Transformers Spotlights Part 3: Blaster, Arcee, Grimlock, Mirage & Wheelie

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Hello, sir. Yo. We are continuing on with the

Transformers spotlights here in Autobot Liagos.

This is going to be part three which includes

Blaster, RC, Grimlock, Blaster RC, Mirage Grimlock,

and Wheelie, Spade's favorite character. So mean

to him. He didn't even talk to me anymore. Like,

at this point I just want to, you know, I wish

YouTube had a thing where you could post videos

on other people's channels. Like, like a... thing

whatever like like essentially like a tweet kind

of a thing whatever anyway uh so yeah we're continuing

on with the spotlights and this batch they're

more individualized than the last batch was i

mean i'm sure you'll tell me because you know

more about this part of the history than i do

like where things come in and where things start

and stop and yada yada yada but i don't know

some like the mirage ones and we'll get to that

obviously That feels like a complete one -shot

to me. It is, yeah, it's an alternate universe

sort of tale. Right, yeah. There's a very...

The only two that kind of tie in really at all,

it's Grimlock, and surprisingly enough, Wheelie

kind of ties in eventually too. But there's not

a lot of other overlap. RC is somewhat important

to the... early sort of Furman days as in the

Shun series, but is not important later on as

Just as she she's changed as a character later

on she's still fearsome a warrior and it's assassin,

but she kind of gets a Little bit more mellowed

out a lot more depth anyway. Yeah, we'll talk

about when we actually get to it So yeah, we're

so we open with plaster yes blaster i gotta say

this might be my favorite of the bunch i'm just

gonna get it out of the way now partially because

blaster's never been given too much personality

with the exception of the old g1 comics like

even in the show he was kind of foam loving he

liked music that kind of thing but i don't know

that we ever learned an awful lot about him other

than that yeah i like this he's kind of a voice

for the resistance he is Don't know how to put

it. He's not It's not sort of propaganda But

he just kind of reports on things. It's like

it. He's not it's like it says in the comic He's

a he's a rallying cry for the truth. Yeah for

people the Autobots and all that and everything

else like hey, let's let's go get them Let's

you know never surrender, you know that you know

that kind of thing And obviously it's still the

music slash DJ kind of thing. Like you said the

voice My first thought after reading this was

number one. I Wish this was a little bit more.

Yeah, I wish that there was like more of like

Blaster verse not necessarily blaster versus

sound wave in this but like a little bit more

preamble as to obviously other than the fact

that they're Autobot Decepticon communicator

You know former cassette deck kind of thing in

g1 cartoon whatever because obviously they're

not they can't be cassette decks here But I wish

there was a little bit more to them in this.

Obviously still shining the spotlight on him.

The antagonist ends up being bombshell rather

than Soundwave or any of the others. Really liked

the cameos. We see different characters listening

to blasters broadcast everyone from in night

beat to Silver Bowl to you know, whoever Although

you know, there's one shot of it's getaway sitting

beside cop and of course nowadays all I can Think

of is damn it cop just shoot him in the head.

Say so many problems later on Yeah, I love the

scene where everybody's listening to Blaster,

you know, in various shots and things like that.

I was not expecting the whole bombshell thing

at all. I love Blaster versus Beachcomber. Because

you think about Beachcomber and what we know

about him, at least in the G1 cartoon aspect,

like he's always been the pacifist, he's always

been this, he's always been that. But... Yeah,

again, I know this is a focus on blaster, but

how can you have a focus on blaster not? Really

do anything with the cassettes Like they're almost

not even here. It was okay with that I Understand

why also the cassettes have the cassettes in

IDW verse are very different obviously rewind

is the most prominent in all of Well, right.

Right, yeah. I understand he's not gonna be here,

but I mean, at least Steeljaw and Ramhorn. I

don't remember if they show up. I'm pretty sure

they don't show up here. I don't know if they

show up in... Yeah, Grand Slam and Raindance

are reporters. We see them a fair amount much

later on. I can't remember. Yeah, Steeljaw and

Ramhorn showing up. Obviously Rewind Eject shows

up a couple times, but it's pretty rare. Yeah.

