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TMUK A-Z: Chainclaw

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TMUK magazines have featured character profiles in the style of the Marvel UK comic's A-Zs (Or Marvel US's Universe handbook), continuing on by featuring TransFormers that never got an entry the first time around, usually because the toy came out after the Universe books had been published.

Editor Graham Thomson approached me, and I agreed to provide illustrations for several of those omissions.

I have tried my best to ape the style of those original entries. They were basically re-inked and recoloured versions of the animation character models. Anyone who fondly remembers the A-Z's of yore can tell me if I managed it or not.
For the full profile, you'll need to check out the TMUK magazine.


CHAINCLAW

Chainclaw doesn't get much love, even in the official fiction. He was courier hunted and beaten by Doubledealer, he was part of a recon group unceremoniously splatted by Pretender Starscream, and in a possible future vented his frustrations on Cyclonus before becoming a one-hit kill for Galvatron.

From an artistic stance, he was kinda tricky to get right for a few reasons. Firstly, we were determined to have him retain a look recognisable to his marvel appearances. Problem is, his shell appears all of once in the background. He spends his most prominent appearance in beast mode (drawn by Delbo and coloured by Yomtov, which never helps) and his other UK appearances always seem to obscure his torso. So I had no choice, really, but to use the toy as referrence for what his torso should look like, but attempted to simplify it in the merry Marvel manner.
There is also no point in the fiction where Chainclaw carries his weapon on his upper arm, but I had recently drawn Battletrap for other things, and he does carry his weapon in that manner and I thought it looked different and pretty cool.
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jessecota1738's avatar

I love bears, a Legacy remake of Chainclaw would be awesome imo :D