#TF vol 1

[dailydccomics]

foiled again, Eobard The Flash #175

[mudanonaito]

@animangacreators challenge #3 ↳ alphabet challenge 2.0 (5/26) : E → EIGHTY SIX

[duskkodesh]

I'm sorry but Ghost Rider has to be remembering this dude so wrong, there is no way anyone was ever so irresponsible as to give this man a motor vehicle.

[synthshenanigans]

I was looking at my old HMS art & I drew Heart in a magical girl outfit with a rocket launcher????

Huh??????

[obfontri]

since krag was left out of endgame/IW entirely, i’m actually really interested in developing his life during the 5 year gap! i’ve defaulted to him returning to stakar’s crew to explain his absence in canon but like. i refuse to believe he wouldn’t have routinely checked back in with rocket and nebs considering they’re his last link to anything familiar. i just think it’d be fun and an easy way to develop his relationships with more earthbound muses so uh. if that sounds like smth you’d be interested in, lmk!

[vynxwave]

tf skybound issue 14 thoughts / analysis / connections n whatnot. spoilers for the issue 15 preview too.

absolutely gorgeous art

VERY G1 starscream vibes in some places xD... i could practically hear his voice

more of starscream's origin and a bit more of megatron! i like megatron's characterization in skybound so far plus the decepticon cause's. i think skybound's decepticon ideology's gotta be my favorite, it just meshes their violence with their believed righteousness in such a great way.

this issue gives starscream quite a different initial approach to morality than seen in previous continuities (iirc) where here in #14 he is against killing prisoners of war while being a decepticon (often he's with loose morals even before becoming a decepticon).

megatron has the ability to mentally coerce the one wielding him to bend to his will (painfully), which i think is a really cool concept.

this makes starscream's evil directly caused by megatron from prolonged exposure to his influence conditioning/corrupting him. as seen in the mini background panels, over time blasting many Autobots to scrap, starscream grows to enjoy it

i've personally always loved starscream's evil to be completely independent of megatron('s) (as it has been) so i'm a bit conflicted on this aspect of skybound starscream... but i do understand its purpose/role in the story though.

issues #13/#14 run a parallel between then starscream & megatron and present starscream & those humans: both purport to Starscream they want to help him, but in reality they just want to use him for their own benefit. with that then story running parallel to the present one, starscream's dialogue about those humans also reflects upon how he felt under megatron's control

megatron forcing starscream to wield him definitely felt like it was expounding upon a question one might have had watching G1 — "why would megatron let someone who openly covets his position wield him?" of course, skybound isn't g1 and takes the idea and angle quite differently than the show did. with this it also supplies the reason of why starscream resents megatron and wants to overthrow and kill him.

and of G1, the Decepticons siding with starscream are ones who have sided with him once in the cartoon — the Combaticons in Starscream's Brigade and Astrotrain in Triple Takeover (and of course, Astrotrain was also the one to crown Starscream in the 1986 movie).

with Soundwave having the Constructicons and Starscream the Combaticons, a cool fight between Devastator and Bruticus is sure to ensue (vol 3 [collects #13-#18 + the story from the 2024 special] is called "Combiner Chaos" anyway)

i will be delighted to see soundwave and his decepticons vs starscream and his decepticons.

soundwave looks to be a megatron loyalist in this continuity and shares a bit of his sentiments (a bit below).

neat how then starscream and present thundercracker both had objections to the treatment of prisoners of war.

not the first time there's been a similarity between them, here's panels (#1 & #8) that parallel each other:

and how they differ:

not 1:1, but megatron's words to starscream reminded me of soundwave's to thundercracker — a subordinate's objection met with a reminder of their place and that their objection is irrelevant to their superior.

also worth noting, soundwave keeps thundercracker by his side despite his continual disagreements with how things are going, which is similar to megatron keeping starscream (who resents him) by his side.

i'd guess these similarities serve to build up to thundercracker possibly eventually actively opposing soundwave (as opposed to just going along with it) — here in the #15 preview he gives the humans warning to flee before blasting the building

now, knowing megatron's gunmode has the ability to mentally coerce the wielder to bend to his will... looks like this is what's happening with optimus wearing megatron's cannon arm!! xD. "megatron's cannon arm is influencing prime" has been built up and noticed, but it's nice to have megatron's ability now explicitly shown.

