Shattered Expectations (SG)
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| This article is about the April Fools story. For the chapter of Beast Wars Shattered Glass, see Shattered Expectations (BWSG). |
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| "Shattered Expectations" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| First published | April 1, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Trent Troop & Greg Sepelak | ||||||||||||
| Art | Greg Sepelak | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Trent Troop | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Trent Troop | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Your mother | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Expectations | ||||||||||||
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Synopsis
Goldbug, Grimlock, and Jazz sneak into a laboratory and discover a kind of new technology. Starscream tries to stop them but ends up by getting beaten by Grimlock. Starscream warns the Autobots to surrender. Both Starscream and Razorclaw are mocked by Grimlock. But Razorclaw uses a device to open the roof and signals the Mayhem Suppression Squad to show up.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Decepticons | Autobots |
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Notes
Transformers references
- This entire comic was a tribute to Derek Yaniger's artwork in the Marvel Generation 2 comics.
- Colonel Deathsaurus's pose is also identical to Bludgeon's on the third page of "Tales of Earth Part One" from the Generation 2 comics.
- When Grimlock puts his foot on Starscream in Page 2, the image and poses of both characters is almost identical to poses of Jhiaxus and Megatron respectively from the cover of Generation 2 issue 7 New Dawn.
- Similarly, the following panel of Grimlock glaring at Starscream is a homage to page 2 of Tales of Earth Part Five where Megatron glares at Optimus, right down to Grimlock's 'drool'.
- Bug Bite's pose is lifted from Sideswipe's first appearance in Generation 2 #1, "War Without End!".
- Dirge features more homages than you can shake a Pretender shell at.
- The four Pretender shells on the first page are the shells of the Classic Pretenders, while the other two shells on the second page are the unreleased Double Pretenders.
- Goldbug looks forward to the Decepticon uprising being "FINISHED... OVER!" Man, even the Furmanisms are backwards in the mirrorverse!
- Given that the "Shattered" equivalents of the four Classic Pretender characters are all present (Goldbug, Grimlock, Jazz, and Starscream), and they've just discovered four Pretender shells that look like those from the main universe, it seems likely that if this story had continued, they each would have taken and used their shells.
- The shrunk-rayed Predacon is a reference to the human-sized Predacons from Beast Wars.
- Grimlock threating Goldbug to remove his Voice box is likely a reference to the Movieverse Bumblebee.
Trivia
- When it was released online, this comic was supposed to be a three-page preview to Shattered Glass. It was actually an April Fools joke. A really good one. Ironically, the story and characters (Mr. T Jazz, Criminal genius Grimlock, etc.) were all extremely popular, and influenced the actual "Shattered Glass" comic and universe.
- The comic was reprinted in its entirety as part of the Diamond release of "Shattered Glass".
