Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 29
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 Best cover of all time. Period. We're sorry we made fun of all those other covers. This is it. IDW may as well close up shop. Fun Publications can lose the license and it won't even matter. Fire all the artists. Art is dead and this cover killed it. Just re-release this issue every couple of months. Heck, just mail out the cover on its own. Wallpaper a room with 'em. Come election year, wander around town stuffing them in letterboxes. Load them into shuttles and launch them into space, so that aliens' first contact with our culture can be through this glorious image. Here before you is proof that God exists, and he has manifested himself in the form of whoever created this masterpiece. If you think it sounds like we're exaggerating our feelings about this cover for comedic effect, then clearly you need to buy some glasses and take a good long look at yourself followed by a longer look at this cover. The entirety of human history has led to this moment. All we're saying is that it can only go KDOWN from here. | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| First published | early October 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | Oct/Nov 09 | ||||||||||||
2010 PREVIEW!
KUP
Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #29
Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Associate Editor: Jesse Wittenrich
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop
Featured Artists: Nick Roche and John Flores
Contents
- On the cover: a parody of the poster for the movie Up with Steeljaw, a kiddie Kup, and a normal Kup all dangling from Metroplex on a Quintesson's tentacle. It is simply too perfect for mortal eyes. (p. 1)
- Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
- Animated "Defense And Security" Tech Specs: (p. 3)
- "The Movies That Made the Transformers" by Pete Sinclair and Jesse Wittenrich, an editorial about the original '86 movie and the '07 movie and the differences in fan reactions (pp. 3 & 7)
- "Wow! 2010 Preview!" pictures of upcoming Revenge of the Fallen figures: Deluxe Class Dirge and Lockdown, Legends Class Soundwave and Wheelie, Voyager Class Bludgeon, and Human Alliance Barricade (Sadly not a single Kup is present.) (pp. 4-6)
- Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Shattered Glass Heatwave (p. 8)
- Shattered Glass Cyclonus (p. 9)
- "Reunification: Part 5" - comic story (pp. 10-15)
- "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Around Cybertron
- "Rob's Hot Pick! Made phresh just for you!"
- Mini Mayhem!
Notes
- Warpath's tech spec makes mention of Trypticon Prison; named after the Generation 1 cityformer Trypticon, who would show up in some post-Animated cartoon tie-in media.
- Characters mentioned in Heatwave's profile include: Megatron.
- As noted in "Eye in the Sky", Heatwave's alternate mode is a Stompbox Mobile Missile Deployer, named after the They Might Be Giants song.
- Characters mentioned in Cyclonus profile include: Ultra Magnus, Krunix, and Alpha Trion.
- Unlike his extremely loyal positive-universe counterpart, Cyclonus has no real sense of allegiance to any side. His oxygen inhibitor beam inverts his counterpart's oxidating laser.
- As there is already a Nightstick in the Shattered Glass, Cyclonus's partner is known as Krunix, referencing to the change made to the UK release of the Marvel Headmasters comic, where a giant Nightstick drawn in place of Cyclonus was renamed Krunix.
- Cyclonus's hatred of Ultra Magnus likely references the rivalry of his and Magnus' positive universe counterparts in season 3 of the original Transformers cartoon. Ultra Magnus's coup has been referred to several times at this point; Magnus is revealed to have been imprisoned after it failed on the prison planet Paradron, its counterpart being a planet of peace introduced in Transformers episode "Fight or Flee".
- Cyclonus is powered by an Exponential Generator, a piece of technology from Transformers episode "Countdown to Extinction".
- The number of profiles drops back down to just two with this issue. On the other hand, a tiny banner saying "Shattered Glass" has been added across the corner of each.
- In the profile for SG Cyclonus, "imminent" is misspelled.
