The mystery thickens. Or perhaps it is about to be explained. So far, the IH mini-series has been good at keeping us clueless about what's going on.

 

Love Iron Hide's reaction to the identity. Made me lol. Very "Iron Hide."


-ZacWilliam wondering if this will line up with Hasbro's new direction on this character. I'd guess it likely will...

 

Well he made a cameo appearance in Megatron Origin but yes, this is his first official appearance in IDW.

 

good ol alpha trion is in the house WHOOOO

 

Art consistency isn't IDW's strong suit.

Back during the Furman run, it was wildly inconsistent colouring - you'd get issues where colours change from page to page.

Nowadays you have books where the art style changes series to series, and as now seen on the ongoing comic, every few issues.

It's not him. It's another character that's mentioned in the summary of this issue.

 

That arm belongs to

Spoiler

Sunstreaker

 

I suppose the fact that this is a completely different version of Ironhide (ostensibly made a long long time before IDW's modern era and the real Ironhide's death), and thus is completely plausibly a different model, is lost on you.

 

I just realized if they are inside Metroplex, then the little guy must be Scamper!

 

MACRAPTRON is a comic artist himself.

While he's using this issue as an example, I think he's talking more broadly about designs change from book to book.

 

Hmm, Alpha Trion being the "old friend" or something at his IDW debut, as the solicitations announced, was obvious enough, since the new direction is very Sunbow cartoon oriented.

 

I loved Ironhide's "Ok - whatever" response, as well as AT's "you don't know who I am??"  

I'll forgive the variety in art style between series (as long as it's consistent withIN a series), but really hope AT is going to be indication of consistent character/purpose.

 

Nice to see Alpha Trion make an apperance. Now things are starting to get even more interesting.

 

While looking at that dude's head and comparing him to my Scamper figure I've come to the conclusion that KAGE is right. The head in the art matches the toy damn near perfectly, as well as the transformations.

~Z

 

I don't believe the old friend is referring to Alpha Trion.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Alpha Trion is the "legendary character making his IDW debut."

 

I was looking at the cartoon version, I didn't realize the toy had a completely different face. I was just putting 2 and 2 together black car with Metroplex equals Samper LOL!

 

If they do bring back SS, I'll be a very happy camper. He's a great character and deserves a better fate than the one handed to him in AHM.

 

Is this the real Alpha Trion though? Love that the beard is more of a bandit scarf..but that, combined with his lines, make me think it's some sort of impostor..

 

Hadn't we already determined that in the thread for the last issue? From his size/colouration/alt-mode/general design/drone-like behaviour, and the appearance of what seems to be (but actually doesn't look like at all) Metroplex... it points to Scamper.

However, yeah... the buildings that Ironhide enters DON'T really look much like Metroplex, besides the whiteness. Scamper actually turns into a 6-wheeled car, not a regular 4-wheeler, and has a rather prominent car hood on his chest (though this little guy has what might be a vestigial car-hood chest). Additionally, Scamper isn't a drone... he's actually supposed to be a sort of duplicate imprint of Metroplex's personality, but with more outgoing tendencies... so if it IS supposed to be Scamper, it's really not such a great likeness.

Though... given the characterizations and character-model variations we've seen in IDW lately, that's not really saying anything.  

zmog

 

Which I personally don't mind and makes me very happy.