Transformers #22: Oh fuck it's Megatron Edition

>>148970467 (OP)

>>148970467 (OP)
Hell yeah

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>>148970825
E N T E R

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>>148970819
I beg my pardon for the storytime is still going in respect to OP

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>>148970908
Oh everyone's fucked right now

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>>148970951
Megatron in the house

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>>148970596
Magnus really going through

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>>148971077
See ya next time when GI Joe hits. Support your LCS.

>>148970596
Why must he suffer so much?

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>>148970783
Maybe Megatron could've repaired Skywarp, but it looks like we'll be waiting even longer to find out.

>>148970596
Tortyre session followed by breaking out in a frenzy or doc relating to his ptsd letting him out
Wildcard option is magnus becoming christian convert paladin
Also flag looks really young

>>148970951
EXIT

>>148970951
Rip fireflight,they killed you cause you look bald
I expect jetfire as new arm,probably without robot mode or superion to be an amputee

>>148971367
Slingshot*
I hope Magnus will finally do something other than scream

>>148970971
And they just established that the aerialbots were basicamly his sons...

>>148970951
Man, they have got to stop portraying combiner as fucking useless in every single bit of TF media. Every time they show up they just get BTFO.

>>148970951
Why is it always Slingshot?

>>148971681
Tbf, it seem like Superion was able to hold off both Bruticus and Devastator when the rest were ripping the arm off.

>>148971760
Yeah, but then he gets a member killed by a single shot from Megs? I get they want the leaders to be imposing, but that's overkill to one shot a combiner arm off.

I don't like this run.
It borders on torture porn for everyone involved.

>>148971894
But anon, you loved Last Stand of the Wreckers!

>>148971710
Because Slingshot is an asshole, always has been.

I guess they'll be bringing in Alpha Bravo for whenever they repaint the new Vortex figure to sell for $40 on Hasbro Pulse.

>>148971946
What about Airazor?

>>148971964
I think DWJ already said he won’t have a chance to do any BW elements, and Bravo has precedence replacing Slingshot because of Combiner Wars

>>148971894
I think I like that aspect

>>148972016
Not sure why you're bringing up Beast Wars, but yeah that's what I was saying about Alpha Bravo. Kinda sucks because Alpha Bravo's a loser.

>>148971875
>but that's overkill to one shot a combiner arm off.
Yeah especially since Optimus had to actually work for his victory over Devastator

>>148971875
Nah. They show gun mode obliterated the metal dragon. If anything, they are basically restraining themselves by killing only Slingshot.

>>148972053
Because anon asked about Airazor, and most people would remember the BW character attached to the name. I just realized there is a character named Airazor who’s an Aerialbot in the ROTF toyline, but while that was another slingshot replacement, most people probably wouldn’t remember that.

someone theorized the idea of Thundercracker becoming the replacement arm for Superion but its tough to say given this issue or what exactly he did with the Ark.

art is superb

>>148971894
Anon, they bring people back in TF all the time. Also, dying in a story about intergalactic robot war is tonally fine.

>>148970951
EXIT

SLINGSHOT

ENTER

ALPHA BRAVO

>>148971946
>Slingshot is the one that dies in IDW1
>Slingshot dies again in Energon Universe
I assumed at first it was because he was such a dick in his early cartoon appearances, but there wasn't a trace of that when he showed up last issue.

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>>148972053
>Alpha Bravo
Anons, hear me out, how about Powerglide? He can be Superion's new arm AND redeem Chameleon.

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>>148971946
>>148971710
It's really simple.
- All the classic 4 Scramble City combiners had someone replaced or changed for the Combiner Wars toyline.
Slingshot -> Alpha Bravo
Wildrider -> Offroad
Groove -> Rook
space shuttle Blast Off -> fighter jet Blast Off
- IDW1 followed suit with all these changes, because that was the tie-in media at the time.
- Skybound wanted to show off how powerful Megatron is, so a combiner loses a limb. Might as well reference the limb replacement that already happened elsewhere in the franchise. Same thing happened with Prime Cliffjumper and Bumblebee movie Cliffjumper dying.

>thundercracker just fucking dips

but the real question is...where did he go?

>>148973942
In theory, yes. But in reality you have to ask if anyone working on these books even knows about any of the new Combiner Wars characters from over 10 years ago. Hasbro isn't getting Skybound to spotlight specific Transformers to shill current toys, and wouldn't care about shilling Combiner Wars characters in 2025 anyway, and I don't get the sense anyone working on these books really knows many G1 Transformers from after 1986, let alone minor characters from the 2010s.

