#300
This comic was basically split up into thirds because at the
time the chat board had a limitation of pictures that could be included per
post so I had to post each of the three parts at different parts of the day. I
didn’t mind doing that, it added to the uniqueness of the milestone and
splitting it up helped for storytelling purposes.
The first nine pictures were simple…in fact because I wanted
to keep who came out of the hole a mystery, I was able to reuse some of the
pictures a couple times. I was happy that none of the readers were able to
spoil the reveal by guessing who came through the Purple Hole, making the end
of the comic have that much bigger an impact.
I definitely wanted to feature the Decepticons in the next
part of the comic, licking their wounds after the fight. Waspinator’s idea was
meant to be random, based on what Starscream had said about good guys always
winning, though some readers thought it alluded to Shattered Glass characters,
in which Autobots were evil and Decepticons were good, were the ones who came
through the Purple Hole. The Shattered Glass story was the Botcon theme that
year (2008) so I don’t blame them for making that assumption. I liked the
building applause Waspinator got for his idea, started by Inferno, the one who
normally handed him never-ending torment. The last thing to address is Megatron
mentioning ‘Kiss Players’…which is something I don’t want to delve into here,
nor do I really like to recall as part of the Transformers franchise period. If
you really want to know what it is and you don’t mind horrifying yourself, feel
free to Google it.
The last eleven comics served to neatly wrap up the movie
plotline, send Optimus and a handful of other Autobots off to be featured in
the crossover with TFW2005 Boards member ShadowDragon as well as reveal who came through the Purple
Hole. It sounds like a lot to cram into eleven pictures but I think it worked
just fine without feeling too terribly rushed. After making fun of the movies
for the better part of fifty comics I had to flip things around and say that G1
isn’t an infallible cornerstone of the franchise. I was happy to work in one
last movie spoof dealing with Jazz’s death. Honestly G1 Ratchet probably could
have saved him if he had the chance.
Unicron’s re-emergence with two heralds in tow was just
something I wanted to do to keep with bringing gods into the comic in milestones,
and I thought that it would be unexpected since I already used Unicron and
killed him off. Little did I know that it would be something that would
literally affect the comic long-term and offer dozens of future plot threads.
The heralds were fairly obvious choices; I jumped at the chance to use Nemesis
Prime since I love the Classics Optimus mold and Galvatron was obvious due to
his longstanding ties to Unicron in nearly every iteration of Transformers lore
he appears in. The Classics Galvatron toy wasn’t the best…it was small compared
to Megatron, and it suffered from design issues due to originally being planned
as a larger toy but being shrunk down and released at the deluxe price point,
but since I didn’t have any intention of killing off Megatron and reformatting
him; rather using Galvatron as his own standalone character like I had imagined
when I was a child playing with my G1 toys, it worked out fine.
I’m not saying every comic that follows is great…in fact,
far from it. But I consider this to be the turning point in the comic after the
big shakeup of moving and explaining the scene change and uneven storytelling
with too many threads going on at once with the movie spoof and all the
upgrading going on. In my opinion this is where things really start to get
good!
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