Familiar Reflections

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"Familiar Reflections"
Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club#60
Writers	Jesse Wittenrich&Pete Sinclair
Pencils	Guido Guidi
Inks	Guido Guidi
Colors	Evan Gauntt
Letters	Jesse Wittenrich
Managing editor	Pete Sinclair
Continuity	Shattered Glass

Events come to head in the Shatteredverse: events that will change the multiverse forever...

Contents 1Synopsis 2Featured characters 3Quotes 4Notes 4.1Continuity notes 4.2Transformers references

Synopsis

It is the year 2015 in the"Shattered Glass" universe.The evil Autobots have once again tried to destroy the heroic Decepticons. And once again, they have failed. Onboard the AutobotSky Lynx,the defeated Autobots travel back to Cybertron. Sky Lynx meekly informsRodimusthat his engines cannot take the strain of all the weight onboard. Pleased, Rodimus addresses the crew, informing them of the situation, and figuring that since some of them are worse off than others, they'll be the volunteers. The heavily damaged Autobots are left to drift out in space, and Rodimus carries the prone body ofOptimus Primeto the door, smugly telling his glorious leader that it hurts him to do this. With Prime gone, Rodimus declares that he's taking over, and all the Autobots, unwilling to disagree, fall in line.

Out in space, the abandoned Autobots float, death seemingly certain. Prime awakes when he hears a voice calling out to him and demands to know who it is. As a massive planet comes into view, the voice emanates from it, telling him that he...

...isUnicron.

To be continued.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Now that Optimus has had ta beleavin'us... any-ah youse losers wish to be arguin' the fact thatI'mtakin' over? "[beat]"That's what I thought."

—Rodimus

Notes

Continuity notes

• The story, a prologue to next year's storyline, takes place in between thefourthandfifthchapters.
• When last seen in "Transhuman",Rodimus was operating his own Autobot faction on Earth as" Rodimus Prime, "having betrayed Optimus and abandoning him on Cybertron. It is neverreallyexplained in the comic why he's returned under his command, but the "Teletraanic History Record" forSoundwavein issue#65of the Collectors' Club magazine indicated that Rodimus had fallen under Optimus once more to attack Decepticon City while the Decepticons were unprepared, "demoted" back to Rodimus once more; presumably, with the Decepticons having gained the upper hand in the war, Optimus was willing to ignore betrayals for the time being. Similarly, Brawn, Ratchet, Blaster, Tailgate, and Rewind (plus Prowl and Inferno, as "Coalescence"would reveal) had all joined under Rodimus's rogue faction, while Sky Lynx had served underAlpha Trion.
• Rodimus has also regained his left hand, replaced with a buzzsaw afterGrimlockbit it off him in "Dungeons & Dinobots".
• Chromedome was mentioned by Optimus as a "head on the shelf" in "Dungeons & Dinobots";at the time, it was more likely than not meant that he was dead, but here it's shown to be a lot more literal.

Transformers references

• This comic, and much of the resultant storyline, is theShattered Glasstake onThe Transformers: The Movie.The story takes place in 2015, 10 years after the year the film took place in. This chapter of the comic is a pastiche of the scene whereStarscreamleavesMegatronto die and the subsequent scene where Megatron encounters Unicron, with both paraphrase and verbatim dialogue, "I still function" and all that jazz. Sky Lynx takes the place ofAstrotrain,while the Autobots chosen to be abandoned (Prowl, Ratchet, Brawn, and Inferno) were among the Autobots killed on the shuttle toAutobot Cityby the Decepticons (except for Inferno, who replacesIronhidedue to the latter's death inBotCon 2012's "Invasion").
• The comic also takes some notes from IDW Publishing'sMore than Meets the Eye;all the Autobots who stay with Rodimus were characters in that comic, serving on the starshipLost Light.In particular, Rewind is sitting on Chromedome, referencing their IDW counterparts' status as being married.
• Of the new characters and designs this issue:
  • Tailgate is modeled on hispositive counterpart'sThrilling 30toy, in the colors of the Brazilian G1 toyCamaro(specifically his blue and yellow release). Camaro was an evilMalignus,and was redecoed fromWindcharger,who also shared the original Tailgate toy mold.
  • Swerve too is modeled on hispositive counterpart'sThrilling 30toy, in the colors of Brazilian Transformers toyPick-Up(specifically his green and purple release). Pick-Up was also an evil Malignus, redecoed fromGears,whom Swerve shares his original toy's mold with.
  • Trailbreaker is modeled on hispositive counterpart'sThrilling 30toy, in the colors ofthe blue releaseof theDiaclone"4WD Hi-Lux" mold, the precursor to the toy that would become Trailbreaker.
  • Chromedome's head is modeled on the head of hispositive counterpart'sTimelinestoy, in the colors of DecepticonHeadmasterApeface.
  • Prowl is modeled on hispositive counterpart'sUniversetoy, in the colors ofthe Mexican releaseof the original Prowl toy.
  • Sort of the odd man out, Inferno shares a body with hispositive counterpart,but in an original black and yellow-green color scheme, based on the outfit a real-life fireman would wear.
  • Unicron is based on the colors of his original 1986 prototype toy, with the yellow of the rings, horns, maw, and equator replaced with white.