Cover Competition
Apart from being all kinds of brilliant, this cover to AHM #4 by Guido Guidi also lends itself to a great deal of interpretation…
In the lead up to the release of the issue I’m running a cover competition. Whoever comes up with the funniest/most inventive caption or dialogue to go with this image wins. The winner will receive a copy of AHM #1 - #4 (with the Hutch covers) signed by myself and Trevor Hutchison.
You have until October 22nd!
Entries can be posted here on my site (as comments) or can be sent to me via email.
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Awesome cover. As for what you mentioned about there being a great deal of interpretation in it…I think it might have something to do with Jazz. He’s looking a little…ominous there, and just watching Prowl and Ironhide have it out with each other. Could he possibly be the Autobot traitor that has been mentioned? Hmm, just a few of my thoughts.
And the competiton sounds awesome, I’m definitely gonna give it a go! Here’s my entry:
Prowl: “I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I THINK YOU’RE THE FRAGGIN MAN, YOU FOSSILISED PIECE A’ SCRAP”
Ironhide: “NO, YOU’RE THE MAN, YOU HUMOURLESS PIECE OF UPTIGHT SLAG”
Jazz: (thinking) *Looks like those crazy fools ‘been at the high-grade again…*
Thanks for running this Shane XD
..and I say your 10 cents Titanium tax goes to far..
Prowl: “That’s it, Ironhide! No more energon cookies for you!”
Sorry. Couldn’t resist
caption: Jazz sees trouble brewing in the kitchen…
Prowl: “I’m telling you one last time, Ironhide — you take the garbage out, you’re the one who cooked it!
PROWL: “And would it KILL YOU to cap the damn toothpaste after you use it??”
IRONHIDE: “I swear, one of these days, Prowl, one of these days! KLANG! BOOM! Straight to Moonbase TWO!”
JAZZ: (Thought bubble) It all goes downhill after the honeymoon.
“What’re we arguing about again?”
“Dude, I don’t know, but keep it up. I am not going to actually work.”
Ironhide:”You heard of a fella by the name of Bill Brasky?”
Jazz:”Hey, I know Bill Brasky!”
Prowl:”Bill Brasky is a sonofabitch! Best damn salesman in the office!”
caption:
Prowl’s cus of Ironhide’s mum is so bad that even gangster Jazz decides to stay out of it!
Prowl: “If I hear one more word about the new Facebook, I’ll throw you to the slagging Sharkticons! Do I make myself clear!?”
Prowl: “For the last time: PIRATES ARE BETTER THAN NINJAS!”
prowl: “Hey Iron Hide!Do you like seafood aaAaaah! ”
Iron hide: “You Idiot thats the third time you have asked me that today and for the last time you need food in your mouth for it to make sense!”
Prowl: ” what food? is that a stain on your paint? ooooh made you look.
Iron hide: ” errrrhh Your Finger Stinks”
Jazz thinks to him self . I don’t know whats worse Iron hide’s temper or ratchet letting a 3rd grader reprogram Prowls sense of humor
Prowl: “Jazz, I got alot on my plate right now, OK. And YOU!!!
(Prowl turning to Ironhide)…well I just plain don’t like you.
Prowl: ” Back off Iron-Head”
Prowl: “I thought you said you two were ‘just friends’!”
Ironhide: “Please, honey, just listen—”
Jazz: “I, uh, think I’ll be leaving now…”
For the last Slaggin’ time Ironhide, Rumble is RED and Frenzy is BLUE!
Can’t you ever say anything besides “Leakin’ Lubricants”?!
Prowl: “I told you that you were asking for too much money to be in the movie! I knew they would write us down to bit parts!”
Ironhide: “I was negotiatin’. How was I supposed to know the Autobot Shuttle crew would get wiped out?”
Jazz: ” Well, at least I made it to Season 3.”
I love that cover. Here’s my idea for a caption:
Prowl: Ironhide, I am second in command! Get it through that slagging processor of yours!
Ironhide: Oh yea? How come I’m tougher than you then?
Jazz (thought bubble): Optimus actually TOLD me I was second in comman’… I wonda if I should let ‘em know? Nah, it’s more fun to watch.
Ironhide: Whew Prowl, check yourself; you might be dead.
Prowl: For the last time Ironhide, whoever smelt it dealt it!
Jazz: Will the two of you keep it down, my shows are on!
Prowl: What I say goes, and I say that you need to transform into a wheelchair, old geezer!
Ironhide; Its takara!
Powl; Its hasbro!
