A cantora Regina Oliveira no centro da roda do ensaio com a banda Choro, Samba e Outras Bossas. Foto: Reprodução
A Fundação da Memória Republicana Brasileira (FMRB), sediada no Convento das Mercês (Rua da Palma, s/nº., Desterro), recebe hoje (22), às 19h, a primeira edição do projeto Choro, Samba e Outras Bossas este ano – ao todo já são nove edições do encontro mensal, inaugurado ano…
Story - Mario Coleman
Art - Rui Onishi
Colours - Liam Shalloo
Letters - HdE
Edits - wadapan
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wada sez: On deviantART, Mario acknowledged that Perceptor’s characterisation here isn’t really remotely similar to how he’s been portrayed in any prior media; historically, he speaks with loquacious verbosity and never uses idioms. Really, this feels more like a Prowl or Nightbeat strip. Now, the version of the comic you’ve just read above is actually edited from the strip as originally posted (see below), which featured some blatant coloring errors on Liam Shalloo’s part; presumably, the script for this one would’ve called for a generic Autobot in the second panel with Ratchet, and Fracas (Scourge’s Targetmaster partner) in the final panel, but presumably Liam never got the script, leading him to color these characters as the Decepticon Hun-Gurrr and the Autobot Scattershot, cross-factional counterparts who have no reason to be in this story. Onishi appears to have drawn Fracas using the erroneous character model from classic ‘80s fiction; I expect that Shalloo misinterpreted the artwork as depicting Scattershot, (who he broadly resembles, particularly with the back-mounted gun barrel), then picked Hun-Gurrr for the second panel due to his prior association with Scattershot. I’m not sure who Onishi intended that background character to be, if anyone, but the details look fairly specific; for my corrected version of the strip, I’ve colored him as Fastlane, who has those wheels on the backs of the shoulders. It’s a shame that the strip as originally posted had all these little issues muddying the story, because I think the core premise here of a Targetmaster howdunnit that asks “what if the murder weapon transformed and hid itself” is really good, and Onishi’s art is gorgeous as always.
Transformers: Multiverse #10 - "Just Good Friends"
Originally posted on January 15th, 2013
Story - Mario Coleman
Art - Rui Onishi
Colours - Liam Shalloo
Letters - HdE
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wada sez: This strip plays into an oddity from the original Sunbow cartoon; in The Transformers: The Movie, Hot Rod and Arcee are shown flirting onscreen for most of the film, but in the show’s third season, with Hot Rod’s narrative role having shifted with his transformation into Rodimus Prime, Arcee was instead typically written to have a closer connection with Springer. Mario Coleman offered this scintillating bit of behind-the-scenes commentary on this one: “I hate, hate, HATE the friend zone. I wrote this from experience unfortunately.” This strip just about predates widespread awareness of incel culture. Meanwhile, Onishi specifically noted having drawn the Dinobots into this strip out of love for their depiction in the show’s third season. That big looming hulk in the final panel is a rare appearance of Broadside, drawn to match his pre-final character models based on an early toy prototype. With this strip, Multiverse celebrated having ten pieces published. See below for clean inks.