All Hail Megatron #7- Five Page Preview

*gasp!* Su's art? So the rumors were true then! Oh joy of joys!

Not saying Guidi's art wasn't absolutely drop-dead fantastic and all, but I am a HUUUGE fan of Su's art and am glad to see him taking his pen to this!

Cannot wait to nab this for my very own! Thanks for the peeky!

..The hell is that guy? Breakdown? Armada Wheeljack?

*Looks at those pages...*

Arch-IDW designs?

*spark of hope*

Roadbuster's alt mode is HUGE!!!!!

And did you guys see the Soundwave light in the upper right corner of the bot page? Man that had to be the suckiest disguise ever.

tigertracks 24 wrote:And did you guys see the Soundwave light in the upper right corner of the bot page? Man that had to be the suckiest disguise ever.

You beat me to it! That's totally Soundwave's lamp post alt mode!

At least he's not Signal Lancer... in the middle of the dessert with a pointy stick up his butt!

Wow... no wonder Thundercracker's been so surly lately. Looking at Bombshell's design (the missile pods on his shoulders) and what look like a couple mutated coneheads in the mob, it suddenly clicked that all these experiments might have been carried out on seekers.

Down_Shift wrote:..The hell is that guy?

It's Deluge! My favorite Aquaspeeder that I had when I was a kid!

This is actually the first time that I am looking forward to picking up an issue of AHM. It's either seeing Su's art again, or the way that Thundercracker is portrayed.

I just hope that the rest of the issue lives up to the first 4 pages.

Down_Shift wrote:..The hell is that guy? Breakdown? Armada Wheeljack?

someone on the 2005 boards realized who it was. it's g2 deluge

http://tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Deluge/deluge.htm

pretty cool to see an obscure g2 con.

*edit. looks like firebird beat me too it. good job

Loving Kup with the cyber-stogie. Makes him look like the grizzled veteran he is!

...

So did Bombshell crack an Autobot? Kind of makes it seem that way. Bombshell, created by torture, to torture.

Nice litle outburst by Cracker too.

WTF is Jazz going to tell Kup, was it Jazz?

yeah I know people hate, but every single issue of AHM has blownme away, this next one looks to be no different. And backstory, here it comes!

Wait... sudden sinking feeling here:

Doesn't this totally invalidate Spotlight: Blaster? Beachcomber was injected with a cerebro-shell from Bombshell.

McCarthy throws canon straight outta the window.

and the art is Guidi? looks more EJ Su.

I think the Insecticons and The Swarm were the results of trying to turn little insentient bots (Spotlight: Blaster) into big sentient bots and Thundercracker is upset that apparently many Decepticons were guinea pigs for the process and not put out of their misery.
(Just continuing to try and shoehorn this thing into continuity)

I think the Soundwave lamppost was just a nod to the first episode of the cartoon. We know that Soundwave is on Earth.

Jazz must have been ground zero for the first or major assault. Since the attack was galaxy wide it is safe to assume that many Autobots didnt know what hit them. Kup and Co. must have just been trying to survive the attack and find other Autobots to regroup and figure out what happened.

I didn't know this series was still being published. And I hope IDW isn't gonna start going overboard on the little easter egg nuggets the way the last comic company did. They aren't cute, they're annoying. It's like, "Yes, you watched the cartoon and read they original comics, we get it. Gotcha. Thanks."

MYoung23 wrote:I think the Soundwave lamppost was just a nod to the first episode of the cartoon. We know that Soundwave is on Earth.

Oh yeah, it ws total fanwankery, I was not trying to imply that it was Soundwave in that pic, just the object that he stole his disguise from. I believe it has been done before in comics, but it's just cool to see.

what are those insect looking guys in the second page ?

Retroqqq wrote:what are those insect looking guys in the second page ?

The Swarm, the experiments that did not work.

Oh so now we're getting some story in this comic?
And once again it contradicts established continuity but oh well at least he tries.
At least I'll get some EJ Sue art in this comic.

On the surface it does indeed seem to feck continutiy out the window. and i'll admit i was angry at that as spotlight blaster was a lovely little read.

