Spotlight: Megatron and TF: RID # 14

[sir_razorback]

 Ok.  Four pages from each.  Way too much good stuff to choose from, but let's start with Megatron's spotlight issue. This is taking place before current events.



Starscream then shoots him in the face.  You can imagine this doesn't fare well for him.  We do get 10 pages of dogfighting in an asteroid field after this though.  Our only real good look at Megatron's B-2 body, and damn the artists had fun with it.  Skipping the fight, we find that Optimus isn't the only one with a gift of oration when called upon.









Ok.  It's not a coincidence that this came out around the same time as the latest issue of RID.  We were talking about what was going on in the channel before.  Why were the Constructicons there?  What is Prowl up to?  Is there any significance to Bombshell being there?  Hold on for some answers.  Once again, WAY too much awesome to contain to 4 pages.  This was what I went with, though.

Comments

[alexanderlucard]

Hmm. In this universe, does body position indicate rank or position of power? I wonder how they would do the Seacons then since they are all interchangeable as limbs or targetmaster save for Snap Trap. Hell, now I wonder how they'd do the how "each robot is a targetmaster" bit as well since I haven't seen Targetmasters in this continuity.

[q99]

Not from what we've see so far. It seems to be a true gestalt intelligence- if the minds don't get along, things clash hard and the whole thing ends up crazy, no-one can just ride the rest.

[alexanderlucard]

Man, Considering the background for Menasor is "EVERYONE HATES MOTORMASTER" I imagine the IDW version is even more psychotic!

[q99]

Abominus was psychotic. Menasor was 'cannot coordinate limbs at the same time very well!'

[icon_uk]

Though the Constructicons were a different case since they needed six to form Devastator, certainly in the toys and G1 comics, for the early Pentacombiners (My term, as far as I know) the torso was the leader of the disassembled units, so Silverbolt led the Aerialbots, Motormaster the Stunticons etc.

In the Japanese "Scramble City", it was even a selling point that the limbs were interchangeable

[kamino_neko]

I think, aside from Devestator, all of the G1 Combiners were Scramble City style, which, indeed, would make being the body a big deal since that's the position the team commander gets. (Which has continued through most post-G1 forms of Combiners.)

I don't remember whether either of the body ones were the Constructicons' commander, though. v_v;

[alexanderlucard]

Scrapper, one of the legs was the leader of the constructicons in every continuity I can think of, but he appears to be dead here in the IDW one, so no idea who is in charge now.