Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

"Among them was Ultra Magnus, whom he talked out of the Wreckers themselves, although he couldn't get the Wreckers themselves to turn into officers working for him.   They had no respect for authority.  It was part of their nature. 

Wheeljack turned him down flat to his face with, 'You're working us all like a smeltin' machine for a bunch of nobodies alreayd.   I ain't doin' nuthin' for you until the day you spit in their faces and kick them all the way back home.'"

Don't you have an Aligned bible to work these kinks out?   Was Justina Robson not privy to these, or did she not watch the series?   When I can figure out that the continuity between her book and the series are different simply from watching the show and reading her book, something is wrong. 

Ultra Magnus did lead the Wreckers at one point, yes, but it's made clear in Beast Hunters that he did so at Prime's request.   Optimus Prime, who is still Orion Pax, as Sentinel Prime is still the first elected Prime.  (It sounds like the Matrix hasn't come into play yet, at least not as something capable of choosing it's own host.   I can't really remember what they said about it in the beginning.   Regardless, it has no bearing on the continuity issues of when Ultra Magnus was part of the Wreckers.)

Not only that, it didn't hit me until now, but there's a mention of Wheeljack doing something before he was a Wrecker.   And yet, he was a Wrecker when Iaocon was set up.  Knowing G1, and every other continuity, I can say with fair certainty that Wheeljack was a scientist, and he would have gotten his learning in Iacon.   

Except... it's clear he hasn't spent time in Iacon yet.   

Now, maybe this is unfair of me.  Maybe Wheeljack just hasn't become all science-nerd yet, and maybe he'll go back to the Wreckers after - except that it's not the way it sounded from the series.   It sounded like he was happy being a scientist, and joined the Wreckers due to the civil war between 'Cons and 'Bots, not because of Quintessons.   And it sounded like Magnus didn't have a thing to do with the Wreckers until Prime asked him to make them organized, and perhaps even lawful.   (And again, maybe this happens later, but...  it sounds like it happened two different ways, which doesn't make sense as this is supposed to be the same continuity.  Seeing as the Covenant and Quill are Artefacts, they should be the final word, so solved, right?   It's just Bulkhead and Magnus' faulty memory?   Not really.   Their memory isn't as faulty as, say, ours, and these are huge gaps missing.   Hundreds, thousands of years, that they'd have had to black out just to make this work.   Not buying that solution, so still frustrated by the amount of continuity errors.)

On the other hand.   Shockwave.   SHOCKWAVE SO SEXY!  

We don't actually read about him yet, other than the explanation of the picture - he's the first to translate the Quintesson language - but you get a sexy, sexy portrait.   Nom nom nom.  

Also, I'm missing the tragic aspect of his origin story in IDW already. 

Seems like the first time I'm questioning characterization.   Prowl was nervous?   Prowl winked?   Not the Prowl I know!   Given, he hasn't been established in the Aligned verse - except in the Tales of the Beast Hunters comics, which I haven't read because I didn't collect the toys, and if I had, I wouldn't have opened them!  And Wheeljack is vastly different from his other selves in other continuities... but I kinda like Prowl when he's... Prowl.