RETURN OF THE D.J.D.! A punishment squad created by MEGATRON to hunt down dissidents, turncoats and cowards—no one believes more passionately in the DECEPTICON cause than the D.J.D. So what happens when they discover their founder has joined the Autobots? (Clue: it’s not pretty.)
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:Holy crap, so Tarn is Agent 113!
Not exactly the theory I've been going with recently, but still. I wonder if I'm at least right in regard to him being Roller?
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I'm personally not buying the whole "Agent 113" thing since I haven't seen Tarn without a double fusion cannon, and that thing kills, no questions.
I'm personally on 2 other possibilities: Tarn is Roller or Dominus Ambus. See, with all the lousy hints that Roller is Tarn, I feel like it is meant to mislead us. Dominus Ambus has been missing for a long time, and if Tarn really is Armor like the Magnus Armor, then that would explain how Tarn knew he needed to cut off the hand and then devastate the body so he would kill the real thing. Either works for me, but I feel Roller is too big a give a way to actually be true. Dominus would be the ultimate surprise.
Crosscheck wrote:So Tarn is Roller! The thing that kinda interests me is if we are going to ever see Roller interact with Grimlock. Given that Tarn remarks that he forgot how much he hates Grimlock, it would be an interesting twist. One thing that makes me think Agent 113 is a different member of the DJD is that Agent 113 is Prowl's operative. But Tarn/Roller kills Alternate Overlord. Prowl wanted Overlord alive to study. Wouldn't make sense for Tarn to kill him. I am betting Tarn is a Roller that became a Decepticon. He just can't stomach some of The stuff they do.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
pie-man wrote:I've been waiting for this issue since I saw the Feb/Mar solicitations thread a few months ago. Can't wait to finally get it!
Just curious.... who are the 'bots on the cover? It doesn't seem like the DJD....
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I maaaaaaaayyyyyyy buy Vos as a double agent, but the big thing for me and that Agent 113 stuff is that remember the alternate Lost Light? Every member was involved in slaughtering members of the crew, Autobot, decepticon or Cyclonus and Tailgate. Vos personally killed Chromedome and his sniper mode killed Whirl and Cyclonus, and Tarn slaughtered Ultra Magnus and all the vehicle mode bodies and raided them for T-cogs. To me the slaughter and all the DJD members involvement does not make sense for a double operative.
As to Dominus Ambus, only in the functionalist timeline does he have empurata. He was last seen with his regular head, hands and speech in this universe, so he still could happen.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Syn_13 wrote:Nothing ever seems to be as it is with Mr. Roberts. I still believe Tarn is Roller, as hinted, but I think he's expecting us all to think he's Agent 113 with the teaser for this upcoming issue, when in actual fact he may not be. Tarn considers himself an intellectual, perhaps even above senseless violence, yet still zealous enough to follow the preachings of Megatron dogmatically. He still believes what he's doing is the right thing (as zealots often do), but he has the mental capacity to take a step back and see the carnage for what it is. The monologue is a big suggestion that he's the mole and that he regrets his actions. Perhaps he is and at some point he forgot about the Autobot cause by getting swept up in the brutality. However, I reckon his monologue isn't as cryptic as that. I think he is Roller, and the damage he sustained in the past when we last saw him (during the Brainstorm arc), probably with a bit of Shadowplay, drove him to latch on to Megatron's teachings. He already had an addictive personality with the whole Kremzeek drink/drugs thing so it stands to reason that he's just moved on to another, more dangerous form of abuse now, as addicts often do.
My theory is that Tarn/Roller still believes in the cause, but is just bored of the senseless violence that is required to sate the bloodlust of his companions. He's the most sane out of an insane bunch, and for all we know this could be the worst crew he's had to work with, and it's gotten to him after millions of years of violence and torture. After all, Roller was a "good guy" in the past when working with Pax. The DJD are so detached to the front lines of the war I wonder if he ever really realised that Pax became Prime, or perhaps he did know and was fuelled by that, considering it a betrayal of sorts.
There's nothing to suggest that Agent 113 is still in the DJD either. It could be a former member. I think Skids is a good candidate to being the former Vos. Firstly he was Special Ops working for Prowl. Secondly, he used the Binary gun to bury memories that Chromedome told him weren't worth bringing back (Empyrean suite was also mentioned), and he clearly has a dark past. Thirdly, it was mentioned at Megatron's trial that Vos was a big guy with hooks for hands. Although Skids isn't huge, he could've altered his body (something demonstrated before by Roberts with Senator Momus' killer in Shadowplay), and he also has hooks in his hands. Fourthly, it was mentioned that he went missing for ages, and I'm not sure if he was even seen for a majority of the war. He could've spent some of this time, particularly around the time of Last Stand of the Wreckers, as the DJD mole, only to return once the war had ended, and then being sent of the Luna 1 mission with Getaway.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
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