Green Lio Convoy, New Legends Manga Translation

  Welp, it's started again!  Here I am with the continuation of the Legends manga, which interestingly started back with the release of Dark Amber Leo Prime, a masterpiece figure of all things.  This one took some time, as I had to research a fair bit of BWII, then timey wimey and it's timing at release was a busy time for me.  

However, here we go.

Here is a link to a CBR version, which I'll update as issues are released.  As usual notes and whatnot at the end of the post.  Oh I also added page numbers in case they get jumbled up for some folks.

On page 16, Bluebolt drags off Leo Prime and we then go to the Dark Amber comics (chronologically speaking):

Dark Amber Part 1

Dark Amber Part 2

And then we re-join everyone on the Orcanoch for the last panel of page 16 and the rest of the comic.

And next up, is the Stunticons one.  Cool, 24 pages... yay ?  I'm not sure if the toys will have a comic in the pack as well (I hope not, having just seen the reveal of Star Convoy NL version, I juts got the AOTP version and felt ripped off at it's price). But We'll find out when I get my GITD lion!!

As usual I'd like to thank the person who helps me on these translations, my good buddy from the (defunct?) Ozformers Ark-Ivor.  Without his help deciphering the intricacies and insanity of ザ lore,  I Wouldn't be as sane as I am now.  

For what that's worth. 

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Extra Rando info that may or may not be of interest.

• The story starts at the end of BWII (anime) and goes on from there, which I believe is meant to be far after the adventures of G1 Transformers and Optimus and his pals.
• Lio Convoy drops his greeniness and becomes white again, an adopts a fancier way of dressing as he is Prime now.  
• When we see him talking to Go Prime in the Transformers Prime universe, (page 3/4) that is the very same Lio Convoy as before.  Not an alternative dimension guy.  
• WHen he jumps to the Legends world and is the head master, he is, once again, the same dude.  So, this would therefore hint at Lio Convoy being a universal singularity.  Theoretically, all Lio Convoys are the same Lio Convoy.  There can be only one.  (take that Optimus Prime!!)
• The Fallen is from another dimension/universe and while we only see 7 of the Primes, it would seem that the Primes here are all not nice folks.  Also, remember that we are far, far far in the future, after G1 maybe... Unless the Quantum gate is a dimensional and time travel device.  So my suspicion is these Primes are not he 13 Primes of the G1 universe, but some other universe.  Or Worldline as Go Prime says.
• Worldlines are an actual theory of science.  Go check them out on yourself, as I don't want to explain them, but essentially, if you've seen the TV series Loki, then you'll have a general idea (don't ask here).
• Bluebolt talking about it's humanoid form is a nice touch, since the original RID/Car Robots version had talk about it being sentient/having a robot form, (check the notes section) which I thought was a cool deep cut.
• The Predacons captured on page 5 are the ones from Transformers Prime, and not Transformers Go!
• THE Seems to be a personal trait Megatronus the Fallen has Adopted (or was forced to have by Sakamoto).  In the Japanese Age of the Primes, Megatronus' name is written thusly: メガトロナス・ザ・フォレン.  Literally just Megatronus The Fallen, however in Japan, ザ (za - the)　is used as a mark of speciality.  Some samples:

Notice, it not "just curry", it is THE Curry, not just a chocolate...THE chocolate,  Nor any old draft beer, but THE draft beer, THE premium malt beer.  For whatever reason, in Japan, adding ザmakes things better.  I suspect that Sakamoto is just having a bit of a laugh and so, THE Fallen has some awkward lines.  Plus the guy is a bit moustache twiddly level of villain in this comic, so it kinda fits.  It just needs some explaining.

THE  explanation.

Back to it.  

• Delta Magnus has quite a number of drone buggy dudes.
• Solus and Onyx seem to be a-okay with THE Fallen's plans. Wew, That's NOT Prime.  
• Oh also, It would seem Solus Prime didn't create the hammer herself, she got it from Leo... odd.
• "Gi" is what Amalgous Prime seems to yell a lot.  Could this be a reference to the pleb bad guys from Kamen Riders?  The seem to yell "kii" while fighting.  Otherwise, I have no idea.
• Page 16 we should warp back to the Dark Amber Leo story.

and then it makes sense. (ish)

• And at the end, we assume that Lio Convoy is still a space ghost who lives in Dark Amber Leo Prime's chest.  This is the time now that Unicron is a good guy and trying to save the universe, thanks to Lio Convoy's wholesomeness.

Wow. Lio Convoy is a better Autobot Maximal than Optimus Prime!