Recordicons issue 17

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Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #50
First published	April/May 2013
Script	David Willis
Art	David Willis
Continuity	Shattered Glass

Ravage is not very good at espionage.

Summary

On Cybertron, Nightbeat is ranting about Wheeljack to Hosehead. In the middle of his raving, however, one of the lampposts has a cassette, the Decepticon Ravage, fall out, revealing the lamppost to be Soundwave. Ravage proceeds to blame gravity.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons	Autobots
Soundwave (1) Ravage (4)	Hosehead (2) Nightbeat (3)

Notes

• Characters mentioned include: Wheeljack.

Transformers references

• Hosehead is repurposed from Generations "GDO" Hot Spot, with the head of BotCon 2010's Spark. The inspiration lies in the fact that author/artist David Willis had switched the head of Spark with that of Hot Spot's to make him look more accurate to his original toy and appearance in Last Stand of the Wreckers.
• Nightbeat's rant about Wheeljack wanting to be the legs instead of the torso-presumably that of a combiner, and an heretofore unseen ability of Wheeljack's. Wheeljack shares his body-type with Energon Downshift, who, like nearly every Autobot toy in the line, could combine with another to form a bigger robot. Nightbeat has previously been shown to have this ability, combining with Thunderclash to form Nightclash.
• Soundwave's lamppost mode is based off his positive-universe counterpart's Cybertronian form, seen in the first episode of the Sunbow The Transformers cartoon, but in his Music Label-style colors. These lampposts were seen previously in the original "Shattered Glass" comic.

External links

• The strip on David Willis' DeviantArt