BUT.

we dont know whats going on. at first i thought if they were in their WW forms you could easily explain it as being set before spotlight blaster and maintain that we just didnt see the swarm till now. but the fact their in their escalation forms means that these scenes have to be set at least in the last year or so.

so i thought "thats it , complete pissing on whats gone before and glaring continuity gaff"

THEN i got to thinking. why am i assuming that im seeing bombshell creation? what if its his RE creation?

what if megs deliberatly experimented on thousands of his own troops to resurect a bombshell and the insecticons who couldve been offed AFTER spotlight blaster who got payback on em!

it'd certainly explain why he's asking him who he is and where he is. im thinking that how this whole thing came about now is this resurected bombshell, using his abiiity to controll others, implanted a bot with a crebro shell. and the bots, who thought this ability was dead and gone, didnt look out for it and got sucker punched by a "Traitor".

at least thats my theory.

in fact to further tie it to continuity you could say the process was extrapolated from jhiaxus's tech involving the monstercons or indeed the fallen dead universe TFs .

it mightnt be the cluster fuck we think it is.

partholon wrote:On the surface it does indeed seem to feck continutiy out the window. and i'll admit i was angry at that as spotlight blaster was a lovely little read.

BUT.

we dont know whats going on. at first i thought if they were in their WW forms you could easily explain it as being set before spotlight blaster and maintain that we just didnt see the swarm till now. but the fact their in their escalation forms means that these scenes have to be set at least in the last year or so.

so i thought "thats it , complete pissing on whats gone before and glaring continuity gaff"

THEN i got to thinking. why am i assuming that im seeing bombshell creation? what if its his RE creation?

what if megs deliberatly experimented on thousands of his own troops to resurect a bombshell and the insecticons who couldve been offed AFTER spotlight blaster who got payback on em!

it'd certainly explain why he's asking him who he is and where he is. im thinking that how this whole thing came about now is this resurected bombshell, using his abiiity to controll others, implanted a bot with a crebro shell. and the bots, who thought this ability was dead and gone, didnt look out for it and got sucker punched by a "Traitor".

at least thats my theory.

in fact to further tie it to continuity you could say the process was extrapolated from jhiaxus's tech involving the monstercons or indeed the fallen dead universe TFs .

it mightnt be the cluster **** we think it is.

Even if that would be so there are still sooooooooooo many continuity errors in this "story" like the very beginning of AHM #1 all up to Kup and the Matrix, plus the fact Prime is dyeing while we saw that he can save himself by downloading himself into his trailer.
To be frank I think this should be snuffed out of continuity and set into the Spotlight Mirage universe.

which is how it all ends, mirage waking up after stasis lock... AGAIN.

partholon you may be on to something. Megs could have had Deluge experiment on the Decepticon dead. The swarm could be like zombies, half animated wrecks shambling around, and if has been implied already in AHM that the swarm will eat you.

Slag I want to see how Kickback is like in AHM, let's see him charm the pants off us for once, rather than just reading about it on his character profiles.

ponycorn wrote:Megs could have had Deluge experiment on the Decepticon dead.

Or he could be experimenting on living Decepticons.

That would explain Thundercrackers unhappiness with the situation.

One way you could explain the Prime thing is that earlier Megatron went slow with Prime trying to kill him as painfully as possible with a villian monologue mixed in giving Prime time to download into his trailer.

In AHM his damage could have occured much quicker causing a shock to his system and thus not giving him time to download into his trailer.

Or simply, Megatron destroyed his trailer first this time.

As I've said before, this latest Bombshell error is a combo of arrogance and bad writing skills.

If you have an idea that doesn't quite fit into the continuity you need to ease it in with some form of explanation that is easy enough to follow but not being patronisingly stupid to your audience, this is not an easy job and this is why most writers will avoid ideas that are too complicated to execute.

This guy just thinks "sod it" and throws the idea in, and even if there is a simple explanation we are not given any clue of what it is making the story impossible to swallow.

I think the answer is very simple that he didnt know about SL Blaster and is just happily churning out this crap before he looks back and goes "oh right...why did he write that, it contradicts my epic" this guy is Pat Lee all over again

tigertracks 24 wrote:

MYoung23 wrote:I think the Soundwave lamppost was just a nod to the first episode of the cartoon. We know that Soundwave is on Earth.

Oh yeah, it ws total fanwankery, I was not trying to imply that it was Soundwave in that pic, just the object that he stole his disguise from. I believe it has been done before in comics, but it's just cool to see.

It's even been done in Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comics:

http://www.angelfire.com/ego/zobovor/pop_culture.html

Nice artwork. And hey, some of us enjoy these little bits of fan service ala Soundwave's lamp post. Props to the ol' school, y'know.

The whole bombshell thing is nearly as much as an issue as people are making it. In Blaster the thing was never shown to be sentient and referred to as a 'it.' We don't get any explanation, but the way Megatron talks, the experiments were more about creating a personality than a body. I got the feeling that the body design was based on the item in SL: Blaster and that given the torture Beachcomber had felt, it would be perfect to give to a spark created entirely for the purpose of torment. I don't think there's anything more to it. Shane's problem seems to be more a willingness to acknowledge and instantly step away from the previously established directions than blatant contradiction(please notice i said 'more' not entirely).