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This page drove me absolutely bonkers.

First off, it seemed like the only reference pictures I could find for Dinobot II's transmetal beast mode that weren't set in a night scene and therefore too dark to make out enough details were fan art and action figures. (Though one action figure someone had taken the time to repaint it the correct colours, so that helped me a lot.) But a lot of those weren't at too many different angles, so it feels like I made a lot of mistakes right out of the gate. Dinobot II's headplate is missing the red symbol, and I found out (way too late at this stage) that his shoulder guards in robot form are his beast mode's hips, not his face like Rattraps. Now that is a major screw up. I must have been looking at some really bad angles of the robot mode and made assumptions.

And then with the top panel, I planned to have Dinobot II transforming much like Rattrap did in issue 2, but the original idea was to have the Predacon symbol in the middle of the page, with both the robot form and the beast form in opposite corners. But because I made them different sizes, the background had to be different sizes, and I found during the inking stage that they didn't fade together nicely like I hoped. So I wound up changing this page from a full page panel to three panels; adding the middle separation line just before completion and having to move the symbol (and create a whole new panel for that) in post production. Which is why there's a good chunk of the top of the page looking kinda janky colour-wise. I did my best to repair things digitally with the very little computer skills I have (because the only other way would have been to redraw the whole thing and there's no way that was happening) but I know it looks "off" at best. My only defense is that the layout of the whole thing looks a lot better than the original, even if it's still not perfect.

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The characters of Beast Wars Transformers (and the original idea behind this comic) belong to Hasbro/Hasbro Studios/Mainframe Entertainment and a lot of other people who are not me. Just borrowing them momentarily for fun and tributes.

Description
This page drove me absolutely bonkers.

First off, it seemed like the only reference pictures I could find for Dinobot II's transmetal beast mode that weren't set in a night scene and therefore too dark to make out enough details were fan art and action figures. (Though one action figure someone had taken the time to repaint it the correct colours, so that helped me a lot.) But a lot of those weren't at too many different angles, so it feels like I made a lot of mistakes right out of the gate. Dinobot II's headplate is missing the red symbol, and I found out (way too late at this stage) that his shoulder guards in robot form are his beast mode's hips, not his face like Rattraps. Now that is a major screw up. I must have been looking at some really bad angles of the robot mode and made assumptions.

And then with the top panel, I planned to have Dinobot II transforming much like Rattrap did in issue 2, but the original idea was to have the Predacon symbol in the middle of the page, with both the robot form and the beast form in opposite corners. But because I made them different sizes, the background had to be different sizes, and I found during the inking stage that they didn't fade together nicely like I hoped. So I wound up changing this page from a full page panel to three panels; adding the middle separation line just before completion and having to move the symbol (and create a whole new panel for that) in post production. Which is why there's a good chunk of the top of the page looking kinda janky colour-wise. I did my best to repair things digitally with the very little computer skills I have (because the only other way would have been to redraw the whole thing and there's no way that was happening) but I know it looks "off" at best. My only defense is that the layout of the whole thing looks a lot better than the original, even if it's still not perfect.

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Disclaimer:
The characters of Beast Wars Transformers (and the original idea behind this comic) belong to Hasbro/Hasbro Studios/Mainframe Entertainment and a lot of other people who are not me. Just borrowing them momentarily for fun and tributes.