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Back to the Future

Episode Studies by Clayton Barr

enik1138-at-popapostle-dot-com
Transfomers/Back to the Future (Part 2) "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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