The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted
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| "The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 18, 2015 (BotCon 2015) | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Editor in chief | |||||||||||||
The Autobots face Earth's most wanted criminals.
Synopsis
At Autobot City, Obsidian lists the top five Earth's most wanted criminals to Sentinel Prime, when Landshark interrupts to say he found them, but they are more than five, as they bring an army of Nightbirds. Obsidian orders Rattrap and Fractyl to take the flanks, but the Headmaster takes over Sentinel Prime and steals Metroplex's mind in a floppy disk. When the villains are about to escape, Carzap arrives and takes the disk, while G.B. Blackrock has his gas pump transform into the Circuit Smasher to turn the tide of the battle. Robot Master orders the Nightbirds to retreat and all villains flee. The Autobots joke that luckily Metroplex didn't lose his head and only Sentinel did, to which Sentinel demands to be back on his body or heads will roll. In response, they put his head on a small wheeled body.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Humans | Others |
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Notes
- Even though some of the featured villains have been associated with the Decepticons in other media, no actual Decepticon appears in the story.
- This comic was sold with the Kre-O Kreon Souvenir Set at BotCon 2015, composed of this stories "Earth's Most Wanted" and Sentinel Prime. It also takes inspiration from the online Kre-O manga, of which artist Hayato Sakamoto drew the first half.
Transformers references
- This comic was sold with the Kre-O Kreon Souvenir Set at BotCon 2015, featuring the set's five "Earth's Most Wanted" criminals and Sentinel Prime. It also takes inspiration from the online Kre-O manga, of which artist Hayato Sakamoto drew the first half-especially the Metroplex/Autobot City base, specifically based on his Generations "Thrilling 30" toy.
- Other previously-released Kreons who appear include Obsidian, Strika, and Hoist (from the BotCon 2013 set); Fractyl, Rattrap, and Landshark (from the BotCon 2014 set); and G.B. Blackrock (of whom a Kreon version was sold with Transformers Figure Subscription Service 3.0 toy Carzap).
- Newly created fictional Kreons in this chapter include Flareup (based on her BotCon 2014 toy, with her parts being sourced from helmet of Ironhide and the wings of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack) and a Micro-Changer version of Carzap (based on his TFSS Timelines toy, with the helmet of Sideswipe and the wings of Prowl/Jazz/Bluestreak).
- Additionally, in the first panel, a helicopter based on the Zone Sky Hyper Micromaster Base is seen hovering in the sky.
- There are multiple Nightbirds present in the story, inspired by the army of them from 3H Productions' The Wreckers issue #1. Additionally, Fractyl is seen on the Autobot's side; he was a member of the titular group in The Wreckers comic series.
- Rattrap moans that the Autobots are "all gonna be lil' lost pieces in the carpet," combining his infamous "we're all gonna die quote" with the fact that Lego-er, Kre-O pieces are wont to disappear.
- The Headmaster speaks in his "leetspeak". It's still as annoying now as it was then. Additionally, he takes over Sentinel Prime's body, as he did in Animated episode "The Return of the Headmaster".
- G.B. Blackrock calls the little gun emplacement his toy came with the "Circuit Smasher"; "Circuit Smasher" was the identity Spike Witwicky took after being brought back to life with G.B. Blackrock's technology, as seen in IDW Publishing's Regeneration One. Headmaster quips that it should have been called "Circuit Breaker", after the robot-hating human and former Blackrock employee from the Marvel The Transformers comics, whose technology was used in Blackrock's resurrection of Spike (though it was never said to be her specifically, given that Marvel owns the rights to her).
- Robot-Master orders "Nightbird, to the shadows!" The Japanese dub of the Sunbow The Transformers episode that introduced her, "Enter the Nightbird", was titled "The Shadow of Nightbird".
Real-world references
- Headmaster calls Blackrock a "camper".
Other trivia
- Carzap was drawn next to Hoist in panel 1, but a speech panel covered him up.
- Carzap's sole line of dialogue is in Japanese. He says "I'll be taking that!"
