Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

In one episode of the original Transformers show, Spike gets injured, and gets put into a Cybertronian shell/body for his own safekeeping until his squishy, human body gets fixed. Much like Al's soul is put into a suit of armor for safekeeping until they find his squishy human body. 

Which, ew, why.   I mean, I guess I kinda get it with Al since the body might reject his soul, but Spike wasn't facing that same problem, but he couldn't wait to get back.   Anyway, yeah, they both were like, 'wait, what happened?' when they found out. 

And Al's body is found in this volume, while another character is injured pretty badly, so I figured this was a good tie-in volume to the Spike-gets-mechanized episode.   I'm also having a lot of fun exploring the boundaries of this challenge, and may already set up my somewhat less insane X-Men challenge, which has 269 characters, and I would try to read non-comic titles or tie ins.   (So for Wolverine, I might read about another character who heals, and for Rogue, I'm thinking a Frozen tie-in since neither of them can touch people safely, at least at the beginning of Frozen.  I haven't seen the end, so please don't spoil me!)

Love, love, love the way everything is coming together.   

PS - I'm going to compile the characters for Avengers, and run a similar type challenge.   It just can't be a comic based on that character.   So for Wolverine, I could read the Ultimate Spider-Man volume where he shows up, but not a Wolverine/X-Men title since he regularly features in them.   Or Uncanny X-Force or Uncanny Avengers.

I expect to have X-Men up later today, and Avengers up by next week.   Then I'll be running three challenges, each one with hundreds to a thousand characters to get through.   I like goals.