Kindred
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| "Kindred" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #58 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | S. Trent Troop & Greg Sepelak | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Naoto Tsushima | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Naoto Tsushima | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Evan Gauntt | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars: Uprising | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Circa 2384 | ||||||||||||
Trans-Mutate and Protoform X find they're not as alone as they thought.
Synopsis
Having found Trans-Mutate, Protoform X takes a lunge at his supposed stalker. Trans-Mutate insists she doesn't want to fight, and the quickly recognize each other from Ferromax Detention Center. Trans-Mutate inquires at to who and what Protoform X is; the former Maximal begins to rant, but quickly falls over, having drained most of his energon reserves.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Destructons | Others |
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Quotes
"I do not wish to fight you!"
"How precious. You think that matters!"
- —Trans-Mutate and Protoform X
"A misnomer, an aberration, a curse. Our sparks burn brighter than most, rare pulsars among the billions of stars... and just as deadly."
- —Protoform X on being a Point One Percenter.
"The aberration proposes a life bond. This unit is programmed to perform the ceremony in case of emergency."
"Silence, box, or I shall see if simulated screams are as delicious as natural ones!"
- —The navicomp and Protoform X
Notes
Continuity notes
- The encounter Trans-Mutate and Rampage had in the prison occurred back in the prologue.
- As is now revealed, the shadowy figure watching Rampage in "Paranoia" and the huge silhouette Trans-Mutate spies in "Perception" were actually Medusa and Bruton respectively.
Transformers references
- Point One Percenters are a concept created for IDW Publishing's Generation 1 comic.
- The Destructons originate from the Blackthorne Publishing 3D comic "The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3", the first part of a story of which was never completed due to that company's demise. They appear here for the first time in color.