>>148974362
Unless Energon Universe Skywarp has much more powerful teleporting than usual, or being hooked into the Ark really amped up his powers, they're presumably still on Earth somewhere.

This issue honestly was a disappointment. There’s no real twist to megatron getting his arm back (just another gun morph attack), Autobots got pushed around without any real counterplay, and all this is sill happening before the Joe crossover down the line.
not a promising start to the new arc.

>>148974500
>Hasbro isn't getting Skybound to spotlight specific Transformers to shill current toys
Anon you know we're currently in the process of getting new Devastator and Superion toys, right

>>148974824
Anon, you know Devastator isn't there because there was a toy planned, he's there because he was the first combiner in the first season of the cartoon, and the one that's in the movie, he's the one combiner even the most casual of casuals knows.

Superion is there because he was the first Autobot combiner and to give them something to fight Devastator and Bruticus with. If Hasbro wanted him in there to shill his toy, this issue wouldn't have happened the way it did at all.

>>148974824
And Bruticus.

>>148971324
I hope it's the latter. The Autobots could really use some allies.

>>148970951
This artist needs to work on perspective, it looks like a hole got blown through Superion's torso.

>>148970783

Huh.

Didn't see that coming.

>>148970806
I love these guys.
>>148970845
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0P1Bk8Cx4

>>148970467 (OP)
Thanks for the storytime anon, last month's got me hooked on this run and I read it all in preparation for today

>>148976586
it really doesn't

>>148971894
I dunno, Megatron is having a good time.

>>148977182
How do you like it, having read it all at once anon?

>>148970894
Knew that the arm had to go eventually but it was a cool Optimus Prime look for a bit.

>>148977902
I'm just amazed they went with the actually does bad things with it. I remember reading in another thread someone shooting it down.

>>148977922
The only weird part is now Megs can just self repair? Why can he glue his arm back on so easily?

>>148977965
he has healing powers, as long as he has the parts. remember that the quints zapped him with an evil matrix

RIP Slingshot
We hardly knew ye

>>148970925
Man, I already knew it wouldn't take Meg's long to take back his arm, but... Damn...
>>148970925
And, of course Superior got fucked and did shit. Fantastic.
Maybe it's just me, but for how hyped they tend to be, combiners don't seem to do well too often.

>>148978449
>Again with the dying? I need to get an agent.

>>148978299
So, Ravage is out permanently now? Because if so, it's pretty funny how the Decepticons are doing more damage to their own ranks than the Autobots.

>>148978576
Megatron got Ravage all fixed up
He was out and about in the FCBD issue

>>148978604
Oh, that's neat then.

I know whos replacing the arm If its not Jetfire,Its gonna be blades since defensor got deconfirmed for now.
He fits,red and white helicopter,just get him off cybertron.

Thundercracker will takes Slingshot's place.

thanks for the upload op

>>148980443
Doubt it,he stole the ark after saying all those cybertronians know is fighting,he is a deserter from not only cons but war itself now and will try to uncouple skywarp from ark,Blades makes more sense cause he is an autobot on a combiner team and I wouldnt be suprised if they want to reference how original combiners (after devastator) could swap places with each other.
Its gonna be skywarp most likely tho,unless he hitched a ride on skywarp,then I predict him being a part of skywarp and cracker turning or going neutral.

>>148973942
I always wished jet Blastoff was a new character to follow the pattern.
I called mine Blast.

>>148980779
but there's already a Blast, Black Thrust
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blast

>>148980664
I know you meant to say Jetfire in there
I'm trying to decide if cobbling together Skywarp amd Jetfire would better result in an existing named character or an OC

>>148981551
>jetfire becoming a fusion again
>but this time the fusion in question is named skyfire
yup, i'm thinking kino

>>148971894
The only interesting thing cybertronians can do is die, been this way since the original film.

>>148981392
How about “Take-Off?”

>>148982022
thats better. but i think the name is taken but its less deritive than just Blast. i mean i thought that seeker Blast was a dumb name until i realize it was shortened from BLAck thruST.

>>148970806
>>148970845
I do kinda like that they are trying to mix hard drama with the cheesy dialogue of the original series, but it also makes it harder to take the darker stuff seriously if by next panel, they are joking like they're in the 80s.

