Transformers: Ironhide #3 Five Page Preview- MAJOR Character Spoiler!

Major spoiler like a mofo...

i did NOT see that coming

Costa, you, sir, are capable hands.

So, uh... Costa has split personalities, or or what? Because what he does with ongoing is a pile of slag, but Ironhide keeps getting more interesting.

HOLY SLAGGING SON OF A GLITCH THATS ALPHA TRION

WELL SH!T ON ME AND CALL ME A BA$T!TCH

BOUT DAMN TIME THE GUY TOOK ON A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN THE IDW G1 CONTINUITY

and from the looks of it he has had some kind of personel experience with the same non faction group that drift did

so what is he some kind of cybertronian shogun now?

Hey I don't know if anyone has already asked this but is that Metroplex at the end of Ironhide #2? And is that drone with Ironhide at the end of the same comic, and the recent preview pages Scamper?

Vectorshot wrote:Hey I don't know if anyone has already asked this but is that Metroplex at the end of Ironhide #2? And is that drone with Ironhide at the end of the same comic, and the recent preview pages Scamper?

*looks at the head of Scamper at tfu*
*raises eyebrow*

Vectorshot wrote:Hey I don't know if anyone has already asked this but is that Metroplex at the end of Ironhide #2? And is that drone with Ironhide at the end of the same comic, and the recent preview pages Scamper?

It does appear to be Metroplex and Scamper.

The Metroplex theory is a good one, but not one with an answer yet.

I too did not see the A3 coming, but it's good, and can only help IDW/HASBRO get to where they want to be with their 'Original 13' ideas...

....eep!...

FYI-- I'm adding spoiler warnings to the news title and content, and to this original post.

Sorry folks.

Hmm, I thought I posted already but it seems it's gone. Anywho, This issue is looking to be awesome so far I especially love Ironhide's face when A.T introduces himself. My hopes for Sunstreaker coming back are looking good too. That's a very Sunstreaker-esque hand on the second cover there

not A3. his face is covered, we all know thats a dead give away.

its an imposter

Hey guys I strongly believe that issue three has Metroplex in it. If it aint him it's a fortress that can transforming capabilities. Look at the third preview page. Check out the flooring in the fourth panel. Then go and get your copy of 1986's Transformers the movie and go to the scene where Starscream has to blast off his own foot to keep from getting crushed. Notice the similarities? More detail has been added but I think that the artist used the movie as a reference. If I'm wrong I'd like my crow fried and sparsely seasoned, with a side of fries, and a ronald palmer litely iced. The chaps that run this site can cover the bill.

Me thinks this may be the mysterious "no faction" which rebuilt Drift and gave him his big shiny sword and judging by Alpha Trion's clothing I'd say that Drift got his own duds from them as well. See Spotlight Drift if you are wondering what I mean.

On the Metroplex thing-
In issue 2 that city looks nothing like Metroplex (or any other cityformer, with that many towers it would be one hell of a transformation) and considering Metroplex was on a mission by himself (as in alone) in Spotlight Metroplex, I will be surprised if this place is him as having others inhabiting you would be the opposite of being alone (plus he stated he must stay in hiding).


Looks awesome though and will be picking this issue up, Ironhide is looking to be an interesting series

Alpha Trion ... one of the original 13 ...

Ironhide "dies" and wakes up on Cybertron ...

They're all Cylons dammit!

This is in response to Chironext's post. Looking at the G1 series there were many times in the episodes where the story took place inside of Metroplex, and there were extra buildings. In many scenes Metroplex never looked the same. Unless he was a bout to Transform into his robot mode.Then he would look like the toy/figure. A good example would be "The Return of Optimus Prime" episode. The scene in which Ultra Magnus assembled a strike force took place inside of Metroplex and there were more buildings in that scene than depicted in other panels. I am just posting a strong opinion/hunch. Hence my willingness to eat crow if I am wrong.

I want to say in Scramble City, Metroplex was seen as a portion of Autobot City rebuilt.

I think he could be here, if he was a portion of the 'heavenly city'.

Am I the only one who HATES Alpha Trion? People complain about Drift being a fanboy's dream but Trion is a terrible cliche and robots with beards look ridiculous.

