Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 2

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Publisher IDW Publishing
First published August 2, 2017
Cover date June 2017
Written by various
Art by various
Edits by David Mariotte and David Hedgecock

Eclipse to Oziron Rael!

Profiles

Other content

Notes

Profile notes

  • Previously alluded to in Optimus Prime #4, Marissa's profile explicitly explains that her mother is Claire Austin, an old college-age girlfiend of Flint's who he dated while he was still in his teens, introduced in 2013's The Cobra Files #6. Flint casually mentioned in that issue that he had heard Claire had a child with her later husband; unbeknownst to him, this profile explains, Claire had been pregnant when they broke up, and the child was his. By the time Marissa learned of her true parentage, from her second step-father (Claire having been noted in Cobra Files to have been divorced twice), Flint had faked his death, as was G.I. Joe standard protocol at the time; Marissa's profile reveals that she learned he was still alive from Mayday, who had worked with him on the Joe team.
  • Established only in the letters page of G.I. Joe vol. 5 #3 prior to this issue, Grand Slam's profile notes that he is the same Grand Slam who appeared to die waaaay back in 2009's G.I. Joe Origins #7, who had survived his injuries.
  • Following hints about Grimlock's divided allegiance dropped in More than Meets the Eye #3, #8, and #46, his profile establishes that he was a Decepticon at one point. We still don't know any more than that, though!
  • Garrison Kreiger's profile clarifies the unclear situation surrounding the Shletevan bunker where the Talisman was found in Revolutionaries #1, which was described as a British Secret Intelligence Service facility, but sported the logo of I.R.O.N. on its walls. Here we learn that it was an I.R.O.N. facility operated by S.I.S., a situation arranged by Doctor X during her time as a double-agent.
  • Kup's profile states that he was around in the time of Nova Prime, and saw the formation of the Golden Age after the First Cybertronian Civil War between the Thirteen and their tribes. Though unsurprising, this is new information that hasn't yet been related in any comics.
  • Mayday's profile gives her first historical appearance as the first episode of the G.I. Joe Extreme cartoon, "A Summoning of Heroes," establishing that she is the IDW version of that first, and otherwise very different, bearer of the "Mayday" codename. Her profile also namechecks Joshua Red, head of the original version of Skywatch (of which she was a member), not seen since 2009's Maximum Dinobots.
  • Doctor Mindbender's profile corrects the error that's been running through M.A.S.K. that identifies the doctor's real name as "Verstal Bender," rather than "Armand Singh," his actual real name as provided in IDW's Joe titles. "Verstal Bender" is here established to be an alias.
  • Major Bludd is noted to have had the arm he lost in Revolutionaries #1 replaced with a Talisman-tech prosthetic, which hasn't been shown to have happened on-panel. Spoiler for a future issue...?
  • Dragonsky, a traditional member of the Oktober Guard who was added to their IDW line-up for Revolutionaries, is revealed to have been a colleague of Bludd's during his time operating the Section Ten gulag (as seen in G.I. Joe vol. 1), recruited after the Major took control of the team.
  • As in issue #1, most profiles get new art, but a few have recycled pieces from other sources, including Grand Slam (from G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1), Jazz (from Optimus Prime #8; this is art of Jazz in his earliest Cybertronian form, rather than his regular modern-day appearance), Kup (from Revolutionaries #2), and the Oktober Guard (from Revolutionaries #1).

Errors, omissions, and inconsistencies

  • This issue includes the individual episodes for the "first appearances" of the M.A.S.K. characters that was missing from Gloria Baker's profile last time. But where Gloria was credited as "AURA (GLORIA BAKER)," this issue just lists the characters by their codenames alone.
  • Grimlock's birthplace is listed as "unknown," though in issue 45 of More than Meets the Eye he was referred to as "Grimlock of Iacon." Perhaps Misfire was misinformed?
  • Gung-Ho is listed as having no relatives, yet his profile mentions that he has eight siblings and a large extended family.
  • Lady Jaye and Mainframe's profiles give their first appearances as issues #32 and #58 of Marvel's G.I. Joe comic, respectively. Though those are the correct issues of the comic in which they debuted, they actually first appeared in episodes of the G.I. Joe cartoon broadcast before those issue's releases; Lady Jaye in September 1984's "In the Cobra's Pit" (versus of #32's October 1984 publication date, cover-dated February '85), and Mainframe in September 1986's "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" Part 1 (versus December '86 for #58, cover-dated April '87).
  • Metrotitan is depicted with wheels in his starship mode, which is accurate to his original toy but not his prior fictional appearances in the IDW universe.
  • Even accounting for the late publication of this issue (see "other notes," below), Megatron's profile is outdated, giving his base of operations as Necroworld, which fails to account for his relocation to the Functionist Universe in May's Lost Light #6.

Other trivia

  • Originally solicited for release in June, this issue arrived noticeably late, in the first week of August, two months after the already-month-late issue #1.

Other printings

Several of the profiles shown were previously published as backmatter in issues of Revolution and other Hasbro Universe comics:

Shortened versions of Marissa, Grimlock, Gulliver, Helix, Ice Queen, Lady Jaye, Mainframe, Miles Mayhem, Microtron, Optimus Prime, and Oziron Rael's profiles were also released as trading cards through a Revolution-themed Humble Bundle.

Covers (3)

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