THE TRANSFORMERS: COMICS, BOOKS AND MANGA

CLUB AND CONVENTION TRANSFORMERS COMICS

Revelations, Part 3
Reviewed by Blackjack

I LIVE AGAIN.
A short chapter detailing the rebirth of Unicron. Despite the lack of events and basically just one big monologue for Unicron, this is probably my favourite installment in the magazine comic series. While I dislike the notion of rewriting Cybertron Soundwave’s character so we could have another (groan) G1 caricature, it works fine for the story’s purposes. Could you imagine DJ Soundwave resurrecting Unicron? Speaking of the big guy, the notion that he could destroy a civilization if he set his mind on it, and his well-written monologue, set the mood really well. It’s a nice little piece, giving Unicron some sense of character instead of just being flagged around as a ‘force of nature’ every time. The villains are quite more interesting than Skyfall’s sad, vague memory problems.


Soundwave and Laserbeak are from the Cybertron cartoon. While only hinted at in the Cybertron cartoon, here Soundwave is very blatantly a follower of Unicron. In Fun Publications material, instead of talking like his cartoon DJ persona, Soundwave speaks in his G1 mannerism. ‘Laserbeak: Eject’ and the like. His profile, included in this issue, says that Soundwave puts on the DJ persona in front of the Decepticons for socialization purposes and the G1 persona is the ‘real’ Soundwave.

The aliens on Yst physically resemble Cardassians from Star Trek.

Considering that Soundwave stealing the Matrix is probably in the Jungle Planet episodes, and the end of the ‘Revelations’ arc is the episode ‘Cybertron’, thus if it were to take place within the cartoon’s timeframe the destruction of Yst and Unicron’s rebirth would only take days.

Presumably the glowing green orb that flew out of the black hole is Unicron’s spark or an equivalent. His new body is based on the Cybertron tank, and appears among the debris of what used to be Yst. There is nothing to say the size of Unicron now, except that he’s a good deal smaller than the planet Yst, which shrinks down.

Unicron’s rebirth means that Ramjet’s apocalypse scenario where the balance is ruined would not come to pass.


The Dead Matrix is constantly miscoloured in the colours of the Matrix of Leadership, which is rather hilarious.

Technically, flying in the event horizon of a black hole would result in you being sucked in, but the cartoon have already pissed on realistic physics, so screw that.

Unicorn travels to a planet 700 light years away. Why not travel to a nearer planet? Or even Earth?