I was coming around to IDW at long last but between this and crazy Dark Universe Galvatron, I'm losing faith again.

Alpha Trion should be consigned to Limbo with all the other terrible ideas introduced in Transformers and never seen again.

Alpha Trion - cool! (Wish they'd make a toy of him)

This series bugs the hell out of me! I don't know if it's in the past or the present.

SentinelA wrote:Alpha Trion - cool! (Wish they'd make a toy of him)

This series bugs the hell out of me! I don't know if it's in the past or the present.

Thus, it is doing it's job. Only one more issue to wait until we find out how dead he is.

Vectorshot wrote:This is in response to Chironext's post. Looking at the G1 series there were many times in the episodes where the story took place inside of Metroplex, and there were extra buildings. In many scenes Metroplex never looked the same. Unless he was a bout to Transform into his robot mode.Then he would look like the toy/figure. A good example would be "The Return of Optimus Prime" episode. The scene in which Ultra Magnus assembled a strike force took place inside of Metroplex and there were more buildings in that scene than depicted in other panels. I am just posting a strong opinion/hunch. Hence my willingness to eat crow if I am wrong.

I didn't say that Metroplex can't be inhabited I said that in the IDW universe the last time we see him he was on a mission to protect something so important he was avoiding all cybertronians even though the Autobots were losing the war he still didn't waver from this mission so him being on Cybertron and being inhabited doesn't make sense to me if he's meant to be in hiding. I also know he is often represented as one part of a larger city we even see this in Spotlight Metroplex but it was still obviously him he had his colours and basic shape I just don't see it in that city.

Having said this though, with IDW's history of bad art continuity and plot holes you may be right.

Windsweeper wrote:Am I the only one who HATES Alpha Trion? People complain about Drift being a fanboy's dream but Trion is a terrible cliche and robots with beards look ridiculous.

Maybe this explains his mask, could he be clean shaven?

oops double post

Burn wrote:Alpha Trion ... one of the original 13 ...

Ironhide "dies" and wakes up on Cybertron ...

They're all Cylons dammit!

HA HA! Good one!

SentinelA wrote:This series bugs the hell out of me! I don't know if it's in the past or the present.

It's the TF equivalent of Lost.

1. Perhaps "Alpha Trion" is wearing a mask b/c there's an epidemic of the TF equivalent of swine flu? You never know what germs The Swarm is carrying.

2. Re: whether the city in issue #2 is Metroplex - He doesn't have to be toy-accurate. There's this thing called "artistic license."

txex97 wrote:It's the TF equivalent of Lost.

Overly long, needlessly confusing, taking great enjoyment in obscuring plot points important for enjoying the story for far too long…

Yeah, pretty much.

Once again, Costa manages to spend twenty two pages saying much ado about nothing, and doing absolutely nothing to convince me this is little more than an attempt to thumb his nose at us fans who took offense to his Manufactured Drama'ed death in Ongoing #1. The fact that it's taken three issues to tell a story that could have been told in half of one shows you how badly he's plotted this thing out.

I expect #4 to be Costa by numbers: rushing plot out to serve his story, feature out of character characters doing out of character things in order to serve his story, and be wrapped up as messily as he can.

Sad that US comic stores don't get it until today (Thursday). I guess Monday was a holiday or something.

tigertracks 24 wrote:Sad that US comic stores don't get it until today (Thursday). I guess Monday was a holiday or something.

Sunday, actually.

But trust me. You're not missing much.

Darth Bombshell wrote:

tigertracks 24 wrote:Sad that US comic stores don't get it until today (Thursday). I guess Monday was a holiday or something.

Sunday, actually.

But trust me. You're not missing much.

YEah, I know Sunday was the 4th, I was being silly, but Monday was, as I forgot, the official day for a holiday during the work week, in which banks and government offices were closed, and thus, delaying the shipping for us U.S.-ers.

Anyway, I found this issue to be totally forgettable, and very...contrived, unneeded, and cliché.

SPOILERS!

Ironhide has been brought back to life on Cybertron by Alpha Trion, whose (A3's) personality as not even half as endearing as it was in the G1 cartoon.

