IDW artist and writer Nick Roche has tweeted a set of images from an unused pitch for a Spotlight Octane comic. In collaboration with current More Than Meets The Eye writer, James Roberts, the two pitched the idea of one shot for the triple changer fueler to IDW. No reason why the story wasn’t picked up was given, but Nick goes on to say that there was never a full script written. However, an extensive outline was written by Roberts. Some of the story has ended up in More Than Meets The Eye.
You can check out the unused cover and character artwork after the jump!
Autovolt 127
It's a shame this never was fully realized.
The world needs more collabs between these two. They make a perfect team.
l0te
Man, what a huge bummer this never happened. I love Octane… Fulcrum is okay (great in his debut MTMTE issue, forgettable after) but I would have loved to see that backstory get applied to my favorite flip-flopping triple-changer.
scrumblebee
That's too bad. I actually like Octane a lot and wish he got a new toy or something to make him relevant again.
grindcore138
I've always got time for Roche and Roberts collaborations, would have read/10. At least some of the ideas from it made it to MTMTE.
Nick was also talking about another pitch he made to IDW back in 2010/2011 which sounded really cool as well.
In response to this tweet from Josh Perez (colourist of various TF titles and covers) saying how he'd like an X-Men style Outliers vs Outliers type title:
Also of interest was this about a potential Dinobot story they're hoping to make happen
I'd love it if one day Nick and James are able to do a panel where they can really go into detail about their various other pitches, things that didn't make it into the comics, ideas they used elsewhere etc.
DJW107PRIME
Jeez lousi I miss Spotlights.
Jus09
Ooh, very nice. As a Season 3 fan, I wholeheartedly approve of what I'm looking at. Shame we didn't get this instead of Deviations 'What if Prime never died?'.
OctaneNotTankor
I guess this is as good as it can get. JUST IMAGINE HOW AWESOME THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN. At the very least, we got some good story material out of this (integrated elsewhere, of course).
SerBuckman
According to Roche, the script for the unused spotlight was the precursor for Fulcrum's backstory.Here
YoungPrime
Anyone else miss "Quality" TF Spotlight books?
Guess the only way to get one these days is if the toy is releasing…
TacticalBacon
He's got some weird-ass alt modes, but other than that this would've been awesome. A shame the Spotlight series seems dead, now.
Underlord
If it was used it would have been changed to "spot light Tankor", or even better "spot light tall Tankor"
Novaburnhilde
Very nice.
Unfortunate that it wasn't made into a real story, to suffer the same fate as that proposed Punch / Counterpunch story.
Collectibot
Nice.
Acteon
Hmm, that's a shame. Octane was my only triple-changer as a kid so I have soft spot for the character (and he was central to one of the only decent season 3 cartoons).
Not so sure on the concept art though, maybe that's what killed it
ORIO
Unused Spotlight Octane Artwork and Cover Image – Transformer World 2005 – TFW2005.COM