G1 Volume 2 #4 (Spoilers and other things inside)

Bombshell · Post by **Bombshell** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:40 pm

I'm not a big fan of "exposition" issues. Anyone who has seen my review of Armada #13 knows this by now. And this issue has that written all over it.

Not that it's bad, though. It does a great big setup towards the next two issues, with an ending that is really well done. (One that I hope will be handled much better than issue #4 of the last series. Anyone remember that?)

Funny little tidbits include:

-The Protectobots and Omnibots being among the casualties of Mensaor's rampage.

-Am I the only one thinking Magnus' whole speech just seems too much like Prime's back in Volume 1 #5?

-The Stunticons' general loathing of Motormaster, hinted at in their tech specs.

-Smokescreen displaying his Autobot symbol by means of the "rub on" sticker that many of the toys released around and after 1985 had.

-I find it interesting that Hot Rod, at first, has no idea who Optimus is. For someone of Prime's obvious fame, it strains credibility for him NOT to know who he is.

-Kup tells Prime that Wheelie and Gnaw met up in the Wastelands, which was mentioned in Gnaw's MTMTE profile back in MTMTE #2.

-Runamuck is seen in the Autobots holding cell as Kup leads Prime to the others.

-Funny that Blaster is "familiar" with Earth considering that, at least to me, there's no real indication that he's ever been there, or heard anything about it.

-Ironhide and Kup seem to know one another, hiniting at fans speculation that the two are old comrades. (And a hint about War Within, maybe?)

*ADDITIONS*

-Ultra Magnus refers to Optimus as his "brother", a nod to "Robots In Disguise".

-Shockwave refers to the Guardian Robots as "Sentinels" in another reference to "War Within".

RID Scourge · Post by **RID Scourge** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:55 am

Hot Rod's a young autobot. He may not have been activated until after Prime left.

Post by **Warcry** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:36 am

Originally posted by PaladinPrime
Hot Rod's a young autobot. He may not have been activated until after Prime left.

Optimus Prime is a name you'd expect to be mentioned in the Autobots' history records. Bearer of the Matrix, and all that...Even if Hot Rod didn't bother to look at those, I imagine someone would have told Roddy about him, at some point.

Blitzwing · Post by **Blitzwing** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:55 am

Originally posted by Bombshell

-The Protectobots and Omnibots being among the casualties of Mensaor's rampage.

-Am I the only one thinking Magnus' whole speech just seems too much like Prime's back in Volume 1 #5?

-Funny that Blaster is "familiar" with Earth considering that, at least to me, there's no real indication that he's ever been there, or heard anything about it.

-The Protectobots weren't actully casualties, since Magnus tells the Jumpstarters to 'Get them on their feet' after the fight with Menasor.

-I think that was meant to show how much Magnus and Prime are alike.

-Blaster says that 'I can't wait to go', refering to Earth, so that means that he hasn't been. I hope they explain how he knows so much about Earth culture then. It's not like any of the Earthbound Autobots ever had a chance to report anything about Earth back to Cybertron.

Some other stuff:

-Wouldn't it have made more sense for Bruticus to be rampaging instead of Menasor, considering the Combaticons were the ones that couldn't be controlled in G1.

-Nice to see Blitzwing make an appearance without getting beaten up.

-Who was Gears refering to when he called an Autobot a 'Regulator'?

-Devcon makes a cameo sitting in the corridor that Smokescreen is leading Prowl and Ironhide through.

-Wheelie bitting Prime's ankle was hilarious.

-Slag seems to be second-in-command of the Dinobot, since Grimlock left him in charge when he went after Shockwave.

Anyway, hopefully next issue will clear some stuff up about what Starscream's plans are, as well as what is up with Scourge. The issue was pretty good. I loved the fight scenes. I love the way Ultra Magnus is being portrayed. He's a lot more like his comic version, than his cartoon version. Still a few plot holes that get on my nerves, as well as cliche characterization, but 'pobody's nerfect'.

Ballplayer · Post by **Ballplayer** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:05 am

Glad that it's out, now hoping some store in the Netherlands buy's them...

RID Scourge · Post by **RID Scourge** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 2:57 am

Originally posted by Warcry
Optimus Prime is a name you'd expect to be mentioned in the Autobots' history records. Bearer of the Matrix, and all that...Even if Hot Rod didn't bother to look at those, I imagine someone would have told Roddy about him, at some point.