>>148970806
>tard-wrangler Megatron

>>148970825
Silverbolt’s line here makes me wonder if he’s going to take after his Beast War’s namesake’s personality a bit

>>148970467 (OP)
variant covers
Transformers #21 Cover B Jorge Corona Variant
Transformers #21 Cover F Jason Howard Energon Universe Second Anniversary Connecting Virgin Variant
Transformers #21 Cover G Jason Howard Black & White Energon Universe Second Anniversary Connecting Virgin Variant
Transformers #21 Cover C 1:10 David Nakayama Connecting Variant
Transformers #21 Cover D 1:25 Derrick Chew Variant
Transformers #21 Cover E 1:50 Simon Parr Variant
Transformers #21 616 Comics Tiago da Silva Connecting Virgin Variant
Transformers #21 616 Comics Tiago da Silva Connecting Virgin Variant
Transformers #21 MBartist Len Nicholas Variant

>ONE WILL STAND.

ONE WILL RISE.

There's no going back, as the Autobots and Decepticons prepare to make their last stand.
Transformers #22 Cover B Jorge Corona Variant
Transformers #22 Cover C 1:10 David Nakayama Connecting Variant
Transformers #22 Cover D 1:25 Manabu Yashiro Variant
Transformers #22 Cover E 1:50 Simon Parr Variant

>ENTER THE MATRIX

The last hope for the Autobots exists within the Matrix of Leadership. But will the Decepticons triumph before those answers are found?
Transformers #23 Cover B Jorge Corona Variant
Transformers #23 Cover C 1:10 David Nakayama Connecting VariantCover C 1:10 David Nakayama Connecting Variant
Transformers #23 Cover D 1:25 Doug Mahnke Variant
Transformers #23 Cover E 1:50 Simon Parr Variant

What happened to the one human survivor that Starscream kept alive?
The artist?

>>148983146
Currently stuck in that severed chunk of Cybertron I presume, and with all the turbulent shit that went on during the last arc I'd say it's safe to say his pet cat is either missing or dead

>>148983117
Some genuine choices to make here
I like that decepticon cover amd that arcee cover for next month
And having to choose between that Autobot group shot amd that Ultra Magnus cover

Two page preview of #22

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/12/skybounds-transformers-2-page-preview-of-issue-22-540034

>>148984358
Huh, looks like humans will finally help the Autobots out a little.
That's nice, the guys could really use the help.

>>148984358
They gonna carry them away on thr trucks and use em to make new arm for prime,use those carrier rails and make a whip out of em so prime can belt whip megabum hulk hogan style

>>148970672
Why does Megatron keep defaulting to his gun form and not his tank? He's a triple changer, and I get the use of controlling others, but you'd think he'd want to do the kill himself occasionally

>>148970571
I really hope we don't go through an extended song and dance of "US Government continues to do unethical things to Cybertronians and hunts the Autobots" period

>>148986408
I think the thing is he can't turn into a tank anymore

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>>148970596
Humans hurting Autobots is always retarded because it never ends well. If you win, you kill a potential protector who could have saved you from Decepticons attacking you and everything you cared about. And if you fail, you die like an asshole.
I don't understand why they keep doing this when its a pointless exercise for everyone involved. The Bay movies did this so bad it killed their franchise, and these writers really saw that and said "yeah lets do that again".

>>148971894
I gotta agree, I get where they were going, but it's honestly upsetting and annoying seeing the Autobots be almost completely unable of getting any kind of advantage over the Decepticons, at least not without suffering significant loses soon after.
Like they just got the aerialbots and Superion back, only for the Ark to be abducted and for Superion to get crippled by Megatron like it was nothing.
Also doesn't help that, so far, the Autobots are getting the short end of the stick from humanity constantly.

>>148973732
>redeem

that's not how you spell mating press

>>148970951
They should have carried Slingshot's body too

>>148988447
Yeah, that part made no sense to me. Just grab it and run, you're already grabbing Prime.

>>148970467 (OP)

Thanks for the story.

By the way, does anyone have the Energon Universe 2025 annual thingy? Was it posted before?

>>148989362
>why can't I hold
>all these Primes

the part that made no sense was Megatron only firing once

>>148989889
Nope, it's been a whole month since it released and it still hasn't been scanned, shit sucks man, I don't remember the 2024 one taking this long to post

>>148989942
Maybe OP will post?

>>148984358
>The humans finally help the Autobots
Cool.

>>148970467 (OP)
Thanks

>>148990354
I wish, but I don't have it either

>>148988352
I'm sure he can do both at the same time.

>>148970467 (OP)
Interesting. Bump for read.

>>148990814
yeah its nice to see this come full circle especially with how much the Autobots suffer.

>>148984358
>random rural hospital doc is more effective than GI Joe

figures