And Rewind's starring character later on. Anyway,

but yeah, Blaster ends up on The Lost Delight,

but there's never a focus on him again. Yep.

He's just kind of a background character, and

it's pretty rare. So also because of that, I

really liked this. This is another one of those

that it shows why the spotlights were a good

idea. And... Honestly, going forward, if IDW

wanted to go back and do spotlights on some of

the characters in that previous universe, this

is an example of how you could do it. Because,

I mean, there's so many Transformers. There's

hundreds of characters in the Transformers universe

and so many that just because there's so many,

there's not enough time to tell stories with

them. So they could always fill in the blanks,

that kind of thing, if they wanted to. And as

for the new universe, they should seriously consider

it as well. I think it'd be something to help

out there. Yeah, I'm still on the old universe

at this point. I'm not even like I've tried reading

like I think I think I bought the first two issues

of the new universe and I'm like Okay, it's character

building. It's anyway, it's another podcast another

day ten years from now Yeah, someday. I've got

enough of the first arc, slash the entire first

arc, and I've read it. We'll talk about it someday.

Someday. So there's a scene in here where it's

Blaster versus Beachcomber, where Blaster transforms

and he says, I've never been the type to go quietly.

I gotta say, out of all the alternate modes that

Blaster and Soundwave have ever had, besides

their original boombox, cassette player, whatever,

they incorporate the whole radio, DJ, sound kind

of thing really cool in any of the other alternate

modes. I love this page where he's basically

Sonic booming Beachcomber. It's kind of like

a sound tank. His alt mode looks a little bit

like Tarn, only instead of the two big fusion

cannons, they're huge sound cannons, sonic cannons,

whatever you want to call them. Or Beachcomber.

He looks like a Autobot version of a sweep in

his alt mode here, or he looks like a really,

really, really bad third -party Xbox controller.

I thought you were going to say poor Beachcomber,

because he essentially ends up lobotomized in

the end. I mean, yeah, I feel bad for the guy,

but his alt mode... He gets better, at least.

Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I feel bad for the

guy, but I'm sorry. His alt mode in that one

shot against Blaster just didn't... look like

whatever so we get the story of as you mentioned

earlier how soundwave basically had bombshell

implanted into beachcomber and that's how beachcomber

is you know the bad guy why he's trying to kill

blaster yeah yeah um i like that they again and

you've mentioned it could have been longer so

essentially it's a murder mystery too that somebody

tried to kill blaster uh they failed so apparently

they're not real good at Murder but Yeah, it

turns out it had to have been in Autobots and

etc. Etc. So I also like that. It would have

been nicer It could have been longer Yeah, and

in terms of who done it we don't see a lot of

mysteries in the Transformers universe. I feel

like the best one was Anyone featured nightbeat.

No, actually the best one was the Dinobots series.

Yep, where it's eventually You were and I don't

want to give it away or did we talk about it?

We talked about at some point, but yeah Salvation

redemption and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway sandstorms

