Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 22

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Grimlock's New Brain?
Publisher	Fun Publications
Cover date	Aug/Sept 08

Trans-Fiction Spectacular Featuring: DUNGEONS & DINOBOTS

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #22

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Benson Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Columnist: Scott Marble
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Cartoonist: Jesse Wittenrich
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop
Featured Artists: Dan Khanna, Will Mangin, Jake Isenberg, and Winston Bolen

Contents

• On the cover: artwork by Evan Gauntt for "Dungeons & Dinobots", the first Shattered Glass prose story (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "A Chat with Marty Isenberg" by Scott Marble (pp. 3–4)
• "Artist Spotlight" featuring "Wreck-Gar" by Chad Porter (p. 4)
• "Dungeons & Dinobots," a unique 1-page prologue for the text story by Greg Sepelak and S. Trent Troop, featuring Huffer and Grimlock (p. 5)
• Bio in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Classics Slag (p. 6)
• "The Nebulan-French Connection" bios: (p. 7)
  • Classics Minerva
  • Classics Muzzle
  • Classics Lug
  • Classics Quig
• "The World of... TRANSTECH" bios
  • Transtech Cheetor (p. 8
  • Transtech Shockwave (p. 9)
• "Transcendent: Part 4" - comic story (pp. 10–15)
• Mini Mayhem! by Jesse Wittenrich (p. 16)

Notes

• The 'From the Editor's Desk...' segment on page 2 includes a single, unique panel of Mini Mayhem which features Shattered Glass Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, and... Eric Siebenaler?
• The bios for Slag and the three Junior Headmasters (plus Minerva) are here to promote "Cheap Shots", which in turn exists to promote Timelines Nightbeat.
• Characters mentioned in Slag's bios include: Sludge, Grimlock, Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Nightbeat, and Quig.
  • Slag left the Graviton's crew when Grimlock left to join up with Optimus Prime in "Crossing Over".
  • Slag slips into an uncontrollable rage every 4,000,000 years; this comes from the Marvel UK Transformers issue #280.
• Characters mentioned in the Nebulans' bios include: Nightbeat, Optimus Prime, Hosehead, and Siren.
  • Minerva was a major in the Japan Self Defense Core near the end of the Transformers' war on Earth; presumably this meant to be the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
  • Minerva was a part of Project Transtector, an attempt to build Transformer bodies for humans to pilot. The project is named for the Japanese version of the Head/Godmaster bodies.
  • Hosehead died in Transformers issue #76.
• Meanwhile, the Transtech bios seem to be written in the style of More than Meets the Eye profiles, but the design and layout are completely unique to this issue and the two that follow it.
• Characters mentioned in Shockwave's bio include: Jhiaxus, the Liege Maximo, Megatron, and Sentinel Prime.
  • An incident involving the Liege Maximo is mentioned; profiles in later issues would build on this.
  • Funnily enough, IDW established that their version of Shockwave served under their Jhiaxus, as established in "Spotlight: Doubledealer", released the same month as this issue.