CHERRY BOMB (ROBOT HEROES)
PROJECT #419 CREATED: 2008 "Should you disagree, I will be forced to do to you what I do now to this fallen Autobots [sic]... should logic so dictate." You probably remember this guy if you ever read the early Marvel Comics issues of TRANSFORMERS, even if you don't realize that you remember him. After Shockwave showed up out of nowhere, commandeered the Ark, and took control of the Decepticons, he grabbed one of the disabled Autobots and made an example of him for Megatron's sake. This poor fellow shares a body design with Sunstreaker, but his color scheme is similar to that of Optimus Prime (I strongly suspect that colorist Nel Yomtov thought that this was supposed to be Prime's headless body). We know this can't be Sunstreaker, though, because we see him hanging from the ceiling with the other Autobots in a later issue. We see Cherry Bomb twice, once as Shockwave destroys him and again after he orders some Decepticons to clean up the mess. Cherry Bomb is colored a little differently from one scene to the next, so I did my best to try to reconcile the two different looks together into one project. I tried to pick a name for this guy that was in the same style of some of the other members of the original Ark crew. I liked the idea of something referencing his color scheme, but I came up with the name before I actually started working on this project. For some reason, I remembered there being a lot more red on him. Oh, well. No more strange than a character named Bluestreak who's mostly silver, right? (Actually, I'm getting a really strong Ultra Magnus vibe from him, which is weird, since he predates that character by about two years.) |
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