Recordicons issue 19
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| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #52 | ||||||||||||
| First published | August/September 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Script | David Willis | ||||||||||||
| Art | David Willis | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Glass | ||||||||||||
Squawktalk gets infected by a bunch of viruses.
Synopsis
Ravage is minding his own business, when Squawktalk suddenly appears out of nowhere, ranting. The Decepticon bird has been infected with malware, and goes on to repeat various scams, including scams about shanix, Conjunx Endura, and Nebulan princes, and begins to scream about "punching the monkey." Ravage suggests he gets an anti-virus, while Beastbox is quick to point out he's a gorilla.
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
Transformers references
- Shanix is a form of currency introduced in the Marvel UK The Transformers comics.
- Fuel pumps are a generic piece of Cybertronian anatomy, the equivalent of a heart. "Conjunx", or rather, Conjunx Endura, is the Cybertronian term for "married couple" and comes from IDW 2005 continuity series More than Meets the Eye.
- Nebulans are the aliens that were the various partners of the various -Master subgroups of the 1987 and 1988 years of the original toyline, including Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters.
Real-world references
- Squawktalk and Beastbox are colored so that when they combine into Squawkbox, they would be colored as Birdman, main character of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, opposing Slamdance's coloring as Reducto from the same show.
- Various scams are referred to in this strip, including generic ads about money and dating websites, the "Nigerian prince" e-mail scam, and the "punch the monkey" ads, which promised a free X-Box or a similar product if one were to play a simplistic flash game (spoilers: it's a lie).
