Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25
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 "Shatteredverse"? Is that like a cracked Bible or something? | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| First published | mid-February 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | Feb/March09 | ||||||||||||
RETURN TO THE SHATTEREDVERSE
CRINGE AT THE CONTINUED USE OF THE WORD "SHATTEREDVERSE"
Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #25
[edit]Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Columnist: Scott Marble
Columnist: R.M. Eljay
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: John Flores, Evan Gauntt, Jake Isenberg, Greg Sepelak, and Drew Eiden
Contents
[edit]- On the cover: artwork for "Do Over", the second Shattered Glass prose story, by Kiss Play artist Yuki Oshima (p. 1)
- Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
- Animated "Bots vs Cons" Tech Specs: (p. 3)
- "Transformers: How It All Began," an interview with former Hasbro VP of Boy's Toys Marketing Bob Prupis (p. 3)
- "Hasbro Flashback!" an interview where Hasbro employees reminisce about their experiences with the brand (pp. 4–5)
- Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- TransTech Blackarachnia (p. 6)
- Classics Topspin (p. 7)
- Shattered Glass Whisper (p. 8)
- "The Transformers Club Comic Years 1-4: Our Story So Far..." a 1-page text recap of Balancing Act, Revelations, Crossing Over, and Transcendent (p. 9)
- "Reunification: Part 1" - comic story (pp. 10–15)
- "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Around Cybertron
- "Rob's Hot Pick! Cyclonus is Here!"
- Mini Mayhem!
Notes
[edit]- Characters mentioned in the Animated tech specs include: Perceptor, Project Omega, Safeguard, and Soundwave.
- Characters mentioned in Blackarachnia's bio include: Alpha Trion, Nightscream, Scavenger, Immorticon, Silverbolt, Rattrap, Rhinox, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor.
- Blackarachnia's bio introduces the framework for the eventual Beast Wars: Uprising storyline; a world in which the Autobots and Decepticons, their functionality long gone, create the Maximals and Predacons for the purposes of a "proxy war". The language in Blackarachnia's bio seems to indicate she was involved in actual combat, and it almost certainly was meant to be; later stories would retcon that the "proxy war" was more akin to the gladiatorial combat seen in various pieces of Transformers fiction.
- Rattrap is mentioned along with Rhinox and Silverbolt as having been killed in combat, but "Alone Together: Prologue" would eventually show he managed to survive.
- Blackarachnia and the rest are noted to have been put into TransTech bodies, much like Bulletbike in "I, Lowtech".
- Blackarachnia's TransTech body can make webs of Energon Z, the fuel source seen in the Zone franchise.
- Characters mentioned in Topspin's bio include: Jhiaxus, Alpha Trion, and Skyfall.
- Topspin is noted to have served under Jhiaxus in his home dimension; exactly which Jhiaxus is unknown, but it seems likely to be a variant of the Marvel Generation 2 comics version.
- Characters mentioned in Whisper's bio include: Optimus Prime, Nightflight, Storm Cloud, Tailwind, Megatron, and Sideswipe.
- Whisper is noted to be the brother of Nightflight, Storm Cloud, and Tailwind; their positive universe counterparts are all teammates in the Air Strike Patrol. Of the three brothers, only Tailwind has ever shown up outside Whisper's bio, as one of Astrotrain's Micromaster partners.
- Sideswipe has nicknamed Whisper "Mini-Con".
- Art used in the recap includes Skyfall (from "Balancing Act, Part 2", pencils by Dan Khanna, inks by Terry Pallot and Chuck Gibson, colors by Espen Grundetjern), Classics Megatron (from "Crossing Over, Part 1", pencils by Dan Khanna, inks by Terry Pallot, colors by Krista Ward and Joe Givens), Breakaway (from "Crossing Over: Part 4", pencils by Dan Khanna, inks by Terry Pallot and Jake Isenberg, colors by Josh Perez), and Topspin (from "Transcendent: Part 4", pencils by Evan Gauntt, inks by Jake Isenberg, colors by Josh Perez).
- The first four issues of this year each feature a whopping three More than Meets the Eye profiles. This is the only one in which all three are full-size - in issues #26-28, the second profile (a combiner of some sort) is extended while the third one (a Recordicon) takes up less than half the page.
- Around Cybertron moves to the, ahem, 'Shatteredverse' with this issue.
