Epsilon (Fun Publications' own Wings Universe).
- Hot Shot's upgraded form is a repurposing of the 2003 Sam's Club exclusive Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime.
