Hasbro put out a series of non transforming Transformers toys and I picked up a few of my favorite characters. Soundwave was always one of my favorites because he had all those cool little tapes and his voice was a synthesizer. He was strong and a great spy for the Decepticons. He turned into a little tapedeck that fooled people all the time. The tapes he had fit into the tape deck chest cavity, too. As a kid in the 80’s who had different tape recorders and such this was something very cool. He’s recently been reissued and there is a Shattered Glass variant out there as well, Shattered Glass is an alternative history of Transformers where the Decepticons are the good guys and the Autobots are the evil ones.
While at the Rhode Island Comic Con yesterday I met an artist who did Transformers artwork for the Transformers comic book. I looked through his pieces and told him that Wheeljack was my favorite character ad asked if he had any Transformers pieces. The only thing he had was the Shattered Glass version of Wheeljack called Slicer but it was not for sale. I enjoyed talking with him so I figured I’d buy something so I picked up the poster of Megatron with Reflector. I’ll have to pick up frame and add this to my wall soon. The comic book is the completed artwork of the Wheeljack alternate version that the artist did, too. I did not catch his name, though. His daughter also did some artwork and he was selling her stuff. Eva picked up a piece from her as well.