He's not compassionate, he's not understanding, and he's really not helpful. I hope the A3 in the 'Original 13' is much more than this one appears to be.

Apparently, IH's whole purpose for being brought back is that he is the 'toughest' Autobot. Apparently tougher than Guardian robots, Omega, the Wreckers, name any powerful robot, or robots, and it appears IH is thought to be more powerful, and savvy than all of them.

Because he gets to wipe out 'The Swarm'. Ironhide exterminator is going to do by himself, what a group of underpowered, yet, numerous Autobots and the Wreckers could not do to any degree of achievement. And Ironhide was with this group in AHM, too. Wha????

I have to read it again, because I feel as though I missed something. Something that tells me that there is more to it than this.

Oh, and how awesome. Another robot returns from the dead....

SPOILERS!

Ironhide finds the traitor Sunstreaker, who is still functional as we saw in some previous issue of something... IH who was so ready to clean Mirage's clock when he was the traitor, is so lonely he goes and saves Sunstreaker and brings him back to sudo-Metroplex, for A3 to repair.

And how appropriate, after having so many flashbacks, IH does not seem to remember anything recent. So he has no real ill will toward SS.

A3 is an unfeeling, and self-centered being who basically could care less about SS, except that SS actually recognizes A3, where IH has 'never heard of him'.

Was this issue needed? Did I feel any sense of knowing after this that I did not before? NO.

I think DB is rubbing off on me, but I am becoming really cynical about these comics. I really enjoyed all the previous issues of IH. But this issue just keeps us stuck where we were, all we get are A3 admitting he needs IH and that's why IH is alive again, and IH understanding his purpose here is to destroy the Swarm.

Awesome. GahhhH!!!!! Frustrated.

Need to read some good fiction. At least X-Men Second Coming has kept me interested, and excited.

I was also reading SW LOTJ Allies. My reading enjoyment needs help! Allies just showed me the type of SW book I do not want to read.

Back to IH #3. Not interesting.

tigertracks 24 wrote:I think DB is rubbing off on me, but I am becoming really cynical about these comics.

Hey, don't give me all the credit. Some of it must go to Costa for making these things suck to begin with.

I've enjoyed the series so far -
If it is Metroplex, is he safeguarding Vector Sigma?
I don't know how I feel about Sunstreaker getting rescued...Though I chuckled at his scream....
Uh, Alpha Trion doesn't have a beard. He's got a rag. Might be worse than just having a beard.

Stormer wrote:If it is Metroplex, is he safeguarding Vector Sigma?

Nope, for half a line A3 mentions Vector Sigma is destroyed. Not anything more of what its purpose was in this universe or anything, just that it was destroyed.

I looked forward for this issue, but it let me down. I really couldn't follow IHs and A3s dialogue, and A3s "Hey, I'm the guy who everybody loved, Alpha Trion! Did I mention I was Alpha Trion? Even your half-scrap buddy, Sunstreaker knows I'm Alpha Trion!" speech was irritating.

And sending Iron"Ash"hide out to destroy a planetful of zomb... errr, insecticons alone, on a planet that is radiated? (not to mention that Ironhides power reserve was depleted on his way to Metroplex after he resurrected, so it is doubtful he can even cross a larger section of the planet before he is depleted again)

So, after the first few pages, the issue went downhill, and I don't know whether the next issue can cure this mini-series.

Actually, what A3 says is "After the destruction of Cybertron, Vector Sigma was essentially erased." I suppose that could be constituted as VS's destruction in that it no longer has anything useful to contribute.
I still like the mini-series. It's definately no Last Stand of the Wreckers, which was jawdropping GREAT.

I'm alright with the series. also, someone I chatted with the other day pointed out that his whole "this clothing will protect me!" thing seems to be the equivalent of a tin foil hat. A3 does seem kind of subtly bonkers after this was pointed out to me...alot of his dialogue seems intentionally confusing as well, like Ironhide is pretty much reacting like how WE would. "Who the hell are you? What? Huh? The hell are you talking about?"

After reading this issue I am some what disappointed. This book was a waste of time, paper, and money. There is no way that the next issue can redeem this series especially if the next one is the last one in this series.