TFCC - A Flash Forward #2

Release Date: April/May 12

Issue Number: 44

Continuity: Post Generation Two Redux

Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair

Pencils & Inks: Matt Frank

Colours: Thomas Deer

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Story

Ultra Magnus arrives at Autobot City in 2012 for a meeting with several ambassadors, when he notices that Cliffjumoer isn't around, despite him being on security duty. He calls for him on a communicator.

Outside the city Cliffjumper is overseeing a group of six of the Autobots who were affected by Forestonite at the Large Hadron Collider, and has them demonstrate their powers for him, and so he can judge if they have been affected badly by the Decepticon chemical. He's impressed by the group's new abilities.

Meanwhile back in the city Magnus meets with Pyro and some of his team of super powered Autobots, and tells them that someone has stolen a cache of sensitive materials from Quantum Labs, by walking through the walls, and they need to find out who did it, and recover the cache, fast. Sizzle uses his powers to project himself into his future self and sees what happened and what will occur, and tells Magnus that they need a ship.

On Cybertron Jhiaxus has borrowed some of Clench's super powered Decepticons and reveals that Ramjet was the one who stole the cache from Quantum Labs and TORQ V. When Clench is reluctant to reveal where their new powers came from to Jhiaxus, Jhiaxus reveals that he already knows everything thanks to Skybyte, and then cuts off communication with the Decepticon and begins his next plan.

Lower down in Cybertron Runabout and Runamuck are looking for some personality components when they find the stasis pod holding Side Burn in it, who starts to wake up.

Characters

Autobot
Ultra Magnus - Mighty Hauler
Cliffjumper - Sports Car
Pyro - Fire Truck
Sizzle - Green Machine
Rapido - Sports Car
Firecracker - Sports Car
Electro - Pick Up Truck
Manta Ray - Hovercraft
Aquafend - F1 Race Car
Windbreaker - Sports Car
Road Rocket - Speedbike
Side Burn - Blue Flame Speedster
Beachcomber - Dune Buggy
Inferno - Fire Truck
Turbofire - Pick Up Truck
Gobots - Sports Car
Windcharger (Statue Only) Dead
Huffer (Statue Only) Dead
Red Alert (Statue Only) Dead
Wheeljack (Statue Only) Dead
Decepticon
Jhiaxus - Fiery Flier
Clench - Armored Truck (On Communications Monitor)
Runabout - Tasty Tuner-style Sports Car
Runamuck - Tasty Tuner Sports Car
Flamefeather - Bird Monster
Sparkstalker - Insect Monster
Cindersaur - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Ramjet - Jet (On Communications Monitor)
Soundwave - Cassette Player (Image On Monitor)
Frenzy - Cassette (Image On Monitor)
Other
Skybyte - Shark themed Submarine
Bosch
Alana
Dirk Manus
Astoria Carlton-Ritz
Nightbird (Image On Monitor)

Notes

• Oddly, and similarly to Metalhawk's profile, Sizzle and Jhiaxus are drawn in an expressive Animated style, rather than their actual appearances in the comic, and like with last issue their alternate modes are just images of their toys
• Cliffjumper training the newly powered up Autobots acts somewhat like Sentinel from Animated
• Jhiaxus' chair is a stylized Decepticon insignia
• The Battlechargers comment on how there's so many pink cubes on Cybertron, referring to some animation errors and the re-using of the energon cube effect on pretty much everything
• Several more memorial statues of dead Autobots have appeared in Autobot City, most likely since their old memorials on the mausoleum were destroyed a while back
• One of the vehicles in Autobot City looks quite like Movie 2007 Arcee's vehicle mode, but over-sized.
• Ramjet's brief cameo behind Clench on a monitor screen seems to use a grey colourscheme rather than his purple one from his G2 toy.
• This issue marks the first time that the 2011 and 2012 membership incentive figures have met
• MU Sari's diary page features several pictures of MU versions of several characters that her regular universe counterpart's voice actress (Tara Strong) has voiced or been involved in or has some loose connection to her.

The Allspark Addendum 

The Sumdacs (Mirror Universe) by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee (Mirror Universe)

Bumblebee (Mirror Universe) by Sari Sumdac (Mirror Universe)

Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe) by Isaac Sumdac (Mirror Universe)

Extract from Sari Sumdac's (Mirror Universe) diary of the Mirror Universe version of Human Error

Other Features

Q&A with Hasbro

Transformers the Ride - 3D Article

Sizzle Profile

Jhiaxus Profile

Transformers I.Q. Questions

Recordicons Mini-Comic