Ends up being the murderer in that series. Yeah,

it was well done. There's a lot of It could have

been the Dinobots, you know optimus go to melt

by accusing them etc. Etc Anyway, yeah, there's

just so many transformers characters. It's another

thing. I wish they'd kind of do or of So even

though we didn't get to it, and I'm not gonna

go back to it now blaster did have an introductory

page some of these ones do and some don't which

I find Kind of like I like the introductory page

like with with RC here mad bad and dangerous

to know that's RC Autobot by allegiance, but

just totally out of control an untameable unrestrained

force of nature with tactics and ethics that

would put many a Decepticon to shame. Having

waged a...betriolic war against a perceived enemy

for many years, RC was finally brought to task

and incarcerated. Driven by personal demons and

a severe mental trauma, RC is now considered

just too dangerous to ever be let loose. But

sometimes desperate times call for desperate

measures. I love when they do that I kind of

like it more when they end up on like What the

character name like with blaster at the end of

his it's like this is Blaster or something, but

I kind of miss that I wish they would do that

more and like you said I wish they would kind

of go back to the spotlight stuff and Do other

things or whatever yeah? Furman is again Simon

Furman again on this art is done by Alex Milne

colors by Josh Perez and What? I'm just chuckling

because man, this is the doghouse issue for everybody

So and Chris Carter, we're just stars Yeah So

the best thing to do for anyone who hasn't listened

to the podcast I did with Jen Joviev and Amy

and Hear Jen's thoughts about this It is not

offensive to her, but there's an awful lot of

people that... Ooh, this issue has not aged all

that well. No, it has not. And I'll be blunt

about it. So the ad issue here is... Not intentionally,

I believe, but Arcee is depicted as... mentally

uns... stable slash angry all the time because

of a forced transition into a female transformer

And Yeah, yeah long story short this essentially

got retconned with a couple lines much later

on in the comics into something that Everybody

could be happier with but at the time It's I

understand what they were trying to do and I'm

not from this point on going to talk about Social

impact of it or anything like that It's just

something that hasn't aged. Well, yeah, that's

all I would say about it. And after that, yeah

Obviously to the company. Yeah the also the fair

I'm not the person to talk about this right since

you know, I am straight white male and every

comic in history is aimed at me pretty much so

yeah we are so not the people and I wanted other

I actually wanted Jen to come on to do this but

I never actually asked her and again my well

it was a scheduling whatever it's one of those

things where my original idea for the spotlights

was to have whomever liked the character best

on that individual one so as I said in April

this year Ryan would be on Nightbeat, and somebody

else would be on Hot Rod, and somebody else would

be on Optimus Prime, or Ryan Pax, or whatever.

Kind of a thing. And I had listened to the 13

years of IDW episode that you mentioned, and

it will be linked in the show notes. That's because

you had to edit it. Still listen, I still wanted

to hear it either way whether I had to edit it

or not And I listened to it like I'll be re listening

to this Probably maybe I don't know. Oh you poor

soul. Yeah. I know right Hey, there have been

times where I put 20 hours into an edit job and

people just don't don't respect the time and

the effort and the lack of money that I get paid

But I'm here because I enjoy it folks. I Will

have to I do have to say though Really dug ultra

Magnus's design in this like I know obviously

he's not you know, whatever he's not the focus

but Really really dig it. I think it's really

really cool with Alex and Josh and everybody

Yeah, two of the things Milne's always been good

at Is really good character designs and then

picking his bosses really poorly so he's I couldn't

go the entire episode without a dig. Anywho,

god dammit Alex, why? So the story here ties

in to, so they open with, you mentioned Magnus,

he's the one that captures R .C., and she ends

up incarcerated at Garrus 9, where pretty much

every major character ends up at some point,

seemingly, in the Transformers universe. Just

because that's where Overlord happens to go back

in what, in my opinion, kicks off the final phase

of More Than Meets the Eye and RID and all of

the fantastic, amazing stuff IDW did, anywho.

But in here, the warden is Fort Max. Jetfire

is kind of hanging out. so RC gets sent there

there's a jailbreak whatever you want to call

it of also incarcerated there because again this

is apparently the only prison even though it's

number nine also incarcerated there are each

of the pieces of monstructor as well as bludgeon

who ends up escaping in this as well too basically

all the g -axis's boys get busted out and In

the end, you know max not wanting everybody to

just escape freeze RC And she just starts Killing

transformers. Yep. Yep. I Love the art. Yeah,

I really do It's awesome. Awesome art. However

the story Ever since listening to that podcast.

