Windblade #1 - Combiner Wars, pt 1

[skemono]

When last we left our unfortunate heroine, her home planet Caminus was being invaded by the combiner Menasor.


We open with Swindle griping that he hasn't found anything to steal, despite Starscream's promise that he could get filthy rich by robbing the Camiens.




So, yeah. With Blackjack's anger issues helping form Menasor's personality, the combiner goes on a rampage. With the spacebridge still open, Transformers from Cybertron go in to help.




The Aerialbots fly in and form Superion, who offers Menasor a chance to surrender.



And they fight, and they fight, and they fight, and they fight! After Superion puts down Menasor, we get down to exactly what you want out of a series of warring giant robots with laser cannons: politics and religion!







Optimus opens his chest to reveal the Matrix, at which point the Camiens (except for Windblade) bow to him, while in the background Starscream has a rage stroke.


Writer: Mairghread Scott
Story by: Mairghread Scott & John Barber
Artist: Sarah Stone
Cover artist: Casey W. Coller

Comments

[cynic79]

Starscream: "You five..."

Rook: "And me! Rook! I'm in the back! See my head!"

[q99]

I wonder if they're going to go into that, at some point where they have enough warning to *actually* work him into the script ^^

[cynic79]

They haven't really gotten Alpha Bravo into the script much, so I don't have a lot of hope.

[q99]

Alpha Bravo got lines in his first appearance a number of issues ago, and just pre-combination in this issue. Superion's been superion too much for him to have much, but he's there.

Rook has yet to be verbally acknowledged by *anyone* ^^ Heck, he seems like he was drawn into the art late even.

[matrix_dragon]

Rook magically appearing is the least of the Protectobots problems. I mean, Hot Spot has shown up on the wrong planet as the wrong person, First Aid's been called Fixit, and two of them have spent their entire time in the event drawn as two other people that don't even have the same alt-modes as them. (Hell, Mainframe can't even transform.)

Ramondelli is not exactly covering himself in glory this event.

[skemono]

...as someone whose last encounter with Transformers prior to picking up these comics was the '86 movie, I have no idea what you're talking about.

[q99]

Two of a team of bots had the wrong robot modes due to the artist being given the wrong ref, and there's also been the odd caption or name in the wrong place.

Basically, there's a number of errors that, while not significantly impacting the story, give signs of things being rushed.

[q99]

The wrong bodies isn't Ramondelli's fault, he was handed bad references.

Signs are that these comics were made in less time than normal.


Hot Spot, though, is no problem, at least not on the art part. The previous appearance was a throwaway, and multiple bots having the same bodytype isn't unknown.