In #5 Starscream comments on Optimus having Megatron's cannon arm, and Optimus has a bit to say to him before blasting him with it.

Many noticed the parallel between Megatron & Optimus's fight in the Energon Universe Special 2024 and Optimus & Shockwave's in #12 as well as his tinged eye color.

Now with #14 we can also see a a similar thing that happened to Optimus happen to Starscream — Megatron's influence practically forcing their hand, going against what they wanted. Note the green-yellow background gradient suggesting Megatron's mental coercion in Starscream's panels, and in Optimus's panels (above) when his eyes are tinged there's yellow or yellow-green used in the background.

[mxtxfanatic]

Reasons Why the 7seas MDZS is the Inferior Translation

I recently had the misfortune to get my hands on all the 7seas mdzs volumes, so I wanted to make a list of some reasons why I will not be using this translation for any meta unless it is in comparison:

Reason 1: whoever tf's idea it was to translate "rogue cultivator" as "knight-errant":

The founding father of the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng, Jiang Chi, came from a knight-errant background.

—Vol. 3, Chapt. 12: Sandu: The Three Poisons

Reason 2: the fact that I was made to read French with my own two eyeballs in an English translation when the word "title" was perfectly serviceable as a translation:

But recently, he’d gotten used to using his venerated sobriquet every day.

—Vol. 1, Chapt. 7: Morning Dew, 7seas

Reason 3: this reason has been paywalled due to my personal belief that the compensation for inflicting this kind of psyche damage onto myself should be monetary

[bonesbitchesboutcomicbooks]

Batman Vol 1 #412

Two things.

A) why tf are you keeping Jason out until six in the morning? What about school? When does he sleep?

B) Bruce is basically looking directly into the camera and saying he’s Jewish and I find that hilarious

[deadly-aim-broke-my-heart]

Finally finished!!!

Ref: idw rid, Megatron Origin, Tf vol 1

[leonenjoyer69]

I really love your art and your artstyle!!! I'm trying to learn to draw and I'm struggling to find a way to draw faces and especially eyes that I like, could you maybe share some tips on how you draw faces because omg I am so in awe of how cool your art looks! :D

FKEKVKKEKD OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH 🥺🥺 I'M SO HONORED

Honestly, the best advice I can give is to study tf out of art styles you like, bc that's exactly what I did with TGS. The amount of pages I just stared at and tried to lowkey memorize is ungodly, and once I started drawing the characters and trying to emulate sage's style, I kinda just kept getting better from there. My ability to draw poses and full body stuff also got exponentially better VERY quickly, TGS is just magic like that, I swear.

Also, for eyes specifically, referencing each characters eyes and testing different expressions is kinda the way to go. I use my physical copy of Vol 1 a LOT for referencing (especially for Hyde and Lanyon)

(A LOT more under the cut lmao)

Also, just drawing headshots of the characters over and over helps too, especially in pen! I have literal DOZENS of random 5- 10 minute pen doodles. The nice thing about the pen stuff is that, yeah, youll mess up a lot and not be super satisfied with most of them, but it forces you to be a bit more careful about how you place things and steadier with you hand, at least in my experience.

(The sillies)

See? Most of them really suck, but they made me pay a lot more attention to what I was doing and what I wanted to do. It also helped me grasp quirks of the characters and drawing expressions a lot better. Plus, this isn't even all of them, I've got a bunch more in a little envelope I made.