It just it's even as a white male white straight

male. It's super uncomfortable now For me to

read this specifically for RC's part in her own

spotlight. I think oh wow, it's also It's not

a great start to a character that ended up in

a very different place. Yeah her arc in the back

half of the Transformers universe from IDW so

our ID into Optimus Prime was Be well done. It's

very sort of gradual and she's changed if she

is I think we talked about it too in that review.

She is one of the best Complex long form arcs

that they did and she's just in a completely

different place in this yes you and I think that

also makes it a little tough to read just because

There's that and she's not the same character

we kind of got used to And her growth and everything

else was just it was one of the best parts of

that back end which Is almost shoot. I don't

know how to say this properly I don't it wasn't

intentional, but she's almost kind of one note

in the early stuff. It's just I want to kill

Jack Yeah, and that is the extent of her existence

to later on it being revealed. She was a twin

of Galvatron to All the stuff with aileron and

just it's crazy what she goes through her allegiance

to Prowl to Her kind of suspecting there was

something up with him to It was just really well

done. And so it's kind of weird to go back To

her as essentially one note not super interesting

character. I think again as we mentioned back

in April about the spotlights you know a spotlight

on it you know it's like you know a day in the

life of and I think her spotlight while social

justicely motivated maybe I'm saying that incorrectly

but like certain parts of it are but like it's

her in a different snapshot Just socially motivated.

It's not it's not it's not just it is now it

wasn't then It just I don't know it's kind of

It's it's one of those things we're looking back

on it now because of everything that's happened

since that issue It's like hmm Wow, I think in

terms of I think in terms of that it has an age

12. Yeah To be blunt, in terms of how much better

she is as a character, how much better she's

written later on, it hasn't aged well either.

It just kind of falls flat. And I'd argue the

next issue. Oh, what? Really? In your order?

I got Grimlock next. So I'm sitting here with

the physical trade, in case anybody is wondering.

The order on the physical trade, by the way,

is... Blaster, RC, Grimmy, then Mirage, and then

Wheelie say find interesting, surprisingly interesting

story today. Grimlock, okay. That was a terrible

attempt. Took me so long to figure it out there.

This is why I'm not a rapper. So Grimlock. Grimlock

ties in really heavily to the Shun stuff. Most

notably the machination storylines with Scorponok

being in charge of, well, the machination as

a headmaster. It ties in heavily with Shockwave

because we see him brought back or brought out

of the burial at the end of Shockwave and being

reactivated from that. IDW Grimlock never really

did it for me. I don't think I was exposed to

him enough. Like, I mean, yeah, I didn't read

the early stuff. I started with Death and went

to RID and MECI and all that. But like, I always

felt like his story, because I hadn't read the

early stuff, early stuff was, you know, more

of a mystery to me. And I still want to know,

and I don't... Thanks, Simon. Furman will ever

hear this. I still want to know why he spells

it D -Y instead of D -I with the Dinobots, unless

it was a copyright thing. No, because I just

always assumed it's because it didn't make sense

for them to be Dinobots on Cybertron, because

they weren't dinosaurs. Anywho. Uh, I don't know.

Grimlock is again... Again, I feel like this

is just tougher to go back to the Dinobot trilogy

is kind of the I don't know and this is saying

something because the old UK and US Marvel G1

comics Featured Grimlock heavily and did a good

job with the Dinobots overall But I don't know

that there's been a better Dinobot story in the

trilogy Barbara did. Yeah, that has been the

best, I think. And if you had told me that slug,

that slag, slug, whatever you want to call him,

would be possibly the most interesting Dinobot,

I would have said you were nuts. But holy cow,

he found a way. As a future owner, whatever.

