Very Cool!
I don't get a lot of the references in this one but I really enjoy the comic. Maybe you should quit dicking around and get your wiki page up
I swear to raptor jesus I'm working on it.
Here's the gist of it. Cobra Commander was
captured by the Joes in #71, leaving Destro as temporary commander. The head snake left a
series of taped orders on VHS for Destro to follow in case of his absence, but Destro only watched one of them.
When the Commander was rescued because of
the Crimson Guard's loyalty and the reprogrammed Bionicle robots, he immediately set forth his revenge ploy. He
shrank Destro and the other Cobras he felt had betrayed him (as well as Joes who stumbled upon the shrinking device), and
humiliated them on television. Those eliminated from the show were dumped in
a desert wasteland with little chance of survival.
We saw that Joes survived, but the fate of the Cobra "traitors" remained unknown. Until now.
So that's Destro's story; what about Bludgeon?
You might have seen him in
#79 and
#116. In the Transformers comics of the '80s, Bludgeon became the leader of the Decepticons in Megatron's absence. When Megatron was rebuilt in the '90s, he destroyed Bludgeon and regained leadership of his army.
Sounds familiar, yes?
Basically, in the A25Universe, the same thing happened, only, as explained in the last issue, Bludgeon didn't die, and now he has teamed up with Destro. Using Bludgeon's alien technology and Destro's money, power, and influence, they have managed to get new bodies for the Cobras who were disposed of with Destro (
as seen last week) and now Destro and Bludgeon are ready for revenge. Conveniently, Cobra still has their loose alliance with the Decepticons, so Megatron and the Cobra Commander are on the same side.
Also, Bludgeon was a master of Metallikato, an ancient Cybertronian martial art form. He was, after all, a transforming skull-faced robot samurai. He now has an apprentice, young Benio, who will pass his mystical arts on to another generation, should Bludgeon not survive.
If this fanfic was any more convoluted, there would be tentacles involved.