The Transformers Seeds Of Deception all-including thread!

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the Obscure G1 Transformers art gallery, starting with the character studies for Action Master Axer.

Before becoming an Action Masters, Axer had a Cybertronian alt-mode, revealed here for the first time!
And how did his transformable motorbike look like, before being reformated as a Earth vehicle?



Check out the commentary section with hints of the online comic that will feature Axer and Metroplex!

By Gianluca Gamba, Navtej Heer, Franco Villa.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the cover of A Tale of Two City-Bots.

It's the weight of the world for Metroplex, in a tribute to Guido Guidi's artwork for the Armada comics!



By Speedy.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents A Tale of Two City-Bots in PDF format.

The whole SoD Metroplex saga is now collected in one easy-to-download PDF file, featuring a Spotlight-themed intro and bonus art for Full-Tilt, Brunt, Scamper, Slammer and Six-Gun.

[CENTER]Long before the Civil War. Before the Golden Age.
Even before the Prime Dynasty...there were the Lawless Times.
An age without rules, where only the strong and the ruthless would thrive.
An age where creatures undreamed of walked the scarred, tormented surface of Cybertron.
Monsters, giants, celestials, abominations... and Titans.
One of them was bound to survive the end of that age of wonders, and cross the eons to the present day. He would come to be known as...
METROPLEX!


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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents act IV of Starscream: "The Gladiator".



Starscream has climbed the social ladder, becoming a very popular Cybertronian officer of law: everybody appreciates him, his teammates would die for him, and every corrupted businessmech on Cybertron wants to make deal with him.
For Starscream, of course, this is NOT ENOUGH!
Witness as Starscreams steps in the path of the Gladiator, and begins to worm his way inside the Underground Movement and the Gladiatorial Arenas...until the day Civil War erupts, and his true nemesis is revealed!

Art by Masarujasu.

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Covers & model sheets: Megatron - Starscream - Swindle

Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents an all-Decepticon triple feature!

1. Cover "Dark Apotheosis" of SoD: Trannis, featuring Megatron.
2. Cover "Into The Arena" of SoD: Starscream.
3. Swindle's "War Within" model sheet.



By Masarujasu, Zerob.

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SoD Starscream: act 3 - ATLEA

Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents act III of Starscream: "ATLEA".

It's the beginning of the Golden Age! Young Starscream is back on Cybertron, as a respected member of the Anti-Technoabuse Law Enforcement Agency. Really? Is he truly standing for the rights of other mechs?
Featuring G2 Snipe, Technobot Lightspeed, Aerialbot Skydive, Triggercon Windsweeper and some unexpected G2 foes, this act is more than meets the eye!



Also featured, industrial businessmechs Ratbat and Scorponok, plus some RotorForce and Laser Rod bots!

Art by Lee Ji Hyun, Sin-nos.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents pages 16-18 of SoD Shockwave/Soundwave.

It's the Omega Battle!



It's the very beggining of the Civil War! With Omega Supreme taken out of the equation by a two-pronged assault, the Omega Sentinels cannot rise to defend the Cybertronian Citistates against the overwhelming Decepticon Insurgence!

Art by Zerob, Tomoko.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the end Wrath Of The Ages #6.

It's now or never! What is happening to Grimlock? Will the damaged Optimus Prime manage to withstand the fury of Megatron? Will Flash' race be doomed by the hands of Carnivac and Spinister? And what can stop the unstoppable Aerial Extermination Troopers?
Everything comes crashing together in the great finale!



Art by Daniele "danbrenus" Spezzani, Nicodemus Rexx, Esther Pimentel, Zerob, Hedge, OGE, Lauren Mays.

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Seeds Of Deception presents Differentiation (Act 2): Manipulation.

Ratbat is back in style, continuing to develop the untold events of The Future is -Ation.
With Megatron out of the game, The mind-controlling, energon-sucking diminutive Decepticon is ready to ignite his own plans for the control of Earth...starting with the manipulation of the elite soldiers of an unnamed special forces unit that came to investigate the site of the battle against the Reapers.
Is this the return of the Carwash of Doom? (Just kidding!)



Bonus art: Captain Ackles and Colonel Williamson.



Art by Alejkito , Lizolb

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents pages 16-18 of SoD Shockwave/Soundwave.

The lives of Shockwave and Soundwave take an all different turn, as they fail/succeed to accomplish their main goals. And untold events of Omega Supreme's brush with death are revealed for the first time.



Art by Zerob.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents cover "Targer: Omega!" of SoD Shockwave/Soundwave.



