TFCC #53 - BWSG Chapter 5: Shattered Balance

Sorry about the lack of pictures etc in my upcoming blogs, I had to get a new computer and it doesn't seem to like my scanner

 

Writers: Benson Yee & Pete Sinclair

Pencils & Inks: Evan Gauntt

Colours: Thomas Deer

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Plot

Depth Charge has located the Matrix using the ship's computer, and informs the computer to tell Magnus and the rest of the crew where he's going later. He flies off alone and finds a hatch, goes down into the ground through it and winds up in a room with several wall-mounted guns aiming at him.

Later, the Maximals are back at the ship, eating some food they''ve found, which is able to re-energize them. They find out where Depth Charge has taken off to and decide to go find him. However Seawing overhears this conversation in the air, and about the Matrix as well, and reports back to Megatron, who is working on something back at their base.

Depth Charge is struggling against the guns, but is rescued when the other Maximals arrive. The group investigate the chamber, but are attacked by some random bats. Depth Charge tells Magnus to go on his own to find the Matrix, as they need a leader to take it.

Magnus finds the Matrix, but is greeted by the Vok using the image of Primus as an authority figure to warn him that Chaos is the very nature of this universe, so his mission to bring back order is fruitless.

Outside, the Maximals are struggling against the bats, until Magnus returns, now wielding the Matrix and scares off the bats. Before the group can properly celebrate their mission however, the Predacons, led by Megatron inside a big dinosaur machine attack, and demand they hand over the Matrix to them.

Characters

Maximal

Ultra Magnus - Big Blue Beast

Depth Charge - Frequent Flyer Jet

Grimlock - Raging Raptor

Prowl - Lion

Ironhide - Elephant

Silverbolt - Eagle

Predacon

Megatron - Terrible Tank

Gigastorm - Battle Platform

Dirge - Sky Terror Jet

Autojetter - Winged Warrior Jet

Autolauncher - Terrible Tank

Seawing - Manta Ray

Scylla - Beastly Bottom Feeder

Snaptrap - Snapping Turtle

Skalor - Coelacanth

Overbite - Shark

Other

The Vok

Matrix Chamber Bats

Primus (Hologram Only)

Notes

• The "Maximals" are happily eating normal food here...wonder what Cheetor would make on that?
• Megatron being the pilot for the Gigastorm is appropriate given that his Beast Era toy Counterpart, Megastorm, actually turned into Gigastorm!
• The bat inside the Matrix chamber are designed to look like a pre-Transmetal Sonar it seems.
• Primus being used as the visual representation of the Vok here is a counter to them using Unicron's image in the Beast Era.
• Even though this issue ends in a cliffhanger of whether Magnus and the others will escape with the Matrix or not, it's kind of obvious that at least Magnus escapes, since he appears in the later set scene amongst other Magnuses WITH the Matrix in the TFSS 2.0 advert comic.

Other Features

The Seekers - Article about the currently available Seekers in the toyline

TFSS 2.0 - Article showing the main 6 figures in the upcoming TFSS set

The Multiverse Roadmap Spotlight: Thrill of the Hunt - Article talking about the TFA episode

The Transformers Menagerie: Part 4: The Terrorcons

Magnaboss Profile

Autolauncher Profile

Transformers I.Q. - Quiz about Beast Wars 2

Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus - Article about Gaea

Recodicons Comic - Ravage gets visits from his future selfs.