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Day 85: Hot Rod

A major character introduced into the mythos in 1986 -- it's Autobot cavalier, Hot Rod. He's a somewhat divisive character, for those who grew up with the original Transformers: The Movie. There are those who blame him for Optimus Prime's death (I tend to think Megatron is the guilty party there), and refuse to accept he was Prime's hand-chosen successor. As a result, when it does surface in the fiction, Hot Rod's leadership tends to be short in comparison to Optimus' eons-spanning tenure. Hot Rod turns into a red race car with huge chromed exhaust pipes and bitchin' flame decals. This drawing is from 2017.


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