Dearest Vector Prime, owing to how in the Shattered Glass continuity the Decepticons were the quote on quote 'good guys', how did the events of Super God-Masterforce forego in this?
Dear Shattered-God Surmiser,
I'm aware of an alternate Earth where the colonizing Super-Robots known as 'Cybertrons' came to Earth long ago to infiltrate human civilization and manipulate the course of human history, pushing it ever towards exploitation and destruction of its natural resources. However, the cruel Hawk and Maximus-the-Cowardly found themselves in conflict with the noble Destrons, who had come to Earth to protect its destiny. Like Hawk, they were Pretenders too, but took on grotesque and frightful organic forms to warn humanity that they fought on behalf of the wild creatures across the globe.
Once Turtler and the Seacons secured the oceans and prevented melting in the polar regions, the Cybertrons were desperate and enlisted easily-corruptible human youth to carry out their will: a snobby, elitist student from France, Minerva; the spoiled prince of an empire, Cab, whose fire truck Transtector actually caused fires and burned down forests; and Shuta Gō, a tentative and calculating young man whose father became rich from rigging international soccer tournaments.
Dauros and the other Destrons were worried about active human involvement in their efforts, but the benevolent goddess Angel Alpha gave them her blessing to seek out worthy adversaries: Cancer, the contemplative monk who struggled with his dark side; Bullhorn, who taught self-defense courses at a local homeless shelter; and Wilder, a young business school prodigy who was betrayed by his best friend and ousted from his own nonprofit organization.
The battles escalated, soon involving the Godmasters who could harness the very life-giving energy of Earth itself. The struggles took a turn for the worst when Ginrai appeared, an evil politician who now wore the transtector of the dangerous Optimus Prime.
At this point, Angel Alpha was forced to admit a secret truth: she had hoped to make peace with the Cybertrons and had made transtectors as a peace offering, even one for Ginrai. Alas, this was not to be, and she herself intervened in the conflict, incarnating as Black Zarak, a vengeful form to defend Earth as a last resort. She enlisted the aid of Giga and Mega, a married couple who donated their billions to support carbon neutral efforts. Eventually the scourge of the Cybertrons was repulsed. Giga and Mega were able to adopt not only Wilder, Bullhorn, and Cancer, but also Shuta, Cab, and Minerva, giving them—and the planet—hope for a better future.
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Decepticon Canine Headmaster and Autobot Monsterbot Feline, Fangry vs Grotusque!
started the best about two days ago after a random thought act Fanrgry and decided that him & Grotesque are sorta opposites, having draconian bodies but different animal themes, which sorta helps that Worlds Collide Angry is a retool of Grotusque. Fangry's blaster could've been done better, along with some added motion lines.
The trouble with Grotusque was that he didn't have much refs due to his lack of appearances & slouched toy, and with Fangry having various looks due to his monster mode being kinda squished & interpreted in different ways in various media
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Transformers: Mosaic #376 - "Human Component: Minerva"
Originally posted on May 4th, 2009
Story, Art - Iván Mas
Thanks to - Carlos Oliveros
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wada sez: Minerva was one of the most dramatic reinventions of a Hasbro toy for the Japanese market, a complete redeco of Nightbeat into a medic’s car. Ignoring later retcons, she was the first ever toy of a female Transformer. Together with Shūta and Cab, she was one of the three schoolkids given a Master-Brace by the Autobots, which allows her to transform into a Headmaster and combine with a Transtector. Chōkon Power is involved somehow. Given that Minerva is a schoolgirl, perhaps you’re wondering why Mas has drawn her Like That. Great question! Mas’s stated justification (per the machine-translated commentary I’ve included below the break, along with some extra art) is that he found the premise of the young teens driving around saving the world too far-fetched, so he’s aged them up a bit. Sure, I guess. If we’re talking in terms of the plot of Masterforce, this strip appears to be set after the fourth episode, “Birth! Headmaster Jrs”, which has the first altercation between the Autobot and Decepticon Headmaster Juniors—but obviously Mas is adapting the story for a new audience so is at liberty to futz with this kind of thing. To paraphase a comment by Mas on deviantART, he justifies the sheer quantity of text in this strip by reminding readers that he’s writing about a story/characters most readers will have zero familiarity with, because he’s “not interested in explaining Starscream’s treachery towards Megatron, or how nice Hot Rod is”! Based?
The idea is simple, I want to introduce the main characters of Masterfroce, which outside Japan, are more or less unknown in many countries, and the series, in terms of potential, seems to me the most profitable and innovative.
Personally I have always wanted to face Transformers in a more serious and adult way, more in line with these times, I think that the younger audience already has its "Animated" and will always have the classic series.
I also think that it would be relatively easy to make Transformers a good comic of say "superheroes or robots" and I mean a comic that both Transformers and non Transformers fans would like. And I think it would be easy to put it at the level of ... maybe some x-men (?!) ( sacrilegeee!!!! ) ( not in terms of sales volume, that's logical, but in essence ).
Another of the "problems" that I feel transformers comics have in general is that at graphic level the robots are indeed very well, but that’s all.... when it comes to drawing backgrounds or humans ........... let's be frank although it annoys us, in the comic world, nobody takes transformers as something serious, it is considered a sub-product ( never better said "SUB" ) to simply sell dolls, of course, so far they have done well.
In the mosaic, first of all I tried to create the same feeling I had with Masterforce when I saw it,
- really, this is transformers ? no robots ! -
So, in none of these mosaics I'm going to introduce anything related to robots, although of course, they are an important or fundamental part of the theme.
But before we talked about giving an adult touch to the theme, and in this aspect, I am more interested in what the "souls" of the robots may think, which in this case is the function that humans do, in order to be able to understand better the metallic beings.
But in this aspect I always give the same example... in "the walking dead" the main thing should be the zombies, however they end up being something secondary... and nobody will deny that the series is more than good.
However in this Mosaic, those of you who know Masterforce will have noticed.... in the series, Minerva was not so grown up.... well, I have done it for coherence, the eighties were another thing, but today, it would be too far-fetched, even within the far-fetched nature of the story, that a girl of 15 years not only drove a car, without being stopped by the police, but also save lives and worlds, with the maturity that presumably entails.
Masterforce is also not a new twist to the same, which would be easy and what every X time is already done, but a new concept, an evolution of robots and characters, far are the already "incarcerated and typical" Prime and Megatron, beings to which I have great respect and appreciation, but I consider that neither the fans of Transformers or any series can live forever of the same characters, even more when they are so well known, in this case,
Wolverine is a good example, nowadays it is very difficult to create something surprisingly good and new with Wolverine and even more without breaking the different continuities.
Or Batman too... to create something that really catches the attention, they have had to kill Bruce Wayne .....
I know that I run the risk that many because people don’t see robots, they won’t be interested interested in the story, but without wanting to seem offensive, that’s your problem, we have been watching Prime and Megatron for 25 years..... and I'm starting to get a little tired, and besides even at the time Masterforce was better than the original G.1 in almost all concepts, in animation, character design, drawing and scripting.
So, I hope that people can discover and enjoy Masterforce and I hope that those who already know it can "open" their mind a little and they will like it, if not... they will always have Prime and Megatron.
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