Art by Joe Teanby and Charlotte.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents "The Transmogrification Occurrence" (1).

Deemed too unstable to be deployed in battle, the gigantic Metroplex is being confined in an uninhabited solar system, where his trusted team (Scamper, Slammer, Six-Gun) takes care of his huge spaceship alt-mode, performing maintenance, experimenting on fringe cyberinterface technologies...and facing unscheduled threats by a lone Decepticon bounty hunter!



By Joe Teanby, Krin, Lizolb.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents Magnificent Crisis .

With the Dead Universe defeated, Optimus Prime and the Autobots return to their everyday cold war against the Decepticon... but the crisis is far from over! By using the Magnificence power, Hot Rod started an irreversible universal change: when mechanoids, persons and planets begin to morph into alternate versions of themselves, who will stand up to prevent reality becoming a jumbled chaos that will ultimately self-destruct?



Art by Daniele Spezzani, Kal, Trunchbull, Megumi M..

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SoD: "Magnificent Saga" in PDF

Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents Magnificent Saga in PDF format.

Collecting Magnificent Premonition, The Artifacts, Poisoned Chalice, Magnificent Crisis, this comic delves deep in the Transformers mythology of present, past and future!



During The War Within, Optimus Prime and Megatron experienced a vision of an impossible "G1" future: in present time, during the events of Escalation, the same vision returns... showing Beast Wars, Beast Machines and even Dai-Atlas!
From another reality, Macabre enters this one, facing Hot Rod and exposing the dire consequences of using the cursed Instrument Of Destruction known as the Magnificence.
Before reality goes completely bad, losing any internal logic and consistency, will Hot Rod find the strength to use the Matrix Goblet and make the final sacrifice?

The whole Magnificent Saga is now collected in one easy-to-download PDF file, featuring bonus sketch art for Rodimus Prime, and a Secret File revealing a glimpse of Rodimus Prime's future and the origin of the Unity Sceptre .

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SoD Metroplex: "The Transmogrification Occurrence" (2)

Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents three new pages of "The Transmogrification Occurrence" (1).

What's happening inside Metroplex? As Scamper, Six-Gun and Slammer faces the first salvo of Axer's attack, a flashback battle against Scorponok reveals the reasons of Axer's attempt at stealing Metroplex's Transmogrification Drive!



By Joe Teanby, Lizolb.

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Seeds Of Deception presents Differentiation (Act 4): Manipulation.

Astrotrain has made a deal with the devil he knows-- that is, Ratbat! But how does this creepy mechanoid plans to use his Energon-sucking skills to save Megatron from the Mini-Reaper infection that has paralyzed his systems?
Find out now, as Differentiation leads to... Separation. Now more than ever, The Future is -Ation!



Art by Steve Cook , Trunchbull , Crusader1080

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents
the 'Stalwart' Diaclone base.

From the pages of Magnificent Crisis, the guardian of the most secret Autobot facility in the whole galaxy: the Stalwart, protector of the Musoh-Sei Station!



By Joe Teanby, Chris Ludwig.

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The life and deeds of Rodimus Prime

Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents The True Identity of Rodimus Prime (an essay).

At the end of Magnificent Crisis, Rodimus Prime entered the universe of Transformers: "Seeds of Deception" comics. The real Rodimus Prime, the Autobot Leader invested by the Matrix.
But what inspired this reimagining of the character in War Within/-Ation style? It was the original >G1 counterpart-- a figure as complex and mature as was rarely or never seen in Transformers cartoons, as this article is going to explain.



By Grandis-granva.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents Trypticon's evolution designs for The Future Is -Ation.



After his return in Stormbringer II, Galvatron starts enlisting Decepticon warriors for his own private army (starting with the Monstructor Six and Sixshot).
In order to salvage a certain planetary item that was stolen from Cybertron by the Quintessons, and hidden on a planet that is well known to Wheelie, Galvatron will probably have to resort to Trypticon's might... even if this means seizing the most defended Decepticon space station in the galaxy, and finding the resources to reformat it!

By Simon.

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Seeds Of Deception presents Differentiation (Act 2): Confrontation.

The Infiltration Protocols have been reinstated! How do you divert the attention of the US Air Force from your own secret Bunker? By staging an assault on one of their bases and pretending you are a Cobra jet squadron, of course.
And for the first time ever, Starscream meets his maker: will the Null Ray prove enough to stop Jhiaxus' advance, as he marches on in his plan to rewrite the galaxy in Nemesis Prime's image?



