Go-Bots #1

[laughing_tree]

Go-Bots will be the first story to feature classic toy and cartoon characters like Leader-1, Scooter, Turbo, and Cy-Kill’s Renegades in over three decades! -- Press release

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[locuatico]

But can you have sex with your go-bot?

[princee740]

If you have some little aftermarket parts...

[kamino_neko]

Go-Bots will be the first story to feature classic toy and cartoon characters like Leader-1, Scooter, Turbo, and Cy-Kill’s Renegades in over three decades!

Unless, of course, you count the various Transformers media that have incorporated them. (Both as Cybertronians and as themselves.)

Also, they should have made the gladiator Cy-Kill killed a Megatron. Turnabout is fair play, after all.

I was excited for this book until I saw it was Scioli, who, to put it mildly, I have never been impressed with. Not sure if I regret skipping it, based om these scans. This is at least a coherent story (unlike GI Joe vs Transformers or the Wonder Twins story he did), and not a bad one, but it cops from TF* and discards the only specifically Go-Bots element (their being cyborgs with humanoid brains in their robot bodies), which would kind of dull my excitement if it hadn't already flatlined (also, Scoli's art remains an eyesore).

* He's basically moved Megatron's Aligned/IDW origin over to Cy-Kill, save for making the oppressors humans.

[coldfury]

Not having read the issue, I can't be sure of this, but we don't *know* that the Go-Bots aren't still secretly Cyborgs with humanoid brains in robot bodies, do we??

That seems like a reveal that could upend some moral certainties later in the series.

[kamino_neko]

It doesn't seem compatible with the description of the history of the Go-Bots, or with how Tank was able to draw information from Leader-1 with a touch.

[dr_archeville]

So are these Go-Bots alien cyborgs from the planet Gobotron, or are they machines which were made by humans on Earth?

[laughing_tree]

In those Transformers appearances, were they actual characters or just easter eggs? I don't think the latter should really count.

[scorntx]

Sometimes they're the actual characters (the official fan-club stuff, like Gone Too Far, Games of Deception, and Beast War: Uprising). Sometimes just easter eggs.

[kamino_neko]

Both. There were actually multiple toys made of Bug Bite based upon one of the stories, even. [Edit - actually, I think the first toy came before the story, but still...]

[deh_tommy]

To be fair, though, Go-Bots are usually brought up in Transformers stories to either unfairly mock, humiliate and/or kill them (à la the aforementioned Cy-Kill or Armada Leader-1).

On that note, YAY GO-BOTS! On the other hand, the Go-Bots here don't seem to really be too similar to the ones in the originals, so... yay, Go-Bots?

[zylly]

I definitely agree that the guy he killed should have looked like Megatron.

[tripodeca113]

It's the runners up of the 1980's transforming robots. The first new Go-Bots specific media released in my lifetime.

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Apparently other rules have been tossed away as well if no one objects to a Go-bot returning to robot mode during a race.