Titan - Prime #14

Title: It's a Knock Out

Script: Robin Etherington

Art: Horacio Domingues

Colours: Nestor Pereyra

Lettering: Comicraft

Cover Date: Spring 2013

Cover Price: £3.99

Poster: Autobot Season One main cast

Story

Knock Out and Breakdown cut the power in a TV studio, and then appear before the host.

Later that day Optimus and Bulkhead are told by Fowler about the incident, and that they've been named especially to be the negotiators for the human hostages. Arcee tags along to help behind the scenes.

Optimus and Bulkhead enter the studio and are immediately attacked...by a giant teddy bear, who Bulkhead blasts to nothingness, Knock Out and Breakdown then greet the Autobots and tell them to play their game, or they'll kill their human hostages.

The Autobots go across the studio, but are attacked by the show's obstacles, which have been modified to be more dangerous by Knock Out, however the Autobots manage to break through them all. Some Vehicons that were disguise as Mummy props attack the Autobots, but are easily dealt with. 

Optimus manages to save the hostages, but Knock Out reveals that he's set the building to blow up, but Arcee manages to stop him by sneaking in and blasting the floor out under the Decepticons, sending them plummeting. Later the humans are all fine, but think the robots were just some special effects (idiots) and Arcee wipes out all the footage of the Transformers recorded by the cameras.

Later, the kids somehow manage to watch some of the footage, specifically a part where Bulkhead falls into some water and gets wet.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bulkhead - Off Road Vehicle

Arcee - Motorcycle

Decepticon

Knock Out - Sports Car

Breakdown - Armoured Van

Mummy Vehicons

Megatron (Mentioned)

Human

Chuck Chuckles

Miko

Raf

Jack

Agent Fowler

Down and Out Contestant

Down and Out Crew and Audience

Notes

• The Down and Out contestant seems to be based on Indiana Jones
• WHY OH WHY OH WHY WOULD KNOCK OUT AND THE AUTOBOTS APPEAR IN ROBOT MODE IN A STUDIO FULL OF HUMANS?!?!?
• THE HUMANS THEN BELIEVE THE AUTOBOTS ARE JUST SPECIAL EFFECTS?!? WTF?!?!!!??? 
• Why is Arcee driving around without her holo-driver?
• Due to Breakdown being happily walking around, we can assume this is set before his death
• So Knock Out's plan was to make the Autobots play a game, to embarrass them or something?
• Vehicon Mummies are awesome!
• Gee that bridge sure does turn giant and very strong when the Autobots are walking on it doesn't it?
• Not that I'm complaining, but where's Bumblebee in this episode?
• Arcee claims that she has deleted all the footage of the Transformers caught on the studio cameras....yet the kids are watching Bulkhead on the show later on...how did that happen?
• Bulkhead freaking out and "killing" the giant teddy is similar to his reaction to the scraplets.
• In the Trans Files section it referenced that the Nemesis is actually Trypticon, something not mentioned in the series.

Other Features

Adverts

Competition

It's Prime Time - recap of second half of season 2

Kre-O Transformers Conundrums! - Kre-O based puzzles

Ultimate Smackdown - Starscream vs Soundwave

Soundwave's Stumpers! - More Puzzles

All About Knock Out! - Info on everyone's favourite narcissist 

Down and Out! - Puzzles based loosely on today's comic

The Trans Files - Information on the Nemesis/Trypticon

Mega Mouth - Arcee and Megatron read the mail and stuff

Super Cybertronian Search! - Wordsearch

Prime Targets! - Cut out targets for use with the free foam dart gun in today's comic