Also, looking on Pinterest for pose references probably would also help, or taking pics of yourself for reference, but I'm built different (stubborn and lazy) so I rawdog my anatomy and poses 🗣️🗣️

Otherwise, I can also give a little doodle example with Whole Jekyll on how I currently draw in pencil and such :3

Start with circle, then give it a nice center line and chin

Then I throw in the neck and shoulders (which tend to change a decent bit bc anatomy is hard), the eye line, which goes through the middle of the circle, and then I like to do a line down the chest to figure out which way I want him pointing, since he's at a tilt. I also change this quite often, along with where I want the face pointing lmao. Once I've figured out direction, I draw the nose starting at the bottom of the circle and up to the eye line. I also then draw the top of the eyes first. The eye line (and apparently the center line 💀) is of course a suggestion, and I tend to mess around with the eye shape until it looks mostly right.

Then the bottoms of the eyes and the pupils get thrown in, which I have to redraw pretty often to try and make them match better. I also usually leave the eyes blank bc I'm lazy af and can't draw pupils too well, I will shade them tho and that makes them look better.

Then bbg gets ears (which I usually start around the corners of the eyes and go down to just above the little curve of the jaw), eyebrows (also just mess around with these til they look right) and a mouth (I HATE drawing mouths 😋😋), then they get their hair (also have to redraw a bunch)

Also, to show Whole Jekylls other eye, I pinned his hair back, so there's a treat, Whole Jekyll enjoyers <3 bbg can fully see 😍 (Mind Lanyon probably forced him too)

Then I shade his eyes, give him clothes and fix up any quick things that were bothering me (in this his nose) and go back with the edge of a rectangle eraser and get those guidelines and extra lines out (sometimes they're still a little visible, but maybe just don't draw them as heavy handed as I do 💀) and Bada Bing Bada boom! Doodle done :3 of course its not the best, but it doesn't have to be, thats the joy of doodles

Heres another good pic to kinda show how I use my guidelines (and how messy my doodles usually are, it's part of my charm guys, I swear--)

Otherwise like, my progress shots for drawings look goofy af lmao, like--

Messy af, incorrect proportions, wrong anatomy, eugh. just takes time (and a lot of redrawing) to get to the final pieces.

But yeah!!! Eyes are annoying, it just takes a lot of tweaking and repetition.

Like, I redrew some of these eyes a decent few times and some of them are still off, like cmon Lanyon, why you gotta be so hard for me to draw 💔

Anyways!!! Thats probably the best I can offer right this second lmao, sometimes I kinda wish I could record drawing and stuff but I don't do stuff purely digital often enough to. I do have a full speed paint for that drawing of Jekyll in Hydes mind clothes tho, so idk maybe I'll share that if anyone wants me to lmao.

But yeah! Thank you so much for the ask and the kind words, I hope this helps! or is at least entertaining lmao

[dailydccomics]

forever a little dude The Flash #800

[artobotsrollout]

Hey ya'll!! Good news!

The MTMTE notebooks now have volume 3 and 4!

You will also be able to order volume 1 and 2 if you missed it last time

Orders are invited in September, likely from September 1st - September 30th

People who placed orders before or otherwise emailed the MTMTE books email or signed up for the preorder will be contacted.

Also he's mentioned potentially making the newest scripts available too!

Please check out his post, screenshots below, for more info

Link to the post: LINK

James Roberts @jroberts332: Lots of questions about this, so:

I plan to invite orders for the MTMTE notebooks (both sets: Vols 1 and 2; and 3 and 4) in September --- probably first 1st to the 30th. I might make the latest scripts available too.

**I will post something on here, on Bluesky and on my Instagram**

James Roberts @jroberts332: If you bought Vols 1 and 2, or emailed the MTMTE Books account about placing an order, you'll automatically be contacted.

If you put your name on the preorder lists at TFCon and TFNation, you'll be contacted

James Roberts @jroberts332: I'm doing some things differently this year, having learned some lessons last time. These changes should cut down on delivery times and make everything run more smoothly. I'll explain everything when you contact me to place an order, or to enquire about placing one.

James Roberts @jroberts332: Some people are worried about missing out, so please spread this message far and wide-- TF message boards, Tumblr, etc. I'm conscious that people have deserted Twitter.

I don't want to have to extend the preorder window, which is what happened last time.

Thank youuuu

Spread this info further yall!

