Cover Characters: Ratchet
Cover Date: July 2012
Price: £2.75
Poster: Arcee/Bumblebee
Comic Title: Mad Dogs & Autobots
Script: Chris Cooper
Art: Dario Brizuela
Lettering: Comicraft
Mad Dog has just had his unit closed down by the government and he's quite obviously upset as his is the only group even capable of dealing with the likes of MECH. When his underling, Leech shows him some images of the Autobots, but both assume that they are just people in robotic battle suits, like what they were developing, and learn they are operating near Jasper, Nevada. Mad Dog decides to prove that his group is better by setting a trap for them.
At Omega One, Jack is showing the Autobots how to bob for apples (which Bulkhead mimics using an engine block) when Fowler calls in and reports some eco-terrorists having attacked a deep driller and that the President wants them to look into it. The team, bar Ratchet head out there via the Ground Bridge. The Autobots arrive at the rig, but find it deserted, except for some humans in battle suits, who intend to defeat the Autobots to show them up.
The Humans are winning the fight, against the "stolen designs battle suits" as they think they are. Optimus orders the Autobots to try and find non-lethal ways to defeat them, as they are still humans. Ratchet gives advice from Omega One saying that the battle suits are slow, which they can use to help defeat them (like getting them to shoot each other by accident or causing things to fall on them etc). Leech and Mad Dog refuse to give up though, so Jack suggests the Autobots surrender instead, and then tells them the whole plan.
The Autobots surrender and Optimus asks Mad Dog to help him out of his battle suit, but when he tries he finds out that there is no human operator, and that Optimus is really a robot, which sort of unnerves him, to the extent where he's being taken away on a stretcher, shaking a little later on.
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Arcee - Motorcycle
Bulkhead - Off Road Vehicle
Bumblebee - Sports Car
Ratchet - Ambulance
Human
General Rufus "Mad Dog" Madison
Colonel Leech
Agent Fowler
Miko
Jack
Mad Dog's Troops
Capitol Building Guard
MECH (Mentioned)
President of US (Mentioned)
Notes
- The President is revealed to actually know what happened during Starscream's attack on her in a previous issue
- Mad Dog really is quite arrogant, believing that only his team could have designed robot bodies like what the Autobots have, and even thinking that the Autobots were inferior to him
- Why is Jack teaching the Autobots Apple Bobbing? It's not Halloween for months!
- Mad Dog mocks Bumblebee for being painted in a bumblebee style.
- It's not clear who Optimus is talking to in the last panel, I'd assume that it was Fowler, but it looks more like Leech, but that wouldn't make sense unless Leech was a double agent or something.
Other Features
Adverts
Competitions
The Trans Files - Information on the Energon Harvester
Deus Ex Machina - Episode Guide
Mega-Mouth - Arcee and Megatron read the mail
Starscream's Stumpers! - Starscream does puzzles and stuff
Greek Adventure! - Greece-based puzzles
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