It was really, really good. Again, I'm going

into the other books. Slag's growth as a character,

too. He's one of the best. He could never let

go of his hate for the Decepticons. He could

never forget all of the terrible things he did

in the war. He is the opposite of RC. RC was

able to grow past the fact she was used as a

weapon by the Autobots. And he wasn't. Never

did and in the end it literally consumed him

And it just yeah, I don't know it So this so

going back to grim yeah, no good this book eventually

ends up being Grimlock versus Scorponok Yep,

I like the art I think I like the art more when

Grimlock is in Tyrannosaurus Rex mode than anything

else Yeah, I don't know what it is. I was never

big on the whole teeth on the side of his mask

Yeah, that's just in robot form. I thought that

was odd. Hey, that's a personal Reference, but

yeah, it just seemed odd. I mean there's a page

in here Murray says enough contemplation it's

just not in my nature to look back and It's a

picture of him his face. He's In the way the

art is drawn and colored, he's yellow and his

face is purple and I'm like, is that Grimlock

or is that a Decepticon? I don't know. Like,

it's just strange to me. But it's a reasonably

interesting story with Grimlock completely outclassed

by Scorpion as a headmaster now. Yup. I don't

know, it leads into... Oh boy. Yeah, it leads

into the Dinobot finale again, which serves as

the end or coda or whatever you want to call

it of Furman's Shun series at the end. So without

that, it doesn't function as well. So this is

one of those spotlights that there's focus on

one or in this case, two characters, but it's

super arc driven. Yeah. And it almost Becomes

essential reading for the other series. So I'm

not sure this is one that I'm not sure it enhances

the characters I Don't think it does as much

as the others. It's just more of a story to kind

of move it forward Yeah, and then when you put

it in a trade It was something like blaster,

which was very much a spotlight on a particular

character or wheelie And it's just kind of there

Yeah, I think it's yeah, if you're a big fan

of Grimlock, which I am you'll still kind of

enjoy it but I Don't know. It's just kind of

there Yeah, I mean I like Grimlock. I've always

liked Grimlock. I've always liked the Dinobots

but Grimlock in IDW as you said earlier, it's

just The one note I wrote about it is that I

thought it was interesting as I was reading it.

The art is cool in certain places, but it's not

my favorite spotlight. It just isn't. Um, I don't

know. Mirage has, um, the, uh, of course it comes

from a different character, but his spotlight

has, um, the single greatest line in Transformers

comic history at this point. You rust -hearted

son of a glitch! I'm sure there are other better

lines, but I really did dig that. What about

Springer's spawn of a glitch? There's that, too.

The Mirage story does not have a character bio

thing, because guess what? This is not written

by Simon Furman. This is written by George Stratton?

The art is done by Guido Guidi. The colors are

done by Josh Bircham. Letters by Chris Mowry.

Edits by Andrew Stephen Harris. So again, very

beginning of IDW kind of thing. So question here.

Yes. I'm assuming you're on the digital book.

So in fact, Mirage does have an opening. Why

would they leave that out? Just read it, please.

As an Autobot, Mirage has always questioned his

elite. Chances and his decision to sign against

Megatron and the Decepticons, but what if circumstances

gave him the opportunity to reconsider? Could

he change shields as easily? He changes appearances

and which choice would be reality and which one

the illusion I think I remember reading that

because I think this was the very first spotlight

I read in physical form years and years and years

ago back in 2013 and I started buying physical

comics. But yeah, this is basically an alternate,

you know, timeline, storyline kind of thing,

an alternate reality story. Dream of Mirage.

Yeah, Mirage Dream. Whatever you want to call

it, yeah. Yeah, and I thought this was cool.

I thought this was really cool. I love the juxtaposition

of the beginning and the end. I love... Love

the way optimus bumblebee and the rest of the

Autobots look I Mean again taking mirage and

putting him as a decepticon. I thought that was

cool. It's very different and yeah, it kind of

Her Pins back to Mirage's actual sort of g1 thing

where he was a spy mm -hmm yep, and so he kind

of Was able to play both sides with his abilities

be it just the invisibility or whatever and yeah,

this is This is really it's one of the standout

spotlights. It stays with you a bit too Mostly

because we're not used to seeing the Autobots

or the main crew Even though it's alternate universe

get cut down pretty rapidly Yeah, cuz bumblebee

comes in and just starts shooting everybody.

