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"Transformers/Back to the Future"
Part 2
Transformers/Back to the Future #2
IDW
Written by Cavan Scott
Art by Juan Samu
Colors by David Garcia Cruz
Letters by Neil Uyetake
Cover A by Juan Samu
November 2020 |
The Transformer called Gigawatt enlists
Marty's help to set the timeline straight.
Read the story
summary at
the Transformers Wiki
Notes from the Back to the Future chronology
This story takes place in an alternate universe from the
mainstream
Back to the Future
universe depicted in the main PopApostle Back to the Future
chronology. This is a
Back to the Future/Transformers cross-over
universe.
Didja Know?
Transformers/Back to the Future was a
four-issue comic book mini-series published by IDW in 2020-2021.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Gigawatt
Marty McFly
Doc Brown
Starscream
Skilz
Rodimus Prime
Bumblebee
Rumble
Einstein
Megatron
Optimus Prime
Biff Tannen
Teletraan-1
Shockwave
Hound
Jazz
Flamewar
Blitzwing
Lorraine McFly
George McFly
Scrapper
Didja Notice?
The Transformer called Skilz is unique to the Transformers/Back to the Future
timeline/universe. His alternate configuration is a
skateboard, which is awfully convenient for Marty.
Skilz apparently has the ability to shift part of his mass
in and out of his body, as he is small and lightweight in
skateboard configuration and roughly of human-size and mass
in his main configuration.
On page 5, Skilz is missing the Autobot emblem on his chest.
In 2015, the resistance to the Decepticon takeover of Earth
is based in the old Delgado Mine. In
Back to the Future Part III, Doc has hidden the
DeLorean in the mine in 1885 so that Marty could use it in
1955.
On page 12, Doc Brown exclaims "Tesla's Ghost!" when he sees
his first Decepticon. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a
Serbian-American electrical engineer and physicist.
Also on page 15, Doc tells Rumble that he left instructions
that his workshop be kept in pristine condition for his
arrival in 2015. But in the Telltale computer game
Back to the Future: The Game,
we see the bank is selling off his estate and assets in
1986.
On page 19, Rumble addresses Teletraan-1. This is the master
computer of the Autobots crashed Ark on Earth which has lain
buried for millions for years.
In the flashback on page 21, Shockwave tells Megatron that
the Pasadena and Arleta work camps have fallen behind on
their energon quotas.
Pasadena is a city in Southern California and Arleta is
a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the
McFly house exteriors were shot in the films.
Gigawatt performs a "trans-scan" on Doc's time machine.
"Trans-scan" is the term used when a Transformer analyzes a
new piece of machinery and reconfigures itself into that
device as an alternate mode.
The Transformers Wiki points out that Gigawatt's
POV display (on page 21) as he trans-scans the time machine
has a line in the "Ancient Autobot" font substitution
cypher, which translates as "DELOEAN". It may be that this
mini-series did not have the license to use the name
"DeLorean", hence the misspelling.
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