City Commander - first review

[GoktimusPrime]

In Japanese 正義 or 公正 can mean "justice" or "righteous" although 公正 carries the connotation of "fairness" (e.g.: 公正取引 (fair trade)). Being "righteous" or "just" are kinda the same thing. Heroic Autobots are called 「正義のサイバトロン」 (Righteous Cybertrons) and G2 Hero Prime's Japanese box has the words "Prime of Justice" written on it in English (with "justice" presumably being a translation of "正義").

From dictionary.com:
justice
noun the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness
righteousness
noun the quality or state of being just or rightful

[liegeprime]

I cant see any of the symbols you guys have been posting, its all a square box square box with tiny number inside... is there a program I should download to make my PC read Kanji or whatever?

[GoktimusPrime]

For Windows XP

Not sure about other OSs.

[Kyle]

Guys, the writer of the comic (Venksta from the TFW2005 forum) would like me to post his reply for him here.



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Some posters were discussing about the comic that comes with City Commander. Just some info to clear up...

(FFN is asian, so he can say this)

Those Asians and their bizarre interpretation of what is essentially an American franchise

Just because the toy was designed in asia, doesn't mean the comic was written in that part of the world.

Just curious, why is it known as "TF-Parallax" ?

Did I read that last sentence of the comic right though? Because it doesn't seem to make sense...

TF-Parallax is the name of FansProject's series. Like for example, Transformers Armada, Transformers Cybertron, Transformers Animated, ect.

For the last part of the story, I need to point out, this story in the comic is just a portion of a bigger story. I have no idea if we will continue it not.

I think they probably wrote the story in Chinese and then translated it. They probably translated 正義 into 'justice', where it should more rightly translated into 'righteousness' or 'up-rightness'.

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'Justice' in Chinese is 公義. But if they wrote the comic script with that originally, it would make no sense at all.

The story was written in english, as that is my primary language. The only other language I know is hindi, which I can only speak, but not write.

As for the whole "justice" part... I first need to explain how the story was written. I was asked to come up with ideas for Parallax. So one of my proposals was Transformers in ancient egypt, along with a concept drawing for a Megatron that became a sphinx tank. The FansProject guys really liked this idea. So after giving them a summary of it, I went off to make the universe named Orion. Meanwhile, they took my summary, and drew the comic up with out any written story. So once it was almost done, they showed me it, and asked if I could write a story to what was drawn. In the mean time, I had created all this background and characters up for a bigger story. So I took what I had come up with, and applied it to the drawn comic, which used the summary I gave. The good thing was, I was able to fit part of my story into this.

Now for the Justice part. Like I mentioned above, the story is much bigger than what is present in the comic. Basically, the transformers lived in another city, with the Autobots ruling, Decepticons as happy builders, and a third citizen class. At some point, the Autobots attempt to gain more power, and ended up buring the city down, and killing many transformers from all classes. So after getting to saftey, the Decepticons decide they will rule after what the Autobots have done. So one robot was elected to become Pharaohtron, and he decides the Autobots must be punished for their crime. So he enslaves them and has them become the new builders for the new city called Orion. This is where the justice part is referred to, as the Autobots are being punished for their great crime of destroying the old city and killing many transformers.

So when the comic starts, its in the middle of the ongoing story, and the Autobot's latest rebellion has failed, and Pharaohtron has decided enough is enough. Luckily for the Autobots, an outsider shows up, who ends up siding with them, without knowing the whole background story.

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My city commander order is shipping from robot kingdom as of yesterday. Just thought I'd let everyone know that they are finally shipping

[Kyle]

RK did not get theirs directly from FansProject.

City Commander is not officially shipping worldwide, until BigBadToyStore and TFSource ship theirs.

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But those of us who ordered from rk should be getting ours soon