May not have ever seen a picture of him. I don't know the faces of many famous people.

Armorwind · Post by **Armorwind** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:19 am

Another question that came to my mind was this: After Kup refers to Wheelie as "the kid," I began to wonder if Transformers had the ability to actually grow up in size, or is just there maturity that changes as they grow older?

I believe that Blaster knows about Earth just as the Junkions do, meaning he could hav received signals from Earth. He probably also received information from the Autobots from Earth.

Ultra Magnus referring to Optimus Prime as his brother could just be another way to say brother at arms, like Prime says they are in one of the other issues.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:15 am

There was some part in the comic where it was mentioned that Shockwave was preparing Cybertronians for something by making them more aggressive.

Is it possible that Shockwave is preparing them to battle Unicron?

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:39 pm

Originally posted by Blitzwing
-Who was Gears refering to when he called an Autobot a 'Regulator'?

He said 'waste regulator', it wasn't a name. Probably Cybertronian version of 'Shove it up your ass'.

And he was probably talking to Bluestreak, since it was him who had a quarrel with Gears in first issue.

Originally posted by The Spider
Is it possible that Shockwave is preparing them to battle Unicron?

I'm still hoping that Unicron won't show up in this mini.

Hot Rod, yeah, like Kup said: 'lad with little or no brains', gotta love the guy.

For the first time Wheelie was funny not annoying, and he didn't rhyme.

Issue was okay, but overall plot is going too slow. I'm afraid that there's too many subplots started so far and 45 pages which left may be too little to finish them all without rushing. But let's hope they'll do it good.

Ballplayer · Post by **Ballplayer** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:06 pm

Issue was okay, but overall plot is going too slow. I'm afraid that there's too many subplots started so far and 45 pages which left may be too little to finish them all without rushing. But let's hope they'll do it good.

Well at least there are plots, it looks a lot better than the first volume...

RID Scourge · Post by **RID Scourge** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:27 am

Originally posted by Ozz
Issue was okay, but overall plot is going too slow. I'm afraid that there's too many subplots started so far and 45 pages which left may be too little to finish them all without rushing. But let's hope they'll do it good.

They're supposed to be starting an ongoing G1 series eventually. They can leave a few plots open to expand on them in that.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:56 am

Originally posted by PaladinPrime
They're supposed to be starting an ongoing G1 series eventually. They can leave a few plots open to expand on them in that.

If there's ongoing following this mini, then I guess I don't need to be worried.

Ballplayer · Post by **Ballplayer** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:07 am

That would be good, well if they bring the comics out weekly...

waiting a month is too long!

Dinobot · Post by **Dinobot** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 2:17 pm

Originally posted by Ballplayer
That would be good, well if they bring the comics out weekly...

waiting a month is too long!

Pfff! Sometimes DW fails to make their deadlines for monthly's!

Ballplayer · Post by **Ballplayer** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:38 pm

So much for hoping...

Nevermore · Post by **Nevermore** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:22 pm

Originally posted by Armorwind
Ultra Magnus referring to Optimus Prime as his brother could just be another way to say brother at arms, like Prime says they are in one of the other issues.

How about an in-joke referring to the toys using the same mold for the truck cab?

Brave Maximus · Post by **Brave Maximus** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:53 pm

Originally posted by Ozz
For the first time Wheelie was funny not annoying, and he didn't rhyme.

Thank you god, thank you god.

As for the deadline thing - Come on DW was born of Image. So what do you expect?

I mean Image was 2 YEARS late with a comic (stringing everyone along each month) so I don't think an extra month is that bad

Bombshell · Post by **Bombshell** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:56 pm

Originally posted by Galvatron84
Pfff! Sometimes DW fails to make their deadlines for monthly's!

Do we REALLY need to bring that up again?

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:04 pm

I finally picked up the copy the comic store was holding for me today and I must say, this storyline is actually quite good. I also wasn't confused with the flow of panels at any point in this issue.

Jetfire426 · Post by **Jetfire426** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 5:58 am

the story was good i liked.. i was amazed to see that Grimlock took that missile right in the eye.. man that missile took off half of his face... whats up with that.. and here;s my question was it Magnus' missile, cause that what it looked like to me... but the point is, is that the missile nailed him in the face.. so does this mean the end of Grimlock the leader of the dinobots??!?!?! how will the dinobots move on with this great loss... FIND OUT NEXT TIME!! when we return to TRANSFORMERS #5:D

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