TFCC #68 - Of Masters and Monsters Part 2

Title: Insight

Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair

Pencils: Dan Khanna

Inks: Jake Isenberg

Colours: Evan Gauntt

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Plot

Metalhawk takes the bullet from the mugger, but accidentally reveals himself as a robot when his would starts sparking with energy. Before the disguised Autobots can decide what to do with the mugger, to stop him from revealing their secrets, they are all taken into Police custody.

At the police station, the mugger claims to not have seen anything, and the Autobots deny that anything happen, other than him firing a gun, and it missed them. The Autobots are soon dismissed, but not before they over-hear the police officers complaining about Cybertronians, and them being nothing but trouble.

Elsewhere, on the planet Paradron, Impactor heads to a medical centre to visit his injured friend, however, when he gets there the medic, Lifeline, reveals that his injuries were so bad that one of his two robot modes had to be removed. Impactor is angry, even though this was the only way to save him, and storms out of the medical centre.

Elsewhere still, Ramjet is searching for the other life-form he detected earlier, and plans to use them to make this universe into...nothing....

On Earth, the mysterious silver-streaked hair man approaches the disguised Autobots, reveals that he knows what they are, and also reveals that he's an actual native to this new Earth, and warns them that "he'll be here soon".

Characters

Autobot

Metalhawk In Human Pretender Suit

Vroom In Human Pretender Suit

Crossblades In Human Pretender Suit

Paradronian

Impactor - Armoured Truck

Lifeline - Sports Car

Quickslinger - Space Shuttle

Punch/Counterpunch - Sports Car Punch part removed (PRESUMED)

Sandstorm - Buggy/Helicopter

Random Paradronians

Unicron-Allied

Ramjet - Fighter Jet

Human

Spike Witwicky

Elizabeth

Mendez (the Mugger)

Police Officers

Captain Robin Lindley (Mentioned)

Jed Lindley (Mentioned)

Allan Silver (Mentioned)

Sam Wainwright (Mentioned)

RAAT (Mentioned)

Other

Mystery Silver-Streaked Hair Guy

Notes

• It's confirmed here that the Pretenders are using holo-matter to look like accurate humans, and have used Mass-displacement to look human sized.
• The black haired police officer mentions that Robin from the "Spacehikers" (look at the Marvel comics) grew up to be a police captain, and was supposedly traumatized by the events of the journey, along with her brother and friends.
• ...I wonder if her teddy remembers the journey too....is he her lieutenant? That would be awesome and crazy.
• Paradron and it's inhabitants exist in this new reality. Since Paradron is a colony world of Cybertron's, populated by Cybertronians who wanted to escape the war, that would imply that Cybertron and the other Transformers exist in this new reality.
• Lifeline's surgical tools are actually her toy's swords.....HOW ARE THOSE PRECISION TOOLS?!?!?
• Judging from the dialogue, it's likely that Impactor's "friend" is Punch, and due to the upcoming TFSS 5.0 Counterpunch toy, we can assume that the part removed was the "Punch" side of his body.
• It's very likely that the Silver-haired guy is the guy who Ramjet is looking for. On top of this, I'll also bet that he has something to do with TFSS 4.0, either as a holo-avatar for Thunder Mayhem, one of the Mayhem Attack Squad or the mystery seventh figure.
• SD SG Skywarp shares the same character model as Starscream (based on the Cybertron Starscream toy) but has a mostly blue colourscheme, so could be based on Thudnercracker or Brainstorm's usual colours.
• SD SG Thundercracker has the G2-looking colours from his Botcon toy, and of course is bright enough to emit bright lights from himself.

Other Features

From Another Time and Place Part 2 - Information on the almost created "U-Haul Robot" toy

TFSS 5.0 Full Reveal - Images of all the new figures available in the next set

Cold-Casted: A history of Transformer Statues Part 2 - Information on Palisades statues.

True Victory Part 2 -More information about the Victory franchise and it's development

Lifeline Profile

Impactor Profile

SD SG Mini-Comic - Starscream and Skywarp use Thundercracker as a light source.