Jazz; Yeah but no, but yeah but no Its Microman!!
After Michael Bay omitted Prowl from the script, only one word could describe Prime’s right hand man…BITTER.
Prowl: “If I find out it was you who ate my Energon Burrito…”
Ironhide: “Why you red-horned little glitch! I told you IT. WAS. NOT. ME!!”
Jazz: burp
Prowl, “…for The Last Time! It’s LESS FILLING!”
( The problem with Female Autobots, is that there are only 8 of them to go around; you’d think they would have built more…)
Prowl, “Listen Up, You Tired Excuse for a ‘Mommy Van’ ! Chromia Said I’m Her ‘Chosen One’! She’s My Girl!”
Ironhide, “Ggrrr!…no you mechanical piece of bacon, She’s Mine! ”
Jazz, “But Chromia said she was My ‘Mommy Van’ ! Oh Man this really Sucks!”
(…they really could have built more Female Autobots,
but they built Dinobots instead…)
Prowl: …and then Rachet says, “Oh my! If this is the Exhaust Rectifier, then what did I do with my Scribe Unit?!?”
Loving the balance between Guido’s traditional covers and Hutch’s mad styles. My attempt:
Prowl: When will you get it through your thick, iron clad processor, my paint application is not SUB-PAR!
Ironhide: And don’t get me started on that chrome spoiler…
Jazz: *Skulking in the background wondering why he only gets a Legends class Universe incarnation*
Prowl: NOM-NOM-NOM
“I don’t give a frakk, toaster face… IF we ARE going to do the whole ‘Dancing with the Stars’ thing, I’M the one leading, okay?!”
Prowl: “I’m getting sick and tired of you practicing your roping skills on me just because you can’t tell the difference between bull horns and my ANTENNAS!!!”
prowl: I DONT CARE IF YOU LIKE THE CHERRY WE ARE ORDERING THE PINETREE FRESHNER AND THATS FINAL!!!!
prowl: im not touching you
and iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii will always love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Prowl: And then he said “I love the full piston action on this thing” and I said “That’s what she said!” HAHAHAHA! Get it? “That’s what she said!” HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ironside: …….
Jazz: (does his best ‘Jim from The Office’ impression)
Nobody puts Baby in a corner!
Whoops, posted this at the io9 link, not here.
Prowl: “‘The Rock’ was great and shows he’s a master director! Come on, how can you diss the director of ‘Armageddon’? That movie was a work of action art!”
Ironhide: “Dude, two words: The. Island.”
Jazz (thought bubble): “Doesn’t matter either way. It’s not like he’s ever going to be involved with we Transformers, after all.”
saberback { 09.26.08 at 11:31 pm } “..and I say your 10 cents Titanium tax goes to far..”
…I say your 10 cents Titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough!
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Prowl knew just what to do about the “worst case of indigestion he’d ever had”: a Cybertronian belching contest with Ironhide.
I don’t care if your hide’s made out of iron, assless chaps are not a good look!
Prowl: “I said to get two-ply. Not that generic crap.”
I am NOT drinking any f**king Merlot!
PROWL: “Listen, I don’t care how damned impressive your death scene was! ‘I got my torso shot off at point blank range, blah de blah de blah!’ Big. Fucking. Deal. I had my insides melted, bitch! MELTED! That doesn’t even make sense!”
“Stop laughing — I’m being serious. They are actually giving billionaires another 700 billion for screwing everything up!”
SOMEBODY keeps ignoring all my sticky notes…. So I’ve put Jazz in charge of the fridge…
Bailout?!? You aint getting no Bailout.
Prowl: “How many time must you be told — REPLACE THE ROLL WHEN IT’S EMPTY!!”
Jazz: “Yeah.”
SCENE: The Autobots’ Christmas Party 2008.
LOCATION: Macadam’s Oil House, Cybertron.
Jazz (thinking): Oh great, here we go again. Banned from hosting the annual Christmas Office Party at yet ANOTHER venue on Cybertron……
Prowl (drunk on energon and singing along to the tune of “Gay Bar” by Electric Six): Yoooouuuuuuuu…….. I wanna take you to a GAY BAR……. I wanna take you to a GAAAAAY BARRRRRRR…………. I wanna take you to a GAY BAR , GAY BAR, GAY BAR…. RAWR!
Ironhide: For Primus sake Prowl! No wonder the Autobots are in a mess whenever Prime’s not here……
Prowl: For the last time… those weren’t fembots.Fembots are EXTINCT!!!
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