Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 1

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Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #1 »
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published June 7, 2017
Cover date May 2017
Written by various
Art by various
Edits by David Mariotte and David Hedgecock

Acroyear to Duke!

Profiles

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Other content

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Notes

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Profile notes

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  • Arcee's profile tactfully avoids mentioning anything about her gender, and merely notes that Jhiaxus's experiments turned her into "a whirlwind of chaos."
  • Baron Daegon's entry spells his name "Daigon." That's how it was spelled when he first appeared in Micronauts #2, but later issues would switch to the "Daegon" spelling.
  • Bob, Buster, and D.0.C.'s profile is the only one without unique artwork created for it; it reuses art from the interior of The Transformers (vol. 1) #20, and the cover of The Transformers (vol. 2) #48.
  • Bob's profile performs a subtle retcon on the Insecticon swarm, establishing that the were not new creations of the Decepticons (as they were originally implied to be when they first appeared in All Hail Megatron), but rather, failed, mutated clones of a naturally-occurring Insecticon sub-species. By introducing the idea that Insecticons are naturally-occurring, this mostly resolves the longstanding plot holes of "a Bombshell" and "a Kickback" appearing in Spotlight: Blaster and Megatron Origin #4, millennia before the creation of the "real" Bombshell and Kickback in All Hail Megatron.
  • Centurion's "historical first appearance" is given as Transformers UK #74, equating him with the human-built robot Centurion from that story, who had the same name but was otherwise a very different character.
  • All the actors and directors mentioned in Bulletman's profile hail from the Parker Brothers board game International Movie Maker... which may qualify for the most obscure reference ever made by an IDW author. Said profile also mentions Space Battle, from the Free Comic Book Day issue of IDW's 2015 Robots in Disguise comic, and the incident in which Bulletman saved the town of Poverty Flat by creating a makeshift dam is taken from the original advertisement for Bulletman's toy in the Adventure Team line.

Errors, omissions, and inconsistencies

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  • Profiles are inconsistent on what constitutes a "first appearance," with some listing the first appearance of the character in either a cartoon episode or comic book issue, but others listing the release of their toy (which would always typically predate any fictional appearance). In the case of the Micronauts characters, it might have something to do with IDW not having the license to any of Marvel's Micronauts comics, and hence not wanting to, or not being able to, reference them—but it's notably inconsistent when Adventure Team members Bulletman and Atomic Man's first appearances are listed as 1975's toyline, while their contemporary Joe Colton's suggests he supposedly didn't exist until 1989's G.I. Joe #86.
  • Aileron's profile refers to the Mistress of Flame as the "Mistress of Light". It also spells Slag's name the original way rather than "Slug" as he had changed it to by that timeframe; additionally, "hot spot" is spelled as "hotspot" and "Spacebridge" is rendered both that way and "Space Bridge".
    • Aileron's art depicts her with bright turquoise highlights, as opposed to her other comic appearances where her inner limb joints are consistently a muted gray-green.
  • Arcee's profile lists her place of birth as unknown, but in the already released Optimus Prime #5 Arcee identifies herself as hailing from the Darklands. Arcee's profile also misspells Tarantulas's name as "Tarantulus".
  • Gloria Baker's first appearance is generically given as "M.A.S.K. TV series"; other profiles that cite TV series give specific episodes, and hers should be M.A.S.K. episode 2, "The Star Chariot".
  • The Baroness's profile omits Chameleon from her "known relatives" section; she's her half-sister.
  • Pauline Bestley's profile misrenders the Secret Intelligence Service as the "Special Intelligence Service and pluralizes "Americans" in an instance when it should be singular.
  • Blackrock's profile misrenders the plural possessive of Autobot as "Autobot's".
  • Blitzwing's profile uses both "Triple-Changer" and "Triple Changer".
  • Bryce Chan's profile misspells Governor's Island as "Governors' Island".
  • Cover Girl's profile weirdly omits the character's biggest solo adventure in IDW continuity, which was also her personal turning point and led to her joining the army: her victory over a group of Nanzhaoese pirates who attacked the set of a reality TV show she was starring in at the time. What's even stranger is the fact that this adventure (chronicled in G.I. Joe vol. 3 #6) is mentioned in Bulletman's profile! Cover Girl's profile would be re-written for the collected edition of the sourcebook to rectify this.
  • In one instance, Doctor X's profile misspells Ian Noble as "Nobel".
  • Duke's profile is kind of a mess in general, clearly from the writer drawing on Duke's classic filecard rather than his history as established in G.I. Joe vol. 3:
    • It refers to him as having a "stereotypically All-American upbringing" in St. Louis rather than being a trailer park kid from Arnold; it also refers to him as turning down multiple officers' commissions, despite the fact that the IDW version was refused a commission, with his distaste for the work of officers stemming from bitterness over that.
    • Strikingly, it omits the fact that he was discharged from G.I. Joe during G.I. Joe vol. 3, making it sound as if he went straight from G.I. Joe back to the regular military instead of getting kicked out.
    • While not strictly an error, it seems really, really weird that he would return with an enlisted rank when the "Cobra Command" story arc saw him promoted to Colonel. (And, indeed, Roadblock addresses him as "sir" in G.I. Joe vol. 5 #2; army convention dictates that that's only done for commissioned officers!)
    • And, while we're being pedantic, the "known relatives" section omits any mention of his sister — but since her lone mention in IDW continuity was a throwaway line in G.I. Joe #0, that's forgivable.

Other trivia

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  • Originally solicited for release in May, this issue arrived a little late on the first week of June. Revolutionaries #5 and #6 were intended to have been released by the time the first Sourcebook was on shelves, but have been the victim of delays of their own, meaning that several key plot points from those issues are spoiled in the profiles for Atomic Man and Centurion.
  • Centurion's profile is something of a red herring; as neither Antilla nor the mystery behind "Onyx Prime" had been properly introduced yet, the profile describes him and his shipmates as Eukarians. In truth, however, they are Maximals, members of "Onyx's" inner cabal and (presumably) natives of Cybertron.

Other printings

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Several of the profiles shown were previously published as backmatter in issues of Revolution and other Hasbro Universe comics:

Shortened versions of Acroyear, Action Man, Arcee, Aura, the Baroness, Baron Karza, Blackrock, Blitzwing, Joe Colton, and Doctor X's profiles were also released as trading cards through a Revolution-themed Humble Bundle.

Covers (3)

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  • Regular cover: Wraparound cover of the characters profiled in this issue, by Fico Ossio and Jordi Escuin
  • Subscription cover: A selection of the G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. characters profiled in this issue, by Sam Lotfi and Jordi Escuin
  • Retailer incentive cover: The heroes and villains of ROM and Micronauts, by Marcelo Borstelmann

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