Recordicons

Recordicons is a series of comic strips by David Willis, showcasing the adventures of Shattered Glass Ravage and other Mini-Cassettes. It is published as back up strips in the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club starting with issue #34.

Comics

• Ravage pounces on a slumbering Steeljaw but is unable to elicit a reaction until he confesses that Steeljaw is his best friend. Recordicons #1
• Ravage encounters Ratbat in a dark alley, and is knocked out when they're surrounded by ne'er-do-wells. When he recovers, the criminals are all tied up, and he cheerfully gives an interview to Slamdance. Recordicons #2
• Ravage recounts the battle which he has dubbed Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction to Buzzsaw, who disputes the accuracy of the title. Recordicons #3
• Ravage tells Steeljaw that the Autobot is his friend because "the enemy of enemy is my friend". When Steeljaw suggests he's got the saying wrong, Ravage reminds him of the time he ate Enemy's body. Recordicons #4
• Commissioner Garboil and Howlback meet with the mysterious vigilante known as Batbot, and inform him that the arch criminal Blackcat has escaped from G9. Recordicons #5
• While hiding behind a Taco Horn, Soundwave tells Ravage to keep quiet and no Yattering. Unfortunately he doesn't specify no updates to Boxball, and they are consequently found by Blaster. Recordicons #6
• Ravage's future self travels back in time to warn himself not to waste his life on the Internet. This goes about as well as could be expected. Recordicons #7
• Hipster Laserbeak is listening to a song by an obscure artist, but when Ravage turns out to not only have Rosanna friended on Yatter, but to have contributed to the song in question, Laserbeak can't enjoy it as much any more. Recordicons #8

• Slamdance interviews Ratbat on the subject of Batbot. Ratbat is disturbed when Slamdance puts up an image of Batbot next to him, but Slamdance turns out to merely be pointing out how hideous Batbot is. Recordicons #9
• Positive universe Ravage tracks down his negative universe twin, who seems quite placid until the first Ravage denies him use of Yatter. Recordicons #10
• Negative Universe Ratbat comes across positive universe Rumble and Frenzy, demanding to find his counterpart. They tell him his alternate self was killed by Scorponok, who apparently is also dead. When Ratbat offers to deal with any unfinished business that his counterpart left behind, it turns out to be office paperwork. Recordicons #11
• Heroic Ravage joins up with the equally heroic Blaster and is happy to meet lots of new Recordicon friends, though he stays a safe distance from Blockrock. Recordicons #12
• When Steeljaw points out to Ravage that another Steeljaw must exist, Ravage erroneously concludes that the mirror Steeljaw must be his worst enemy and the encounter with the heroic and actually friendly Steeljaw does not go well. Recordicons #13
• Following an accident, Ravage is warned by Glit about the dangers of texting and driving. Outraged, Ravage asks for a second opinion, only to get the same verdict from positive-universe Glit. Recordicons #14
• Batbot has fallen foul of Blackcat and is suspended over a vat of boiling liquid. All is not lost however, as Slugfest comes to his rescue. Recordicons #15
• Laserbeak picks up his bar tab, only to find that his name's been misspelled "lazerbeak", something he complains makes him look like an illiterate loser. Lazorbeak, sitting nearby, looks unhappy. Recordicons #16
• Nightbeat and Hosehead's conversation is interrupted by a white mini-cassette falling out of a nearby light pylon. Soundwave becomes annoyed at Ravage for giving his disguise away. Recordicons #17
• Ravage reminds Steeljaw that the Autobot had used the excuse that he was too busy solar recharging to be Ravage's friend. Moments later Steeljaw finds himself getting a fast charge courtesy of Solarbot. Recordicons #18
• Squawktalk begins shouting strange phrases, leading Ravage to suggest that Beastbox might want to look into an anti-virus. Recordicons #19
• Ravage is startled by the arrival of no fewer than five future versions of himself who have all traveled back in time to prevent him from pressing a button. Recordicons #20
• Batbot is suddenly confronted by Howlback who objects to his heroic crusade, but Batbot is joined by Nightprowler. Howlback protests that they're ganging up on her, but it's just good teamwork when heroes do it. Recordicons #21
• Overkill claims he's the most ferocious and deadly Recordicon, but Buzzsaw begs to differ. Recordicons #22
• Observing Laserbeak perching on Overlord's shoulder, negative universe Laserbeak labels him a poser for perching on who ever's trendy. When Ravage points out he used to do that with their Megatron, Laserbeak asserts that was before Megatron sold out and began fighting a civil war like all the other sheepitrons. Recordicons #23
• Classicsverse Laserbeak and Buzzsaw decide their Ravage has gone crazy because he thinks Megatron arrived on the Shattered Glass Earth in the past, was rebuilt as a giant creature and fought some beasts. Recordicons #24
• Ravage asks Laserbeak what music he listens to, causing the latter to begin a pretentious speech about the relative worthiness of music, only to be cut short because Sir Soundwave needs his guitar mode with which to rock out on stage. Recordicons #25
• Air Hammer tries to get the scoop from Lazorbeak on which Predacons are Recordicons in new bodies, and which are just name reuses. Lazorbeak doesn't have all the answers, but he's pretty sure the projectile-vomiting Soundwave on the next stool isn't the original. Recordicons #26

Notes

• Like Around Cybertron #6, Recordicons #9 features a news ticker along the bottom of the panels using the Ancient Autobot font first seen in "Cosmic Rust". It reads "-LTIVERSAL TRAVELER VECTOR PRIME ALWAYS LIES ABOUT FIVE FACES OF DARKNE-", no doubt a reference to an "Ask Vector Prime" segment from The AllSpark Almanac II in which Vector Prime named the previous leaders seen in Rodimus Prime's Matrix flashback in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4".
• Recordicons #14 features Ravage driving the ATV from the Kre-O Decepticon Ambush set.