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Transformers: Mosaic #646 - "Bounty On Bludgeon"

Originally posted on May 14th, 2012

Story, Art - Mike Prezzato Colours - Benjamin Sawyer Letters - Kenny Jeffrey

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wada sez: People didn’t really like this one. Mike said on deviantART: “thanks for digging the art-as for the story, I purposely didn't think too far into it. Lockdown collects a bounty on Bludgeon, frying coneheads in his path. Thats it. Just a fun one pager that just came together as I was drawing it, no more, no less..take it or leave it. Just wanted to draw some Decepticons I like in a simple and short fashion, like a snippet out of a larger tale. Use your imagination and fill in the blanks.” Bludgeon and Lockdown both appear in their toy-only Revenge of the Fallen designs, which people commonly repurposed as the characters’ G1 incarnations.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #original continuity #Mike Prezzato #Benjamin Sawyer #Kenny Jeffrey #Bludgeon #Lockdown #Dirge #Ramjet

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Transformers: Mosaic #645 - "Down And Out In Downtown Kaon"

Originally posted on May 8th, 2012

Story, Colours, Letters - HdE Art - Jason Ho

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wada sez: This strip leads into Megatron Origin issue #2—the irony being that the Constructicons only use Wheezel and his friend as raw material for their building work. The graffiti on the walls reads “WHEELIE WAS HERE” and “REJECT THE PROPGANDA [sic] - BLASTER [...] WRONG”, both in the exact same text, implying maybe Wheelie had a countercultural phase I guess? Other snatches include “BELIEVE IN [...] OF”, “THE WORLD IS ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US”, and “PIT FIGHT HERE TONIGHT”.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #IDW Transformers #HdE #Jason Ho #Wheezel #Hook #Long Haul #Scrapper #Scavenger #Bonecrusher

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Transformers: Mosaic #644 - "Rock 'N' Roll With Real Rocks"

Originally posted on April 24th, 2012

Story, Art - D.J. Bryant

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wada sez: This strip seems heavily inspired by a scene from the Sunbow cartoon episode “Attack of the Autobots”, in which Jazz tests his new sound system with Spike (and others) in a canyon. Willamette Valley is where Portland is situated in Oregon.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #D.J. Bryant #Jazz #Spike Witwicky

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Transformers: Mosaic #643 - "Homecoming"

Originally posted on April 16th, 2012

Story, Letters - HdE Art - Philip Knott

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wada sez: We’ve had a few strips about Praxus by this point, you should know the deal. Knott based Red Alert’s design on a custom War Within Sideswipe. Clean colors below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave #HdE #Philip Knott #Prowl #Thundercracker #Red Alert

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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "Birth Of The Sixchangers"

Originally posted on May 14th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Kei Tomoe Edits - King Wrench

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wada sez: I think First Aid has been given a Constructicon color scheme here, because the Shattered Glass Constructicons share a white/red medical color scheme? The color schemes for Quickswitch and Sixshot appear to have been created by simply inverting their usual color schemes. Possibly entirely coincidentally, almost ten years later, John-Paul Bove would take exactly the same approach with Sixshot for the official IDW Shattered Glass comic series, arriving at an identical color scheme. I suppose it’s possible Bove just Googled “Shattered Glass Sixshot”, but it seems unlikely he’d lie about doing so! See below for the clean inks and colors for this strip.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #unpublished #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #Kei Tomoe #King Wrench #Sixshot #Quickswitch #Hot Rod #First Aid

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Transformers - "Hidden Signal"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Sören Peeters Edits - Paul Vromen

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wada sez: This strip ties into the present-day plot of “Chaos”, after Megatron deliberately allows himself to be captured by the Autobots. See below for a Dutch translation.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #IDW Transformers #unpublished #Wout Jut #Sören Peeters #Paul Vromen #official creator #Megatron #Shockwave #Starscream #Soundwave #Optimus Prime

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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "To The Death"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art, Edits - Mike Ackerman Colours, Edits - Lisa Sky

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wada sez: To recycle his Grimlock/Overkill strip with Ackerman for his Shattered Glass project, Wout Jut had the whole thing recolored to instead cast them as Thrustor/Grimlock! Thrustor is an odd choice for Shattered Glass, selected solely for his saurian alternate mode. Note how the second and last panels were swapped to better suit the new script. Clean colors below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #unpublished #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #Mike Ackerman #Lisa Sky #Grimlock #Thrust #Optimus Prime

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Transformers: Generation One - "Brothers In Arms"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Lisa Sky Edits - Paul Vromen

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wada sez: Hey, this ain’t a Shattered Glass story! Apparently, Wout Jut wrote it on request from Ackerman. Overkill’s Universe toy was a redeco of Classics Grimlock, so there’s a direct connection between the characters; you may recall “Upgrades” similarly riffed on that idea. Clean inks below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #original continuity #unpublished #Wout Jut #Mike Ackerman #Lisa Sky #Paul Vromen #official creator #Overkill #Grimlock #Ironhide #Bumblebee #Kup #Springer #Optimus Prime

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Transformers: Mosaic #642 - "Let's Play Frisbee"