[synthshenanigans]

yeah. Light fucks me up too man. one time i talked for a full half hour about Mind's facial movements in the music video. Light's just like that.

Chonny needs to be sued for the emotional damage & for the space the album takes up in peoples head he cant keep getting away with this

[lemonomelette]

Hello, may I ask, where did/do you read MTMTE? I really want to read the comics but I couldn't find them anywhere online and the paper ones are insanely expensive (also off-top addition but I love your art, Dune brought me to your blog bc I love your Piter arts, but your Transformers art is ASTOUNDING)

HOLY COW I GET TO CONVERT SOMEONE? MY RELENTLESS TF POSTING HAS BEEN LEADING UP TO THIS MOMENT—I mean thank you, I'm really happy that you stayed for my tf art.

There are probably better sites, but I personally go to https://readcomiconline.li/, I recommend doing so on PC with an adblock since the pop-ups there go crazy. Also: wider screen.

And yeah, I get wanting to collect the paperbacks too, but conversion rate is insane and the vol 1 comes out at RM800 for me (not including shipping)

[tremendouskoalachild]

hey remember that not at all depressing poster from the end of phase 1?

anyway i went back with the info we got since (up to the first wave of phase 3, but timeline-wise shortly after the fall).

(red for confirmed dead, yellow for missing presumed dead, green for no-specific-reason-to-think-they're-dead-but-very-much-missing)

1. The Starlight Beacon. Extremely dead.

2. Vernestra Rwoh and Imri Cantaros. Vernestra could be green (heh) i suppose. We got an update on her and Imri's situation in Tales of Light and Life and a recap during her chapters in the beginning of Defy the Storm.

3. Bell Zettifar. He made it through TFS, yay!

4. Burryaga and Nib Assek. Their fates were described in TFS.

5. Avar Kriss. Made it but left very shortly after as seen in Shadows of Starlight.

6. Sskeer. We didn't know what supposedly happened there until the first issue of THR 2023, where Keeve reminisces about the events.

7. Keeve Trennis. She lived :)

8. Terec and Ceret. Also lived.

9. Estala Maru. Dead during the last issue of THR 2021.

10. Torban “Buckets of Blood” Buck. MIA as per THRA 2023.

11. Lula Talisola, Farzala Tarabal, and Qort. Lula especially was in a scary position in Starlight Coda. We learned of the trio's situation first in THRA 2023 issue 1.

12. Kantam Sy. Saved by being elsewhere during the Beacon's fall, in Midnight Horizon.

13. Porter Engle. Revealed to have been stranded behind the Stormwall shortly after, discussed in The Eye of Darkness.

14. Orla Jareni. Dead in TFS.

15. Stellan Gios. Same :(

16. Cohmac Vitus. Ditched the order in Midnight Horizon. Not for a short and quick identity crisis either, as confirmed in Shadows of Starlight.

17. Ram Jomaram. Assumed to be fine, relatively speaking, because of Midnight Horizon showing him on Corellia. Then Escape from Valo punched us in the face with the knowledge he went to Valo right after and was trapped there.

18. Reath Silas. He lived and didn't even go AWOL like his master and best friend.

19. Elzar Mann. Lived but at what cost.

20. Lily Tora-Asi, Padawan Keerin Fionn, and Master Arkoff. AWOL, dead, fine. The first two are discussed in The Edge of Balance Vol 2, Arkoff shows up in Shadows of Starlight to knight Burry.

21. Emerick Caphtor. We saw him in the middle of the action during the Beacon's fall but he showed up at the beginning of Shadows of Starlight and was ok.

[optimistpax]

Finally got my hands on vol. 1 of the skybound tf comics and WOW!!!! DWJ, Mike Spicer, and Rus Wooton absolutely knocking it OUT OF THE PARK with this one!!!!

The bombastic lettering… the vibrant colours…. The loose and stylized line art… the gentle and grounded writing… I love it. I was optimistic after reading Do a Powerbomb! and I was right to be so! What a fantastic team of storytellers.