All Hail Megatron Issues 1 to 6 (Vol 1)

[genechan]

I really enjoyed issue 4! I can see this ramping up nicely.
CBR have a interview up here. Check out Perceptor! Mr. McCarthy was not joking when he said 'reinventing'. Wikid! Hasbro. Toy. Now!

That looks awesome, love Percy's and Blurr's new design

[Lord_Zed]

How come Blur and Perceptor get new designs, and Hot Rod goes back to his old cartoon look? not to mention personality.

[Paulbot]

Kup sure beefed up when he got rebuilt huh? Although that's nothing compared to Roadbuster! Talk about a "Deluxe Autobot"

Perceptor's going back to the tank mode is cool. (Did Perceptor ever turn into a tank in the cartoon? I don't recall it outside the UK comic). I do prefer it when Blaster (Spotlight), Soundwave (War Within) and Perceptor (here) are given Cybertronian combat modes.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Perceptor's going back to the tank mode is cool. (Did Perceptor ever turn into a tank in the cartoon?

I do remember him rolling along like a tank but really he looked like a giant microscope.

[griffin]

I posted the CBR interview as a news topic, not knowing it had been mentioned here. Ah well, it is news after all, and you can post in either topic now if you want. I'm not going to shuffle the posts between the two topics.
As you were...

[roller]

I was just wondering

in regards to issue 5

does one have to read Stormbringer to understand why the home world is abandoned?

[i_amtrunks]

does one have to read Stormbringer to understand why the home world is abandoned?

Not really. The destitution and general post-apocalyptic look of the place is probably explanation enough.

It cant hurt to read it though.

[FFN]

Nah, you don't really need to read Stormbringer, because All Hail Megatron's portrayal of Cybertron is inconsistent to previous appearances anyway. Sure, it's messy, but the Autobots shouldn't be able to live for an extended period of time on that world without some extensive shielding.

According to Furman's stories, Cybertron was almost destroyed by millions of years of unending war what depleted its resources and stripped away its atmosphere. Thunderwing attempted to warn his fellow scientists on both sides of the impending cataclysm, and that the only hope of surviving (short of abandoning the planet) was to use his dangerous carapace technology (Pretenders). The other scientists ignored his warnings, Megatron refused to fund his "unnatural" research, so he continued on his own.

However, the carapace technology drove him insane, becoming the very scion of destruction he foresaw. The Autobots and Decepticons failed to stop his rampage across the planet, until Cybertron itself chose to save its offspring by swallowing Thunderwing into its depths. From then on, Cybertron slowly died, becoming a dead, radiation-soaked world, which is part of the reason why the Autobots and Decepticons in Furman's storyline operate across the galaxy.

[bassbot]

I've been enjoying AHM, but now i'm really missing some of the little things that could have connected it too previous continuity. It wouldn't have been hard to include a little reference (whether visual or in dialogue) to the Autobots needing shielding and all their energy going into that, and not being able to fix Prime...
anyhow, still want #6.

[roller]

i just hope that the in the end, the story isn't a dream

or

That the humans all start chanting "UsA , USA, USA" and start smashing the Decepticons, while American flags appear everywhere-like at the end of that horrid Spiderman movie