The Intergalactic Highway

A preview page for the next Transformers Collectors Club comic has been posted.

According to the description, the comic will revolve around "Beast Wars Shattered Glass." However, the current preview page doesn't seem to have any "Shattered Glass" aspects to it - it mostly just features Ultra Mammoth.

My guess is that the "Shattered Glass" part of the story will be revealed later. The current preview page doesn't make me too excited, but it is nice to see more Beast Wars stuff.

*Botcon 2012 comic spoiler alert*

At the end of last years' "Invasion" storyline, the entire Classicsverse was destroyed with the exception of Classicsverse Earth and a few ships in its vicinity. The small remainder of that universe was transported over into the Shattered Glass universe (so yes, in the SG universe there are now two Earths, the Classicsverse Earth and the SG Earth). Although the preview page doesn't explicitly state this, I have a strong feeling that-- since we're seeing Classicsverse Magnus/Ultra Mammoth, Grimlock, Silverbolt, Ironhide, and Prowl here, they're in the Shattered Glass universe now, and thus Shattered Glass Beast Wars.

Okay, quick rundown of the 1st 6-page comic:

As the temporal/universal wave from the Terminus Blade destroyed the Classicsverse-- with only the Classicsverse Earth saved (which was transported into the Shattered Glass universe) and a few ships, who were transported into the distant past. Ship 1 contains... well, the crew seen above. Ship 2 contains Classicsverse Megatron, Dirge, and the Seacons. Replay events from the first episode of Beast Wars, with them both crash landing on a prehistoric Earth with two moons. They can't venture out because of unusually stable Energon (Grimlock tried to and the preview page above is what he got as a result). Two of the Seacons are also killed by it. Then comes the preview page with the Autobots getting beast modes, whereas the Decepticons have a way to shield their armor from Energon instead of getting organic mods. Classicsverse Megatron gets reformatted into his purple G2 "Combat Hero" tank version. The remaining four Seacons get their Beast Wars the 2nd color schemes, and Classicsverse Dirge becomes BWII Dirge.

So that's it so far. Not sure how exactly it's "Shattered Glass"-- are they on Shattered Glass Earth in the distant past, or Classicsverse Earth?-- but so far the players are definitely different.

Interesting, especially the Energon shielding for the Decepticons. Thanks for sharing!

Alright, 2nd part of the comic arrived today with the rest of the new TFCC magazine. Here's a short summary:

The Autobots discover that a room carrying three of their stasis pods was separated from the rest of the ship during the crash. They go to recover them, only to discover that Megatron and the other Decepticons had arrived their first due to their faster vehicle modes. Megatron has already reprogrammed the stasis pods, who are now Decepticons-- namely, Autojetter, Autolauncher, and Scylla from the BWII series. A battle begins, and the new alternaverse Depth Charge, having arrived from the Transtech universe, swoops in at that time to help. Together he and Ultra Mammoth are enough to temporarily gain the upper hand against the Decepticons, but they retreat before the 'Cons can regroup. Calling the Autobots "Maximals" (which confuses them), Depth Charge tells them that the stakes here are greater than they realize-- indeed, they need to save the universe itself!

I assume next issue will be an info dump explaining more backstory and what the big deal is about this new Beast War. This was a primarily action/new character-focused 7 pages of comic. Though the profile for Grimlock in this same issue confirms they're on prehistoric Shattered Glass Earth.