SCAVENGERS!!!!!! <3 and yes. there are many ominous things in this issue. actually. i could have stopped at 'there are many ominous things.' it does not stop being a thing after this issue. things will continue to be ominous, forevermore.
Whirl cuddle party is the most important thing we could ever achieve as a species. Also I'm super :3c about another liveblog. Yes. Yessssssssss.
Oh my god, I'm in love with all four of the rescue bots, and the humans are a lot less obnoxious than I was afraid of. Even chase. I might get bored trying to watch it on its own, but this is good background entertainment while I labor away as a model-building grunt for work. "Shiver me timbers!" "Shiver your own timbers" Heatwave, I love you <33 (also I'm a sucker for robots with extra wide mouths where they move all the way out to the actual hinges when they talk. It reminds me of cyclonus and his lovely cheeks)
I think the only protagonist who legitimately pisses me off is the scientist guy. Because he is so irresponsibly bad at science Like ugh, setting aside the whole physics/science/computers/etc don't work that way, I know that's pretty much guaranteed with a cartoon. But OKAY. Spoiler: rescue bots You took a giant robot dinosaur, which has been a public menace before, reprogrammed him to be a security guard (without TELLING ANYBODY, which kind of makes me think you stole the stupid thing. And then you removed a hardwired shutdown in favor of a remote controlled shutdown. Why not have, you know... both? Maybe? Maybe???? And you did this because your lab's security has been compromised multiple times. So what's the literal next thing you do? LEAVE THE REMOTE CONTROL LYING AROUND WHILE YOU GO WANDER OFF TO DO OTHER BULLSHIT? What were you expecting here? No, really, what were you expecting? If this wasn't a children's cartoon, you should have died for pulling that sort of nonsense. And now you're fired and the show wants me to feel sorry for you. I don't! I absolutely do not! You're one of the most irresponsible scientists I've ever been subjected to, and the only thing *I'm* feeling is pissed off that you'll almost definitely get your job back as soon as the next villain is dispatched
Spoiler: Silent Light So apparently there was a Christmas story last year about the Lost Light finding an abandoned protoform and Whirl carrying it around because he could just stick it in his cockpit, but there was a threat coming where they all needed to hide in special pods that would cover one spark signature each, and there were no spare pods, so Whirl shuts off his spark temporarily to shield the sparkling. ...who of course turns out to be a hive mind of shapeshifting scraplets pretending to be a sparkling in order to look non-threatening to cybertronians and get protected from the thread. This doesn't make Whirl less fond of them. Also, the saddest but probably most accurate Whirl humanization. Source
I'm glad I'm not the only person to sit down and think seriously about which fingers human!Whirl would have to lose to still be able to hold a gun but lack the fine articulation for clockmaking.
Spoiler: Maximum Dynobots DID HOTROD JUST SET HIMSELF ON FIRE THROUGH SHEER BADASSERY I LOVE THIS RIDICULOUS ROBOT edit: the page directly after that is really blurry and I am sad, I feel like that dialogue was either important or awesome or both.
Silent Light was my favorite part of the christmas special MTMTE 2012 ""annual", every single part of it is great. no I'm not still salty they called a one-shot issue an "annual" why do you ask Edit: Spoiler: more Maximum Dynobots screaming Okay, it's official, I like this guy.
Me and @spockandawe had a Whirl+protoforms feels session a while back and turned up this fic in the process. Pls enjoy my friends...
Whirl. EDIT: Or maybe Chromedome? Spoiler: Lyrics I see you in my head at night Your eyes are vacant And your mouth is bright And all you say are things I don't want to hear So I smash my hands against my broken ears We are the thoughts that you were warned about We are the shadows in your basement When you say doomsday we say everything's alright But it's all the same Get yourself a number Oh we've been watching you sleep We know your tricks We know all your bad habits We know your secrets We know where your loss We sneak into your closet and have dinner with the skeletons All along you've been asking what's wrong with me All along you've been asking what's wrong with me All along you've been living your predicament Saying you were innocent but what's that got to do with us We are the cracks in all you dream about We are the noises in your attic We are the people you were warned about We are the monsters in your closet Now despite your hopes you're just like us Yeah, you're just like us Despite your prayers you're broke like us Yeah, you're broke like us We watch you when you're asleep We hear as you grind your teeth We're always wearing smiles but they're never what they seem You run when you're awake but they still kill ya when you dream Now despite your hopes you're just like us Yeah, you're just like us Despite your prayers you're broke like us Yeah, you're broke like us
I feel it more like a Chromedome song but boy that would make a fabulous addition to that shadowplay fanmix from a while back.
I'm out of the house right now, but I'll grab a new version of that blurry page when I get home! Sorry, I thought I checked that they were all at least semi-readable :p
It's literally just the top-left corner where it transitions from [Hotrod scene] to [Hunter scene] :c I want that sweet sweet Roddy dialogue, man (also, thank you based Spock for providing the Robot Comics for free!)
