Scrapper (issue)

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Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	June 9, 2010
Cover date	June 2010
Written by	Mike Costa
Art by	Javier Saltares
Colors by	James Brown
Letters by	Chris Mowry
Editor	Carlos Guzman
Associate editor	Andy Schmidt
Continuity	IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era (2010)

Spike Witwicky reflects on current events and attempts to come to terms with his position as a leader.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons	Humans
Scrapper	Spike Witwicky Daniel Witwicky Sandra Joe Henderson Campologno

Quotes

"I've always hated machines. The ones that make you stronger. The ones that make you more vulnerable."

—Spike Witwicky doing an impression of Captain Fanzone.

"And green. Really. That has to be the stupidest color for a "disguise"..."

—Spike Witwicky taunting Constructicon Scrapper.

"I wanted to show you that one of us can beat you. No lasers. None of your technology. Just a solution that can be made out of stuff anyone would have in their kitchen."

—Spike Witwicky ruining all the fun by emasculating the entire Cybertronian race.

Items of note

• This is the first issue of the ongoing series (or any previous series) to not feature any prominent Transformer robots. The story mainly focuses on Spike Witwicky and a robot isn't even seen until page 17.
• This issue continues IDW's apparent belief that humans are way, way more awesome than the Transformers are. This follows up on Spotlight: Prowl, where humans' inherent greatness causes Prowl to drop his emotionless, ruthless personality in favour of idiotic self-sacrifice.

Covers (3)

• Cover A: Scrapper busting through a construction site; art by Don Figueroa and colors by James Brown.
• Cover B: Scrapper reaching out towards Spike Witwicky through a construction site; art by Javier Saltares and colors by James Brown.
• Cover RI: Concept art of Jazz; art by Don Figueroa.

• Oh scrap!
  Oh scrap!
• We're all rooting for Scrapper here.
  We're all rooting for Scrapper here.
• Hasbro, get to making this - NOW!
  Hasbro, get to making this - NOW!

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