A Change to the Agenda
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| "A Change to the Agenda" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Transformers Collectors' Club | ||||||||||||
| First published | August/September 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars: Uprising | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 4 million years ago | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 2pp | ||||||||||||
Fun Publications reminds us all why we're glad they're going away. Megatron successfully kills Optimus Prime. This turns out to be a bad idea.
Synopsis
Following his attack on the slumbering Optimus Prime, Megatron gloats to the Maximals about their impending erasure from history. Blackarachnia responds by activating Teletraan 1, flinging him away from the ship... but not far enough, as in another timeline. This allows Megatron to fire on Optimus Prime again while the Maximals try to save him. The Maximals begin to fade out, but Blackarachnia has a desperate gambit... using her cyber-venom on the original Megatron. Thus is the stage set for the eventual reign of the Builders of Cybertron and the uprising against it.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals and Autobots | Predacons and Decepticons |
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Notes
- For a comic whose sole purpose seems to be setting up an origin for a universe, it certainly does a bad job of it. Since there's little here besides the bungled continuity, one wonders exactly what the point of it is.
- Fun Publications has seemingly learned nothing about how ill-advised it is to try to explain already established universes from "Dawn of the Predacus".
- When this comic was first proposed, Jesse Wittenrich appreciated the irony of how Megatron's speech in The Agenda about "archaic energon guzzlers" could be describing the Beast Wars: Uprising universe.[1] Sadly, this comic starts right after that scene, robbing it of whatever poignancy it might have had.
Errors
- From what we know of the Uprising universe, the original Great War between the Autobots and the Decepticons played out more or less like the conflict we saw described in the Sunbow cartoon; "Micro-Aggressions" mentions specific events such as the creation of TORQ III while "Head Games" describes Fortress Maximus having bonded with Spike Witwicky during the conflict on Nebulos. Exactly how any of this works with one or both faction leaders dead—an event which should logically have some major repercussions down the line—is anyone's guess.
- Optimus Prime and Megatron were previously mentioned in "Broken Windshields" in the same breath with Bumblebee, Prowl, Blaster, Starscream, Shockwave, and Soundwave. It's possible that they died millions of years before the others, but this is still incredibly awkward.
- "Micro-Aggressions" further makes Galvatron, born from Megatron, a major player in the universe's history during the early 21st century. Again, it's conceivable, albeit bizarre, that Unicron used a 4 million year old corpse to make his herald. Blackarachnia does note that she's not sure she can destroy Megatron, giving us a little wiggle room... but this begs the question why the comic didn't just end with Optimus getting shot.
- "Broken Windshields" further has Quickstrike as a Predacon, not a Maximal, which is, again, awkward given the mythology.
- Someone made a screen capture comic and published it non-ironically.
