Jacob Blackmon Blogs

For today's article, we focus on one of the unique villains from the Transformers Marvel Comics: Circuit Breaker! If you enjoy this article, please support me on my Patreon . Or buy me a KoFi . This is unofficial, fan made material using the Transformers Essence20 rpg by Renegade Games Studios. I am 100% convinced that Circuit Breaker, who was released as a  character in 1985, was the inspiration for the Borg in Star Trek: TNG in 1989; and almost certainly the inspiration for Seven of Nine... just look at that haircut! Circuit Breaker (aka Josie Beller) Circuit Breaker is a villain whose pathological hatred of robots knows no bounds. She refuses to make the distinction between Autobot and Decepticon, blaming the Transformer race as a whole for the attack which left her crippled. As such, she is more likely to do harm to the Autobot cause than to be of assistance. Circuit Breaker was originally the genius Josie Beller. Hired by Blackrock Enterprises only a few years out of high scho...

As I move on to writing my 4th(!) Unofficial Guide for the Transformers Essence20 rpg -- The Cult of Unicron -- I wanted to share the first Threat build I produced for this manuscript. I find it particularly fun, given my history with the classic Marvel Comics run of the Transformers. These acolytes appeared in issue #74 of the classic series: This is unofficial, fan-made content using the Transformers Essence20 rpg  by Renegade Games Studio . If you enjoy this content, please buy me a KoFi . (Or send an email to encourage Renegade Games to hire me more often to make OFFICIAL Transformers content!) ACOLYTES OF UNICRON “ Death !” Before Primus hid himself away in slumber, Unicron utilized the mental link the two shared to program mental commands into weak-minded Cybertronians. These Acolytes of Unicron would activate, assemble, and assassinate the leader of Primus' armies when the time came for Primus and Unicron's reckoning. They wear Unicron hats. Acolytes of Unicron Threat Le...

This is an observation I'm just writing down to get out of my head. Don't feel you have to read it. There are times when I have problems with new characters being created for a story, because it makes established characters redundant and put in the sideline, despite how much investment had been put into said characters by the previous writing team. This happens a lot in comics. And even in toys. Many examples: In Masters of the Universe, there is a hero character named Extendar, who is able to extend all of their body to make themselves longer and far reaching: neck, arms, legs, torso... all of their body extends. This specifically sidelines the existing hero Meck-a-Neck, whose only power is his extending neck. And lo, there comes a photo, as it to prove my point! Gambit -- from the X-Men comics -- is incredibly guilty of this. He's a mutant who comes from a clan of thieves. Um... guess what? The X-Men have Storm! Ororo was trained as a thief on the streets of Cairo...