I happen to reallylike Tranformers Animated. I own both AllSpark Almanacs and around ten of the toys (to be fair, cmyoung gave me about half of them because he’s awesome like that) and the first two seasons on dvd (because they don’t appear to have season 3 dvds and that makes me so mad). I really like Sari Sumdac – haters to the left.
What I don’t like about Transformers Animated is how closely it sticks to the Smurfette Principle. There are no main female Autobots except maybe Arcee who is basically a plot device not a full character, and the only major female transformer at all is Black Arachnia. It’s even more frustrating because I get the feeling that they tried to be more inclusive than former Transformers series. The (for lack of a better term) NPC robots in the AllSpark Almanacs are more evenly balanced gender-wise (don’t get me startedon robot gender btw). So what gives?
Well, apparently there was supposed to be a female version of Red Alert on the main team. Who was later changed to Ratchet, who I like but I can’t help thinking I might of liked Red Alert more. And I’m going to give the creators a bone and hazard a guess that it was sexism higher up – probably the merchandise guys spouting some “female toys don’t sell!” stuff. That being said, it still whomps.
I like Red Alert’s design. Maybe make a couple of adjustments or two – but I like the way she looks. I’m even going to jump forward and say she should have elements of the original Red Alert’s personality. By that I mean that I kinda like paranoid characters and I rarely see paranoid female characters and think that would be great.
Anyway, this post was originally supposed to be about my Dream Transformers Team but I got sidetracked so let’s get on that.
Optimus Prime – a given as Team Leader
Female!Red Alert – as described above, filling the role of Team Medic and Team Gruff Paranoid Cynic
Arcee – Pretty much her Transformers Prime incarnation which I adore and want to see more of – as Lancer and Fighter
Bulkhead – as the Heavy Fighter and also because I really like Bulkhead
Bumblebee – as Team Heart I kind of like TFPrime and the movie’s incarnation where he seems really sweet yet funny.
I could also see: Blurr (who could easily be genderbent) as the Speedster and Gets-into-trouble guy (mixing his personality with TFA’s Bumblebee) and Jazz as the Arbitrator (because these guys would probably get into loads of arguments).
I would also want to see Inferno in the Deceptions because I love Inferno and I think he’d make a good counterbalance to Starscream in the way that Lugnut does (I also love Lugnut).
The point is I really wanted Red Alert to be on the the main team. Also that I am not very good with G1 or G2 stuff. And I overuse parenthesis.
after a couple months of finding time to work on this in between school, the first installment of my tfa zine is finally done. probably gonna take a break to work on other art projects, but I hope to get the next issue out sometime this year (hopefully sooner rather than later) and I plan to make it even bigger and better.
first time making a zine so the formatting might be a little weird, but I’m learning by doing here and it feels good to get my art out and express my love for transformers animated as a show.
would’ve liked to do a lot more pieces for this, but I’ve saved all my ideas I didn’t use for later volumes. 😉
enjoy and please do not repost my art anywhere (if you do please at least link back to my art tumblr)
Life’s messy so I’m just posting the little comic I did for the @projecttfzine here. It’s oficially old and I see ALL the mistakes now, but it was very good practice because now that I see those mistakes, I hope I make them less often in new stuff.
I’ve never seen nor read a lot of these medics in any canon show/comic so my interpretation is loose at best xD But I ended up having a soft spot for Medix and Hoist after this.
By the way, I’m doing a little tf au fancomic, and it gets back from hiatus this month (yay!). You can read it here:
Cybertronian Database 