Art by Steve Cook, Azulg, Nikoletta Ebel.

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Seeds Of Deception presents the Jhiaxus/Starscream cover of Differentiation: "Jee Axed Him!"

Starscream is about to meet his own maker-- in more than one sense?



Art by Ibai Canales.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the cover of "The Transmogrification Occurrence".

Metroplex has been invaded by the soon-to-be ActionMaster Axer! Will Scamper, Six-Gun, and Slammer (aka the MetroTeam) be able to stop him from stealing the Transmogrification Drive?
It's alt-mode galore, as these Transformers reveals their never-seen-before transformations!



By Todd Kinniburgh of the TCK StudiosTCK on Twitter.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the "Emersion" bonus art for the Metroplex series.

A tribute to the classic G1 Marvel Uk saga Space Pirates, this art features Metroplex emerging from the bedrock underneath Autobot City!



By Joe Teanby, Chris Ludwig.

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SoD Metroplex: "The Transmogrification Occurrence" (3)

[center]Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents two new pages of "The Transmogrification Occurrence" (3).

After invading Metroplex's spaceship form, bounty hunter Axer has managed to put the MetroTeam out of commission, and seize the Transmogrification Drive.
All Axer must do now is leave-- but will he survive the surprise of a Fantastic Voyage among the wonders of Metroplex's incredibly-vast structure?



By Joe Teanby, ShadowSharra.[/center]

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the final act of Trannis.

As the conspiracy weaved by the Underground Movement grows, Trannis and his allies Shockwave and Soundwave focus their effort on exterminating the leaders of the peaceful society that rules Cybertron-- Sentinel Prime and Omega Supreme!
When the last moon falls, and the daylight of the Golden Age is replaced by a dark and fateful night, the Decepticons are born, and Megatron rises. The mystery of the Gladiator and Trannis is finally solved-- spelling doom for the whole planet.
The Civil War has begun!



By Daniele "DanBrenus" Spezzani, Nicola Perugini, Charlotte, kriegswaffle, suzidragonlady, Nasmik Allen, Lauren Mays.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the final act of Jetfire/Grimlock.

The Civil War has begun!
Jetfire must witness the fall of Omega Supreme, ravaged by a CerebroShell, while Grimlock stands before the honor-less slaughter of weak mechanoids-- shall they remain in the Decepticon army, or join its opposite number? And what consequences will that bring?
It's the end of an era and the beginning of another one, seen through the twin eyes of the scientist and the warrior!




By Daniele "DanBrenus" Spezzani, Peter Istyle, Kal, Kae Diesp.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the studies for Arise, Females!

Crashlanded on Cybertron while escaping from the merciless conquering army of Nova Prime and Jhiaxus, the Lunars of Moon Beta found themselves in the toxic environment of the Junklands-- a place turned into a poisonous nightmare by millennia of reckless disposal of industrial waste.
Able to adapt, the Lunars absorbed all sort of junk, transforming their bodies into forms that could withstand that harsh environment-- and they became the Junkions.
Among the piles of garbage of the Junklands, a special section was reserved to Jhiaxus' failed experiments-- such as the corpses of the Cybertronians turned into females.
One day the Junkions realized that one of those corpses was not a corpse at all: it took a long time, but they were able to salvage, fix and heal the latest victim of Jhiaxus' perversions.
And when she finally came back online, fully restored, Arcee's quest for revenge and identity began!



Art by Milad Taleghani.

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Transformers: Seeds Of Deception presents the model sheet of War Within Bruticus.



Although Bruticus was never featured in the Transformers: War Within books, the Gestalts were already a reality for groups such as the Constructicons and the Protectobots. And with four Combaticons whose Cybertronian alt-modes had already appeared in the series, a model sheet for Bruticus was bound to appear sooner or later.

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The Transmogrification Occurrence continues with page 11.

The story so far: during a maintenance shutdown of Metroplex (whose colossal bodyframe is hidden within an uninhabited solar system),
mercenary Axer managed to broke in unnoticed, turning the automated security system against Metroplex's caretakers -- Slammer, Sixgun and Scamper.
Axer stole Metroplex's T-Drive, yes? But before he could escape with his booty, the Metro Team freed themselves and started chasing him.
Axer quickly realized that something was off, when the route that was supposed to led him outside was instead taking him deeper within Metroplex's vast bodyframe.
Somehow, the sleeping giant had managed to change his own morphology.
And now he's standing on the monorails orbiting around one of Metroplex's power meta-cores...



Lineart by Joe Teanby
Colors by Vhite9