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Back to the Future

Episode Studies by Clayton Barr

enik1138-at-popapostle-dot-com
Transfomers/Back to the Future (Part 4) "Transformers/Back to the Future" Part 4
Transformers/Back to the Future #4
IDW
Written by Cavan Scott
Art by Juan Samu
Colors by Candice Han
Letters by Neil Uyetake
Cover A by Juan Samu
January 2021

 

Who will ultimately control the timeline...Autobots or Decepticons?

 

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.

 

The Decepticon called Watchtower is never named within the story of this mini-series, but it is shown on the "Personnel" page at the beginning of this issue.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this story

 

Skilz

Marty McFly

Doc Brown

George McFly

Lorraine McFly

Watchtower

Rodimus Prime

Bumblebee

Gigawatt

Einstein

Rumble

Megatron

Biff Tannen

Teletraan-1

Optimus Prime

Brawn

Jazz

Ratchet

 

Didja Notice?

 

This issue reveals that the Autobot called Skilz is the being who has been providing the opening narratives in this four-issue mini-series.

 

On page 4, Doc Brown tells Gigawatt his temporal demodulation coils are out of alignment. The temporal demodulation coils are the metal bands seen on the front bumper and around the rear assembly of the DeLorean time machine vehicle.

 

On page 9, we see that Gigawatt's California license plate is GIGS.

 

On page 11, Rumble recognizes Marty as "the human from the parking lot." Rumble saw Marty go back in time and return in the parking lot of the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall in "Transformers/Back to the Future" Part 1.

 

On page 12, Biff is wearing his Adidas tracksuit from the end of Back to the Future, but the Adidas logo is a Tannen logo! In Back to the Future: The Game, his tracksuit has an "Adods" logo.

 

 

On page 13, Marty uses the slogan of the Transformers franchise, saying, "There's always more than meets the eye when it comes to these guys." 

 

Having helped to save the world, Biff is made a mechanic for the Autobots in 1985. Biff playing for the good guys..? I don't know...

 

At the end of the issue, Marty's parents give him the Toyota SR5 Xtra Cab pick-up truck seen at the end of Back to the Future. But the truck is parked front-end first in the garage instead of back-end first. Also, the fog lights on the grill now have light covers on them with "Mc" and "FLY" printed on them. And a Decepticon emblem in the center of the grill as well!

The license plate is the correct one from the BTTF movies.

 

The story ends with the same note from Doc Brown that opened "Transformers/Back to the Future" Part 1: "The space-time continuum is full of infinite possibilities and alternate timelines in its unending nooks and crannies. These include events and histories that could have happen, have happened, may never happen, have been erased from existence or exist entirely as conjecture. How then do we classify this tale? For now, suffice to call it entertainment. As a physicist, I can speculate no further."

 

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