Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell is an in-continuity Transformers: Mosaic strip, written by Simon Furman and drawn by Steve Buccellato. It takes place two years on from the main IDW series and stars Hunter O'Nion. It contains spoilers.

As well as foreshadowing upcoming events, the strip reveals Hunter's family backstory: namely, his parents are dead, his sister has left, and he stayed at home with his alcoholic mother until her death, remaining sane only by his sci-fi/fantasy dreams of something happy. (And Verity Carlo thinks she has an angsty background...)

Continuity foreshadowing

 * Hunter and Sunstreaker remain a Headmaster duo after Devastation and achieve a mental overlapping.


 * Scorponok is behind the Machination! Shock! Hunter goes on to fight him and lives.


 * Sunstreaker & Hunter will ally themselves with the Dinobots.


 * There will be a full-scale Decepticon invasion of Earth.