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so no one was gonna tell me that JRO and Nick Roche drafted an entire Spotlight: Octane story but the thing that intrigues me the most about it was that it supposedly would have contained Fulcrum's backstory, from the torture wheel on Styx to the whole K-class thing
randomly going thru TFW2005 IDW threads for the funnies and found this transcript of some old JRO interview or smthn and AAAAAGHHHH.... LOOK AT WHAT WE COULDVE HAD GRAHHH
[ID: Two screenshots of excerpts from a transcript of an old interview/QnA with James Roberts. The first image reads:
What was the plan with 'Connie' [Scorponok's human baby, the Firstborn] and the actual plan with her if you could've had more time? She would've been in broad terms part of the Scavengers and have them looking after her. She would've remained young, no artificial aging. She would've been wanted by Scorponok for furthering his plan. There were plans for one of the Scavengers to sacrifice themselves to protect her. Never got fleshed out much further than that.
While, the second image reads:
What was the Scavengers arc going to be about? It was originally going to be a 5-part storyline, which was going to wrap up their adventures. I wanted them to have a trade to themselves. It was going to be a longer, more detailed version of what you saw in issues 14 and 15. More scenes, more locations, a bit of a chase. There would have been, vaguely, a "Last Stand" feel about it - I had some sort of floating oil rig that they had to weaponize and defend. Maybe to subvert Dying of the Light.
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