Optimus Prime #19- spoilers

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  1. jaypc

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    On the first page Starscream takes off for Iacon where he meets Orion Pax. But Optimus/Orion is at the spot where he takes off from. WTF?
     
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    Starscream took off because Orion was approaching him in the third panel, he wasn't taking off to meet him.
     
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    But he says "And there (Iacon) I met ... Orion Pax."
     
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    He was already in Iacon at the start there. The narration isn't quite telling the truth, he "met" Orion when he was selling some illicit goods on the street; he was flying off to avoid getting arrested.
     
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    Okay. Thanks for explaining that.
     
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    Trypticon is a girl?
     
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    Trypticon is not a girl. Some people just like to use she instead of he for their robots, doesnt make it true.
    No harm in it though is there? I dont think trypticon identifies as anything other than Trypticon
     
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    Ah. Okay, no, no harm in it. I was just confused. I've pretty much foregone the comics as a whole and play catch-up through synopses on the wiki. I thought I had missed some detail where Trypticon specifically identified as a woman or something. And yea, I'd agree. I think Trypticon's only clear-cut identifier is Trypticon.

    At the risk of being controversial, I'd say Trypticon identifies as Trypticon sexually.
     
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    I assumed Trypticon hadn’t really been gendered in the continuity, so I thought it was fair game.

    But, a day or two ago, I noticed TFWiki gendered Tryps as male as I was looking up the title to “Ghost in the Machine,” for the sake of ye ol’ scale debates since that featured Swindle trying his best to be an expert thief inside Metroplex, giving an example of a Combiner limb in relative proximity to other Transformers.

    Of course, there aren’t really a ton of moments with Trypticon for them to have their preferred gender pronouns announced.

    And, I kinda figured that Trypticon being full of eggs was a bit like Godzilla, since she’s nearly always laying eggs or rearing young, eventually.

    But, given my correction by TFWiki, I guess it’s more like Schwarzenegger and Devito’s Junior, or Cordwainer Smith’s “The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal.” I recommend the latter...

    The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith, from Project Gutenberg Canada
     
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    I just finished reading The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal. WTF? If Furman, Roberts, and Barber drank the nucleon kool-aid and wrote the IDW comics, this is probably what we would've got.
     
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    Cordwainer Rules.

    I think my first read of his was “Scanners Live in Vain,” probably via io9, several years ago.

    I definitely had a copy of “The Rediscovery of Man: The Best of Cordwainer Smith,” which includes those two and so many other great stories. Among them, I’d especially recommend “The Game of Rat and Dragon” for its space operatics. And, it’s also possible that that’s a piece of my (occasionally) lending library that won’t land safely home, and just needs to be repurchased... assuming that isn’t too hard.

    But, since these are pretty old stories, it’s not too hard to find them available online for free and not taken down by a DMCA claim! :D 
     
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    Looking at this from an outside perspective.. Shockwave's machinations gave him all the time in the world starting at the dawn of time. If the laws of time travel mean anything, he couldn't directly interfere otherwise ... Paradoxes. So You have to wonder how much of his own history did he help manipulate. Like, how many of the previous Primes did he build Matrix Chambers into? We know Senator Shockwave was moved by Orion Pax, and did it to him, but what about Nova Prime? It makes the whole Expansion plan fit into the planets Shockwave planted his Regenesis Ore.
     
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    Does Nova Prime have a Matrix Chamber? I'd imagine Onyx would have an awkward conversation with Prima about carving a hole inside his general.
     
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    I read through the RID Annual again (Since this was where Metrotitan began the Chosen One Prophecy). Omega Supreme's opinion is really interesting.

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    Omega has actually been a pretty significant bot/pawn? in Shockwave's schemes. In OP #18 he and the sentinels were part of Onyx's first expedition. After they conquered that world, its probably the reason why Omega didn't trust Nova and hid the Metrotitan from him. He even mentions to Dai Atlas that Jhiaxus's student (Shockwave) will keep doing shady experiments. We still don't know how Metrotitan ended up in Omega's care, other than that Shockwave had to Shadowplay him beforehand.

    Looking at the July solicitations...

    Optimus Prime #22
    END OF THE ROAD! Trapped between Shockwave’s attack and Unicron’s onslaught, Optimus and the Autobots struggle to make sense of what’s left of their world. Shockwave reveals ancient truths—as an old friend tries to reconnect with Cybertron.

    Transformers: Unicron #2
    Bumblebee investigates a dark corner of Cybertron’s past, searching for answers: what is Unicron, and why does it want to destroy Cybertron? Meanwhile, Windblade scrambles to figure out a plan as Chromia makes her return—with a Decepticon fleet in pursuit!

    ...Maybe Bumblebee will go to Omega for help? After Omega got attacked Bee felt bad for not talking to him since the start of Phase 2, maybe this is his way of reconnecting with Cybertron?
     
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