Oh wait, that's mirage Yeah, I I love this it's

very very g1 ask in the art No character looks

off model or anything like that mirage has a

slightly different look than he did in the cartoon

series But again, this is comics. I'm not expecting

Complete cartoon accuracy obviously so But yeah,

so they basically go in and kill all the Autobots,

or at least most of them. Yeah, this was... I

don't know, Mirage helps infiltrate the last

sort of stronghold and the last few Autobots.

Optimus, in an attempt to save Jetfire, surrenders

himself, but yeah, it's just... It's very different

and I enjoyed this. I have a whole lot to say

about it, but everything kind of worked. It's

another example of it gives you some insights

into the character in this IDW universe while

not requiring other reading and it just shows

you a bit about the character that we don't get

to see in the main line. I feel like that's was

sort of the intention with these. Yeah, it works

really well. Yeah, it does. Again, you're telling

an alternate story where is he a Decepticon?

Is he an Autobot kind of thing? Very, very cool.

Very, very interesting. You're seeing, you know,

different sides of the same character, two sides

at the same point, whatever. He still has the

basic like, hey, just wanted the credit after

you know he surrendered that was it and then

Megatron's like no kill them if you want your

payment obviously you know at least in the end

he turned out to be a good guy well not really

killed hound no true wasn't that good geez for

hound wait kills hound and then it wasn't that

he was a good guy he just hesitated a bit and

then optimus kills him in the in his dream world

I like Mirage. I think Mirage is a nice little...

It's another really good one here, and it reminds

me a lot of Blaster. It doesn't require a lot

of reading. You get a sense of who the character

is. And he doesn't show up to do an off a lot

later either. Oddly enough, there's somebody

who does show up a fair amount in Wheely. Also,

if you told me Wheely would have a good spotlight,

I would have said you were nuts. This is entertaining,

so... Yeah, it's very entertaining. And I have

to say... I have to say, I wish I would have

known about before I had the art made up for

this episode. I wish I had known about the cover

where it's like wheelie, you know, Cybertronian

advisory CD, wheelie for life. Like, I wish I

had known about that because I would have had

that thrown in the art for the banner for the

episode. That's hilarious. Again, on digital...

This is one that does not have Wow. Yeah, it

does Yeah, that is weird those are weird choices

also wheelie gets the his name wheel anything

Easygoing quick -witted and eager to please he's

the bot with a joke and a smile for every occasion

his primary role to provide technical support

for the Autobot warrior release But his light

-hearted facade masks a deep abiding desire to

be taken seriously, to be given responsibility,

to be more than just a glorified gopher. But

the only one who really thinks he has what it

takes is him. His name, Wheelie. Yeah, I wish

they would have put that in Wheelie's speak.

No, no, no. So, quick run. Yeah, I don't know

what happens in this I've done a bad job summarizing

the other ones But anyway, I may as well do one

of them right really gets trapped on a planet

because the scout ship Fails the Autobot army

as we'll see in other issues and other things

going on or just kind of too busy to go find

them You know with a big war and everything else

on Luckily gets found later on but couple notes

here First of all, they explain why we really

talks in rhyme. It's essentially just because

he's on the planet for so long Where people run?

I'm right next we get to see reflector for basically

the one of the few times in the IDW first as

well as Oh boy, does this get retconned and changed

later on with how reflector gets there? despite

being or appearing in other Or IDW books Barber

John Barber aka master of fixing storyline problems

and so Helping or ends up kind of fixing all

of the continuity errors That was a cute touch

later on but in any case It's kind of neat it's

again kind of it's sort of a one -off eventually

wheelie shows up again, but it's not super important

Yeah, this story. Yeah, this to me felt like

what the cup once the cup spotlight was like

It's an adventure on your own kind of thing Not

necessarily a choose your own adventure, but

it's an adventure on your own You still have

an Autobot versus a Decepticon with wheelie versus

reflector now Reflector I think spyglass viewfinder

and Spectro Spectro. Viewfinder's dead, so he

doesn't get too much. Well, yes, Viewfinder is...

