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| First published | May 13, 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Art | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | unspecified post-Beast Wars & TransTech | ||||||||||||
Packrat gets abducted by a mysterious individual.
Synopsis
After a day of hunting for scrap, Packrat returns to the Maximal base in Mount St. Hilary, where he is greeted by Sentinel and throws his latest loot, Waspinator's arm, into his pile of morbid salvage. He is soon greeted by the most unusual of guests: Thrustinator. Thrustinator says he's there to take Packrat to "a Cybertron", but Packrat rejects the offer, preferring to stay for the ultimate haul, the Ark, which he hopes to break the defense codes for. When Thrustinator remarks that he understands why Packrat doesn't belong, the Maximal starts taunting him about his rejection by the protohumans, only to be cut short by the former Predacon's circuit stinger. Thrustinator then prepares a multiversal portal and contacts his partner, Heinrad, who has sneaked into the Universal Gate room while Rhinox, who apparently does not approve of the pair's plan, is gone. Heinrad isn't worried, though... after all, what kind of trouble could Packrat possibly get into?
Mentioned characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- Characters mentioned include: TransTech Rhinox.
Continuity notes
- This comic takes place after the end of the Beast Wars cartoon (or at least a version of it), with Packrat having taken up residence in the Maximal's base next to the Ark.
- Packrat has managed to recover the Sentinel security A.I., thought lost when Tigerhawk destroyed the Predacon ship in "Other Victories".
- Among Packrat's collection is:
- Various parts of Waspinator's, including a right arm, a stinger, a wing, and a set of his alternate mode legs.
- The headless body and gun of Inferno (who was killed accidentally by the Nemesis in "Nemesis Part 2".)
- The leg and right arm of Tarantulas (who was accidentally destroyed by his own machinery when the Vok possessed him in "Other Victories").
- Depth Charge's tail-sword, gun, and one of his "wings", and Rampage's claws (recovered after their deaths battling each other in "Nemesis Part 1").
- Dinobot's sword (recovered after his death in "Code of Hero").
- Some generic crates seen on the Axalon and in Maximal headquarters throughout the series.
- A stasis pod.
- A tusk from Megatron's hunting chair, from "Call of the Wild".
- Megatron's original, non-Transmetal rubber ducky, and his stopwatch, seen among his belonging in "Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)"
- The Covenant of Primus, seen in the "Nemesis" two-part series finale.
- A target box, one of which was seen in "Power Surge".
- The Transmetal driver, introduced in "Feral Scream Part 1", and last seen in "Crossing the Rubicon".
- Thrustinator and Heinrad were introduced in "Timeless", guardians of the multiverse from a future version of Axiom Nexus on the TransTech Cybertron.
- Packrat indicates that this comic takes place after Waspinator's flashback from Beast Machines episode "The Catalyst", where he was sent into space by the protohumans.
Transformers references
- Also in Packrat's collection is the alternate mode shell of Predacon Fuzor Terragator from the Beast Wars toyline, a bit incongruous with the rest of the junk.
Other trivia
- Obviously this is set up for BotCon 2015's "Cybertron's Most Wanted" toys and comic.
- An early plan was that this Packrat is a copy of the original 3H story Packrat: temporal energy from "Invasion" split him into two Packrats, à la Riker being duplicated in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and years of solitude from being unknown and abandoned left him bitter. This was too convoluted to fit into the story though.[1]
Errors
- The Covenant of Primus is a wee-bit off model. Rather than the printed Autobot symbol with white borders between the red shapes making up the insignia, the Covenant has an embossed Autobot symbol, composed only of red shapes.
- The target box, meanwhile, is pretty heavily off-model, only recognizable from its yellow coloration and three prongs sticking out of the bottom. Rather than the trapezoidal shape it was depicted as in the cartoon, it's shape more like a TV, with a cone on top, attached to which is a satellite dish.
- And finally, Megatron's stopwatch is colored brown, rather than the grey-ish green it was in the cartoon. Jesse Wittenrich might have confused it with the timepiece Megatron had in "Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)", which was brown.
References
- ↑ Allspark post on 23/12/2016 by Jesse Wittenrich
