Starscream also plays a role in the other Transformers title scheduled for release this week, Shattered Glass issue #2. Read on through the 5-page preview as he recalls his first meeting with Megatron, while the Decepticon leader struggles to forgive past mistakes, then join in the discussion on the 2005 boards!
Creator credits: Danny Lore (Author), Dan Khanna (Artist), Alex Milne (Cover Artist), Andrew Griffith (Cover Artist), Sara Pitre-Durocher (Cover Artist)
Shattered Glass isn’t your average Transformers tale… “Shards” is the story of the ongoing battle between the power-hungry Autobot autocrats and the freedom-fighting Decepticon laborers. Join author Danny Lore (James Bond, King in Black: Captain America, Champions) in exploring this fractured alternate universe just before it shatters.
AzT
https://twitter.com/DanPGWatters/status/1443215281690746890
Hooper_X
Says you.
I, personally, am kind of fucking done with everything having to look just like it did in the cartoon. And ALWAYS just like it did in the cartoon. We'll get Cartoon Colors Soundwave to go with Toy Colors Soundwave but in 40 fuckin' years they've never even FLIRTED with Magenta Comics Soundwave. They've made toys of the goofy-as-fuck Shattered Glass version. Multiple ones!
The more we get chained to EVERYTHING MUST BE SUNBOW the less interesting the franchise gets to me, because like… how are you going to improve on ST86 Jazz beyond "it has more accessories/better deco"? It's about as good a toy of Sunbow Jazz as we're going to get within the limitations of the industry as it currently operates.
I'm happy for everyone who's getting the Sunbow figures they've always wanted – I've bought my fair share too, but doing it at the expense of new concepts and new characters is a fucking bore and a bad sign for the future health of the franchise. (yes yes the fossilizers are "new characters" but they literally have no characterization or backstory – they're just there without any explanation or rationale or personality. They're accessories.)
EDIT: I know this is about the BW comics' art style but it's part and parcel of a broader philosophical shift with Hasbro and with certain portions of the fandom. Transformers has never ever been just the one thing, and by trying to force it all into being one thing, you're reducing the possibilities down and down and down until it's just the G1 cartoon, the movies, Armada, and the first seasons of BW and Prime forever.
Hooper_X
That's a distinct lack of imagination. That toy is a bruiser – wide shoulders, no neck (no HEAD), gorilla arms, huge stompy feet… and that's a weapons platform, not a laboratory!
Anyway, there is no "correct aesthetic" for G1, is my actual point I'm making. The G1 aesthetic covers the Sunbow cartoon models, but also the original box art, the UK comics art, and the various art styles found in licensed tie-in books – my personal favorite is the lovely painted art in some of the storybooks, especially when the artists weren't required to adhere to a house style and could just do whatever.
It's inventive and creative and fun and doesn't require everyone to look like a dude wearing cardboard boxes.
Requiem Prime
Well played Hasbro. You set him in a mood that fits the grumpy stock head.
AzT
https://twitter.com/DantheArtguy/status/1442881537075257351
SHIELD Agent 47
I assume it is coincidence, but the new SG Prowl reminds me of the unlicensed 3P figure Toxin.
Chazz Princeton
Lovin\' the new IDW continuity so far!
NexMix
Interesting observation from another thread: sg prowl uses energon megatron's colors
Lunatic Prime
Uh, this thread is for several news posts.
Optimus1138
Like I said, it's not the same color scheme, it's just where my mind went:
Lunatic Prime
Where do you see Prowl in there?
Optimus1138
I know it's not the same color scheme, but the green windows on Prowl are giving me a slight classic Lego Space Police vibe and I love it:
Rated X
Ewww…
In my opinion, I think the cartoon animators knew how ugly that design looked and just said no lets give him some personality. Ironhide has never been a mindless drone in any continuity. He has always been very vocal about his opinions and needs a face with a mouth and a tough, rugged, appearance to facilitate that. A rolling laboratory doesnt exactly fit the name "Ironhide". Even Ratchet needed a face because he had to show empathy.
On a side note, that SG cover that has Megatron with a babyface sucks. I expect better from IDW.
Astrotrain52
I’ll read whenever SG Megatron gets here…or will he be delayed again?
T-Hybrid
LEGACY TOWLINE OR WE RIOT!
Omegaclaw2
@BB Shockwave Ratbat\'s color scheme is based on Batman, and The original sg Megs was a mathematician
Omegaclaw2
@BB Shockwave Ratbat\'s color scheme is based on Batman, and The original sg Megs was a mathematician
BB Shockwave
Da'aaaaw, SG Ratbat looks cute. Weird colors though, does he have Skar's colors?
Not sure what colors Prowl has, either.
Do find it weird that in this universe too Megatron is a rebel miner. I assumed this SG-verse has a completely different origin for him.
Bass X0
Well, yes it is. That is the correct aesthetic; you can find that same aesthetic on the boxes of all the 80s toys. Ironhide is drawn how Ironhide should be drawn, but the design though, Ironhide canonically has a head as he does below. Don’t mistake aesthetic for design. The Beast Wars comic #1 – #6 has both bad aesthetic and bad design. The characters looking like rough sketches or at worse scribbles is an aesthetic, the characters having dumb over exaggerated proportions is design. Both of which has no place in a Beast Wars comic celebrating the 25th anniversary.
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G1 Grimlock
Can\'t wait