Spectro and Spyglass are fine, anyway. I'm saying,

though, I think that they would benefit from

a spotlight or something. That would be really

cool. They're basically never forgiven any characterization

ever. This is one of the few times they even

get dialogue in the Transformers universe. It's

true, though. That's sad. Anyway, I like there's

a couple things here or other references to there

is, of course, really attempting the universal

greeting and getting his arm chewed off. But

it was a cute reference. Yeah. I like his internal

monologue in the first chunk of this. And then,

of course, later on, when he makes friends, he's

got to learn how to rhyme because they don't

understand anything else. This is good. And by

the way, it ends with a shot of a mural of the

Quinnaissons, which is never followed up on.

But oh well. That's what I thought that was.

And I'm like, hey. Yeah. They never really show

up. That sucks. Oh well. Yeah, oh well. I love

the, uh, the syntax error. I'm like, oh god,

I remember that. Yeah, when we leave that line

properly. Yeah, exactly. From, I remember that

from old, uh, the Apple II computer line several

times. Yeah, this was a fun little story. Uh,

it was a fun little thing where you could just

look back, um, on this character and have this

adventure with him. Should be noted too, so that

oh go ahead. Well the interesting thing about

this Issue, I don't know if it's in the print

issue, but in the back of it. It has the wheelie

sketchbook Yes front of it. It has Something

it has like I don't know some other story that

isn't the wheelie story and then at the very

end it has one little panel from Matt Moylan's

little formers So really tell how dated this

issue is how old it is from these, yeah. I wanted

to know too, the art on Wheely, the sort of,

it's hard to describe, if you want, if you're

listening to this, just check it out online.

The art and colors were done by Klaus Szerwinski,

and holy cow, I wish he had done more Transformers

stuff. I actually, I really like the kind of,

and some, The color assist was by Josh Birch

on but I really like the kind of gritty Yet it's

hard to describe it's a It's a lot like some

of the other transformers are but there's a weird

amount of like grit and kind of darker Colors

and more of a green It's inched everything. Yeah,

I swear. I actually really like it. Yeah, it

very much does work Well, you're probably gonna

kill me for this but oh geez I gotta, even though

I've never seen the actual film, I've seen trailers

for it, I've seen posters for it, I've seen other

homages to it, the art design has a real Mad

Max Fury Road feeling to it. Watch the damn movie.

Watch it. Watch it every day. Like that one shot

of Wheely just walking in the desert, I'm like...

Wow, even if you've ever seen any of the other

movies and or Aren't the fan of them or the setting

watch the movie? Watch it watch it watch it.

I still watch it once every month still Seriously,

it is rapidly. Yes. It is rapidly climbing up

my most viewed films of all time list which is

punctuated by number one of course first Transformers

the movie number two Star Trek to the wrath of

Khan I gotta think Fury Road's probably third.

I mean I saw it in theaters seven times. I love

that movie. Actually I like it more than Road

Warrior, which I also adore. Anyhow. Yeah, Wheelie,

Skip, Scare over there. This was just fun. It's

the same thing. I had actually asked Amy and

some of the other Fembots that I do podcasts

with I asked them about if they wanted to join

in on any of this and Her only reply was that

she didn't have time and that wheelie was a really

really fun story And she's not wrong like we've

already said and found out that very very fun

story I'm just saying from where I sit. I'm surprised

that the wheelie story wasn't shit anyway It

took me this entire podcast to come up with that.

Thank you. There you go. One way to do it. Coming

up next week in Autobotly August, we've got episode

364, Transformers Spotlights Part 4, which include

Cyclonus, Hardhead, Double Dealer, Side Swipe,

and Blur. So that's what's coming up then. Where

can the people find you online, sir? At nightbeats

on Twitter, as always. As always, I'm at TF2

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