Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 22

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Grimlock's New Brain?
Publisher	Fun Publications
Cover date	Aug/Sept 08

Trans-Fiction Spectacular Featuring: DUNGEONS & DINOBOTS

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #22

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Benson Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Columnist: Scott Marble
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Cartoonist: Jesse Wittenrich
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop
Featured Artists: Dan Khanna, Will Mangin, Jake Isenberg, and Winston Bolen

Contents

• On the cover: artwork by Evan Gauntt for "Dungeons & Dinobots", the first Shattered Glass prose story (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "A Chat with Marty Isenberg" by Scott Marble (pp. 3–4)
• "Artist Spotlight" featuring "Wreck-Gar" by Chad Porter (p. 4)
• "Dungeons & Dinobots," a unique 1-page prologue for the text story by Greg Sepelak and S. Trent Troop, featuring Huffer and Grimlock (p. 5)
• Bio in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Classics Slag (p. 6)
• "The Nebulan-French Connection" bios: (p. 7)
  • Classics Minerva
  • Classics Muzzle
  • Classics Lug
  • Classics Quig
• "The World of... TRANSTECH" bios
  • Transtech Cheetor (p. 8
  • Transtech Shockwave (p. 9)
• "Transcendent: Part 4" - comic story (pp. 10–15)
• Mini Mayhem! by Jesse Wittenrich (p. 16)

Notes

• The 'From the Editor's Desk...' segment on page 2 includes a single, unique panel of Mini Mayhem which features Shattered Glass Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, and... Eric Siebenaler?
• The bios for Slag and the three Junior Headmasters (plus Minerva) are here to promote "Cheap Shots", which in turn exists to promote Timelines Nightbeat.
• Characters mentioned in Slag's bios include: Sludge, Grimlock, Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Nightbeat, and Quig.
  • Slag left the Graviton's crew when Grimlock left to join up with Optimus Prime in "Crossing Over".
  • Slag slips into an uncontrollable rage every 4,000,000 years; this comes from the Marvel UK Transformers issue #280.
• Characters mentioned in the Nebulans' bios include: Nightbeat, Optimus Prime, Hosehead, and Siren.
  • Minerva was a major in the Japan Self Defense Core near the end of the Transformers' war on Earth; presumably this meant to be the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
  • Minerva was a part of Project Transtector, an attempt to build Transformer bodies for humans to pilot. The project is named for the Japanese version of the Head/Godmaster bodies.
  • Hosehead died in Transformers issue #76.
• Meanwhile, the Transtech bios seem to be written in the style of MTMTE profiles, but the design and layout are completely unique to this issue and the two that follow it.
• Characters mentioned in Shockwave's bio include: Jhiaxus, the Liege Maximo, Megatron, and Sentinel Prime.
  • An incident involving the Liege Maximo is mentioned; profiles in later issues would build on this.
  • Funnily enough, IDW established that their version of Shockwave served under their Jhiaxus, as established in "Spotlight: Doubledealer", released the same month as this issue.