Originally posted on March 26th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - James Cox Colours, Letters - Brandy Dixon

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wada sez: In the Shattered Glass universe, the Scrounges are a bunch of disposable, interchangable drones under Blaster’s command; a riff on Scrounge being unique thanks to his “special arm”. This one was actually published as a Mosaic! It was Brandy Dixon’s first ever lettering effort, per a comment on TFW2005.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #James Cox #Brandy Dixon #official creator #Scrounge #Starscream #Megatron #Rumble #Overkill #Ravage #Howlback #Beastbox #Squawktalk #Ratbat #Slugfest

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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "All About Trust"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story, Letters - Wout Jut Art - Koen Luyten Colours - Caroline Richard Edits - Paul Vromen Posters Colors - Tomoko

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wada sez: After ditching Optimus Prime in yesterday’s strip, Elita-One falls in with Megatron. See below for full-scale versions of the “wanted posters”, along with both the preliminary and final colors for the strip.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #unpublished #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #Koen Luyten #Caroline Richard #Paul Vromen #Tomoko #official creator #Elita One #Megatron

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Transformers: Shattered Glass Comics - "Farewell"

Originally posted on May 12th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Rui Onishi Colours - Philip Knott Edits - Paul Vromen, King Wrench

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wada sez: Get ready for a week of Wout Jut comics! These one-page strips were collected on deviantART with a mockup cover based on this strip. Only one of them was actually published as a Mosaic, but I expect most of the others were intended for the project before its cancellation. Shattered Glass Elita-One repurposed the Cybertron Override GTS figure; this strip gives her an original aerial mode. See below for tons of ancillary material for this one.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Shattered Glass #unpublished #Shattered Glass Comics #Wout Jut #Rui Onishi #Philip Knott #Paul Vromen #King Wrench #official creator #Elita One #Optimus Prime

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Transformers: Mosaic #641 - "The Master"

Originally posted on March 19th, 2012

Story - Martin Fisher Art - Rui Onishi Colours - Javier Reyes Edits - Dave Reynolds

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wada sez: This is Martin Fisher’s penultimate Mosaic strip. As always, having one of the greatest Transformers artists of all time on art duties goes a long way, but this is a remarkably entertaining take on the antipathy between Motormaster and the rest of the Stunticons! While the characters of Wildrider, Dead End, and Breakdown struggle to come through in their brief lines, Drag Strip exclaiming “I always win!” is a great expression of his Budiansky bio. See below for clean inks.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #original continuity #Martin Fisher #Rui Onishi #Javier Reyes #Dave Reynolds #official creator #wada recs #Motormaster #Wildrider #Dead End #Drag Strip #Breakdown

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Transformers: Mosaic #640 - "Ragnarok"

Originally posted on March 12th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: See the link above for some commentary! On deviantART, the project team clarified: “Yep, multiple Abominuses (or is it Abomini? :D ), these guys had so little personality in the cartoon that the ones we saw in the show could have very well been different sets of Terrorcons, it's also a nod to the armies of Terrorcons the Quints had in TF:Energon.” They also had this to say about their involvement with Mosaic generally: “this will be most probably one of our last Mosaics as we've been asked to not submit any more thre-part stories.” The evil is defeated!

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Mitsuko Hazama #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Cosmos #Abominus #Quintessons #Computron #Perceptor #Arcee #Hot Rod #Jazz #Springer

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Transformers: Mosaic #639 - "Wrath Of The Gods"

Originally posted on March 5th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: Smash that link above to find out what’s going on here!

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Mitsuko Hazama #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Cosmos #Sharkticons #Quintessons #Hun-Gurrr #Cutthroat #Sinnertwin #Rippersnapper #Blot #Talaria

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Transformers: Mosaic #638 - "The God Makers"

Originally posted on February 27th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: The first part of yet another three-part trilogy from these guys, titled “They Were Titans”—y’know, ‘cause they’re literally Titans. I’m told Mosaic at one point had a hard limit on multi-part stories going no longer than three strips, and I have to imagine that was entirely because of this team. Click the link above to find out what they meant by this, I’m not your dad. See below for a character model for the little Sharkticons and a cover for this storyline.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Mitsuko Hazama #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Quintessons #Sharkticons #Unicron #Primus

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Transformers: Mosaic #636 - "Guilt"

Originally posted on February 13th, 2012

Story, Art - Jim Lafferty

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wada sez: Contrary to the credit given, the dialogue here is actually lifted entirely wholesale from Simon Furman’s debut on the Marvel Comics series with issue #56. Lafferty has redrawn it using IDW designs, but appears not to have known about Goldbug’s IDW appearance in Spotlight: Metroplex. Clean colors below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #IDW Transformers #Jim Lafferty #Ratchet #Bumblebee #Jazz #Grimlock #Blaster #Starscream

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Transformers: Mosaic #635 - "The Purple Ship"

Originally posted on February 6th, 2012

Story, Art - Dušan M.

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wada sez: This crossover with Doctor Who features specifically the Second Doctor (played by Patrick Troughton) for some reason, with his companions Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #original continuity #crossover #Dušan M. #The Doctor #Ravage