How Optimus Prime Got Started

[arbre_rieur]

Here's some more TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. Sort of, if you squint. Before doing MTMTE, its creative team, writer James Robert and artist Alex Milne, did two issues of the previous Transformers ongoing series. Issues 22 and 23, to be precise. They're the first appearance of some of the ideas that would be used in MTMTE (already in the planning stages then), such as Whirl's aggression issues. So you can kind of view them as a MTMTE prequel.

Here are seven pages from TRANSFORMERS (previous series) #23. Who was Optimus Prime before the War?

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Deadshot - part 2 of 5

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Summertime--Let's have a cool one!

[skjam]

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, Japan's economy was doing pretty well. Indeed, there was even concern among alarmists that Japan would be able to simply buy America out, at last "winning WWII." Reality kicked in when the economic bubble burst, but for a while there it was good business to learn some Japanese.

And thus there was Mangajin, a magazine to help young business people learn about the Japanese language through the medium of comics.



We'll be looking at five pages, each an individual strip. I should mention that the print is kind of tiny in the translation notes, so you might want to have your zoom function handy.

( From the land of clear blue waters...comes the beer refreshing, comes the beer refreshing... )

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Transformers: MTMTE 07 preview - "But the war's over..."

[terrykun]

In the next issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, the much alluded to and dread Decepticon Justice Division finally appears.

And what an appearance they make...

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Possible trigger warning would be spoilery. I've spaced out the start of the entry below the cut to explain a little.